Posted on 02/18/2018 1:41:19 PM PST by Kaslin
A new interview with Mitch McConnell this week showed the first cracks in the wall of his optimism about the midterms. While not going down a path of gloom and doom, he no longer sounds positive of breaking a long-standing trend of the party in power losing ground in such scenarios. He’s not coming out and saying the GOP’s majorities in both chambers are toast, but he seems to think they’ll be losing seats. (The Hill)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says in a new interview that he expects to see GOP majorities in the House and Senate shrink in November as a result of the 2018 midterms.
The top Republican in the Senate told The New York Times that “the odds are” his party will face net losses in both chambers of Congress this year, the first time McConnell has made such an admission publicly.“The odds are that we will lose seats in the House and the Senate,” McConnell said.
“History tells you that, the fired-up nature of the political left tells you that. We go into this cleareyed that this is going to be quite a challenging election,” he added.
McConnell looks like he’s zigging when everyone else zags. It seemed like everyone was predicting that the Democrats would at least take the Senate back before Christmas, but Mitch was all sunshine and roses. Now that Trump’s numbers have begun to creep back up and some GOP strategists have a bit more spring in their step, McConnell is lowering expectations.
The biggest question is the Senate, of course, and you’d expect the Majority Leader to be more in tune with that. But how many seats are going to flip and which way will they go? The Democrats need at least a net pickup of two now that the Alabama mess is settled. Granted, we’re probably going to lose Nevada because Dean Heller is in a deep hole right now, being attacked from both sides. The #RESIST movement there is strong and Hillary carried the state easily. It looked like we were going to lose Arizona with Flake’s retirement, but if the primary electorate there can settle down and nominate Martha McSally, we could be in good shape. (Nominating Joe Arpaio, on the other hand, would likely turn into Roy Moore Phase Two.)
But let’s say the Dems take Arizona. There’s your flip, right? Not so fast. That means they still have to hang on to all of the more than two dozen of their own they’re defending. And those include:
Granted, they’ll probably keep some of them. But all of them? Particularly looking at McCaskill, Donnelly and Manchin, I’m thinking it’s going to have to be a tsunami and not just a “wave” to go three for three there. As usual, we should remind ourselves that it’s still ridiculously early in the year to pretend that anything is set in stone, and one turn of the news cycle can change any number of things. But as it stands right now, particularly if Trump can somehow keep his nose above water in the mid-forties, it looks like the Democrats have a massive amount of work ahead of them. All the GOP really needs to do at this point is avoid being stupid.
Okay… I didn’t say was a sure thing.
Well Flake is not running for reelection, which is a good thing and McCain is not up for reelection. He should have retired though, instead of running for reelection in 2016
Because he will do everything in his power to make sure it happens, of course.
McConnell was kicked out of the Army for sodomy and it was covered up. Perhaps it’s time for the wiki folks or whomever to release the information.
oh did you stand in voting booth with the republicans and witnessed how they voted? Do you realize that is illegal?
This is NOT to defend McC.......but it is a good idea to lower expectations.....and then publicly kick yourself b/c you were wrong.
Outgoing GOP rep: Republican Party ‘heading into trouble’ in election
Outgoing Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.) said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would be “foolish” for the GOP not to realize that it’s “heading into trouble” in the next election.
“When you look at the future of the Republican Party, I think that we would be foolish to not see that we’re heading into trouble,” Ros-Lehtinen told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
The GOP could teach the French a thing or two about surrendering.
Not just a troll, an uninformed troll.
Go back to the DU.
The current president have decades of political experience.
Dont know who does his reasearch but of 35 open gop seats only 1 is sure to lose 1 tossup and 33 solid red. We will gain in both houses This is him getting readyto campaign for rinos.
Could 2018 be different, and there be gains instead?
They are on a collision course with the hard rocks of reality. This is not the normal political cycle in America. There are very serious people who are taking action to fix things and who can resort to taking actions which can be severe.
The Uni-Party truly hates you Middle Class Christian Americans who work your tails off to make ends meet on your own.
They want you dead! But before that happens, they’ll tax and drain you to death so they can line their coffers.
Second it.
I don’t know how they survive with such a distorted view of reality and so much irrational hatred.
But then, they were all going to move to Canada after the election.
The Establishment is trying to make a point by purposefully losing.
Not according to RINO’s and DEMS.....just sayin’...(I know what you mean)
What an absolute f-ing LOSER!
Their view of reality is Darwinian. With what most of us see what is coming moving to Canada soon would be wise for them.
Yeah, because to the stupidity of fools like you and the other RINOS. Trump may not even win the next election because of fools like him.
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