Think of the Trump election as the field goal kicker at the end of a championship game. He either makes it or he doesn’t. Then there’s the house/senate. They get to fight in the trenches for 58 minutes just to stay in the game and set it up. Rinos will give up the big play from time to time even when they’re ‘good’.
So the championship game is won and the right to deal with foreign policy on the super bowl stage comes with it. Somebody will fail big time. Do those in the trenches think about it? Just look at the back stabbers who worked for Trump.
If Trump should win, the confirmations for Cabinet posts and elsewhere are critical.
Last time he was new and some agreed to serve who won’t have counterparts now.
Last time he had to pick conventional appointments and he may have a more sympathetic Senate to Trump-style appointees.
We have now seen how costly the retribution is and some will not serve out of reasonable fear.
His election is tricky enough, putting an administration in place will be very interesting.
The source is Yahoo, which in turn cites CNN. In other words, this is disinformation to boost the liberals who are the readers of Yahoo and CNN, and to dishearten those moderates and conservatives who may still read or view MSM.
The article bandies the issue of whether the top of the ticket matters more or the individual candidates. The answer to me is obvious based on recent history: Senate races require strong candidates to beat the Dems on merit. Running untested ideologues with weak name recognition, no track records, and novel oddities for the news media to attack pleases the MAGA base but loses the general election. Running retired Navy Seals, daytime tv celebrities, et al, tends to give seats to Dems.
Senators should be people with extensive experience and connections throughout their state (serving it in its legislature, representing it in Congress, holding various state offices, knowing the state’s business community and economy, etc.). They need to be broadly educated and well connected with national figures and issues.
The ideal candidates are developed over decades of paying their dues. Of course many/most of the clowns in the Senate fall short of that ideal, and the ideal I’ve outlined favors lifetime politicians — opposite to what many of us prefer. Newcomers on the scene will be held up to higher standards, and Outsiders will get no love from GOP central. It’s all about running strong, qualified, candidates.
If the writer thinks Florida is going to flip, he is dreaming. The Democrats in Florida doesn’t have any statewide office holders. If you name the average Floridian about the person they said is running, they’d say never heard of her.
After seeing what this regime has brought us, a voter would have to be a real idiot to vote for ANY democrat! But then again there are those who are family members, those who are being fed by the communists, and those with rings in their noses who can be classed as idiot who will still vote for the hand that feeds them......
FL is a D pipe dream. There are, at this time, nine races to watch:
TX - leans R (would be a flip for them)
WV - leans R (will be a flip)
OH - tossup (would be a flip)
MT - tossup (would be a flip)
AZ - uncertain, leans D (would be a flip)
NV - leans D (would be a flip)
WI - leans D (would be a flip)
MI - leans D (would be a flip)
PA - leans D (would be a flip)
If we want to explore pipe dreams, IN and MO join FL as D pipe dreams; and, MN, NH, NM and VA are R pipe dreams. One or the other set may open up if there are some dramatic events such as a full-blown recession.
All races are, to some extent, dependent on candidate recruitment, esp. Arizona. As the other side always has scads more money than we do, the Republicans are trying to recruit “self-funders.”
All democraps care about is power, so that is why all they talk about is “flipping seats” and what they can do to get control of whatever. Its sociopathic behavior.
Ping.
Wishful thinking masquerading as analysis…
It doesn’t matter if the Senate has a small or huge Republican majority. They do nothing but backstab the American taxpayer at every turn.
"The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
First, the bottom line...
Consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Getting back to the referenced article, the author probably does not understand the following. The only reason for being concerned about how many Senate seats of the constitutionally limited power federal government flip is because misguided 17th Amendment voters keep reelecting political party crook career lawmakers to the Senate who help the likewise corrupt House pass unconstitutional taxing and spending bills imo.
Such bills not only steal unique 10th Amendment state powers to serve the people, but also state revenues (citizen's wallets) uniquely associated with those powers, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under it's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the following material.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The remedy for corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments...
Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots to be ready ASAP to effectively "impeach and remove" Constitution-ignoring Congress by primarying ALL incumbents up for reelection in 2024, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?).
Lawmakers need to be replaced with patriots who will not only support hopeful Trump 47 to finish draining the swamp, but will also do the following.
New lawmakers need to support Trump in leading the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in the affairs of the sovereign states by effectively "seceding" ALL the states from the unconstitutional big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the unconstitutionally big federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
In fact, consider that since one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers imo), the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of Trump-supporting freshman lawmakers is arguably that citizens that would get into the habit of lightheartedly questioning if the federal government has shutdown if they receive their mail a few days late.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt political parties who are trying to destroy our constitutional republic.
Again, consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the criminal-minded political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.