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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump lost. And it wasn't even close.
By Joe Scarborough November 9 at 6:06 PM
President Trump lost. And it was not even close.
On Tuesday, the president and his allies paid a high political price for their preposterous claims about caravans filled with leprosy, Middle Eastern terrorists, Hispanic breeders and gang invaders. Those lies cost the hobbled president every bit as much as his vicious attacks on the free press and his foul campaign calls to imprison political adversaries. Despite all claims to the contrary, Trump Republicans faced a bitter reckoning at the polls in dozens of congressional races and hundreds of legislative battles across the United States.
Trumpism proved to be so politically toxic that Republicans likely took their worst shellacking in U.S. House races since the darkest days of Watergate. Trump Republicans lost at least 30 seats in Congress and took a beating nationally. In state legislative races, the tally was even worse, with more than 300 Republican legislators watching their political careers get washed away by the blue wave.
In states such as Nevada, GOP politicians paid a particularly heavy price for their fealty to the former Manhattan Democratic donor. As the Nevada Independents Jon Ralston noted Thursday, his states six Republican constitutional officers were reduced to one. Nevada no longer has a Republican representing it in the U.S. Senate and just one in the House of Representatives, and Trumps party also lost seats in the Nevada Assembly and in the state Senate. As Ralston noted with a dash of understatement: That is a wave.
If enough of the remaining undecided races break their way, Democrats could soon control a larger majority in the House than Republican Dennis Hastert ever did during his eight years as speaker. Trumps sagging fortunes also allowed Democrats to pick up more governorships than either party had done since the GOP landslide of 1994.
On Tuesday, the president and his allies paid a high political price for their preposterous claims about caravans filled with leprosy, Middle Eastern terrorists, Hispanic breeders and gang invaders. Those lies cost the hobbled president every bit as much as his vicious attacks on the free press and his foul campaign calls to imprison political adversaries. Despite all claims to the contrary, Trump Republicans faced a bitter reckoning at the polls in dozens of congressional races and hundreds of legislative battles across the United States.
Trumpism proved to be so politically toxic that Republicans likely took their worst shellacking in U.S. House races since the darkest days of Watergate. Trump Republicans lost at least 30 seats in Congress and took a beating nationally. In state legislative races, the tally was even worse, with more than 300 Republican legislators watching their political careers get washed away by the blue wave.
In states such as Nevada, GOP politicians paid a particularly heavy price for their fealty to the former Manhattan Democratic donor. As the Nevada Independents Jon Ralston noted Thursday, his states six Republican constitutional officers were reduced to one. Nevada no longer has a Republican representing it in the U.S. Senate and just one in the House of Representatives, and Trumps party also lost seats in the Nevada Assembly and in the state Senate. As Ralston noted with a dash of understatement: That is a wave.
If enough of the remaining undecided races break their way, Democrats could soon control a larger majority in the House than Republican Dennis Hastert ever did during his eight years as speaker. Trumps sagging fortunes also allowed Democrats to pick up more governorships than either party had done since the GOP landslide of 1994.
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Trump lost. And it wasn't even close. (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2018
OP
BootinUp
(47,150 posts)1. Taking time to relish the victory. :) But not too long.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Trump's fake red wave got drowned in a beautiful blue wave 🌊🌊🌊
It went to the same place his fake caravan invasion mob went LOL
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. And Donnie is MAGA
pissed off. This past election was all about him and he found out his Reality Star TV character is a flop.