Morning Distribution for Tuesday, April 6, 2021

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [GOP-NAHTOPSY_4x3]( [Why The Republican Party Isn’t Rebranding After 2020]( By [Perry Bacon Jr.]( Typically, after losing a presidential election, a political party will undertake an [intense intra-party debate]( over why it didn’t win and how the party needs to change to take back the White House. Democrats did so after losing in [1988,]( [2000]( [2004]( and [2016](. In fact, even after winning in 2020 — taking control of the White House and U.S. Senate and maintaining control in the U.S. House — Democrats are having an intra-party debate, trying to figure out [why they didn’t win more House seats and struggled with Latino voters](. Republicans, too, have had such debates, after losses in [1996]( [2008]( and [2012](. But not this time. Despite Republicans losing the White House and Senate in 2020, and thus being totally swept out of power in Washington, there’s been no official “autopsy” or widespread consideration of appointing new leaders or anything else. In the period after the 1988 presidential election, the Republican Party has [lost the popular vote]( in all but one presidential race (2004). It has lost three of the last four presidential elections and allowed itself to be dominated by former President Donald Trump, who was [twice impeached]( for breaking with democratic values. But it is moving forward like none of that really happened. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: Just How Bipartisan Is Democrats’ Infrastructure Plan?]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.