Posted on 05/23/2024 10:14:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Because virtually all the polling firms publish essentially the same results, there is little doubt that if an honest election were held today Donald Trump would handily defeat Joe Biden in the Electoral College vote. Further, as long as an increasingly senescent, unpopular, and compromised Joe Biden remains the Democrat nominee, Trump should win at least 270-290 electoral votes (270 needed to win the presidency) in November despite the inevitable Democrat duplicity, lawfare, and voter fraud and machinations.
If faced with the potential scenario of not being able to replace Biden, the Democrats are going to single-mindedly focus on races in both the House and Senate. Not only to block Trump’s agenda as well as his judicial and cabinet appointees, but to reprise their “Impeachment Follies” of 2018-2020. Losing to Donald Trump again would unleash a virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome. When combined with control of one or both houses of Congress, there would be four years of unmitigated national chaos.
While so many are focusing on the presidential sweepstakes, it cannot be forgotten that without control of both Houses of Congress there can be no overarching rollback of the disastrous policies of the Biden Administration and the Democrats. Which raises the question: what is currently happening with congressional races throughout the country?
Five recent polls revealed that when Americans were asked which party they prefer to control Congress, 45.4% favored Democrats and 44% favored Republicans. Despite the ongoing unfathomable financial and societal chaos, Democrats are still viewed favorably by a substantial segment of the electorate.
Control of the Senate will be key to what happens after November 5, 2024. As the Republican caucus will still include two implacable anti-Trumpers (Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins), the Republicans need to win at a minimum three seats
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
RE: We had that last time and it didn’t help. We’re not voting our way out of this.
I remind you that despite Paul Ryan being Speaker, we had a huge corporate and personal tax cuts and energy deregulations. The 2017 tax cuts are EXPIRING next year.
I believe a Republicans controlled Congress will vote to extend them or even make them permanent.
I can’t believe that it won’t help. Anything towards the RIGHT direction helps.
THE ONLY THING THAT CONGRESS SEATS DETERMINES IS STOPPAGE OF REMOVAL FROM IMPEACHMENT.
No, there is no need for “pursuing the Trump agenda”. There is no need for “getting things done”.
THERE IS 36T in debt. The goal is to NOT get things done. The goal is to slash that debt IN HALF in 2 years.
That means millions of federal employees, including military, have to be unfunded.
You will never get that from GOP congress. What you get from a GOP congress is a $10B cut and celebration that “it is a good start”. No, it’s not a good start. $36T is generating $1T in interest. That’s just interest and they would say $10B is a good start.
This is all Swamp thinking. Trump’s power will be the veto, a tool of NOT getting things done.
A million seconds ago was May 8th
A billion seconds ago was 1993
A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 B.C.
The US national debt is now rising by $1 Trillion every 100 days
Yes, but what I don’t need is a Johnson who will sell me out to the other side at a critical juncture.
‘Republican control’ is a bit of an oxymoron.
They don’t seem to ever exhibit any convictions or strong desire to win at anything.
In Numbers
435 seats
217 Republican
213 democrat
5 empty seats (?)
In Reality:
185 RINOs/Moderate/Centrist Republicans
32 Conservative Republicans
120 Leftist democrats
80 Extreme Left/Socialist/Communist democrats
13 moderate/left of center democrats
Trump's base is that 32 Conservative Republicans. We the People need to improve those numbers.
Those numbers come from the 185 RINOs/Moderate/Centrist Republicans in the primaries and in the 213 democrats in the general election.
I'm not sure the country is up to it. Too many self-centered stupid people voting; too many Christians/Conservatives staying home on election day.
“Author makes dangerous assumptions about “Republicans””
I agree, they had it for two years under Trump and didn’t do crap. In fact they back stabbed Trump the whole time.
It also requires a non-RINO in charge of each house of Congress - remember, we HAD both houses in 2017, but Paul Ryan made it his mission to sabotage Trump (and, thus, the rest of us) at every available opportunity.
RE: I don’t need is a Johnson who will sell me out to the other side at a critical juncture.
And this only bolsters the article’s thesis.
Johnson only has a ONE SEAT majority.
What if he had a 20 to 25 seat majority in the house and a 52 to 53 Republican seat majority in the Senate?
Cannot believe in 2024, after all the corruption (on both sides of the aisle)...people still believe "politics" is a solution to ANYTHING.
In a Republic, you don't leave your (and your family's) freedom and security to (se)elected "officials".
'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'
America (as it was founded) will be won or lost by a (determined)patriotic or a (determined)evil few...
RE: Paul Ryan made it his mission to sabotage Trump (and, thus, the rest of us) at every available opportunity.
Not “at every opportunity”. Some good came out of it.
We had tax cuts on both the corporate and individual sides plus energy and business deregulations that unleashed our energy production resulting in very low gas prices and very low unemployment and interest rates ( until Covid hit ).
Be reminded that the tax cuts enacted when Ryan was Speaker are due to EXPIRE soon.
All things being equal, a Republican Congress is DEFINITELY better than what we had with Pelosi and Schumer in charge.
Fake scenario.
We saw what a “Republican majority” did in 2017-2019.
That was because of Trump, not the Republican majority who were more apt to side with Ryan than overrule him.
RE: That was because of Trump, not the Republican majority who were more apt to side with Ryan than overrule him.
Still, consider what would have happened had Pelosi and Schumer been in charge then?
RE: We saw what a “Republican majority” did in 2017-2019.
I am not one to only focus on the negative side of things without considering the positive. See Post #31 above.
If I am a thirsty person needing a full drink to quench my thirst, even 1/4 of a cup would be better ( a Republican Congress ) than NOTHING in the cup ( a Democrat Congress ).
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.It is certainly true that whatever Republicans be in a majority also be pro-Constitution and not of the ilk of the “New Republicans” that existed from the Eisenhower era forward, or “MAGA” as the current political vernacular renders it.
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
Sabotaging a Republican President when the issue is tax cuts would not, in my mind, qualify as “an opportunity.” One thing that 99% of Republicans are still united on is that issue, so Ryan could hardly have opposed it.
But on immigration, foreign policy, etc., he knifed Trump in the back at every opportunity. F Paul Ryan.
RE: It is certainly true that whatever Republicans be in a majority also be pro-Constitution and not of the ilk of the “New Republicans” that existed from the Eisenhower era forward,
That would be the IDEAL case. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Given this, I’ll take whatever I can get to move TOWARDS the right direction, no matter how slow it is.
RE: One thing that 99% of Republicans are still united on is that issue, so Ryan could hardly have opposed it.
OK, what was the alternative if we did not have Ryan as Speaker but Pelosi in 2017?
Could not agree more.
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