Posted on 11/13/2016 2:07:07 PM PST by Az Joe
Democrats may be in for long drought, facing slew of 2018 contests in deep Red states.
There are 34 seats to be decided in the 2018 midterms. Twenty-six are held by Democrats — and one by Bernie Sanders, the socialist independent from Vermont.
Republicans have to defend just eight. Only two of those races will occur in states that had relatively close margins for Trump: Nevada, which Trump lost, and Arizona, which Trump won. The Republicans in those states, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, will likely be targeted.
Democrats are up for re-election in 10 states won by Trump."
Here in Missouri Claire McCaskill will be toast unless voters nominate another blithering idiot like Todd Akin to run against her.
Flake may lose in the primary. Certainly hope so. Won’t vote for him this time around...
Another interesting spill-over ramifications I hadn't thought of...
The high number of likely endangered Democrats in 2018 also will give the Trump administration a powerful tool. The administration can put enormous pressure on these Democrats to back certain agenda items, like new approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and the repeal of Obamacare, lest they face angry conservative voters at home.
Love to see Trump campaign against him
If Obama pardons Clinton, the (R)s could end up with more than 60.
Peter Kinder maybe??
Remember the Tea Party?
Remember 2010?
That’s where we started.
Trump finished that job last Tuesday..
In 2018 we need to do it again and secure that victory.
NO likely about it. Flake is going DOWN and going down BIG TIME!
For the next two - four years we have to work to consolidate and EXPAND support for the republican party: minorities and cities. We need to start creating cracks, so that people don’t vote anymore on racial lines. We need to wide spread the values that made this country great.
Yes, exactly, shades of Reagan 1981!
Lets get Manchin over to us now!
Will Dems in 2018 be able to defend 23 Senators? See the list.
http://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/reelection-2016/
Kinder seems likely. I sure liked (preferred) Hannaway in the primaries but Kinder seems like a stand up guy.
25 Dhimmicraps up to 10 Republicans, and 13 of those Dhimmicraps are in states Trump carried.
(Remember, there was not a single “purple” state this year — every state with a Senate race that Trump carried elected a Republican Senator, and every one that Clinton carried elected a Democrat Senator.)
This could be excellent.
But in several of these races, the GOP won’t even try.
He ran as a Conservative Democrat when he first ran for office. His actions have become more and more socialist leaning over the years.
The population of Florida, when he was first elected was primarily Democrat. In fact many Conservative Democrats voted Republican in national elections, but remained Democrat, because all local and regional candidates were Dems.
Little by little Conservative Democrats have registered Republican or Independent. What has kept him in office is mainly the the migration of Liberal Democrats to South Florida, and illegal immigration.
Hopefully in 2018 Bill Nelson will be forced to retire by being soundly beaten at the polls.
So much good news, it’s almost overwhelming. Trump’s situation for his whole presidential term looks very good. He should be able to get more done than any president in ages.
I wonder if Kelli Ward would be willing to stand against that miserable excuse for a Republican Flake?
I once had high hopes for Flake. Too close of an association with Juan McCain scrambled his brain.
I do mention her as she supported Eric Greitens for Governor. She was at more than one of his rallies.
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