Posted on 11/09/2022 9:38:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I think we need to win this thing first.
SQUASH the SQUISH!
I’m more concerned about a needed challenge to Mitch in the Senate, either as minority or majority leader.
Katie Pavlich writes an article and quotes a tweet by Katie Pavlich.
Maybe the J6 hostages are there so that the RINOs can “free” them. That might finish Trump.
So am I.
It will be won in the coming hours. The AP won’t add in Arizona, Montana and Louisiana seats yet I think they vote a different day.
Trump endorsed McCarthy so no wonder a challenge.
There’s an anti-Trump narrative in the “conservative media” universe today.
Who ever it is, I’m sure that they will grotesquely underwhelm us.
Another GOP source sees below tweet, texts me “If you look at what happened in Florida last night, that’s what McCarthy and also Rick Scott were promising would happen across the rest of the country. But it didn’t”
FACT - the first thing Ron DeSantis did when he won the governor’s race in Florida was to clean up Dade and Palm Beach County elections.
What happened?
In 2020, Florida went solidly red. Sure, some of that was his policies and migration of conservatives fleeing blue states, but not all of it.
In 2022, Florida went even more red AND the election was run in an orderly fashion with results known on election day.
I am concerned about the whispers that the GOPe is courting DeSantis. Any candidate that Paul Ryan endorsed would be very hard for me to support based on instinct.
However, the man gets results and guess what is the most important yet overlooked point about his results?
He is legislating. LEGISLATING.
Trump was forced by the GOPe to operate via executive orders because he could not get his agenda through the house or senate.
As successful as he was in acting as chief executive his actions were wiped away with the same action of a pen by his “successor”.
The changes brought about by DeSantis will last beyond his term as governor. The changes brought about by Trump were great, but they are a distant memory outside of judicial appointments and shining a light on the swamp.
There are two lessons here -
1) clean up elections
2) sell your message to the legislature and implement your agenda via laws so they are more permanent
Sorry to hijack your thread - I DO NOT support McCarthy for Speaker, but I am also a realist and unless the ones we like more support someone else it is a done deal.
“The AP won’t add in Arizona, Montana and Louisiana seats yet I think they vote a different day.”
Louisiana technically had its “primary” election yesterday, with runoffs to be held in December if necessary.
None are necessary.
These results are final. Not “official” yet, but all of the winners are known and they will not change. Republicans took 5 of the 6 seats, as they have for at least a decade now. Nothing surprising here.
The GOP gets to 218 sooner or later I would project by Friday.
The GOP gets to 218 sooner or later I would project by Friday.
Ronna Romney McDaniel must be fired too
There is nothing inspiring about this guy. He’s nothing more than a Mitch McConnell of the Congress.
A total puffball and worthless
There is nothing inspiring about this guy. He’s nothing more than a Mitch McConnell of the Congress.
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True. That may be the one positive thing about having a narrow house win. He might not have the votes for speaker.
I agree!
Let’s put our 45th president,Donald J. Trump, as Speaker of the House!
He would teach all of the Ds and Rinos a thing or two!
“The GOP gets to 218 sooner or later I would project by Friday.”
That’s probable, but it’s going to literally take a MONTH before California finalizes its count. If we see “ballot harvesting” on anything approaching the scale of 2018, you can subtract at least 1 or 2 (Valadao, Garcia, maybe Steel) from the GOP count. And that *could* end up making a lot of difference if some other things don’t go our way between now and then like in Arizona, Nevada and some others.
Forgot to mention Calvert as a likely casualty of California Democrat ballot harvesting in the above post. So we could lose 4 seats if Democrats get their way.
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