What alarms me most is hoe close she came to winning in a state like Georgia.
I’m not saying that Georgia isn’t undergoing some demographic changes. They are. But sometimes I look at the 2018 elections as a bit of an outlier.
The GOP did badly in the suburbs around Atlanta. Karen Handel lost what was a fairly decent GOP House seat. It looks like the suburban soccer moms totally bit on the “Trump’s a meanie. For the good of the state, let’s punish his supporters in Congress.” Hel, it happened in a lot of other Congressional seats too. My god, Oklahoma elected a Democrat in the Oklahoma City area!
Hopefully, the lost suburban vote will come back next year after they realize that the Democrats promised them a lot of moderate stances and collegiality - and failed to deliver.
I don’t buy the whole “trump did bad with suburban women” meme.
All I have to do is look at the Trump rallies and see all the suburban women who voted for, and will vote for him again.
Keep in mind not ONCE did Trump in 2018, stumping for Congressional critters, call for "A Huge, Bigly, Luxurious, Trumptastic Supermajority."
Not. One. Single. Time.
I begged everyone who knows Stephen Miller to put "Supermajority" in the stump.
Nope.
And now you know why. Our President specifically wanted to run against the House in 2020, he wanted to run against #Robotox, and he got the #SocialistSquat as a bonus to grind on!
I would have gone the other way but it's done, and he's going to win again either way.
“I look at the 2018 elections as a bit of an outlier.”
They were. Republicans went to the Georgia polls in mid-term numbers, as expected. Democrats voted in presidential-year numbers, ginned up by Trump derangement and a black female candidate for governor. I don’t think the close election in 2018 says anything about the 2020 outcome in Georgia.