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Having mused upon it, now a week since the election, I think that there were three things involving President Donald Trump that impacted voting not going his way… First, there is Trump’s behavior. Since being inaugurated for his second term he hasn’t been acting as presidential as he did during his first. He’s been too determined to put his name on as much as he can this time around. Trump 1.0 wasn’t like that. Trump 2.0 is acting more like a pharaoh of old. Perhaps he’s fearful of the mortality that he is facing as much as any of us...

The state of Texas has aggressively fought to uphold the integrity of its abortion ban in court by ensuring that abortionists and abortion companies in other states don’t flood Texas with illegal abortion pills. Thanks to the Tuesday mid-term election, Texas will be flooded with the dangerous abortion drugs that kill babies and injure thousands of women. Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson said he will no longer pursue lawsuits against out-of-state abortionists who mail chemical abortion drugs into the state, a shift that pro-life leaders warn will allow abortion pills to flood Texas unchecked. Johnson, a Democrat who won election...

Exit poll data from tens of thousands of voters allow analysts to investigate narratives surrounding the 2026 election with empirical data. For example, was the Republican collapse due in part to a loss of support from evangelicals? The answer is both no and yes. On one hand, evangelicals supported Republicans at a rate similar to previous elections. According to the 2026 exit polls, 82% of voters who self-identified as “white evangelical or born-again Christian” voted Republican. That compares to 82% in 2024, 83% in 2022, 76% in 2020, 75% in 2018, and 81% in 2016. Even before that, 78% of...

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President Donald Trump questioned the results of the midterm elections in a jaw-dropping social media post, less than a week after he, his preferred candidates, and GOP control of Congress were smacked down in a brutal rout. Taking to Truth Social on Monday morning, the president said: “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.” He added: “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” The...

The November 3 midterm elections largely devastated conservatives, as a blue wave rolled over the country, seizing Republican strongholds. The performance of the pro-choice party subset proved no exception. Pro-choice incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) lost reelection to Democrat Troy Jackson in a hotly contested race. Pro-choice Republican candidate Michelle Tafoya also lost her Senate race in Minnesota to Democrat Peggy Flanagan. Republican Mike Rogers was defeated by radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed (D) in the race for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat after Rogers made a controversial commitment not to fight the state’s liberal abortion law. “The people of Michigan...

Registrations are up 2.2% from the last major general election in November 2024, and up 2% from primary elections in March, according to a Friday release from the Texas Secretary of State. The latest figures are also 7.7% higher than the number of voters registered ahead of the last midterm election in November 2022. Fast-growing suburban counties saw some of the biggest growths since the last midterms, including Kaufman (27% more registered voters), Waller (23%), Ellis (21%) and Hays (21%). While state data for Tarrant County, a battleground county, showed a 2.6% drop in voter registrations since November 2022, county...

Here in the U.S., with few exceptions, we have a commendable tradition that victorious politicians do not use the criminal justice system to prosecute or otherwise disable their rivals and adversaries. At the presidential level, before Trump the two most prominent examples against that tradition were the prosecution of Aaron Burr by Thomas Jefferson in 1807, and the prosecution of Eugene Debs by Woodrow Wilson in 1918. Otherwise, our defeated presidential candidates have gone peacefully to retirement. But then, after Trump was defeated in 2020, that tradition was abrogated in rather spectacular fashion. At both the federal and state levels,...

Both parties agreed on this tumultuous midterm election’s essential point. President Trump wanted voters to “pretend I’m on the ballot.” With his approval at 38%, Democrats happily agreed. The results were catastrophic for Republicans. They lost almost everywhere, including places where defeat was once unimaginable. Republicans dropped from 53 in the Senate to no more than 46, with losses in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas as well as Georgia, North Carolina and Maine. In the House, Democrats are expected to have around 258 seats, a pickup of at least 43. Many Republicans in supposedly safe districts narrowly escaped...

Nevada voters approved Question 6 on Tuesday, placing a right to abortion in the state constitution and delivering a heartbreaking setback for unborn children and those working to protect them. The measure passed with approximately 63 percent of the vote. It was the second and final required approval after voters first backed it in 2024. The amendment establishes a constitutional right to abortion until fetal viability but essentially up to birth because an abortionist can sign of on late-term abortions for any reason. Abortion has been legal in Nevada up to 24 weeks under a 1990 statute; opponents said the...

