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Don't Count Your 2022 Chickens Before They Hatch: While the headwinds do favor the GOP in 2022, there are a few potential pitfalls that could derail the anticipated repeat of 1994
PJ Media ^ | 07/27/2021 | Tyler O' Neill

Posted on 07/27/2021 8:42:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Republicans have many reasons to be hopeful about the 2022 midterm elections. After all, the president’s party tends to lose seats in midterms, and the Democrats have been overreaching worse than Alexander the Great in India. However, conservatives cannot get too cocky. While the headwinds do favor the GOP in 2022, there are a few potential pitfalls that could derail the anticipated repeat of 1994.

First, however, I’ll cover the reasons for hope — and there are many. The Washington Examiner‘s Jim Antle laid out many of them in a recent column, and I’d just add a few more.

1. The Democrats abusing their small majorities

Yes, the Democrats maintained their majority in the House of Representatives in 2020 and won a razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate last December. Democrats have 220 seats in the House to Republicans’ 211 and they have 50 seats (plus one, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking ties) in the Senate.

Democrats have not been acting like they have close majorities, however. Instead, they’ve been attempting to ram an extremely radical agenda down the throats of Americans, using exaggerated rhetoric to demonize their opponents.

Much of the debate in Congress has boiled down to whether or not Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) will destroy the tradition of the Senate and abolish the filibuster for major pieces of legislation.

Just last year, Democrats used the filibuster to stop the Republican police reform bill. They realized the filibuster’s importance when it comes to protecting the rights of the minority. Now, they compare it to Jim Crow laws. The American people are not fooled.

2. Election integrity

In 2020, many state election officials weakened election integrity protections in order to accommodate more voting during a pandemic.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022; elections; midterms
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1 posted on 07/27/2021 8:42:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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3. Wokeness

From Marxist critical race theory (CRT) to transgender orthodoxy to browbeating about America’s alleged “systemic racism,” the Left has gone into “woke” overdrive.

4. Inflation

The prices of goods and services continue to rise, thanks in large part to Biden’s profligate debt-financed spending. Yet the president has pledged that he will restrain inflation… by spending even more money.

5. The border crisis

Biden rushed to reverse the policies of former President Donald Trump, which held the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border in check. Record numbers of illegal immigrants have crossed the border, many of them wearing t-shirts celebrating Biden’s lax policies.

6. Violent crime

The drop in violent crime that began in the 1990s appears to have ended. Homicides are spiking in major cities.

2 posted on 07/27/2021 8:44:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Dominion voting systems.


3 posted on 07/27/2021 8:45:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

people like you. lol.


4 posted on 07/27/2021 8:46:07 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind
#1 should be Election integrity, not point 2.

With election theft, nothing else matters politically.

5 posted on 07/27/2021 8:46:40 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: SeekAndFind

“Don’t count yer chickens, it might storm and blow yer coop strait into the next county.”

That is always the case, as no one can predict what will happen next month, much less next year. Remember, when the Trump economy was going to roll over the Democrats? Then came COVID. So, don’t just wait for good luck, prepare, and make it happen!


6 posted on 07/27/2021 8:47:20 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like cheating, maybe? How about some fraud? We all know everybody loves the Democrats.


7 posted on 07/27/2021 8:49:11 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SeekAndFind
. Record numbers of illegal immigrants have crossed the border, many of them wearing t-shirts celebrating Biden’s lax policies infected with COVID, STDs, and who know what other communicable diseases!
8 posted on 07/27/2021 8:50:35 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

G-O-PEE..... gimme a break; with friends like that, who needs enemies.


9 posted on 07/27/2021 9:00:34 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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As long as there are Dominion Machines, Soros owned Secretaries of State and County Clerks, widespread vote-by-mail, illegal aliens and dead people allowed to vote, any Republican / conservative who is optimistic about the next election is a fool.


10 posted on 07/27/2021 9:05:41 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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...#1 should be Election integrity, not point 2.

This is especially true since the RATs are trying to sneak in Nationalizing Elections into the Reconciliation bill. They get that and it's game over

11 posted on 07/27/2021 9:13:37 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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2. Election integrity

In 2020, many state election officials weakened election integrity protections in order to accommodate more voting during a pandemic.

This should be #1. Because they're going to run that play again.

12 posted on 07/27/2021 9:14:35 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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dead people allowed to vote

How about dumb people, as well? Unfortunately our youth are dangerously undereducated. Many, like the BLM people, are irrational. They comprise at least half the Democrat voters, if not our national population.

13 posted on 07/27/2021 9:42:40 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Dominion voting systems.


14 posted on 07/27/2021 10:32:31 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: SeekAndFind

In 1994, people voted on paper ballots?


15 posted on 07/27/2021 11:04:04 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Zero chance Dems lose less than 40 seats


16 posted on 07/28/2021 1:56:14 AM PDT by genghis
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To: higgmeister

Which are going to be banned in red/swing states.


17 posted on 07/28/2021 2:27:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

stealing elections


18 posted on 07/28/2021 3:00:22 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: SeekAndFind

Assume the GOP wins a majority in both houses of Congress in 2022. With McConnell controlling the Senate and McCarthy overseeing the House as speaker, how is governance going to be different than it was from January 2017 to January 2019 when we had Majority Leader McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan?

Lest we forget we had Republican majorities in the House and Senate the last two years of Obama’s term - Majority leader McConnell and Speaker Ryan. How effective was the GOP opposition to Obama? Why will it be any better with Joe Biden in the oval office?

With moderates controlling the GOP leadership, there will be no change, only accommodation.


19 posted on 07/28/2021 3:46:39 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Click bait.

The Democrat/communists say they are beaten.

But hey the guy has a deadline to meet so we see this.

Don’t count your chickens until the eggs are hatched simply does not apply here.

There is nothing short of nailing the doors of polling places and arresting registered Democrat/communists that the Republicans can do.

There are anti Democrat/communist voter fraud bills under consideration in 49 states.
as I said this is click bait.


20 posted on 07/28/2021 4:41:49 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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