Posted on 12/27/2022 4:22:25 AM PST by FarCenter
Democrats fresh off a triumph in the 2022 fight for the Senate now face an even more difficult battle: retaining their majority in the next election as they defend nearly two dozen seats.
Of the 33 Senate seats contested in 2024, 23 are held by Democrats, including a number in states that former President Trump won or nearly won. Republicans have their sights on taking down the likes of Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and reversing the “candidate quality” issues that plagued them in 2022.
Here are some issues to watch that could affect the battle for the Senate playing out over the next two years.
How will Schumer handle Sinema?
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Can the GOP fix its “candidate quality” problem?
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Can Democrats avoid a red state wipeout?
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To retire, or not to retire?
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How will Trump affect the 2024 field?
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LOL!
Candidate quality was fine. RNC didn’t support candidates
The way the US does election now, it’s just like the Democrats are playing a video game with cheat codes.
GOP helped the rats get rid of trump and they are helping the rats kill this country
The only candidate quality problems I see are the candidates the RINO’s supported. Sure, Trump had a few doozies in there, but his track record or 219-17 is still impressive.
And as a side note, of the 17 who lost, the majority were either from Georgia or Michigan, two states with serious ballot issues.
There will be a single-party rule by Democrats, as they presently have in California.
Only the complete destruction of America will reverse this.
I suspect that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp was given the keys to the 2018 "election" [mass ballot adjudication] by parties who wanted him in thrall to their national agenda.
In Michigan, a shadowy "voters group" acquired the 2016 ballots from the red counties [the blue counties were too large to hand over the 2016 ballots till January of 2019].
Unsurprisingly, there was a "blue wave" in the smaller red Michigan counties - but no "blue wave" in the blue counties at all...
US Senator Debbie Stabenow [D-Michigan] in fact nearly out-performed Hillary Clinton 2016 in a MID-TERM "election".
One thing that the GOP is good at is loosing. They don't want to win a fair election under the conditions that [forbidden Stanford word beginning with American] citizens impose. So they collaborate with their fellow democrats in the uniparty to make sure no one worth a shit is elected.
That is not far from the truth. The only difference may be that the GOP had there game controller unplugged.
I have completely lost any hope that the GOP leadership has the will to win or actually fight for the country and the people.
Unless the election process is corrected (voter ID, no vote by mail, chain-of-custody issues, clean the voter rolls, etc.) then all discussions about 2024 are pointless.
Nothing has been done, or certainly not enough, to restore anyone’s faith in the electoral process. Why play a game when everyone else cheats?
I am planning to vote for Trump in 2024. Other than that, I’m pretty much done with voting. It seems pointless.
There are only two questions the Dems are asking themselves:
1. How many fraudulent votes do we need?
2. How do we do it this time?
It is pointless. Americans want pork and entitlements that is all they care about.
Yep. Kick that football, Charlie Brown. Kick it good.
It’s not a problem for democrats at all.
Their open and overt stealing of elections has been given the Supreme Court Seal Of Approval
The Justice department functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of the democrat party.
The evolution of the FBI from law enforcement agency to democrat party mad-dog Gestapo is complete.
They openly attack, intimidate, silence and punish critics and opposition at will with no repercussions.
The DOJ, FBI, Biden administration and democrats in congress laugh at people who produce documentation of their corruption.
Almost all the major media is 100% in the democrats pocket.
Those that aren’t are too cowed by threats from the DOJ, FBI and other federal bureaucracies to vigorously oppose the democrat tyrants.
Republican “leaders” are happy to stand by and let democrats steal elections and destroy the nation as long as they still get their small piece of the action.
And as a side note, of the 17 who lost, the majority were either from Georgia or Michigan, two states with serious ballot issues.
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...and Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Arizona
We were dead in the water until President in Exile Trump showed up. We just haven't quite drowned, yet. ;)
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
~ Some Smart Guy of Olde (Sources vary)
Add Washington State’s 3rd district to your list. McCarthy played f@ck-f@ck with funding the candidate that defeated GOPe Princess Jaime Herrera-Beutler in the primary. She was a personal fav of ole Kevin’s.
The ex-Green Beret America First candidate lost by 2k votes to a real doozie in the general election. I attended a late forum where the rat bitch actually told the audience they weren’t smart enough to understand the subtle nuances of allowing tranny’s to participate in women’s sports nor understand that drag queen reading hour is good for children. You should have heard the constituents response, can you imagine how stupid a person must be to say something like that at a rural candidate forum?
Because it was mid-October and the ballots had already been mailed out, Joe Kent needed a rapid reaction piece produced and it needed to flood the zone, however McCarthy pulled the funding knowing what was going to happen. Bastard.
Had McCarthy not pulled out, a late media blitz showing the commie bitch saying that stuff would have been 1/2 or more of what was needed to send the commie packing. The other half of the problem here is the stupid rank and file GOP voters in this state have acted like extremely spoiled kids, myself included, concerning the way this state conducts mail-in elections.
Instead of figuring a way to make the system advantageous to the guys/gals wearing the White Hats, we instead dug our heels in and cried like little spoiled children and some of us really intelligent ones stopped voting period. A very smart set of things to do. /sarc
Rumor has it, the scorned candidate Joe Kent is either running to the lead the currently impotent State GOP or is putting together a slate of GOP activists to lead the party next month at the re-organization convention.
Our current 3 time GOP Chair is a good guy, a Hillsdale College graduate, but he’s not effective at anything a vibrant chair needs to be. Because of the fact Pugetopolis, a 3 county area that is our City/State election spoiler, like NYC is to the state of New York and Chicago is to Illinois, we’ve not had a Republican governor for 50 years and during the current GOP’s chairman’s tenure, the last 10 years has seen a dimocRAT supermajority in the state legislature.
GOP Chair Caleb Heimlick came straight out of Hillsdale College and was hired as a political strategist to the former GOP Chairman. See the problem there? No real world experience.
All of the GOP’s misfortunes have caused many in the GOP leadership to be either cowards, victims of the Battered Wife Syndrome or a combination of both. Smart, tough leadership is what the GOP in this state desperately needs. Joe Kent would be the prescription to the road to recovery.
IMH), no not until they run a thoroughly effective Ditch Mitch campaign in KY.
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