Republicans aren't panicking about Trump or Elon Musk after Tuesday's elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "The base that came out to support Donald Trump during the presidential election, a lot of those voters stayed home," said Hoffman, the New Jersey GOP strategist.
50% : The two Virginia Republican operatives who said the path to victory for the GOP candidate in the race would rely on her ability to tie herself closely to Trump and to the state's popular Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is term-limited.
47% : " Two of the top candidates in the New Jersey race -- Spadea and former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarellii -- have closely aligned with Trump, both meeting with the president last month at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
46% : Republicans, however, downplayed the results as expected outcomes -- criticizing some of the Republican candidates, discounting the prospect of any broader fallout from the heavy-handed role Musk played in Wisconsin, and suggesting that their candidates do a better job doubling down on explaining to voters Trump's accomplishments, including divisive ones like his Department of Government Efficiency.
46% : They're also focused on how to get the voters who put Trump over the top in 2024 to come out for other elections and candidates.
43% : But while Musk will "continue to be active" in GOP campaigns, his prominent role in the party may be about to change: Trump told members of his Cabinet on March 24, more than a week before Tuesday's elections, that Musk would leave his government role in the administration in the coming months.
35% : Sam Newton, a spokesperson for the Democratic Governors Association, made it clear that the party was preparing to make the 2025 gubernatorial races about Musk and Trump, largely by charging DOGE with ruining lives by taking away government jobs and funding -- a uniquely salient message in Virginia, which is home to more than 340,000 federal workers.
35% : Just one GOP senator, Maine's Susan Collins, is running in a state that former Vice President Kamala Harris won in November, so Democrats will be targeting some seats in states Trump won.
26% : Republicans are downplaying Tuesday's election results in Wisconsin and Florida, but change may be coming to the party, with Trump and Musk talking about the Tesla CEO's departure from the White House.
22% : But he did not see Tuesday's results as signs that aligning with Trump is a problematic strategy.
20% : DeSantis blamed Republican Randy Fine's 12-point margin -- down from 30-plus points for Trump in the district last year -- on Fine himself, saying the state legislator, with whom DeSantis has clashed in the past, was a lackluster candidate.

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