Posted on 11/04/2018 8:18:07 AM PST by blam
The two leading California newspapers are setting up Tuesday’s midterm election as a “verdict” on “Trumpism,” as the Golden State emerges as one of the key battlegrounds for control of the U.S. House. Though Republicans have surged in recent Senate races, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times are focused on the House, where Democrats only need to flip 23 seats out of 435 — about 5% — to take the majority, and likely to install House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as Speaker of the House once again.
The Chronicle website’s lead story Sunday morning is actually a Washington Post analysis piece, “Voters set to render fresh verdict on Trump.” It declares that the 2018 elections are really about the 2016 election, and “a nationwide judgment on whether Trumpism is a historic anomaly or a reflection of modern-day America.”
The Los Angeles Times features a dire outlook for Republicans: “With Democrats well-positioned to take the House, Republicans scurry to save the Senate.” It cast the election as a scramble for the GOP — though it noted Republicans still had a chance to hold the House:
Swamped by a tidal wave of Democratic cash, Republicans entered the final 72 hours of the midterm campaign scrambling to preserve their slim Senate majority as a bulwark against the increasing prospect of a Democrat-run House.
Needing to gain 23 House seats for control, Democrats were burrowing deep into once-safe Republican territory, from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Houston to California’s historically conservative bastions of Orange County and the Central Valley. The most optimistic GOP scenarios had the party hanging on to its majority in the 435-member chamber by a whisper-thin margin.
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GOP hold US House by 5
Senate GOP 55-45
President Trump will be the real winner Tue if the GOP holds.
Due to the large number of Never Trumpers resigning, and his relentless campaigning for the GOP candidates, the next GOP Congress will be a much for friendly place for President Trump
Remember...
Republicans vote Tuesday, Democrats vote Wednesday!
I hope the voters deliver a verdict on Obamunism.
Unless the GOP holds the House and Senate, at which point the media will count all the votes nationwide for each party, add them all together, and declare, "Once again, Democrats received more votes only to be robbed of their rightful position in power by white man rules!"
If the Dems take the House - they will double down on this meme...if we hold the House and gain 3-5 seats in the senate, they will drop the meme...
Conservatives must remind everyone they know to go vote...this is very, very important to the future of our country.
Everyone I know will be at the MS polls - and my daughter in NY will be at their polls...as will my son in SC.
I also voted the day I got my ballot in the mail. Not that my vote will count for much, as I live in a liberal la la state, county, district, etc.
I’m taking my wife, two daughters and two of their friends with me to vote straight republican across the board. I know it might not make a big difference in this state but you never know. I think the people of CT are sick and tired of the democrats screwing everything up. Hopefully enough of us get out to vote.
And vote Repub. at the state level because whomever is elected for state’s governor will have an impact on 2020 redistricting, which will effect the coming decade. 2020-2030 by reshaping the House make-up in DC. Do not let the current Repub. majority be a short-term event.
Florida needs to vote for DeSantis and not the communist Bernie backer Gillum, else Florida could become a blue cesspool.
I live in such a RED area that my vote means very little also. My guy always wins no matter what I do. I STILL go and vote though.
Good for you. Beautiful picture of Trump. Thanks for posting.
Alas it’s the opposite here in Marin county CA
I’m one of three Republicans I know
It’s Marxist vs Lenin here
More like brain dead rich morons vs brain dead lazy morons.
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