Posted on 12/12/2022 6:58:17 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said she has identified one of the "massive" reasons Republicans significantly underperformed in last month's midterm elections.
McDaniel said a "massive amount" of ticket-splitting was one of the top factors that led to GOP losses in some key races this election cycle despite winning in other races on the same ballot, speaking with John Catsimatidis on Cats Roundtable on the radio station WABC 77 on Sunday.
"Ticket-splitting was everywhere. We won eight races statewide in Georgia, but then Warnock wins the runoff. Ron Johnson wins in Wisconsin, but Evers holds the governorship," McDaniel said. "It’s not a one size fits all."
McDaniel also mentioned how the GOP cannot ignore abortion as a matter for voters, saying it gave Democrats an opportunity this past election.
"We’ve got to get conversant on that. It was probably a bigger factor than a lot of people thought. We can’t just do an ostrich method and pretend that it doesn’t exist when Democrats are spending $30 million on that message," McDaniel said. "In Pennsylvania and Michigan, that was a huge issue."
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How do you know this? Has anything been done to deal with the massive and grotesquely blatant fraud in 2020? Why wouldn’t the fraud be even more pervasive in ‘22 and ‘24?
I don’t care where you volunteer.
You say that the Republican voters in your sleepy little town didn’t vote for the guy. You and them prove the point that you’d rather point a finger at a boogeyman, blame some else and watch the country circle the drain because your pick didn’t win
Who were you for? McCormack? Mr Globalist Wall St Venture Capitalist himself.
Did you and your neighbors in your sleepy little hamlet vote for Mastriano?
If you didn’t, you helped a guy so that has stated he’s going to destroy the energy sector in your state.
The flawed candidate you speak of WON the election on Election Day. He was over 600k in the hole before that. Not easy to overcome. I’d say that Oz had a 1 in quadrillion chance of winning.
Wait a second…..in 2020 President Trump was up by 700k votes. According to Ken Paxton, Biden had a 1 in Quadrillion chance of winning, but the next day he did.
So, what did they do? Instead of counting the votes that night and the next day, they gave Fetterman the same win only they did it ahead of time
Right now, illegals are flooding the border. When Title 42 ends it’s going to get even worse.
You profess that Os is WEF. So. You have no idea what he would have done. You can get on your soapbox and scream all you want. But you don’t know. How many on here usage stated they Pres Trump was a Democrat. Yet he did more for the country, Republicans and Conservatives than anyone you can name, including Reagan.
MCCONNELL
And that’s why I call them REPUGLICRATS.
REPUGNANT/DEMOCRATS!
If she is truly that naive then she shouldn’t be in charge of anything
A candidate who isn’t a complete fraud and totally off brand.
Again you are simply offering a version of “at least he’s not the other guy”.. and if that’s all you got, as a Republican in PA in a state wide race you lose, Every single time, period.
46 %D
39% R
15% I
You want to win as an R in PA you have to get every single R vote that you can find, and win independents by more than 2 to 1 and/or peel off a lot of conservative/moderate democrats... You will never do that with a candidate who’s only argument is “at least I’m not the other guy”.
OZ was a crap candidate, he was handed 2 miracles... Fetterman’s stroke so he couldn’t campaign properly, and more than $100,000,000 spent trying to put lipstick on his pig behind... and even with 2 miracles handed to him, he couldn’t win.. that’s how bad OZ was. (To put that spending in perspective, that’s more than 3 times what was spent on both candidates during the last senate election COMBINED).
You can run a weak, at least I’m not the other guy candidate in a deep red state and win as a republican, you can’t do that in PA... you better have a candidate who actually offers some reason to vote FOR them, not simply against the other guy... OZ played like the lead balloon he was.
How anyone was foolish enough to believe someone who spent more during his primary than the combined spending in the last senate general election to get 31% of the GOP primary vote was going to win statewide as a Republican in PA is beyond me.
At least he’s not the other guy, is the last cry of a dead candidate.
Sorry Ann, the only NAIVE one here is you, because you bought into a load of garbage about the great and powerful OZ, and even now, after he’s gone down in flames after being given every possible advantage a Republican could have been given in PA, still refuse to accept reality.
