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RNC’s Ronna McDaniel identifies 'massive' reason for midterm losses
WASHINGTON EXAMINER ^ | December 11, 2022 | Jack Birle

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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The GOPe doesn’t want “American first” candidates to win. This goes beyond even the Anti-Trumpers because they hated them before Trump ever got into politics. They hated Pat Buchanan too.
NeoCons are Trotskyites and will never support actual conservatives. Walker and Oz were crummy but it’s not like they were the only losers in the mid terms , can’t just blame them.
That being said : any place with massive mail in ballots and no voter ID laws is going to be stolen (if it’s needed).
The deep state interferes with elections in every country so it would be naive to think they don’t do it in their own.


21 posted on 12/12/2022 7:13:55 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: HamiltonJay

So fetterman was a great candidate?
Penn people are MORONS for not thinking about AMERICAN! MORONS.


22 posted on 12/12/2022 7:14:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Please people..
MAGA did not get it’s ass whooped..
On the contrary, MAGA kicked ass...
The bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts got their asses whooped....
Yet, they are too blind to see


23 posted on 12/12/2022 7:15:07 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: gundog

The problem is, they hid Fetterman’s brain issues for too long. Too many people voted by the time of the debate.


24 posted on 12/12/2022 7:15:55 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Blah blah blah - she’s good at it talking.


25 posted on 12/12/2022 7:20:34 AM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: G Larry

I concur.

If the left and right were a little closer to the middle, ok... you might be able to sell me “ticket splitting”. But the left and right are very far apart right now.


26 posted on 12/12/2022 7:20:56 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

It’s Ticket splitting....
It’s bad turnoout.....
It’s bad candidates.....

NOPE. The RNC did not financially support Candidates who were conservative, and actually helped the opposition. Make no mistake, the Establishment Republicans HATE the conservatives just as much as the DNC. Why? because the RHINOS are playing the same game of money laundering public money to their trusts and families. However, none of that is the real problem.

The real problem is that we are no longer a Republic. We are a Fascist Nation. The intelligence services, using Taxpayer money, and the DOJ using Taxpayer money, control the media. Further, they DELIBERATELY target and silence conservatives. Again using funds from people who work and pay taxes.

Finally, when people actually figure the above out, they have a back up, backup, backup plan of just outright VOTER FRAUD.

Someone stated that the last clean election run by the United States was Iraq in 2005.......I am starting to believe they may be correct.


27 posted on 12/12/2022 7:21:31 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

ticket splitting is a lie to cover up fraud. I’m sure it happens but not to the extend seen in the races we lost, like in AZ.


28 posted on 12/12/2022 7:21:54 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: HamiltonJay

What is a crap candidate when the choice is communist vs American?

The left keeps trying to sell me this... but I’m not buying it.


29 posted on 12/12/2022 7:22:57 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: HamiltonJay

Ya, Fetterman was an outstanding candidate!


30 posted on 12/12/2022 7:23:43 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
I wouldn't say massive but she is a chunker


31 posted on 12/12/2022 7:24:57 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: G Larry

Ronna McDaniel uses “ticket splitting” when she really should be using “election fraud.”


32 posted on 12/12/2022 7:28:28 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
Sorry Ronna, but you and your RINO buddies were the reason GOP voters did not elect GOP candidates.

I concur. Ronna's response:

"GOD DAMN DONALD TRUMP AND ALL YOU MAGA TRUMPSTERS. I HOPE YOU ALL DIE AND VERY SOON!"

33 posted on 12/12/2022 7:28:40 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Alberta's Child

Mastriano was stillborn.

OZ stacked up as flat out pile of turd, as the results played out.

OZ had every, every single benefit a Republican could have gotten in a statewide race. The party was behind and supported and mobilized for him, He had an opponent who literally could not campaign, and had more than $100,000,000 spent to promote him. AND HE STILL LOST.. only reason OZ wound up with in 3 is because Fetterman had a stroke, had he been able to properly campaign, Oz would have lost by 6-8 points or more.

