What happened to the ‘Red Wave’ GOP loses US Senate and Control of House in Doubt… some wave? More like a WAVE GOOD BY TO AMERICA?
“Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate while limiting projected losses in the House, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the "red wave" that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections.
Biden, who struggled with low approval ratings ahead of Tuesday's elections, partly due to public frustration over inflation, said the late Saturday outcome made him look forward to the remainder of his term in office.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer described it as a "victory and vindication" for Democrats and their agenda. He accused the Republican Party of stoking fear and division during the campaign.
Republicans, however, remained close to seizing control of the House of Representatives as officials continued counting ballots.
It could take several days or more before the outcome of enough House races is known to determine which party will control the 435-seat chamber. Returns were still flowing in for several races, including many in liberal-leaning California.
As of late on Saturday, Republicans had won 211 seats and the Democrats 205, with 218 needed for a majority.
"The American people rejected the anti-democratic, authoritarian, nasty and divisive direction the MAGA Republicans wanted to take our country," Schumer said after Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's re-election win in Nevada sealed control of the chamber for Biden's Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, told ABC News and CNN that she would not make any announcements about whether she planned to remain in House leadership until after control of the chamber was decided.
FOCUSING ON GEORGIA
The Democrats will control the Senate, as they have for the past two years, with 50 of its 100 seats, as Vice President Kamala Harris holds a tie-breaking vote.
If Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock were to win the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff election against Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the Democrats' 51-49 majority would give them an additional edge in passing the few bills that are able to advance with a simple majority, instead of the 60 needed for most legislation.
"We're focusing now on Georgia. We feel good about where we are," Biden said on Sunday in Cambodia ahead of an East Asia summit. "I am incredibly pleased by the turnout."
Hovering over the 2022 midterm elections all year has been former President Donald Trump, who used his continued popularity among hard-right conservatives to influence the candidates the Republican Party nominated for congressional, gubernatorial and local races.
With Republicans' lackluster performance - even if they win a narrow majority in the House - Trump has been blamed for boosting candidates who were unable to appeal to a broad enough electorate.
A Republican loss in Georgia could further dampen Trump's popularity as advisers say he considers announcing this week a third run for the presidency in 2024.
The outcome may increase the chances that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who routed his Democratic opponent on Tuesday, opts to challenge Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination.
Democrats had portrayed Republicans as extremist, pointing to the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate a nationwide right to abortion and the hundreds of Republican nominees who promoted Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent Pelosi attributed the better-than-predicted performance to Democratic candidates maintaining focus on the issues that voters cared about even as pundits in Washington predicted big losses and called for a change in approach. "They knew the value of a woman's right to choose. They knew how important it was to protect our democracy. They knew the contrast between themselves and their opponents," Pelosi told ABC.
Continued control of the Senate means Democrats will still be able to approve Biden's nominees such as federal judges. That would include appointees to the Supreme Court should any vacancies open in the next two years on the bench with a 6-3 conservative majority.
House Republicans, should they prevail, have pledged to try to roll back Biden victories on battling climate change and want to make permanent a series of 2017 tax cuts set to expire. They also have vowed investigations into Biden administration activities and probes of the president's son, who has had business dealings with Ukraine and China.
Jim Banks, a Republican congressman from Indiana, said on Sunday that he expected his party to win a slim majority in the House and serve as "the last line of defense to block the Biden agenda," while launching investigations into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origin of COVID and pandemic lockdowns.
Democrats Keep Control of Senate, Crush Republican 'Red Wave' Hopes
Democratic U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has won re-election in Nevada, Newsmax projected on Saturday in a victory that guarantees the Senate w…
Paul Simmon > Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, RetiredNovember 13, 2022 at 8:26pm
Blaming Trump is the easy way out for the GOP leadership because they don't need to confront their own shortcomings. Clearly, the leadership is to be blamed. It's almost as if they set up Trump to fail by withholding support of some of his candidates deliberately. They want Trump to look weak and dispensible. They think they accomplished their goal but they may actually splinter the Republican Party with their divisive actions. In the meantime we the people know that the GOP leadership definitely doesn't represent us. McConnell, McCarthy, Romney, etc etc need to go, not President Donald J. Trump.
Who is blaming Trump for the midterm losses... I blamed the GOP/RNC and specifically Sen. McConnell and Rona McDaniels the RNC Chair... Both need to immediately resign. You really need to take a reading comprehension course ... and work on limiting your selective retention and out-of-context Ad Hominems...
