Posted on 11/06/2018 10:32:26 PM PST by Helicondelta
Denham, Kim and Walters are still ahead, with the Denham election still very close.
I’m glad Trumps out there fighting and claiming victory...he’s going to need to fight twice as hard now.
I take a much darker view of today’s voting. Nevada and Colorado are now deep blue states. They are joining California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. No Republican will stand a chance statewide in those states. Arizona is just about at the tipping point...within a few years it will go blue too. Florida and Georgia almost elected hard socialist governors, and the minority status of those candidates was a huge boost to them. Texas is even showing some cracks.
Open borders and nationalized health care were crazy popular in these states and races...way too popular for comfort. One could look at all this and see us on the edge of the precipice with hard momentum taking us over...very soon.
The President looks to have a very hard race for re-election in this environment.
No way a budget gets adopted the next two years.
Chaos is about to reign in D.C. Government shutdowns may be the hot new (old) thing.
Interestingly, I don’t think you’ll see any government shutdowns at all — or even a serious threat of one. We basically have three parts of the government controlled by three different parties: House (Democrat), Senate (Republican), and President (an independent, for all intent). I’m predicting right now that it will be a very uneventful two years in D.C. — with the exception of President Trump’s Twitter posts.
There were only 9 GOP Senate seats up this time, while there were 26 Democrat seats up. And these are the seats produced by Obama’s 2012 coattails, so the GOP seats being defended were in solid red states. This victory in the Senate was much more defined by the map than by the current state of the electorate. While it’s true the Obama coalition didn’t re-materialize to maintain these seats, it was not much of a challenge for the GOP to expand the Senate majority on this map.
Democrats rode consecutive flase flags of Trump-Russia, Charlottesville, Las Vegas, and Cesar Sayoc to gain the House.
When their Kavnaugh takedown, which itself was a flase flag failed they launched Cesar Sayoc.
Literally nothing can get done. But I think the Democrats will see that they can hold the Senate and Trump up for whatever spending programs they want. If Trump and the Senate try to fight back against Democrat spending, then a shutdown can easily be blamed on the well-Demonized Republicans. So Trump and the Senate will have to roll over - like Ryan - to avoid that.
These two years of gridlock and nothing happening - including a continued influx at the unsolved southern border - is very dangerous for Trump and could easily lead to a Democrat President in 2020.
Many Presidents faced this scenario in the past, and lost.
Special elections in red districts flipped to the dem due to voter turnout and so yes, it’s an accomplishment to gain in the senate for POTUS.
this is what happens when you import massive amounts of welfare seeking 3rd worlders who don’t come for “hard work” opportunities but to suck off of (mostly white) people’s teet of tax money.
“very uneventful two years in D.C.”
I predict huge budget deficits.
Trump will find common ground with the democrats on a massive infrastructure program.
The GOP had nothing on the legislative agenda for the next two years.
Trump will focus on infrastructure and foreign affairs.
Sayoc was a weird character indeed. He nearly rivaled some of the others (Holmes, Lanza and Paddock) but not quite as much of a flamboyant flimflam. Very strange.
Yep and these mofos are going to do everything they possibly can to destroy the economy and jobs solely to hurt Trumps reelection chances. Thank Mexifornia, Dems were well below acquiring the 23 seats after all the results came in nationwide, I believe all they had was 14 and Mexifornia was the last to report which drove them over the top. Now it’s going to be 2 years of BS investigations and harming the country as much as possible.
In that case, by 2024 there will be no GOP party.
Will there be enough left who haven’t adopted one-world socialism?
We could take any of Pelosi’s house bills, gut them, and stick whatever we want in them in the Senate... like they did with Obamacare... and “see how they like them apples.”
Gitmo? LOL.... There's a more realistic chance of getting them sent buck naked to Rura Penthe. Seditious jackasses they may be but they are still American citizenry.
They should have a very narrow margin, and many of them got elected from marginal districts. If they want to get reelected they need to work with Trump.
So Waters and Nan from San Fran continue their impeachment tirade. Even IF they find success - how could this continue any further with Trump’s favor ability in the upper chamber.
Investigations (increase), a possibility but successful impeachment and removal?
d’Rats would burn down their community knowing there would be nothing on which to rebuild? How did they ever make their way through that maze?
Yep - all the Dems can really do is insure trump in a landslide in 2020 and 60/40 in the senate and a 60 seat cushion in the House.
I’d say it was more because of mistakes in staffing his admin that made it impossible for him to accomplish that in the last two years — e.g., JS and RR at the DoJ.
Now, without the House, no reform or immigration legislaRon Szczypkowskition of value will get through. Good luck on appropriations for the wall without giving a massive amnesty in return. Etc.
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