Posted on 11/14/2022 5:20:30 AM PST by thefactor
In August, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told NBC News he was confident Republicans could take the House. As for the Senate . . . “Senate races are just different,” he said. “They’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
He was absolutely right, of course. Candidate quality gave Democrats control of the Senate again, and forced a runoff in Georgia.
In Arizona, for one, McConnell had wanted popular Gov. Doug Ducey to run. But ex-President Donald Trump had slandered Ducey, vowing to oppose him every step of the way because he had refused to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election. So the GOP got Blake Masters, who just lost to Democrat Mark Kelly.
And Trump blames . . . Mitch McConnell.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Everyone repeat after me. It was fraud!
Yes, Republicans did so well under the Bush Dynasty.
This is one of Trump's true legacies -- bringing the working man into the fold from the clutches of the Democrat party. Between that and his ability to get blacks and Hispanics to abandon their plantations, he has a lot to be very proud of. Over the long haul -- if Republicans don't screw it up -- this will show the greatest benefit to the right.
It can all be for naught, though, if targeted sugar daddy policies and bamboozlement are implimented through the reelection of Biden or worse, the election of Newsom in '24.
As I said, there's a lot at stake. Trump set the ball in motion. He needs to hand off the baton and step aside to a new generation that can win. History will judge his legacy well over time -- as long as he doesn't destroy it through another campaign and defeat...
I thought you clowns were on this thread condemning Trump for not doing more. Now you want to jump the fence and say he did too much. Only a dyed in the wool leftist can hold those two opposing thoughts in their head at the same time.
You don’t seem to care so much that you have to keep responding, shill.
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Fact 2. 60% of Trump endorsed candidates just won their Senate races.
Fact 3. The media will continue to write fake news because short of murder there is no way of stopping Trump in 2024 and they know it.
There’s no way to know if another nominee would have beat fetterman. Acting like they would have kinda means believing there was no fraud.
Nope, not me. Always felt he should hold his tongue
Yep. That’s how I interpreted it as well.
What you preach is the narrative of the GOPe, which was likely constructed for them by the democrats.
Yes more of their stories are starting to swing left of late.
This is the editorial board not even a story
You do realize that they hated Reagan too, right, but he didn't present the real threat that Donald John Trump presented them with.
For they knew that DJT was out to expose them, the politicians, both Democrats & Republicans as being only interested in their personal power and the wealth they were able to skim off of the Treasury for themselves.
That fact was scratched upon during the Tea Party movement, where they all showed disdain for constituents.
If the people are to blame for not getting out & voting, then it's on us, isn't it. If people are looking for a savior, then they are looking in the wrong place, because only Jesus is our savior.
If the people think that corrupt Joe Biden is their savior, they are in for a very rude awakening.
But this has been a coordinated effort to destroy Trump, and along with him Trump supporters, from the very start. At least put the blame where the blame really lies.
It lies with the theft of the 2020 election, not with Trump who tried to save this nation from tyrants.
“if Republicans don’t screw it up”
But at the national party level, “screwing up” the policies that benefitted the middle and lower classes is exactly the point.
On the other hand, keeping the middle and lower classes voting Republican does not seem to be of so much concern.
Elites in both parties don’t want national-security-based tariffs on critical materials (increasing working-class opportunities in manufacturing and mining). They don’t want immigration law enforcement (increasing working-class and some white-collar opportunities and wages). They don’t want growth in US fossil fuels (increasing prosperity for all, especially the least well-off, by reducing costs throughout the economy at all levels).
Just listen to them talk (all over the media currently) as if current inflation is only caused by government spending (undoubtedly it is, or more fundamentally by a captured fiat currency system, or rather a captured fiat currency government) and by too low interest rates (which the Fed must “bravely” raise), and not also by government mandated economic destruction in failed lockdowns, effectively criminalizing economic middle-class economic activity (destroying much local production), and by government mandated reductions in US fossil fuel use and production (driving up the cost of all productive activity, at every level in the chain).
The Republican party, at the national level, as with the whole political class, on balance, is all about wins for the politicians and their doners. Not wins for the people they nominally represent.
