2026 Red Wave Already CRUMBLING? These 17 GOP Seats Are About to Flip Blue

This episode of BKP Pol­i­tics on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca (host­ed by Bri­an K. Pritchard, “BKP”) is a clas­sic fiery, no-fil­ter Mon­day morn­ing rant blend­ing Geor­gia GOP insid­er, nation­al MAGA move­ment warn­ings, 2026 midterm red flags, and a big dose of col­lege foot­ball hot takes.

Part 1 – Polit­i­cal Warn­ing Shots (Main Focus)

• BKP opens by sound­ing the alarm on Repub­li­can com­pla­cen­cy and “fake MAGA” politi­cians.
• He uses the recent Ten­nessee Dis­trict 7 spe­cial elec­tion (a deeply red +22 Trump dis­trict) where the Repub­li­can only won by 9 points with no Trump on the bal­lot as proof that GOP vot­er enthu­si­asm is already cool­ing with­out Trump to dri­ve turnout.
• Shows a detailed list (com­piled by pro­duc­er Lisa) of vul­ner­a­ble 2024 GOP House seats bro­ken into three dan­ger tiers:
  • 0–4% mar­gins (extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble – e.g., McKen­zie in PA‑7, Per­ry in PA-10, etc.)
  • 4–10% mar­gins
  • 10–13% mar­gins
• Strong­ly ties this to Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene’s week­end viral clips where she accused her own GOP col­leagues of mock­ing Trump pri­vate­ly for years, only putting on MAGA hats in 2024 when polling showed it was safe. BKP says MTG “just told the truth” and backs her up 100%.
• Local Geor­gia angle: Calls out “fake MAGA” in Atlanta and specif­i­cal­ly names for­mer GA GOP chair­man David Shafer (caught up in the Ful­ton Coun­ty RICO case) as some­one who only pre­tend­ed to be MAGA for per­son­al gain.
• Blunt 2026 pre­dic­tion: If afford­abil­i­ty and the econ­o­my don’t dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve by ear­ly 2026 (“right after San­ta Claus leaves”), many of these same Repub­li­cans will qui­et­ly dis­tance them­selves from Trump and MAGA again. Says only a “hand­ful” are true believ­ers.

Part 2 – Col­lege Foot­ball Rant (Clos­ing Seg­ment)

• Quick detour into col­lege foot­ball play­off reac­tions:
  • Loves that Indi­ana beat Ohio State and believes Indi­ana deserved a high­er seed.
  • Not mad Ohio State lost (“nev­er get too upset to see Ohio lose”).
  • Under­stands why Alaba­ma got in over some oth­ers.
  • Absolute­ly torch­es Notre Dame for being inde­pen­dent: “Put your­self in a con­fer­ence or go home.” Mocks Notre Dame’s coach for opt­ing out of bowl games and says inde­pen­dents shouldn’t com­plain when left out of the play­off while con­fer­ence teams have to play extra cham­pi­onship games.