Conservative Analysis of the 2025 General Election Results in Pennsylvania and across America

Now that the election results for the 2025 General Election are being certified, a conservative analysis can be made. Republican Party leader Donald Trump and his populist non-conservative Trumpist policies of protectionism, nativism, isolationism and authoritarianism provoked a voter rebuke against the GOP in Pennsylvania and across the American Union. In the Keystone State, Republicans failed in their main goal of opposing the retention for another ten-year term for three Democratic Supreme Court Justices, based on the Justices’ upholding of Pennsylvania’s reasonable public health restrictions during the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic. The Trumpist Pennsylvania GOP was attempting to gain control of the state’s highest court by creating vacancies on the State’s highest court, but the results were not even close. As I had posted before the election, a campaign against the Democratic Justices for liberal opinions might have been justified, but not for an anti-public health reason. Pennsylvanians nearly always retain judges. Similarly, they usually vote in favor of referendums, which the State’s Republicans took advantage of in the 2021 Primary Election to get Pennsylvanians to vote in favor of weakening the Governor’s emergency powers, based on their opposition to reasonable public health policies. The GOP’s failure in the 2025 judicial retention vote suggests their anti-public health policy was not as popular as they thought the 2021 Primary vote in favor of the referendums suggested. There were also two other statewide judicial offices on the ballot, in which Democrats held seats on lower appellate courts. There were significant Republican losses in Counties and municipal elections across the Keystone State. In other States, Trump and his supporters backed a liberal Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City over a conservative Republican. An socialist Democratic candidate was instead elected. Republicans were not only unsuccessful in capturing control of the office of Governor in New Jersey, but lost control of the Governor’s office in Virginia. There were heavy GOP losses in other statewide, legislative and municipal offices across America. Every candidate endorsed by Republican Party leader Donald Trump lost election. Among those candidates were several Trumpists who denied Trump’s loss of the 2020 election, despite the lack of evidence for their claim. The Trump Administration’s protectionist tariffs and harsh anti-migrant policies, violations of the rule of law both at home and abroad, and the federal government shutdown weighed heavily against the Grand Old Party. Voters particularly blamed Trump for the increase of prices from tariffs and labor shortages exacerbated by the targeting of working immigrants without criminal records while Trump focused on aiding Argentina and punishing Brazil for business or personal reasons, and on his White House renovations. They also blamed the GOP leader for the budget impasse, while reacting negatively to his policies of retribution while rewarding political supporters and business associates through is pardon power. Although the 2025 General Election was an off-year election, it is often a harbinger of further losses for the party holding the presidency in the mid-term elections the following year. A return to conservatism and away from Trumpism is needed for the Republican Party to avoid a devastating loss in the 2026 mid-term elections, when every seat in the United States House of Representatives and one third of the Senate will be on the ballot.