Posted on 11/09/2022 1:53:03 PM PST by Heartlander
With Election Day over and the rest of “election week” just ramping up, legacy media are openly celebrating their party escaping as stern a rebuke as many expected. Despite predictions of a red tsunami that would wipe out Democrat officeholders nationwide, the election shaped up to be one big, confusing mess, leaving pundits on both sides of the political aisle wondering what exactly was going through voters’ minds at the ballot box.
Still, Tuesday night gave the GOP some major victories in states and localities throughout the country. That the corporate press has chosen to ignore them shouldn’t surprise you, considering their desperate desire to interpret the midterms as approval of Joe Biden’s failing presidency. These GOP wins, however, signal that Democrats don’t have the popular mandate they’ll likely claim.
In Ohio, Republicans ended up sweeping all three seats for the state Supreme Court, allowing conservatives to likely have a 4-3 majority in Ohio’s highest judicial body. According to a local news outlet, the races weren’t particularly close, with all three GOP candidates trouncing their Democrat opponents by double digits. With major abortion-related legal cases on the horizon, Republican control of the body will prove vital in upholding the law and protecting innocent babies in the womb.
Republican judicial candidates in North Carolina also enjoyed major victories on Tuesday, with GOP nominees for the state Supreme Court flipping the two seats up for election this cycle. The projected wins will now give Republicans a 5-2 majority on the high court beginning next year. Earlier this year, the Democrat-controlled court struck down two state constitutional amendments previously adopted by state voters in 2018, with the ruling coalition claiming, as National Review reported, that “the two houses of the state legislature that proposed them included districts that were racially gerrymandered.”
But North Carolina Republicans’ election dubs didn’t stop there. In addition to the state Supreme Court, all four GOP judges running for seats on the North Carolina Court of Appeals are poised to defeat their Democrat opponents, marking a major win for the future integrity of the state’s legal system.
On the education front, Republicans faired very well in a number of key states across the country. In Kansas, four conservative candidates for the state’s Board of Education are all projected to win their races, giving the body a 7-3 Republican majority. Similar trends were also seen in Texas, where more conservative candidates are projected to win their bids for seats on the state’s education board.
Conservative grassroots activists throughout the nation also saw success in electing “parents first” candidates to their local school boards. In Michigan, four candidates backed by the 1776 Project PAC are projected to give conservatives control of the Brandywine Board of Education. The parental rights group also saw similar success in Maryland, where the group is forecasting that three of their candidates will successfully flip the Carroll County school board from Democrat to Republican.
Additional states that saw major conservative local school board victories on Tuesday include Florida and North Carolina.
Virginia Democrat Congresswoman Elaine Luria, a sitting member of the House’s infamous Jan. 6 Committee, got handed the pink slip by voters on Tuesday when she lost her reelection bid to Republican Jennifer Kiggans in the state’s 2nd Congressional District. As reported by Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice, Luria is one of four members of the committee not returning to Congress next year, along with Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida and GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
While Murphy and Kinzinger both opted not to run for reelection this cycle, Cheney suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of now Congresswoman-elect Harriet Hageman during Wyoming’s Republican primaries earlier this year.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Sean Patrick Maloney lost his reelection bid for New York’s 17th Congressional District on Tuesday, marking a major loss for House Democrats. Defeated by Republican candidate Mike Lawler, Maloney’s loss is reportedly the first time a House campaign committee chair has lost since 1992.
According to Fox News, the DCCC had poured roughly $600,000 into the race to save Maloney in the months leading up to Election Day.
Thanks to the proactive leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s status as a solidly red state is no longer in doubt. In addition to DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio’s sweeping victories Tuesday evening, Florida Republicans also expanded their numbers in the state legislature, where they will hold supermajorities in both the House and Senate starting next year.
Republicans are also projected to increase their majorities in the North Carolina state legislature this year, giving the GOP a supermajority in the Senate and one vote shy of a supermajority in the House. The results are significant given that the state’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper has regularly vetoed legislation backed by conservatives, such as election integrity and pro-life initiatives.
Ouch! They sure have those numbers accurate huh.
Good for DeSantis.
I hate seeing Rubio’s name mixed in with our A team members.
How many of the ballots were mailed before the debate?
Took me a while to run across this post, but I heard last night that most Michiganers voted for Festerman before his debate (from the Republican with the white board). I tried advanced Google searching for it (for last 24 hour results), and got nothing, except pro-Festerman results.
Hmmm, I missed seeing Festerman on my MI ballot....
In Kansas Gov. Kelly bragged about supporting education, but it was the conservative Board of Education that thwarted her evil lockdown plan and the schools stayed open. Sadly, the voters forgot about her attempt and re-elected her.
IIRC, over 750k ballots had already been returned by the time the debate happened.
Whitman was in Michigan. Fetterman was in PA.
That was the RAT plan.
In all fairness, the Republicans typically say one thing and do another, which is slightly less disgusting than what the Democrats tell you they are going to do to you, and then actually do much worse!
Both parties SUCK! I am not a Republican, I am a Conservative...unfortunately, Libertarians run on a platform that is closest to my beliefs, but the PARTY is worse than either the Dems or Reps, because they don’t have actual leadership with a chance in hell to be successful (on election night or if elected)!
So, I am stuck with not voting, which guarantees the evil Democrats win, or holding my nose and voting for slightly less disgusting Republicans.
Some people can’t hold their noses any longer, and I am not sure I blame them! Trump was the closest to Reagan we had in many years and the Republican PARTY hated him as much as the Democrats, and they worked to help him fail! To many, that is simply no longer acceptable.
95+% of Trump’s endorsed candidates WON!
Of course, our enemedia will not tout that number; but they will be SCREAMING about that 5% that lost!
Guys like Marco Rubio and Kevin McCarthy who were sailing to victory regardless of Trump’s endorsement.
Let’s talk about the “Muh stolen election” candidates who lost, who cost us the Senate and probably no less than three statehouses. These pics were a catastrophe.
THIS LURIA LOSS was particularly soothing since she was a hidden, hardly ever saw her, menace to the party, the state and the nation.
SO HAPPY SHE IS GONE.
Unless the dims come up with a trunkful of ballots.
LOL!!
You mean the picks the GOPe helped to torpedo didn’t do well in the General Election, so let’s blame Trump?!?
DeSantis is not going to be the Republican nominee in 2024, and if he is, he will lose to the Democrat. Of course, I’m sure you will blame Trump for that too.
Yes ! The local press fawned over Luria during her tenure. This district was redistricted to include a much more rural and conservative area. Luria was part of the sham J6 Inquisition. A pox oh her
I would agree with that, because when you look at a trust quotient the Republican Party comes across as a bunch of lying spork weasel, designated loser non-supporting bunch of scumbags. Here in New Hampshire I have more disdain for the Republican party than I do the Democrat party. I feel the Democrat Party is actually more honest about who they are and what their goals are even if it is fully supporting communism. They make no bones about it. The Republican party here at this state is a bunch of scum that can’t be trusted as far as you can wipe them and flush them down the toilet.
All good points.
I well remember the years when lots of good people didn’t vote between Reagan and Trump. Candidates: Dole, Romney, the Bush family. All “lesser of two evils” for a long time. But saved us from Gore and Dukakis types. I don’t want to see that again but we cannot allow anti-American Dems to rule us. Even if Turtle types are laughing it up at cocktail parties.
Yep, now we’re back to voting between The Giant Douche and The Turd Sandwich.
Praise the Lord!
That twerp was involved with insider trading and the Legacy Press said NOTHING!
It was wonderful seeing the notice of her defeat.
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