Politicians face their donors every day. (There is a fundraising dinner or lunch every day in the DC area for every or nearly every member of Congress—my congressman had one every day, rain or shine, with or without him present.)
They face the voters only once every two years, at most.
And they typically find workarounds for that.
Thank you for that information!
Were the other candidates better?
Oz was a candidate built up around Oprah. I am sure Oz and others thought the Oprahs fans would vote for Oz. Oprah of course endorsed Fetterman.
Your choices will always be, however, between a Democrat or Republican that allows unfettered illegal immigration and one the uses Deep State and our military to intervene in other nations so our political class, the defense industry and oligarchs can enrich themselves.
Totally agree. Only Florida had a red wave? Florida is a pretty diverse state and a good predictor how the rest of the country will go in an election. Please!!! It’s laughable. It’s now the uniparty fraud machine. They’re using it to stop Trump’s takeover of the republican party.
I hope we can measure the impact that Graham’s proposal to pass nation wide bans on abortion after 15 weeks impacted turnout. And just a few weeks before the election.
What party are you talking about? There are democrats and then there are democrats who call themselves republicans. The republican party as it stands today is dead. It represents a very, very small segment of the country. Open borders, big government spending on just about everything including “green energy”, offshoring jobs, they are pro-China as hell. The list goes on and on. I support Trump’s efforts to change this party even if it means “losing”. Because with a party like this winning is still losing anyway.
I understand your point. But that still does not make it Trump's fault. For Trump only provided what the people had been dying for, for decades. A politician who would stand up & tell the truth, and fight for "We The People". The people responded & he was elected. The people who elected him were joined by many others to reelect him. But he was denied his second term by blatant theft, which both of should know was the reality.
However, you are in one polling place. So, while the people didn't show up in your polling place doesn't mean they didn't show up in all of the polling places. But again, Trump is not to blame for that. The elites are to blame, which includes the lords of the GOPe.
If that were truly the case, then we would have known all of the results on election night. We are now one day away of being a week beyond election day, and races still remain undecided.
What that tells me is that the same theft that took place in 2020, is taking place again in the mid-terms. Same MO is occurring. Long counts, ballots being found, only one party reaps the majority of the wins, and all of the truly critical races. Meaning they have perfected the steal somewhat from 2020.
It also tells me that a red wave did indeed occur, and that it was a large red wave, but it can be overcome when you finally know what the number you need to win, is. They are taking their time to make it less suspicious.
Both parties have their reasons for allowing the theft, once again.
The Democrats obviously want to retain the power they have, along with control of the levers of government to do whatever they desire. They may even stack the Supreme Court so that will be less of an impediment to their goals.
The Republicans want to regain control of the Republican Party, and dethrone Trump. Because there is a Uniparty structure within the two "opposition" parties, the Republicans will make that sacrifice for they still retain a modicum of power and their fleecing of the nation continues unabated. Besides that, they are confident that they can retain the vast majority of their base, because they have nowhere else to go.
Time to throw a monkey-wrench in that thought process by starting our own party and let them see our real anger at them. I was against this path, but it seems to be the only path left. We must leave in large numbers. Numbers that will make both parties begin to quake.
If we don't then there is no reason to continue fighting for this country, because the GOPe have already shown they are not willing to fight for this country, and the Democrats have shown us that without question.
Remember the definition of insanity is to keep trying to achieve a different outcome by doing the same thing over & over again & again.
Time to break the cycle, and let the chips fall where they may, I say.
If neither of you see what is going on here, then I guess it is shame on both of you. 🙂
But definitely shame on both of you if you think Trump is really to blame for these mid-term results.
Sorry, but I am at times brutally honest, for I just can't help myself when it comes to saying the truth.
Nothing personal with either of you. I'm sure you both mean well, but it's not Trump's fault. 🙂
If you want to support DeSantis, then that is what you will do regardless of what I say, but don't go justifying your decision with lies.
For that is bearing false witness, and I want to save you from continuing down that path. It's a no no. 🙂
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