Greene Says GOP Is a ‘House on Fire’ After Midterm Losses

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Republican Party is “like a house on fire engulfed in flames and the fire department hasn’t even showed up yet,” in a post on X responding to the party’s midterm losses.

Greene wrote that establishment Republican talking heads are already lining up 2028 candidates who would be acceptable to the donor class and keep what she called the war machine going. She said Republican consultants, who she said get rich win or lose, are already making calls about which 2028 presidential campaign to work on.

“All of these people are insufferable,” she wrote.

Greene said Republicans should let the flames go out and let the smoke clear before trying to rebuild. “You have a lesson to learn like don’t spray kerosene everywhere and then play with matches,” she wrote, adding that the house will not be easy to rebuild, especially by those people.

Greene to Vance: Promises Were Not Delivered

In a separate post responding to Vice President JD Vance, Greene wrote, “Good start JD, but these were basically the core issues of campaign promises of 2024.” She listed ending the war, focusing on the cost of living and inflation, putting America first, and changing the U.S. relationship to Israel.

“Republicans lost yesterday because’24 campaign promises were not delivered, Trump called us panicans and me a traitor and you stayed silent and supported Trump while he failed,” Greene wrote. She also said Republicans primaried Rep. Thomas Massie with millions from Israel, ignored rape victims of Jeffrey Epstein and others, and ignored the MAHA movement, “just to name a few issues.”

“You should have listened to me and Tucker and others who told you early,” she wrote. Blaming the Iran war alone, she added, will not work and will not be an easy pivot.

Vance Says Voters Switched, Not Stayed Home

Vance, in the post Greene was answering, said Republican data analysts had focused on the composition of the electorate and whether it looked close enough to 2024. Turnout was merely OK in some states, amazing in others, and catastrophic in none, he wrote, and there was genuine optimism that Republican voters were showing up.

A data analyst he consulted told him that did not mean Republicans would win, Vance wrote. Many Trump-Vance voters from 2024 were angry and planned to vote for Democrats, he said, and that proved right. In Florida, he wrote, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, only a couple of points worse than 2024.

“The main problem is not turnout,” Vance wrote. “The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.”

Vance said a pollster he respects found that voters who had left Republicans gave four top reasons for what would bring them back, accounting for nearly all responses: end the war, focus on the cost of living and inflation, put America first, and change the relationship to Israel. The same pollster had told him Republicans would lose the generic ballot by 13 points, he wrote.

“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” Vance wrote. He warned against calls for amnesty in the months ahead, said he was open to changing immigration enforcement to focus more on businesses that hire illegal labor, and urged angry voters to channel that anger into electing Republicans who share their worldview.