Republicans, Take Note: Ballot Measure Success in Face of Blue Wave Shows Voters Still Want Conservative Policies
Taking a lesson from a loss is important, but taking the right lesson from a loss is vital.
And as conservatives and Republicans reckon with the results of Tuesday’s wave of Democratic victories, recognizing where voters actually agreed with Republican policies while voting for Democratic candidates will be the foundation for elections in the future.
Because Republicans can’t afford to get that wrong.
As National Review reported Wednesday, referendums on guarding election security — a conservative cornerstone bitterly opposed by the left — sailed to victory, even while Democratic candidates won at the polls.
Conservative propositions won last night despite the blue tsunami, namely Voter ID and anti-trans laws.
“They’ll say is the policies are unpopular. No. Some of the policies that we push hardest on, like the Save America Act, voter ID, and federal elections, those are popular. Those are winning in a blue tsunami year.”
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 4, 2026
And it wasn’t just election integrity that mattered.
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Voters in four states considered measures Tuesday restricting transgender students’ participation in school sports.
Nebraska approved a ban on male students competing in girls’ sports, while Arizona expanded existing restrictions to cover intramural sports and private leagues. https://t.co/oqawE4kLIU
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 4, 2026
In Arizona, a ballot measure to protect girls’ interscholastic and intramural sports (as well as locker rooms) from being invaded by biological males passed with a convincing 58.9 percent of the vote, according to KJZZ-FM.
In Nebraska, voters approved a similar measure with almost 68 percent of the vote, according to The Hill.
And even in liberal-dominated Washington state, an initiative to keep boys’ and girls’ sports reserved for boys and girls was on the road to passage with more than 55 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.
The point here isn’t to simply find a silver lining in Tuesday’s tsunami. There are some, but they are few and far between. A whole lot went wrong for the GOP, and it’s going to take a whole lot of work to make it right again before 2028.
The point is that Republicans need to take away the right lessons from Tuesday’s midterms — and that lesson is not abandoning the conservative ideas that Americans support by vast majorities.
Americans for more than a decade now have been fed a steady diet of propaganda against Donald Trump — both as president and as a private citizen targeted by Torquemada prosecutors. For a party led by a man who’s been relentlessly villainized in the mainstream media, the education establishment, and popular culture, there’s not a lot of room for error.
At the same time, there’s no denying that the current status of the Iran war and its effects on gas prices and overall inflation had a galvanizing effect on the Democratic voter base with a depressing effect on its Republican counterpart.
And there’s certainly an argument that a White House spending time on tangential matters — like picking fights over the name of the Kennedy Center or any given body of water on the nation’s borders — is unnecessarily draining to an electorate with more pocketbook issues to worry about.
But for the Republican Party going forward, the biggest error would be abandoning its biggest principle positions — such as election integrity — in a foolish attempt to move to a “center” that’s becoming ever more an illusion in American politics.
Are there lessons to be learned from Tuesday’s disaster? Of course there are. But learning the wrong ones is worse than not learning anything at all.
And there are lessons to be learned from Tuesday’s successes, too, no matter how hard they are to see right now. Republicans are going to need them, too.
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