Republicans about to be out of power in Washington, D.C., and facing a shrinking minority in Massachusetts are facing a time of “self-reflection” as the party looks at how to proceed after four years of President Trump.
“I am looking forward to the next couple of years for the party to do some self-reflection,” former Massachusetts Republican Party chairwoman Jennifer Nassour said. “Political parties need to do it and look back and say we’re not going to make those mistakes again.”
Nassour said it’s also “a chance to find new leaders, new voices and a new direction. I view this as an amazing opportunity for the Republican Party because both political parties are incredibly fractured.”
For some Bay State Republicans, that introspection has already begun.
Gov. Charlie Baker, who did not support Trump, this week called on members of his party at all levels to focus less on partisan rhetoric and more on the Republican “point of view about the importance of economic development, about the importance of community building, about the importance of being fiscally responsible and disciplined.”
“A lot of folks in my party and in politics generally need to stop thinking about this game as a game about who you’re against and who you hate and who you’re going to focus your venom on, and start thinking about it as a game that recognizes and understands that to truly be successful this needs to be about addition and collaboration,” Baker said in a press conference.
Adding more Republican voices to the mix is exactly what MassGOP Vice Chairman Tom Mountain wants to focus on after a long and tumultuous presidential race.
“We have already turned the page and we’re moving away from presidential politics, the elections, the Trump era,” Mountain, who served as a Trump campaign spokesman in Massachusetts, said. “We have to focus on internal Massachusetts politics — to elect Republican mayors, selectmen, school committee members. That’s what we need to focus on, and next year’s statewide elections.”
As the MassGOP looks to grow its party from the ground up and take back seats lost on Beacon Hill, Republicans in Washington will begin plotting how to reclaim both houses of Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024.
Democrats will control both the U.S. House and Senate — but narrowly, meaning Republicans will be “within striking range” of taking one or both back in 2022, GOP strategist Ryan Williams said.
“The question is how do you get there?” Williams said. And the answer, he said, will largely depend on Trump.
The president is set to leave behind a party divided when he exits the White House on Wednesday. Ten House Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in voting to impeach Trump for a historic second time after the U.S. Capitol siege, a significant departure from his partisan first impeachment in 2019.
Some Republicans have also blamed Trump for the party’s losses in the two Georgia runoff elections that decided the balance of power in the Senate.
Yet Trump still remains “extremely popular with the base of the party” that he helped expand, Williams said, meaning Republican leaders and candidates will need to find ways to keep his voters engaged at all levels while also winning back those he lost.
“That’s the challenge for the party,” Williams said. “That becomes increasingly difficult if Trump tries to insert himself in party matters going forward.”
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