Complete blowout. This is all on Trump.
I said back in September that, after Trump met with Xi, he should just play golf and STFU for the next six weeks. Instead, he traveled all over the country, commented repeatedly that voters should pretend he's on the ballot, said all kinds of other stupid shit, and it all blew up in his face. He dragged the party down.
Also, it's the economy for many/most voters, and he's driven up prices with his reckless, poorly planned war and tariffs.
Finally, he cost the party both South Carolina and Texas senate seats. His "tranny Annie" label in SC was viewed as abhorrent by people in both parties, and his hand-picked nepo candidate was grossly incompetent. Ralph Norman would have defeated Andrews.
In Texas, he endorsed probably the most crooked politician on the ballot in any state. Cornyn would have defeated Talarico, but Paxton didn't have much of a chance, even with Musk's hundreds of millions of dollars. Way too much baggage and just a shitty candidate.
@jdb I'm not as big of a fan of their coverage this year, for sure, but I'll never go back to that circus that is CNN, or the mental masturbation that is Fox.
Not sure I like how open the NN decision desk is about their process, but it is informative, like, for example, they just said that Sayed is very close that they might be able to call it soon, and explained why, whereas in previous years, the decision desk at most networks is just a black box, no information at all.
I don't mind that transparency, but there is chaos and frenetic switching of cameras, speakers, states, etc. where it doesn't seem as organized. That can be good, but it also makes it harder to follow or just annoying when they are waiting on someone to be ready to speak (see the chunky guy with the beef stick)
@snarlcakes You're really missing the point. Looking at these smaller counties in the middle of the Triangle, Williamson, Hays, Brazos, etc., Paxton is running 15-25 points behind Trump. That's not because a bunch of non-whites moved in the last two years. It's because there's a complete repudiation of where the country is that crosses demographic lines.
No, I'm not missing your point. I am disagreeing with some of your conclusion. I think Texas is now a purple state with very poor demographics. Similar to California in the 80s or more recently Georgia. And the GOP is going to really struggle for the foresee future in federal elections.
I think it has more to do with paxton being an awful candidate than Texas being purple.
Chubby dude on NN just made a good point: Dems should be shooting for 52, so they don't have to worry about whatever nonsense Fetterman might pull.
Fetterman shouldn't count as a dem at this point.
Holy shit, call for Turek in Iowa. Damn. This is officially a tsunami.
wow Iowa Senate to Dems too
Kansas too
And Kansas is in the bank now, too.
Kansas too
When Moody pulled it out, I really thought this was going to be another fake wave that fizzled out. But nope. Turns out Florida was as good as it would ever get for the GOP.
Middle America woke up, eventually, to the Emperor with no clothes, after he affected their finances so severely, and sent his fan boy excuse makers packing.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@snarlcakes You're really missing the point. Looking at these smaller counties in the middle of the Triangle, Williamson, Hays, Brazos, etc., Paxton is running 15-25 points behind Trump. That's not because a bunch of non-whites moved in the last two years. It's because there's a complete repudiation of where the country is that crosses demographic lines.
No, I'm not missing your point. I am disagreeing with some of your conclusion. I think Texas is now a purple state with very poor demographics. Similar to California in the 80s or more recently Georgia. And the GOP is going to really struggle for the foresee future in federal elections.
I think it has more to do with paxton being an awful candidate than Texas being purple.
I didn't mention Paxton. I was talking about Abbott.
This a local FL race not publicized much, but "MAGA Meg" Weinberger lost. Her claim to fame was proudly spending tens of millions of taxpayer money to rename Palm Beach International Airport as DJT.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
This was a betrayal election. Not a Dem endorsement.