Here are the 5 biggest Republican mistakes of the decade.
As a result, the Democrats kept control of the Senate and the Republicans lost a chance to force Obama into what could have been a series of advantageous compromises over the next six years.Despite the failure to grab the Senate, the GOP was still riding strong anti-Obamacare sentiment and voter frustration over the slow recovery from the Great Recession. Much of this was fueled by the Tea Party movement, which added a rare Republican grassroots element to the GOP.
While the immigration issue and border battles have been front page news since President Trump was elected, the severe problems at the same border in 2013 and 2014 didn't garner anywhere near as much attention in the mainstream media. But it was a regular topic on right wing talk radio at the time, and Republican congressional leaders should have spent more time listening.
. That effectively took the sharpest arrow out of the GOP's congressional quiver, and again relieved the greatest pressure the Republicans could have exercised against Obama.The above four mistakes weren't all bad for the Republicans, because without them it seems unlikely that Trump would have won the 2016 GOP nomination. It's hard to believe that any of the other Republican candidates could have beaten Hillary Clinton.
That failure was made memorable by the late Sen. John McCain's decision to vote to uphold Obamacare despite his fierce and longtime opposition to the law. But its most powerful effect came in the 2018 midterm elections,in an election where health care polled as the number one issue for voters.
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