Mastriano on the other hand, did not have any of the state machine or party behind him, only token public smiles while behind the scenes actively working to kill him. He also ran a horrible campaign on top of it.

Trying to compare these two races as some example of how “good” OZ was is nonsense.

OZ NEVER EVER had any shot at winning... I have offered plenty of proof.. you just refuse to accept it.

OZ underperformed Trump 2020 in all but 3 counties... I warned you and others from the start, OZ had no shot of getting the numbers he needed, particularly in the republican areas to be able to secure victory.. and history bore that precisely out.

OZ got more than 3 times the amount of the combined total spent on both candidates in the last Senate race to sell him... he had an opponent who could not campaign, and he still lost handily.

OZ never ever had any shot, and it was obvious from the start, and the election played out exactly how I state it would.

I stated, correctly, that it would take a MIRACLE for OZ to lose by less than 5... in the end he was handed 2 miracles, Fetterman’s health preventing him from seriously campaigning, and $100,000,000 of money to try to sell him, and he still LOST.

Sorry you swallowed hook line and sinker the Establishment/Uniparty/Hannity/Rove BS about OZ, and bought into the nonsensical “electability” bs they pushed....

OZ was a turd, utterly offbrand and didn’t lose because of fraud, he lost because he was a LOUSY candidate, period.

There was only 1 candidate in the primary who MIGHT have had a shot at taking out Fetterman if he was healthy, and that was Barnette... and there was only 1 candidate in the primary who absolutely was guaranteed to lose with Fetterman being unhealthy... and that was OZ.

You are welcome to challenge my claims, here are the links:

2022 election:
https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/

2020 election:
https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/General/SummaryResults?ElectionID=83&ElectionType=G&IsActive=0

You are more than welcome to show me, how my predictions, and conclusions are wrong, you are welcome to show me how OZ didn’t underperform Trump in 2020 in all but a small number of places... how OZ ran up the numbers in the republican dominated areas, that a Republican HAS to do to win... You are welcome to provide the evidence of how GREAT of a Candidate OZ was in these results, please, show them to me...

Reality was the idiots pissed on your leg and told you it was rain when they pushed OZ as some winning candidate. Majority of them never spent a minute in this state, but hell they can tell you how it works dagnabbit.

They were working from an out of touch 40 year old playbook... they stupidly believed the following:

1) OZ would do better in the philly/eastern suburbs than a typicalR, and that the GOP dominated areas would turn out as they tend to do... and reality was NEITHER OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED... because... OZ was an off brand crapfest of a candidate... Race was over before it began.


34 posted on 12/12/2022 7:28:42 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

She is Mitt Romney’s niece.
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Can never be said enough.....


35 posted on 12/12/2022 7:28:54 AM PST by Lowell1775
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To: Jonny7797

It’s getting hard for the squishes to deny election fraud isn’t it?

Like the kid stealing cookies from the cookie jar. 1 or two a squish can pretend not to notice. Now the damn jar is 3/4 empty. I notice the squishes now concede Arizona was theft.

Now why on earth a rational thinker would concede cheating in one area but refuse to consider it in another area is beyond me.


36 posted on 12/12/2022 7:31:20 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: HamiltonJay

“GA and PA? Sorry guys, there is always fraud, but in PA I can tell you first hand PA was lost the minute OZ was the candidate.

Run a crap candidate, get a crap result”

Oh, well I am so glad that FETTERMAN wasn’t crap candidate! I don’t know who is dumber! You or the Pa. voters? It’s a close call.


37 posted on 12/12/2022 7:33:01 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

My reaction to the headline was “Did she look in a mirror?”


38 posted on 12/12/2022 7:33:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: G Larry
There were massive amounts of FRAUD that you write off as “ticket splitting”.

Fraud in elections is downright cheating and the DemonRats have cheated in the 2020 and 2022 Congressional Elections.

The demonrats have taken cheating to another level.

39 posted on 12/12/2022 7:35:54 AM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: gundog

yes, but Democrats don’t care if their candidates are crap or even alive!


40 posted on 12/12/2022 7:36:24 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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