I’m puzzled why this article fails to mention that the NH GOP flipped a Dem-held seat at the same time they lost the GOP-held one. That means it was a wash in a very low turnout.
In the NY race, we don’t even know how much each side spent, but I saw a comment about the Teacher Union kicking $200k to the Democrat (and don’t forget with the very large Dem majority in the Assembly, a single seat lost or gained won’t matter, and the Dems have an advantage with any race in the state, even in a GOP district), and again, an embarrassingly low turnout that had Berniecrats being the only ones motivated to get out and vote.
The bigger concerns are the special elections in the Congressional races. If the GOP starts losing those (MT, GA-6, SC-5), then one can declare the party has a problem. We’re already seeing the fake news rolled out to try to cost Gianforte in MT at the last second. We’ll probably see similar fake news scandals right before the 2 races in GA and SC as well. Dems/Media are in such desperation mode.
The #FakeNews tried to influence the general election, and we see them influencing these elections as well.
The hypocrisy is incredible.
The second special election in NH was a GOP HOLD not a gain, despite the confusing headline about “winning back” the seat. It was previously held by Republican Andre Martel, who died in late December. Boy what a long vacancy, silly, shouldn’t take so long.
Anyway, while hardly a disaster these loses in NH and NY are certainly something to feel very bad about, strongly Republican seats, it shouldn’t have mattered that democrats had high turnout and how much they spent, where where the Republicans? Yeah the NH seats are so tiny they aren’t good samples and that one was close, but the margin in NY was embarrassing, 57% D in a Trump 60% district.
If these were more marginal districts I’d be more “meh” and again it’s not a catastrophe but there is no spinning that it’s totally uncool and raises the alert level.
Explanation - author is Guy Benson. He aims to undercut Trump for the benefit of the GOPe.
I thought that the state House race that the GOP won in NH last week was for a GOP-held open seat.
Thank you for the perspective