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Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 08:39 PM Jan 2019

The Midterms were a Referendum

Trump, as he himself admitted, was "on the ballot". Every single day he railed about "Caravan Invaders" and the need for his wall. Then Republicans suffered historic losses. Not only in the House, but in State and local elections also.

In 2010 Republicans proudly boasted that the Midterms that year, which gave the G.O.P control of the House, not only repudiated the Democratic President, but also invalidated any mandate Obama and the Democrats won two years earlier.

Well, hello. Wear that shoe on the other foot often?

America doesn't want your stinking wall Trump. And a majority of American voters didn't want it in 2016 either, even when you kept promising that Mexico was going to pay for it.

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The Midterms were a Referendum (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Jan 2019 OP
It was the biggest midterm landslide in a *century* sharedvalues Jan 2019 #1
As the Right likes to say, 'elections have consequences.' They lost even with gerrymandering. Shrike47 Jan 2019 #2
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #3

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
1. It was the biggest midterm landslide in a *century*
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 09:32 PM
Jan 2019

The biggest midterm difference, by vote percentage, in 100 years. And they didn’t keep records before that. So it might well have been the biggest midterm landslide of all time.

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