GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing

[Mr. Sparkle]

Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.

While the president has hailed the election as a “tremendous success” and a “big victory,” Republican governors, who will play a central role in overseeing the GOP’s state-by-state 2020 machinery, are taking stock of the party’s poor performance in the November elections and drawing up plans for major fixes.

The discussions stretched out over several days this week during the Republican Governors Association’s annual winter meeting, the party’s first major political gathering since the midterms. In interviews, more than a dozen of the GOP’s most prominent governors and officials implored the party to address its plummeting support among women and upper-income suburban voters, pleaded with the president to ratchet down his rhetoric, and urged a rethinking of the party’s widespread use of slash-and-burn TV ads that fell flat in 2018.

Among those roaming the halls of the Fairmont Princess resort was Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who coasted to reelection in liberal Maryland. He said the midterms exposed a party that appeals to a narrowing base of supporters as it alienates vast swaths of the electorate.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/trump-midterms-republican-party-governors-rga-1034609

[brooklynite]

1. The RGA is meeting in Bermuda?

There was a Trump Hotel they could use to suck up to the boss?

[Guppy]

2. FYI republican governors

Now we know what it takes and we are coming to get you.

[bitterross]

3. If they expect Trump to admit any responsibility they're so out of luck.

He's never going to admit people loathe him and his actions. He'll tell them the people who lost, lost because they were not enough like him. He can use Cindy Hyde-Smith as an example of "winning" now.