Steph still ahead. But state senate bloodbath? Weird.
This election will be one for the books. Never has the GOP made such decisive Senate gains while losing the House (assuming they win by a couple seats — thanks to the cheating, illegal PA Demonrat Supreme Court theft). I’m thinking we try again to petition SCOTUS to restore the 2012-16 lines for 2020.
Here in TN, everything stayed status quo for the most part, as expected. We lost a single seat overall in the State House, 1 pro-tax RINO incumbent defeated in Knoxville. The Democrat Minority Leader who ran for Governor and lost badly to Dean, his seat went Republican. However, a rich Democrat family bought the seat of the outgoing Speaker Harwell. It means for the first time since 1974 that Nashville will not have a single GOP House member.
This should be an impetus to ruthlessly gerrymander the 10 Nashville seats, which Harwell largely protected for 2012. We should have at least 3 or 4 seats. The irony that a “Nashville Republican” won the Governorship when the whole city House delegation will be hostile isn’t lost.
I expect the Dems will target RINO Sen. Steve Dickerson in 2020, the last remaining Republican from Nashville. My district just went from a centrist Black Democrat (who was 1% more Conservative than Dickerson (!)) to a loon. Of the 5 Dem State Senators from 2017-18, 2 were nutters, 1 was semi-reasonable, and 2 were Centrists (with 1 proclaiming he was “really a Republican”), now with all 3 Black members being replaced, all 5 will be nutters.