Posted on 12/13/2022 12:24:45 PM PST by absalom01
Republican voters did their part. When one accumulates the popular vote for House races across the country, Republicans won by three percentage points—a margin that was once just under five points but narrowed as votes from deep-blue districts trickled in over weeks after Election Day. That kind of turnout for Republicans “would normally translate into GOP gains of 20-30 seats,” according to the Cook Political Report. But Republicans have as of early December netted only eight seats, bringing their total in the House to 220. At most, Republicans will hold 222. In races that seemed to be easy flips, Republicans flopped.
Republican voters across the country are starving for some accountability, and justifiably so. They should look no further than GOP leadership, namely House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Throughout the 2022 midterms, GOP leadership gave exorbitantly to liberal and squishy Republicans—the type that would vote to codify same sex marriage—over America First candidates who wanted to take the party in a new direction. GOP leadership lit money on fire in the primaries to prevent America First candidates from making it to the general. When some of them made it through the primaries bloodied and bruised, McCarthy and McConnell filled their pots, put them over the fire, and left the room, only to return and try to save some of these candidates in the general election when they found themselves in hot water.
Don’t let the establishment blame former president Donald Trump. The only reason Republicans took the House was because Trump pulled several House Republicans across the line in 2020. The GOP’s overperformance with Trump on the ballot also gave Republicans redistricting power in crucial states like Arizona and Florida.
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The elections were stolen.
It was all a head fake
Because we offered the voters nothing
We didn’t even have a ground game and whined about how the democrats were doing a way better job
Our message was non existent
Our senate leadership failed
Trump’s message of “sTolEn ElecTionS” won’t bring out voters, if elections are rigged, why bother voting?
We didn’t encourage early voting, think about it, you can get way more voters through the voting machines quicker over 7 days vs 1 day, we could have had shorter lines, which would easily mean more voters on election day being counted. But we refuse to do this, why?
We are party of conspiracy nuts and Q morons
We poisoned ourselves with moderates, centrists, etc. They either don’t show up or vote for the D because they appear safer and more reasonable
Our media sucks
Without question.
And the GOP leadership was in on it.
1. Ground Game
2. GOPe
3. Trump, although it is a bit unfair to dump everything on him, isn’t exactly helping and shares responsibility as the supposed leader of Republicans over three disappointing elections.
The squishes must be yeeted.
It’s the only way.
I have to disagree about Trump.
He’s the only one out there really fighting. He can’t do it alone, but he seems to have come to realize that the fight is not only against the Dems, but against the establishment cucks that have their fat sinecures and deliberately threw this election.
The GOPe has to be held to account for this abject failure.
That’s for sure. Get rid of those crappy Senate candidates, and the horrible governor candidates! what a complete disaster.
This paragraph pretty sums up why the red wave did not happen.
“””Throughout the 2022 midterms, GOP leadership gave exorbitantly to liberal and squishy Republicans—the type that would vote to codify same sex marriage—over America First candidates who wanted to take the party in a new direction. GOP leadership lit money on fire in the primaries to prevent America First candidates from making it to the general.”””
I wish that were true. They never would’ve lost if we had better candidates.
It’d be nice if the fighting resulted in winning. Three huge loss’ in a row. Not a great track record.
Exactly
Throughout the 2022 midterms, GOP leadership gave exorbitantly to liberalThat plus fraud.and squishyRepublicans—the type that would vote to codify same sex marriage—over America First candidates who wanted to take the party in a new direction. …
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Trump’s message of “sTolEn ElecTionS” won’t bring out voters, if elections are rigged, why bother voting?
Good point.
Trump should have posted the Declaration of Independence and started the Revolution in 2020 instead of allowing the installation of a fake president..
But how many secretly enjoyed him being impeached twice?
How many secretly enjoyed him being raided by the FBI?
How many secretly enjoyed some of his MAGA candidates losing?
How many secretly enjoy Brandon being installed?
How many secretly hate MAGA?
Apparently, the likes of the FBI, CIA, US military and Fedzilla and most of the state governments..
Trump stands alone in many ways..
Can’t be easy for Trump to take all those slings and arrows instead of asking millions of his disenfranchised supporters to spill their blood in a hopeless restoration of a Constitutional Republic that railroaded him since he announced he was running.
Darn you Trump!
Dude...
MAGA cleaned house.
The big losers were bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’Ts...
While MAGA won bigly, they lost bigly.
We are winning.
Don’t believe the crap they are trying to shove down your throat.
They are scared.
Boy, you got that wrong.
I don’t buy this. The democrat played for ballots while the republicans played for votes. They basically did on a local level what they did on a national level in 2020. Repbublicans have not woken up to the reality that the democrats changed the game in 2020.
The blame game on fellow republicans is just monkey stupid.
One word I haven’t seen in the stories about the red wave that wasn’t is “complacency.”
Dems were pushed to vote with continual ads on how Pubs are going to ban abortion from conception to birth and how Dems are the ones that have to save democracy by voting.
Pub voters were told, at least on Fox, time and time again in the weeks leading up to the November election how there was to be a BIG red wave in the House of Representatives similar to Newt’s win in 1994, and that Pubs may actually win the Senate! Of course, the House win was a squeaker and we actually lost a Senate seat.
How much of that was due to complacency? An article in our local Oil Patch City paper detailed how Pub turnout in this very conservative county was about 34% while that in heavily Democratic Santa Fe county was 60%. Now given the latter number may include some mail-in-ballot fraud, it certainly was a very different turnout.
In fact, the low Pub turnout in the oil patch counties likely led to the defeat of the only Pub representative in Congress as the partisan Dems gerrymanded NM District 2 by placing conservative northern Lea County into the same district as Santa Fe and replacing these voters with those in the poverty and drug ridden Albuquerque South Valley. Even so, if Pub turnout in the remaining part of NM-2 was higher, the conservative representative Yvette Herrell would have kept her seat as she lost by just over 2,000 votes.
How much Pub complacency in races in other states led to Pub loses, I don’t know. But the pattern may be the same with the Dems having the issues and the Pubs assuming his conservative neighbor would vote so his/her vote wasn’t needed.
No, the abortion issue did not push Dems to overcome the Republican voters in certain areas.
Fraud denial is not the way to go. It perpetuates the problem.
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