Democratic strategist are worried.......

[UCmeNdc]

[brooklynite]

1. A not unreasonable concern

Between redistricting and gerrymandering, the number of vulnerable seats will rise. Without Trump on the ballot, Democratic voters will not be AS engaged as they were in 2020.

[Wounded Bear]

2. But the fact is that Trump IS on the ballot...

and Dems should work with that. His acolytes and sycophants will be flooding election slates nation wide.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. But on the flip side,

don’t you think there will be a lot of MAGa-types who won’t show up because Trump isn’t on the ballot?

[brooklynite]

7. No. The "outs" are always engaged to show up.

1994 Republicans
2006 Democrats
2010 Republicans
2018 Democrats

[FelineOverlord]

9. A not unreasonable concern

We worked VERY hard to flip the House in 2018.

Sometimes my husband and I worked 20 hours a day on it (canvassing, phone banking, texting, etc) and we both really HATE canvassing and phone banking.

By election night in 2018 I was curled up on the couch in a lot of physical pain barely able to move.

But it was so worth it. We took back the House and flipped 7 governorships!

We will do the same thing next year but pace ourselves better.

[Firestorm49]

3. I don't think so. I think that many "on the fence" Republicans have simply had enough,

and will either not vote, or possibly vote Dem.

Their base has been shrinking, so even though we are pumped daily with poll numbers and percentages, it’s still the same numbers but from a smaller overall base. Reasonable minded Republicans, and I think there are more than we realize, will yield a different result than what is being broadcast.

[bahboo]

10. this is what I'm hoping as well....

[PortTack]

4. Politico reports...here comes the doom and gloom. Many of those laws are facing legal challenges

And will be overturned...not all of them, but many

[empedocles]

6. We have to like the record of the courts against trump in 2020

[WHITT]

8. Unfortunately

It will take years for them to work their way through the appeals, certainly not in time for the '22 midterms, probably not in time for the '24 elections.