Admittedly Trump made some errors.... with PA, GA, AZ, and NV support... however without his support, there may have been a BLUE WAVE. No one I know personally has called for Trump to go... quite the contrary.... They call for DeSantis to join Trump or to simply avoid any derogatory public comments directed at Pres. Trump..
Paul Simmon > Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, RetiredDecember 3, 2022 at 7:47pm
Suggesting reading comprehension to me? That's kind of funny since you said the same thing in your response that I said initially, i.e. the GOP leadership is the problem, not President Trump. So, we are all good.
Will somebody tell me how losing at least three state legislatures is good... or, how a RED WAVE that finishes more like a pink ripple is a win? Maybe the leadership of the RNC and GOP won... As the GOP/RNC managed to lose several significant races in an election where the DNC/Marxists' platforms promised only more misery. Fetterman is a prime example of the GOP/RNC's poor support and performance took a nearly guaranteed win for OZ and turned it upside down... almost on Q... but by who?.
2 hours ago · Before Election Day, Republicans had unified control of the legislatures in 30 states, while Democrats had unified control in 17 states. Minnesota and Virginia had divided states…
May 04, 2021, · Two presidents—George H.W. Bush (R) and Ronald Reagan (R)—gained state legislative seats throughout their presidencies. During the past century, the largest …
As for the MAGA RED Wave, no one is dominating anything... MAGA is DOA... unless you get Pres. Biden to forgo his VETO... I am sick of being told that SUB=PERFOREMANCE finishes are wins... take that spin to the street with the rest of the garbage these Doctors of political punditry produce. The only way government transformation is coming to America will be thru an out-of-control DNC/White House. President Biden will rule over us with illegal Executive Orders and the Administrative State. We will be unable to do much about it. We do not have the numbers in Congress to convict him upon impeachment or to override his veto... We don't have a winning hand... to show for the Billions... spent on campaigning.
FIGHT ... WHY? ... Before we take to the field we need a team focused on winning... We don't need McConnell's vision of transformation and the status quo... leading our team? Where is the leadership that understands finishing the race in a dead heat... or GRIDLOCK ..isn't acceptable nor is the GOP's definition of winning. When did it become a win for our RED WAVE To become a PINK RIPPLE?
First, It takes a party that wants to win and lead the nation to recovery... We don't need the current batch of losers running our party. Wake up, we barely made a ripple in the sea of politics this mid=term election. Having both houses doesn't guarantee reform or the ability to pass the needed legislation. Conducting more investigations, and revealing greater criminal conduct by Government leaders will not correct lawlessness. It will only infuriate the public and could lead to violence in the streets... including civil war This is what Biden and the Marxist need to declare martial law and suspend all of our Constitutional liberties.
Until we have real leaders and a well-organized, resourced, and effective organization for reform we will continue to see our Nation fall apart. The current leadership is unacceptable and the system we have to remove and replace them is not up to the task.
There is no doubt that President Donald J. Trump lead the Republilcan Party to a reasounding victory on Tuesday despite lots of voter fraud and rigged elections. It is indeed a miracle when you think about how many candidates supported by Trump won their elections and how few (less than a handful!!!!) did not make it. This is the biggest success of any political leader in the histroy of the USA. Onto TRUMP 2024!!!
Really? losing 3 or more state legislatures and a net loss of 187 state legislative seats is a net gain... a win? Arriving at 'Gridlock' with a President who has demonstrated his ability to use illegal Executive Orders to go around congress doesn't bode well ... especially when there are not enough GOP Votes to remove him thru IMPEACHMENT OR TO PASS THE LEGISLATION NEEDED TO BLOCK HIS Executive Orders. Tell me again. We what? Won?
Some people have a very nearsighted view of winning... gridlock is not a win... going from the ADVERTISED TSUNAMI TO A PINK RIPPLE IS NOT A WIN.. in politics GRIDLOCK is a win for those in control of the PRESENT GOVERNMENT and that certainly isn't the conservative patriot.
So, who won? Some individuals would have us believe that losing only one leg is a win... I don't. Losing no legs and taking both of the enemies is a win... Gridlock is not a win.. it permits the current government status quo to operate as is... and even allows for a rogue government to continue in its unlawful conduct... that is not a win. Holding hearings on criminal conduct by members of government is not a win... putting them in jail and out of office is a win.
Ilona... your simplistic approach lacks any real foundation... Trump brought his own campaign to a win... others he may have helped. Still, most were won by combining the candidate's qualifications, public persona, and access to the resources, cash, and media necessary to win. Trump undoubtedly helped in most cases but not in all cases.
ilona Trommler > Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, RetiredNovember 14, 2022 at 4:00am
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What happened to the ‘Red Wave’ GOP loses US Senate and Control of House in Doubt… some wave? More like a WAVE GOOD BY TO AMERICA?
“Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate while limiting projected losses in the House, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the "red wave" that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections.
Biden, who struggled with low approval ratings ahead of Tuesday's elections, partly due to public frustration over inflation, said the late Saturday outcome made him look forward to the remainder of his term in office.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer described it as a "victory and vindication" for Democrats and their agenda. He accused the Republican Party of stoking fear and division during the campaign.
Republicans, however, remained close to seizing control of the House of Representatives as officials continued counting ballots.
It could take several days or more before the outcome of enough House races is known to determine which party will control the 435-seat chamber. Returns were still flowing in for several races, including many in liberal-leaning California.
As of late on Saturday, Republicans had won 211 seats and the Democrats 205, with 218 needed for a majority.
"The American people rejected the anti-democratic, authoritarian, nasty and divisive direction the MAGA Republicans wanted to take our country," Schumer said after Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's re-election win in Nevada sealed control of the chamber for Biden's Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, told ABC News and CNN that she would not make any announcements about whether she planned to remain in House leadership until after control of the chamber was decided.
FOCUSING ON GEORGIA
The Democrats will control the Senate, as they have for the past two years, with 50 of its 100 seats, as Vice President Kamala Harris holds a tie-breaking vote.
If Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock were to win the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff election against Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the Democrats' 51-49 majority would give them an additional edge in passing the few bills that are able to advance with a simple majority, instead of the 60 needed for most legislation.
"We're focusing now on Georgia. We feel good about where we are," Biden said on Sunday in Cambodia ahead of an East Asia summit. "I am incredibly pleased by the turnout."
Hovering over the 2022 midterm elections all year has been former President Donald Trump, who used his continued popularity among hard-right conservatives to influence the candidates the Republican Party nominated for congressional, gubernatorial and local races.
With Republicans' lackluster performance - even if they win a narrow majority in the House - Trump has been blamed for boosting candidates who were unable to appeal to a broad enough electorate.
A Republican loss in Georgia could further dampen Trump's popularity as advisers say he considers announcing this week a third run for the presidency in 2024.
The outcome may increase the chances that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who routed his Democratic opponent on Tuesday, opts to challenge Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination.
Democrats had portrayed Republicans as extremist, pointing to the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate a nationwide right to abortion and the hundreds of Republican nominees who promoted Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent Pelosi attributed the better-than-predicted performance to Democratic candidates maintaining focus on the issues that voters cared about even as pundits in Washington predicted big losses and called for a change in approach. "They knew the value of a woman's right to choose. They knew how important it was to protect our democracy. They knew the contrast between themselves and their opponents," Pelosi told ABC.
Continued control of the Senate means Democrats will still be able to approve Biden's nominees such as federal judges. That would include appointees to the Supreme Court should any vacancies open in the next two years on the bench with a 6-3 conservative majority.
House Republicans, should they prevail, have pledged to try to roll back Biden victories on battling climate change and want to make permanent a series of 2017 tax cuts set to expire. They also have vowed investigations into Biden administration activities and probes of the president's son, who has had business dealings with Ukraine and China.
Jim Banks, a Republican congressman from Indiana, said on Sunday that he expected his party to win a slim majority in the House and serve as "the last line of defense to block the Biden agenda," while launching investigations into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origin of COVID and pandemic lockdowns.
"That has to be a focal point of every single committee in the Congress, especially in the House under Republican control," Banks said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." Quote https://www.newsmax.com/politics/election-2022-nevada-democrats/202...
Article extracted from NewsMax at the link above.
Blaming Trump is the easy way out for the GOP leadership because they don't need to confront their own shortcomings. Clearly, the leadership is to be blamed. It's almost as if they set up Trump to fail by withholding support of some of his candidates deliberately. They want Trump to look weak and dispensible. They think they accomplished their goal but they may actually splinter the Republican Party with their divisive actions. In the meantime we the people know that the GOP leadership definitely doesn't represent us. McConnell, McCarthy, Romney, etc etc need to go, not President Donald J. Trump.
Who is blaming Trump for the midterm losses... I blamed the GOP/RNC and specifically Sen. McConnell and Rona McDaniels the RNC Chair... Both need to immediately resign. You really need to take a reading comprehension course ... and work on limiting your selective retention and out-of-context Ad Hominems...
Admittedly Trump made some errors.... with PA, GA, AZ, and NV support... however without his support, there may have been a BLUE WAVE. No one I know personally has called for Trump to go... quite the contrary.... They call for DeSantis to join Trump or to simply avoid any derogatory public comments directed at Pres. Trump..