If all you have is “hey, at least I’m not the other guy” then you have nothing and that’s the only argument you have offered.
You can whine about how that should be enough, but it isn’t and will never be... because if your sides candidate is so bad that all you got is “hey at least he’s not the other guy” then the counter argument being made by the other side, “Hey at least our guy isn’t the other guy” is just as easily made.. and once that’s the only argument being offered, you are done.
In a state where the other party only needs to pick up 4%+1 vote from their registered base to win, and you need to pick up 11% +1 vote to win... if and that’s the reality of the PA electorate... If that’s all you got as a republican you are goin to LOSE EVERY SINGLE TIME.
That’s the math Ann, you don’t have to like it but that’s the reality. You argument of “at least he’s not the other guy” is just preaching to the converted.. you aren’t going to win more than 66% of the independent votes with that argument EVER... and that’s what you need to do in PA to win.. you aren’t going to peel off major numbers of the democrat voters with that argument, ever.
The only naive people here are the ones like yourself you refused to accept reality during the campaign because the actual truth wasn’t what you wanted to hear, and listened empty headed parrots and fools like Hannity et al telling you how great and electable an empty suited off brand fraud of a crap candidate was.
At least he’s not the other guy isn’t an argument that is going to ever win you a major race, if that’s all you got.. not when you have a major party disadvantage and a relatively small independent pool...
This is true on the flip side, if D’s run a crap candidate down in Alabama, or Arkansas, and the R candidate is poor, and the D just attacks with at least I’m not the R.. do you think that D’s going to win? Nope...
If that’s all you offer, you are going to lose..
OZ was at best an R candidate 20 years out of time, Bush era might have gotten away with it... The world has changed... OZ was dead man walking from the start.
AZ 2022 was flagrant theft.
2020 was flagrant theft, theft that the folks who helped bring you doctor OZ were willing co-conspirators to.
OZ, was a crap candidate, period.
Look, why are so many folks here so bad as basic arithmetic.
This is the PA electorate folks:
46% D
39% R
15% I
That’s it, you can run a weak Democrat and win, you can’t run a weak R and win, its just that simple.
The inverse is true in deep red states... Where the percentages are inverted.
To win as a Republican, statewide in PA you need to get every single R vote you can find, and then win Independents by more than 2 to 1 and/or peel off a lot of Conservative and moderate Democrats... OZ NEVER, EVERY HAD ANY SHOT AT DOING THAT, PERIOD.
That’s the math folks, its not rocket science. Sorry you listened to liars who sold you that OZ was some great savior.. he wasn’t. He was without question the most OFF BRAND candidate I have seen run for statewide office as a Republican in my entire life.
Card carrying member of the WEF (Globalist)
Advocated for Trans Kids
Argued that guns are a health care issue
Had to pay out over 5 million dollars for selling snake oil fat pills on his TV show, and was hauled before congress as well for it.
Had no ties to the state, political or otherwise
A member of the media industrial complex
etc etc etc...
This is the guy, you are going to try to sell as a man of the people????? Be serious.
Someone like that is a incredibly crap candidate to run as a Republican.. here you go folks, your republican nominee stands against fundamental parts of the base’s beliefs, but hey, at least he’s not the other guy... What crap.
You aren’t winning PA as a Republican without exciting the base, and OZ didn’t excite anyone.... literally the campaign was “at least he’s not the other guy”.. you think that’s going to win you PA as a Republican you are beyond foolish.
The “at least he’s not the other guy” argument, if that’s all you got, you aren’t winning in any state where you don’t have a huge electoral advantage to begin with.
She is either willfully ignorant, or lying.
In 2020 there was huge evidence of fraud from the coordinated “we are going to stop counting now” across 5 states, to the “miraculous” ballot drops, to the statistically impossible results in certain areas.
2022 that was not the case, not at all. Was their no fraud? No, there is always fraud at some level, but Oz didn’t lose bcause of Fraud, he wasn’t up 700,000 votes to just disappear overnight. he NEVER was up, because he never had any shot at being up.
