Posted on 08/19/2022 9:25:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is attempting to alert Republican congressional leaders and the GOP base that the Democrats, as of now, have a strong shot of holding the Congress in November.
Carlson said:
“Unpopular presidents drag their parties to the bottom in midterm elections. That’s the unchanging rule of politics. You saw it famously in 1994 with the Republican takeover of Congress after two disastrous years of Bill Clinton. You saw it in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina. You saw it in 2010 after ObamaCare. You saw it in 2018.”
He continued, noting that despite Biden’s unpopularity, the Democrats are on track to hold the majority in Congress as of now.
“So, there’s no question based on precedent that that’s about to happen once again in 2022, in November. That’s what everybody assumes and in fact, it may well happen. We’re certainly praying for it, but as of tonight, we have to be honest with you, the numbers don’t show that happening. Not even close. In fact, all the indications we have right now suggest that despite Joe Biden’s well-earned unpopularity, the Democratic Party still, again, as of tonight, has a strong chance of holding Congress in November.”
Tucker: The numbers don’t show that happening pic.twitter.com/aJOVCoMueF
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2022
Carlson noted that Senator Raphael Warnock (R-GA) has raised more money through donations than seven Republican senate candidates combined. He said:
“For example, last quarter, Raphael Warnock, that would be the thoroughly mediocre Democratic senator from Georgia, the guy who was caught on video appearing to commit spousal abuse (Remember that?) that guy raised more than $12 million online. His opponent, Herschel Walker, who everyone likes, raised less than half of that. So far, Raphael Warnock has raised an astounding amount of money. He’s hauled in more dollars online than seven Republican senatorial candidates combined: Candidates in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Georgia combined.”
Tucker: Rafael Warnock has hauled in more dollars online than seven Republican senatorial candidates combined pic.twitter.com/XQHL2np2Xb
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2022
In an opinion piece on Fox News, Carlson mentioned Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comments about the House having a greater likelihood of flipping than the Senate.
McConnell said:
“There’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different. They’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
As I reported earlier this month, this was not the first time McConnell and other GOP Senators pressed the brakes on flipping the Senate.
Carlson’s response to McConnell:
“So, there’s the head Republican in the Senate conceding three months out that Republicans are probably not going to retake the Senate. Why is that? Well, the answer, of course, is in the final line you just heard. Some of the candidates are mediocre. That’s Mitch McConnell’s excuse and there’s some truth in that. Obviously, some of them are mediocre, but compared to what? Mediocre in the Congress. Well, let’s see. Dianne Feinstein hasn’t spoken a coherent sentence in years, hasn’t had trouble getting reelected. Eric Swalwell had sex with a Chinese spy. He’s still there. So, mediocre people get elected to office, lots and lots and lots of them do every cycle. So, what McConnell’s analysis really is, of course, is buck-passing. Don’t blame me. I didn’t choose these people. All right, but they’re still the nominees.”
The candidates McConnell referred to, but did not publicly state any names, are likely Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Blake Masters in Arizona, and other candidates he did not support during the GOP primary.
Tucker Carlson’s assessment is correct. Nobody should take it for granted that the GOP will win the majority. Yes, it will be an uphill battle for the majority of GOP Senate races; but if the GOP base comes out in droves and unites behind the Republican candidates to stop the Biden administration’s far-left agenda, they will be in good shape to win. If even some GOP voters sit out in November, that hands the Democrats the majority in the Senate, and they no longer need to negotiate on legislation.
Despite the economy’s turmoil, the GOP messaging needs to be more convincing to win over undecided and Independent voters.
Mastriano campaign struggling?
Who writes this garbage?
I agree.
Tucker doubled down again tonight (two nights in a row now) on his meme that crime should be the most important issue for Pubs to address rather than inflation (even though in virtually all polls taken the public says inflation is their number one concern).
Tucker then slams Pubs, in particular Doctor Oz in the critical state of PA for his Ad in a supermarket showing the inflationary prices of food, as not being the proper priority (crime) as decided by Tucker. Sticking it to Pubs right before the Mid-Terms by Tucker is to say the least, a bad move on his part and if the Pubs lose, Tucker will indeed get that which he protests against, a socialist dictatorship:
Read my prior post on other threads below:
I posted this on another thread regarding Ohio voters and issues; it fits here too (it’s about Tucker Carlson also):
“When it comes to the issues Ohioans believe are most important, “Half of Ohio voters (50%) think the economy, including jobs, inflation, and taxes, is the most important issue facing Ohio, followed by abortion access (12%), healthcare (10%), crime (8%), and education (8%),” according to the poll.”
This puts the lie to what Tucker Carlson was saying tonight (thus irritating the heck out of me) about how immigration and crime are the two issues most upsetting to voters. Or they should be according to him.
He knocked Republicans about how they are arguing issues for the Mid-Term elections when I maintain he is as wrong as can be. The most important issue of all remains inflation and the price of gasoline as shown in the stats above. This inflation issue affects folks every day of their lives, visibly.
Immigration and crime doesn’t slap all of them up against the face as frequently as does the price of food and transportation every single day. Tucker knocked Doctor Oz’s commercial with him in the supermarket picking out veggies and saying how expensive they have become. Oz is right for highlighting this; Tucker made fun of Oz and was very wrong to do so.