Suggesting reading comprehension to me? That's kind of funny since you said the same thing in your response that I said initially, i.e. the GOP leadership is the problem, not President Trump. So, we are all good.
Will somebody tell me how losing at least three state legislatures is good... or, how a RED WAVE that finishes more like a pink ripple is a win? Maybe the leadership of the RNC and GOP won... As the GOP/RNC managed to lose several significant races in an election where the DNC/Marxists' platforms promised only more misery. Fetterman is a prime example of the GOP/RNC's poor support and performance took a nearly guaranteed win for OZ and turned it upside down... almost on Q... but by who?.
Democrats poised to flip several state legislatures after GOP …
2 hours ago · Before Election Day, Republicans had unified control of the legislatures in 30 states, while Democrats had unified control in 17 states. Minnesota and Virginia had divided states…
Republicans lost a net 187 state legislative seats during the …
May 04, 2021, · Two presidents—George H.W. Bush (R) and Ronald Reagan (R)—gained state legislative seats throughout their presidencies. During the past century, the largest …
As for the MAGA RED Wave, no one is dominating anything... MAGA is DOA... unless you get Pres. Biden to forgo his VETO... I am sick of being told that SUB=PERFOREMANCE finishes are wins... take that spin to the street with the rest of the garbage these Doctors of political punditry produce. The only way government transformation is coming to America will be thru an out-of-control DNC/White House. President Biden will rule over us with illegal Executive Orders and the Administrative State. We will be unable to do much about it. We do not have the numbers in Congress to convict him upon impeachment or to override his veto... We don't have a winning hand... to show for the Billions... spent on campaigning.
FIGHT ... WHY? ... Before we take to the field we need a team focused on winning... We don't need McConnell's vision of transformation and the status quo... leading our team? Where is the leadership that understands finishing the race in a dead heat... or GRIDLOCK ..isn't acceptable nor is the GOP's definition of winning. When did it become a win for our RED WAVE To become a PINK RIPPLE?
First, It takes a party that wants to win and lead the nation to recovery... We don't need the current batch of losers running our party. Wake up, we barely made a ripple in the sea of politics this mid=term election. Having both houses doesn't guarantee reform or the ability to pass the needed legislation. Conducting more investigations, and revealing greater criminal conduct by Government leaders will not correct lawlessness. It will only infuriate the public and could lead to violence in the streets... including civil war This is what Biden and the Marxist need to declare martial law and suspend all of our Constitutional liberties.
Until we have real leaders and a well-organized, resourced, and effective organization for reform we will continue to see our Nation fall apart. The current leadership is unacceptable and the system we have to remove and replace them is not up to the task.
There is no doubt that President Donald J. Trump lead the Republilcan Party to a reasounding victory on Tuesday despite lots of voter fraud and rigged elections. It is indeed a miracle when you think about how many candidates supported by Trump won their elections and how few (less than a handful!!!!) did not make it. This is the biggest success of any political leader in the histroy of the USA. Onto TRUMP 2024!!!
Really? losing 3 or more state legislatures and a net loss of 187 state legislative seats is a net gain... a win? Arriving at 'Gridlock' with a President who has demonstrated his ability to use illegal Executive Orders to go around congress doesn't bode well ... especially when there are not enough GOP Votes to remove him thru IMPEACHMENT OR TO PASS THE LEGISLATION NEEDED TO BLOCK HIS Executive Orders. Tell me again. We what? Won?
Some people have a very nearsighted view of winning... gridlock is not a win... going from the ADVERTISED TSUNAMI TO A PINK RIPPLE IS NOT A WIN.. in politics GRIDLOCK is a win for those in control of the PRESENT GOVERNMENT and that certainly isn't the conservative patriot.
So, who won? Some individuals would have us believe that losing only one leg is a win... I don't. Losing no legs and taking both of the enemies is a win... Gridlock is not a win.. it permits the current government status quo to operate as is... and even allows for a rogue government to continue in its unlawful conduct... that is not a win. Holding hearings on criminal conduct by members of government is not a win... putting them in jail and out of office is a win.
But for some nothing is enough ,like Cruz wanting money from Trump, while I'd like to ask.......how many wins did CRUZ bring to us?
Ilona... your simplistic approach lacks any real foundation... Trump brought his own campaign to a win... others he may have helped. Still, most were won by combining the candidate's qualifications, public persona, and access to the resources, cash, and media necessary to win. Trump undoubtedly helped in most cases but not in all cases.
I wasn't addressing you old man!
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