Go look at the counties results and you’ll see OZ underperformed Trump everywhere.. I. believe there are only 3 states where his percetages were higher than Trumps... So if you believe that OZ lost due to fraud that means, that the county personnel running the elections across the majority of the 67 counties in PA, of which the vast majority are republican dominated, were all in on the fraud to sink OZ..
This wasn’t a case where a few strategically placed things happened.. this is a case where OZ crashed and burned across the state.. only reason it was even close was because of Fetterman’s health.
OZ didn’t lose by around 300k votes because of fraud, he lost because he was a completely off brand, carpetbagging fraud of a candidate... without Fetterman’s stroke, OZ would have lost by 6-8 points at least.
OZ didn’t lose because vote dumps happened in Philly in the middle of the night, he lost because he underperformed trump across the entire state, period. If you are claiming fraud is why, then you are saying that the vast majority of Republican Controlled counties were actively involved in the steal from OZ... because that’s how OZ lost, he didn’t perform to the level he needed to in the Republican areas to win, period.
Please you are beyond clueless.
Fetterman had his stroke just before the primary vote, the democrats knew from day one how bad it was and did everything to cover it up and did everything they could to get their party loyals to vote early to bank that vote... That’s not evidence of fraudulent voting that’s evidence of understanding they needed to bank votes before the truth could get out.. and they did it.
He only won election day because 1.2 Million people voted by mail... something I will remind you that A REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE AND SENATE ALLOWED.. IT WAS REPUBLICANS WHO CHANGED THE LAWS TO ALLOW NO EXCUSE MAIL IN VOTING, NOT DEMOCRATS. You seem to want to just gloss over that FACT. Had vote by mail been complete disallowed I assure you OZ would have still lost... if you think otherwise you need to actually go look at the statewide results by county and you will see, OZ didn’t perform anywhere near the levels he needed to to win.
For this massive mail in FRAUD to be the reason, you have to accept that the majority of counties in PA, who are run by REPUBLICANS.. all knowingly turned a blind eye to mail in fraud.. they all decided to just not check signatures, or dates, or registration records or anything else, and just sit idly by and allow it to happen.. which is laughable.
This wasn’t ballot dumps in Deep Blue ares in the dead of night.
OZ UNDERPERFORMED TRUMP across the state, period. This wasn’t like 2020 where strategic votes showed up... OZ didn’t get the vote numbers he needed ANYWHERE in the state.
You don’t win PA as a republican unless you crush it in the T... and OZ did not crush it at all. He lost, fraud isn’t why... being a completely off brand carpet bagging fraud is why.
The Democrat Party doesn't even care if everyone knows that they're rigging it - because the Pennsylvania Republicans are on board with it.
Remember - the Republican't-controlled legislature didn't issue an invite to True The Vote for a show-and-tell on 2020.
To me, that's prima facie evidence that they were in on it.
Yes 2020 was abject theft, no doubt about it, 2022 was not.
2022 was a insanely off brand candidate, and a stupid strategy by the GOP that “at least I’m not the other guy” will be enough.
I’ll run my Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Detection tool on this race before I submit an opinion.
The last US Senate race in Pennsyl-tucky was in 2018, a midterm year, so it won't be an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Not a straight-up apples to apples, but we won't have the presidential race static in the data.
2018 was a dud race by both sides. Barletta who is who thr party wanted to be the candidate for Governor this time and lost to Mastriano. GoP establishment didn’t even take the field in 2018.
Will be interesting to see what the numbers show, but dynamics of the races are very different.
Believe about 10 Million spent to back Barletta in 18 and 20 Million to back Casey
2020 more than 100 million spent was spent by each side.
I am interested I. Your numbers but these races weren’t even close to apples to apples
Casey got 43,000 more votes than Senatrix Gisele.
Oddz got 352,000 more votes than Barletta in 2018.
That seems like a hard argument that fraud didn’t cost OZ the election. Fetterman had 5 times as much spent to support him and for 43k fewer votes than the last senate election.
Yes Casey was an incumbent, and in a boring race, but how to you make the argument for massive fraud when D’s actually performed down?
Fraud didn’t lose this for Oz.. he just sucked
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