“ All one has to do is look at the slaughter that resulted from Nixon’s resignation to see what would happen.“
Actually, in the election after Watergate, Ford lost by a narrow margin.
It was by no means a slaughter.
In the 1974 Congressional elections, the Dhimmis gained nearly 50 seats. In the 1976 elections, the Dhimmis gained only 1 additional seat. Nixon resigned in Aug 1974. It was a slaughter.
Not comparable. Democrats led both chambers of Congress when Nixon was President and they talked Nixon into a resignation.
Trump is never going to resign and if the Republicans vote him out they will essentially be committing politcal suicide. Millions would never vote for the GOP ever again. E V E R.
It would not matter how evil the Democrats are. Nobody is going to vote for a party that assassinates their own leaders. There is no redemption from it.
He was talking about the slaugter in SE Asia, when we abandoned our allies and the Communists slaughtered and displaced millions.
Ford may have nearly held on but the down ballot races were a slaughter. I remember election night (I was in college). Just about every Republican in the state of Colorado lost. In those days we were still a mostly red state with a few exceptions.
United States Senate
Main article: 1974 United States Senate elections
The Democrats made a net gain of four Senate seats from the Republicans. Democrat John A. Durkin won a special election in New Hampshire after the Senate voided the original contested election. After the special election, Democrats possessed 60 seats to 38 for the Republicans, with one independent who caucused with the Democrats and one Conservative who caucused with the Republicans.
United States House of Representatives
Main article: 1974 United States House of Representatives elections
The Democrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 16.8 points.[1] This translated to a net gain of 49 seats from the Republicans, increasing the party's majority above the two-thirds mark.
Many of the newly elected Democrats in the House and Senate were liberal northerners (known as Watergate Babies), and the influx of liberals moved power away from the conservative southern Democrats who held most committee chairs in both houses.[2]