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Nick Freitas: Voters didn’t reject conservative ideas — they rejected Republicans who failed to deliver
November 05, 2026
The BlazeTV host tells Glenn Beck the midterm rout was a message, not a mandate: Support for voter ID, tax cuts, and girls’ sports stayed strong even as the GOP got crushed.
Tuesday’s midterms were a blue-wave rout that handed Democrats both chambers of Congress and flipped deep-red seats, dealing a sharp blow to Trump and the GOP.
Even so, voters still backed a series of conservative ballot measures, including voter ID, a citizenship requirement to vote, and tax reductions. Even Washington voted to approve Initiative 638 to keep biological males out of girls’ sports.
So how do you explain the split?
BlazeTV host Nick Freitas tells Glenn Beck the apparent contradiction is no contradiction at all.
“If you look at what happened in Ohio, in North Carolina, in Kansas, in Iowa, in a lot of these states, they voted straight Democrat. Republicans showed up and voted for a Democrat politician,” Freitas says, “but then went right over to the ballot measure and voted for voter ID, voted for U.S. citizenship as a requirement to ...