Posted on 04/04/2024 10:09:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The presidential race may be the big story this year, but control of the House and Senate are also at stake. Many believe that Democrats are favored to win control of the House, but Republicans have their best shot of not only winning control of the U.S. Senate but also winning a majority that is likely to last for several cycles.
And recent developments suggest that Republicans could flip a few more seats than expected.
The first seat is in Nevada—a state I'd pretty much given up on, even though Trump had only barely lost it in 2020 and 2016. However, Trump has had a consistent lead in the polls for some time now.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, the incumbent Democrat, appears to be losing ground in her state. According to the Cook Political Report, which is known for its nonpartisan analysis, Rosen's race has been changed from "Lean Democrat" to "Toss Up" status.
"The Nevada shift may be a bit surprising," notes Jessica Taylor of the Cook Political Report. "After all, it’s the only one of the swing states Democrats carried in both 2016 and 2020 at the presidential level, and Republicans haven’t won a statewide federal race here since 2012. And of the quartet now in Toss Up, it is still probably the toughest."
I should point out that Taylor is incorrect. In 2022, Nevadans elected Republican Joe Lombardo as their governor, and it should be noted that Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) only narrowly defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in 2022.
The other elections that are seen as toss-ups are Ohio, Montana and Arizona, and Taylor argues that there are other incumbent Democrats on defense this year who may end up seeing their "Lean Democrat" designations be recategorized as "Toss Up."
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They will cave to the RATS like they always have. They were even willing to share powers with the RATS in the past when the GOP had a slim majority in the Senate.
If election integrity isn’t dead.
Mitch and company will be making sure the “Red Wave” doesn’t happen unless it is sponsored by the CCP.
There could be one or more Supreme Court vacancies in the next 4 years. A Republican majority in the Senate will be helpful if Trump is President, and might deter a Democrat President from an extreme choice for the replacement.
*Voting for Rinos in order to keep the seat Republican, doesn’t help get rid of the Rinos in the long run, which is supposed to be the goal.*
You should know the difference between Utah/Alaska and Maine/Md. Think about it.
Maryland has the Antietam battlefield. I think the other three are rather lacking in Civil War battlefields.
They all do seem to send RINOs and Democrats to the Senate, but even a RINO Senator will vote the right way more than 50% of the time, while a Democrat Senator will do so once in a blue moon, if ever.
With a rino in the seat the majority leader can shut down nuisance investigations before they start.
Even when the election is stolen Trump has huge coattails. In ‘20 it was all coattails and no coat! ( another sign of the “steal” )
Mitch McSubterfuge
— KY. (D) Douchebage
In 2020 Trump carried 18 of 19 bellwether counties which almost always vote for the winner. So maybe this year the Democrats will put special efforts into ballot stuffing in those counties.
More evidence of The Steal™.
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