Tucker at heart is a Libertarian, and periodically it comes out in his commentary big-time. This was one of those times, and it is really bugging me as he has been doing this lately, slamming the Pubs for “technique” right as the elections approach. Whatever issue(s) Tucker thinks are most important to the people, his tearing down the Pubs at this point in time rather than going after the Dems tooth and tong is wrong.
This is not the time to so vocally take issue with the Pub Party, whatever their warts, unless Tucker (and all of us) want to make it a much more fertile ground for the Dems to score points and do better at the polling booths. Tucker should keep his Libertarian trap shut at this point in time, rather than helping to bring on the very election results he purports to want to prevent, namely the Dems remaining in power.
Stuff it Tucker until after the elections with your Pub negativity, not before. The continuous desire of Libertarians to want to have heir third party win elections any time soon is a wet dream. Don’t help the Dems win by damping down the enthusiasm of the voters with logic and rationalism on their side, by muddying the waters with negative and unnecessary slamming of the only Party that will save conservatives and all of us from the jaws of doom.
And I’m tired of having talk show hosts pounce on each biased, slanted to the Dems polls that turn up with great regularity now. The MSM will churn out many polls from this point on up until the elections, that will show bogus election numbers and thus show an alleged close tightening of the race between Pubs and Dems. They do this every election cycle.
The MSM will show the numbers tightening to a neck and neck tie or show the Dems leading (all phony and concocted by how the polls weight the numbers and slant the poll questions). Yet Tucker seized on one poll’s set of poll results, while still relatively early in the election cycle before voters actually focus on the races in their states, to make up his commentary du jour. Thus getting in his obligatory slam against Pubs that seizes him periodically, probably to show how even handed he is being politically or to push his Libertarian bent upon us.
And another thing, stop pushing the Pubs to make wild promises about how they are going to radically change things when they get back in power until after the mid-terms. Steve Miller was pushing this on Tucker’s show tonight, along with Tucker. Biden will still be President, sitting there with his veto pen, ability to make rules and regulations, and to institute border policy. We still will have trouble making large changes in policies while Biden’s regime is still in control of the Executive branch of gov’t. Then the people will turn on Pubs for not being able to carry through on all of their agenda.
The Pubs can’t make false promises about all that they will do if they win, if they won’t be able to accomplish all of their agenda once in office. False claims will just make them look ineffective and thus bad to the public for over-promising. And if the Pubs threaten to shut down the gov’t fiscally in order to achieve their goals when in control of one or both Houses of Congress, we all know how that turns out. The Media goes into high gear, Pubs are blamed for any financial repercussions that may ensue, whether true or not, and once again we are the ogres. It is a fine line that the Pubs must walk right now verbally, and Tucker yapping from the sidelines against them is not helping here at all.
“Nancy says they hold the house and she hasn’t been wrong yet.”
She’s about to be.
“And Oz is not spending any of his own money on his race. He doesn’t believe he can win. he complains about fetterman not having to spend money on his primary election. what a doofus.”
Oz HAS been spending his own money too; you don’t know what you are talking about. And he has been campaigning all over the state of PA trying to get the word out. The RNC hasn’t been helping him much at all with money, and the Pub Oz haters won’t help either.
Oz is being vastly outspent by out-of-towner Libs funding Fetterman, an outright Commie socialist. If Oz loses, and thus we could lose the Senate because of it, it will primarily be the result of the lousy backing of his own Pub Party and those individual Pubs that would rather see Oz a Cardiologist whose career has been to save lives, go down, lose the state of PA, and have a blatant Commie/Socialist who has lived off his family’s money, win the Senate position.
Republicans eat their own.
And they do it so well.
‘Republicans eat their own’
And that’s exactly what Tucker has been saying!
The problem with Repubs is, they see a bad poll, they panic, they give up.
If they all get out and vote, we will win. Dems know this about us which is why they put out horror-polls.
Of course, there is the cheating aspect. We should learn to cheat like they do.
et tu Tucker? Faux News. Any questions?
With all the bad effects of bad policies coming down the pike, only a sociopath would want to be in charge?
If the GOP directs its efforts properly, it will eke out a small majority in the House. The Senate ain’t happenin’ this time around.
The GOP/RNC isn’t putting any money behind non RINOs. I guess that includes Trump by way of contract. All I hear is record breaking contributions to Trump yet some of these candidates can’t afford TV ads. Guess the GOP/RNC machine is sucking up that money and only handing it out to Mitch’s RINO types.
Oz can show you how to shop for ingredients for Crudités, even if he doesn't get the name right of the PA grocery store that he's in.
and unfortunately, it’s probably required that all fox people use fox polls which suck.
2022 will be an election repeat of 2020 - same characters, similar methods.
Result will be screaming conservatives ... again. Smiling Democrats ... again. Media will touting the fairest election ever ... again. Conservatives claiming just wait until the next election ... again.
There will be no need for an election in 2026 or 2028.
If the GOP directs its efforts properly,
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The GOP is directing its efforts toward causes it cares about, not ones people care about, and so will lose once again.
If both don’t flip, America richly deserves what befalls her.
Wow sanity on FR! No circle firing squads at republicans
If the democrats hold the House and Senate in an honest election, then Wisdom, in Proverbs 1:24 - 26, has a message:
“But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you.”
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