Posted on 11/14/2022 5:20:30 AM PST by thefactor
In August, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told NBC News he was confident Republicans could take the House. As for the Senate . . . “Senate races are just different,” he said. “They’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
He was absolutely right, of course. Candidate quality gave Democrats control of the Senate again, and forced a runoff in Georgia.
In Arizona, for one, McConnell had wanted popular Gov. Doug Ducey to run. But ex-President Donald Trump had slandered Ducey, vowing to oppose him every step of the way because he had refused to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election. So the GOP got Blake Masters, who just lost to Democrat Mark Kelly.
And Trump blames . . . Mitch McConnell.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"You know who didn’t spend a lot of money? Donald Trump. Sitting on a warchest of $92 million, he spent just 22% of it on the midterms nationwide.
Trump allowed Masters to send out a fundraising message to the former president’s donor list in late October. The split? For every dollar donated, 99 cents would go to Trump, 1 cent to Masters."
Wow. The Post going all in Interesting.
You got to watch those “toggles”.
That’s why it’s called the New York Compost.
Well here we have our number one FR turd in the punchbowl on a regular basis inflaming and dividing, posting Murdoch treachery and pimping for RINOs.
Yes, it was Trump. And McConnell too.
Anyone who doesn’t believe Trump played a role in this defeat has their head in the sand.
Both need to go…
Exactly. All Republicans had to do was nominate a normal, Pennsylvania resident for the Senate spot and they would have beat Fetterman. But nope, Trump had to endorse his old rich buddy Dr. Oz. Another loss.
Rupert’s neocon puppets have spoken.
Murdock and his New York Post have a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Oh yeah, Murdock’s other media, FOX, is also having a bad case of TDS.
“”You know who didn’t spend a lot of money? Donald Trump. Sitting on a warchest of $92 million, he spent just 22% of it on the midterms nationwide.”
I thought Trump was a private citizen? Who paid for all those campaign rallies Trump attended? How much did the RNC invest in candidates for the midterms?
I’m tired of all this crap. The RNC was like this way before Trump decided to go into politics. Only difference I saw from demographics voting is that Roe was the dog whistle for single women everywhere. Their vote put many of these Democrats over the top.
Rupert Murdock
I loved Trump at the beginning, but he’s made the Party all about himself and he has to go. Only when he loses in 2024 will we be free of him and he can go back to his cocktail parties with Hillary and Jesse Jackson and Sharpton, which is how he spent his days prior to conning half the country that he is a Republican.
All those die hard RATs in Miami Dade and Palm Beach county rolled GOP this time. Gave it all up and ditched the Democrats. /s
Rubio won by staggering numbers because he never once supported illegal amnesty.
Trump 2024 - and while you NPCs are spamming the boards could you kindly donate your McConnell funding to keep this place going? K-thx
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The three GOP choices for PA senate were all flawed.
Sorry but this article and its defense of McConnell is not persuasive.
They actually defend him criticizing his own party’s candidates 6 weeks before the election?
The Democrat candidates suck. That’s not the issue.
Can you describe the symptoms you are having with your case of Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Headache?
Fever?
Irritable Bowel?
GOP Wise Up: Midterm Elections Reveal Critical Difference Between “Ballots” and “Votes”
https://waynedupree.com/2022/11/ballots-and-votes-midterm-election/
Back in 2018, I saw something happen that scared the crap out of me: Ballot Harvesting. It happened in California. Republicans were ahead in so many House races when I went to bed, and by the time I woke up the next morning, they had all lost. I was horrified and scared to death. I wrote a piece on “Ballot Harvesting,” and I warned everyone that this was a “trial run” and Dems would be using this tactic in the future… and two years later, thanks to the COVID pandemic that just happened to hit us at the “perfect time,” Dems were using “ballot harvesting” to install a decrepit, old, nasty buffoon into the White House.
And it all went down the same way that it did in California. People went to bed thinking Trump had won, and then overnight, everything changed.
I have said all along, Dems will do ANYTHING to hold onto power. Anything. And this Ballot Harvesting is a winner for them. It’s changed the game, actually.
Right now, so many clueless idiots are blaming President Trump for “underperforming” in the midterms, and I will admit, I was so bummed early in the morning yesterday, but my late morning, I was already over it, and looking at what happened without hyper-emotion. We actually did pretty damn well, considering the state of this county and the political polarization we’re dealing with. Was there a nationwide “red wave,” no. But that’s not Trump’s fault. It’s the ballots…
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