The year 2025 can’t end soon enough for Republicans. Losing the Miami Mayor Race, another Georgia seat, and a closer-than-expected call in deep red Tennessee has the party scrambling. And the party’s policies of 2025 are likely contributing to this crisis at the polls for the GOP.

Former County Commission Eileen Higgins crushed Trump’s hand-picked and heavily endorsed candidate, Emilio Gonzalez, for the Miami Mayor’s race, the first woman to win the city’s chief executive position, and the first Democrat in 30 years to prevail in that race. She ran on affordability and against the heavy-handed ICE raids.

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia.  His views are his own.  He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu or on “X” at @johntures2. His first book “Branded” has been published by the Huntsville Independent Press (https://www.huntsvilleindependent.com/product-page/branded).