Why Did the Republican Midterm Plan Rely on Redistricting?
Calley Means says James Blair, Tony Fabrizio and Susie Wiles centered their midterm strategy on redrawing congressional maps to favor Republicans. He connects that emphasis to an approach that treated campaign money as more important than delivering the health reforms he believed voters wanted.
He recounts advocating healthier school meals for Joe Rogan's audience and the Kennedy coalition, only to be told that MAHA was not a large part of the strategy. In a cabinet presentation, he says, the proposed messages were no tax on tips, affordability and the tax bill. Means contrasts those messages with polls he cites from Pew, CNBC and Fox News identifying corruption and money in politics as leading concerns. Those are his descriptions of the strategy and polling, not independently verified findings here.