(The Economic Collapse Blog) — What in the world just happened? Words like “tsunami” and “wipeout” are being used by the pundits, but I don’t think that they are strong enough. It is clear that much of the population was frustrated with the Republican Party. But instead of seeking out another alternative, voters overwhelmingly chose to hand the keys to the political party that made a giant mess of things when they were in charge earlier this decade.The 4 years of the Biden administration were absolutely horrific, and the Republicans were given control of the White House, the Senate and...

As I write these words, it is the morning after the election. I have been watching social media go full-tilt wacko from many of my Democratic friends who have been swooning about “the blue tsunami” that swept over the Republicans. Some of them have asked me, with as much a modicum of politeness as they can muster, how much it hurts to watch MAGA go down in flames. Do these queries evoke a frown? More like a smirk, and not the sort that many liberals might appreciate. I already believed that Darline Graham would not win the United States Senate...

WASHINGTON — A day after Democrats captured the House majority, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told his staff Wednesday morning he will not stay on as Republican leader in the new Congress, according to four sources on the phone call.

Today is Election Day here in the United States. As it’s often being called, “the mid-terms”. Because it’s coming at the halfway point in the four-year term of the president. I’ve never liked calling these elections “mid-terms”. Every election is supposed to be of grave import, not just those that might swing political power away from or (more rarely) toward whoever the President of the United States is. But for most of this country’s history we have made the president the focal point of American temporal presence. The person most empowered to define the country’s identity. And barring some drastic...

Right now the Democrats have 54 Senate seats. There are two elections not decided yet: Alaska and Mississippi. Suppose they win those then we get to 56. In 2028, the GOP has to defend 19 Senate seats vs 15 Democratic seats. The GOP seats are from: AL, AK, AR, FL, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MO, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, SD, UT, and WI. It is very conceivable the Democrats can flip four of those from perhaps the Midwest seats and NC. I do not see any vulnerable Democratic seats except for perhaps NV and GA. Fetterman is...

Several presidents have faced an opposition-controlled House and Senate, governed through gridlock, and achieved legacies widely recognized by historians. In fact, some of the most enduring domestic and foreign achievements in American history happened under these exact conditions. 1. Harry S. Truman (1947–1949: The 80th Congress) Truman is the most direct historical parallel to an aggressive, embattled executive taking on a hostile legislative branch. The Situation: In the 1946 midterms, Republicans swept both chambers of Congress for the first time in nearly two decades. Truman was dismissed by Washington insiders as an accidental, weak caretaker president. The Opposition: Truman famously...

Idaho voters defeated a ballot measure that pro-life advocates said would have legalized abortions up to birth, eliminated parental consent requirements and opened the door to taxpayer funding of abortions. With 77% of precincts reporting, Proposition 1 was trailing 53.8% to 46.2%, according to unofficial results. The citizen-initiated statute, known as the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, sought to create a right to “reproductive freedom and privacy” that included a so-called right to kill babies in abortions up to birth. Pro-life leaders described the measure as one of the most extreme of the 2026 election cycle. Blaine Conzatti, president of...

Missouri voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have repealed the state’s 2024 right to abortion and restored protections for unborn babies. With 91.1 percent of precincts reporting, “No” led 55.45 percent to 44.55 percent on Amendment 3. The measure would have eliminated the constitutional right to abortion approved by voters two years ago, restricted abortion to cases of medical emergency, fetal anomaly, rape or incest, and limited the rape and incest exceptions to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. It also would have enshrined a ban on mutilating children with so-called sex change procedures for minors in the...

Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds defeated Democrat David Jolly in Florida’s gubernatorial election Tuesday, securing the governorship for the GOP and preserving the state’s pro-life policies. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted, Donalds led with roughly 50 percent to Jolly’s 48.7 percent, according to state tallies. Early returns had favored Jolly before Election Day ballots from Republican strongholds, particularly the Panhandle, narrowed and then reversed the margin. Donalds, who is pro-life and represents Florida’s 19th Congressional District, will succeed term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis and become Florida’s first Black governor. His running mate, former state Sen. Bryan Avila,...

U.S. - A number of news outlets, including CNN, Fox News, and NBC, are calling the current election in favor of Jesus Christ, who is still sovereignly reigning from His throne on high, sources confirmed late Tuesday. News organizations were closely tracking votes tallied for Democrats, Republicans and the various third-party candidates into the night, but by 11:00 p.m. EST, the majority of major television channels and news sites agreed that the Lord Jesus was still sovereign over all creation. "We've got to go ahead and call this thing for Jesus," Wolf Blitzer said on CNN's live Election Day coverage....