I’m with you, I don’t understand all the histrionics either. Usually midterms are much more of a blood bath for the party of the sitting president. I can only hope that Nancy gets speaker, she is such a blathering fool these days it will be a laugh a minute.
We had history against us, but the real killer was the 45 (was that the number?) retirements. I know you can’t force an officeholder to stay on if they don’t want to, and some of them were dead wood. But trying to fill 45 vacancies plus buck the historic trend, well, I’m surprised it wasn’t an even bigger bloodbath.