Stay Home or Vote Democrat: The Rare Exception
Days before the midterms, Nick Fuentes told his followers to sit the election out or vote against the Republican Party, calling a withheld vote “the source of our power.”
With the midterm elections approaching, Nick Fuentes gave his audience a short instruction on Oct. 26. “Trump promised ‘no new wars,’ then started a war with Iran that we are not only losing but which also destroyed the economy,” he wrote on X. “Meanwhile, his corrupt advisors are selling their access to him for millions of dollars to megadonors and foreign countries. Stay home or vote Democrat.”
The post drew more than 2.5 million impressions and over 57,000 likes, according to X’s public metrics. The Washington Times reported on the message the next day.
Fuentes explained the strategy to Vanity Fair in an interview published Oct. 29. “I’ve been very open about why I’m not supporting Trump, and that’s because he started a war with Iran,” he said, adding that his predictions about the second term — the war, a failure to follow through on mass deportations, and an administration stocked with neoconservatives — had come true. “All of those things came to fruition,” he said.
He rejected the charge that his position is personal. “People say I’m just sour grapes over Trump or Peter Thiel,” he said. “But I’m very open about my problems with these people. It’s all ideological.”
Fuentes described the approach as an attempt to correct what he called a “generational mistake” by earlier America First figures such as Pat Buchanan, whose followers ultimately lined up behind the Republican Party. He estimated that the bloc withholding its votes could reach about 3 percent of the general election vote. “We can exercise the veto, and I think that’s the source of our power,” he said.
The rare exception to his stay-home message is Ohio. In one of the few races he has addressed directly, Fuentes has backed the Democratic candidate for governor, Amy Acton, over Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, Vanity Fair reported.
Fuentes has also said he does not want a Republican nominee in 2028 drawn from the current administration, stating in March that he would vote for a Democrat if Marco Rubio or JD Vance is on the ticket.
