‘That’s A Huge Prob­lem’: Sean Spicer Sounds Alarm About GOP Turnout When Trump Isn’t On Bal­lot

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‘That’s A Huge Problem’: Sean Spicer Sounds Alarm About GOP Turnout When Trump Isn’t On Ballot

For­mer White House Press Sec­re­tary Sean Spicer warned that Repub­li­can turnout when Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is not on the bal­lot could be a “huge prob­lem” for the par­ty Wednes­day.

Lib­er­al Susan Craw­ford beat con­ser­v­a­tive Brad Schimel by about 10 per­cent­age points in the race to fill a vacant seat on the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court rough­ly five months after Trump won Wis­con­sin in the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion by a lit­tle over 29,000 votes. Spicer said that the mar­gin in Wis­con­sin, where the con­ser­v­a­tive lost an elec­tion to fill a vacant seat on the state supreme court, was a warn­ing sign dur­ing an appear­ance on 2Way. (RELATED: ‘It’s A Turnout Game’: Scott Jen­nings Gives GOP Blunt Advice About ‘Low­er-Propen­si­ty Vot­ers’)

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“It’s a spe­cial elec­tion, it’s off sea­son right but that’s still not bad you’re, you’re about down 300 and plus, the Repub­li­cans who had got­ten 1.6 with Don­ald Trump lead­ing the tick­et went down to 1.05. That’s a huge prob­lem […] that’s the turnout, the moti­va­tion prob­lem,” Spicer said.

“What is dri­ving that? Are they pissed off? Are they pissed off at Don­ald Trump? Are they pissed off at their, you know, what’s going on Wis­con­sin, or are they not moti­vat­ed?” Spicer con­tin­ued. “Did they only turn out because of Don­ald Trump? Did they only want to see him? And I think that under­stand­ing that delta is crit­i­cal to the midterms because you need to under­stand, are you fac­ing a moti­va­tion or a mechan­i­cal prob­lem? And nowhere bet­ter than with Wis­con­sin did that show up.”

Repub­li­can State Sen. Randy Fine defeat­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date Josh Weil by 14 per­cent­age points in the race to replace Rep. Michael Walt­zl in Florida’s 6th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict. For­mer Flori­da Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer Jim­my Patro­n­is trounced Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date Gay Val­imont by 14.8 points in spe­cial elec­tions in Flori­da held to replace for­mer Repub­li­can Rep. Matt Gaetz. Both seats became open after Pres­i­dent Trump tapped their orig­i­nal office­hold­ers for his cab­i­net. Waltz, who for­mer­ly held the 6th Dis­trict seat, now serves as Trump’s nation­al secu­ri­ty advi­sor, while Gaetz, who for­mer­ly held the 1st Dis­trict seat, was Trump’s ini­tial appointee for Attor­ney Gen­er­al before with­draw­ing from con­sid­er­a­tion.

“The prob­lem with the Repub­li­cans… both par­ties attrit­ted from 2024, which is, again, it’s a gen­er­al elec­tion,” Spicer told Mark Halperin and Dan Tur­ren­tine. “You guys did a bet­ter job of get­ting your folks moti­vat­ed out there.”

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