Posted on 08/08/2018 6:45:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Results from the Ohio special election on Tuesday support the idea that the GOP is becoming a rural party that could face problems in winning over suburban voters his fall, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough opined on Wednesday.
"This is a party, the Republican Party, that's becoming more and more every day a rural party," the former GOP congressman, a frequent critic of President Trump, said on his morning MSNBC show.
GOP candidate Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in the special election race for a House seat, but the result is close enough that it could trigger a recount under state law. Even if Balderson wins, the results are discouraging for Republicans given the district's GOP tilt. It had been held by the GOP since 1983, and Trump won the district by 11 points.
"We don't know who's going to end up winning it. [But] regardless of who ends up winning it, Republicans certainly know as well as Democrats [that] this is another race where Republicans have under performed," Scarborough said.
"They under performed in a district that is deep, deep red," the MSNBC host continued. "I think Democrats have maybe won it once since the 1930s. But you see the same thing happening: they're bleeding. Republicans are bleeding, badly, right now, in suburbs."
Republicans are worried about losing the House majority this fall. Democrats would need to gain 23 seats to win back the House, which will require victories in a number of suburban districts.
The party believes Trump's low approval ratings and dissatisfaction among women over his presidency could help their candidates across the country.
Dozens of GOP seats are seen as toss-ups, and Democrats are favored by election handicappers in around 10 GOP-held seats.
And I consider ‘elite’ a slur. Elites don’t hear the slur.
A rural party. As opposed to what......a San Francisco poopy street party? Los Angeles homeless street party?
Rural party sounds pretty good to me. No stink.
That’s excellent.
I really don’t think suburbanites who work in cities are all that influenced by radical leftist Trump Haters there. They moved out to the suburbs for a reason.
So I'm not sure Trump is losing ground. It appears that the non Trump 2016 Tiberi voters, voted against Balderson.
Hey, Joe,
That red and blue map from 2016 should be a BIG clue that much of rural America is red.
“Scarborough:”
Stopped reading right there.
I wonder if God isn't making it possible for conservatives trapped in cities to move out and still make a living - out of their own home...like 86% of the people did less than a hundred years ago.
That leaves the majority if libs/commies clinging to the cities - herd mentality.
The big dem-libs cities are located in places where such things as an earthquake, a major hurricane, a tsunami, etc, could cripple them - even a solar flare or EMP that knocks out power - and increases crime exponentially at night - no trucks with food rolling in... While the country folk, as always in times of such, can make it. For the most part. they'll survive. For example, I have my own well water, wood stove (heat/cook) canned, etc, goods from the garden and farmers all around... Remember the admonition about keeping your lamps full and wicks trimmed. Maybe God will say:"Enough!" this is His covenant country - He will nt see it destroyed.
Actually, Jefferson proposed this. He wanted to see the country developed as an agrarian country - supplying the food for the world while we bought manufactured/big city goods from Europe ... because he recognized that big cities breed crime and corruption...
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