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The Good and the Bad News for Trump from Last Night
A Democrat-controlled House will prove to be a headache for the Trump administration, as David French explained last night on Twitter:
It’s looking like a very solid Democratic House majority.
The subpoenas shall rain down on the Trump administration like rain from the heavens.
Also, with a majority like that, impeachment is a live possibility depending on the content of the Mueller report.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) November 7, 2018
As returns were still coming in, House Democrats began leaking to reporters that their first plan of attack would be to subpoena President Trump’s tax returns. The House Democrats elected are of a more radical class, and these aren’t folks who will step easily into the fray; they’re jumping in with both feet. And that can work to President Trump’s advantage.
President Trump operates best when he’s on the defensive and playing victim. Under constant siege from House Democrats, especially if their investigations are overreach, President Trump will have ready-made talking points for 2020 about being the subject of a witchhunt by Democrats stymying his efforts to Make America Great Again.
In a strange twist of fate, the Democrats winning the House could seal President Trump’s reelection campaign if House Democrats overplay their hand, which, as we saw in the Senate with now Justice Kavanaugh, is standard in the Trump-era.
But Ben Shapiro has some bad news for the Trump reelection campaign:
All the talk about Republican victories tonight does obscure a problem: Dems won in WI, MI, and PA. If Trump loses those states, he loses re-election.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 7, 2018
If the reelection took place last night, the Rust Belt may not have delivered for Trump in the same way it did in 2016.
With the end of the 2018 midterms, the 2020 campaign has begun. A great deal depends on how extreme a candidate Democrats put forward, but the tea leaves regarding Trump’s reelection campaign are just as murky this morning as they were last night.
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I’m guessing because of the stink it will cause, which hopefully will bring more shame on the left and the Democrats. I assume he meant to say, “I want them to try and impeach Kavanaugh.”
I want them to try because it would prove they have zero fidelity to the law (which, if I understand correctly, only allows for impeachment of a justice based on decisions he’s made while on the court — not on uncorroborated high school antics).
If this election is any indication, Dems would never win another red district as long as I live. Just do it!
Show trials. Of a good man. For a vile power grab. Half the country likes it.
What are we turning into?
@rufusrjones I think the sarcasm was lost and people thought you were serious about the outcome rather using the spectacle as a positive
I guess I’m just amazed that they even did it and then they actually threatened to go back after him. It’s disgusting. Think of the kids. I probably need to keep my twitter persona out of Ricochet.
Here to translate. I’m amazed I’ve been a wrestling fan for most of my life and forgot Slick was Rufus R Jones’ son until recently reminded.
Venezuela. Slowly but surely.
The long Marxist slog through the institutions is almost complete. Enough young people have been convinced that capitalism must be ended by any means necessary. And that free stuff is a right. Free healthcare, free higher education, free you-name-it. And they will soon be a a majority.
I know nothing of current wrestling, but man oh man Rufus R Jones was my favorite when I was a kid. It is absolutely insane to look at YouTube stuff of him.
Yes we are.
Charles Hugh Smith On Why Many Millennials Are Promoting Socialism
Not to throw water on your relief, but the million + more black men voting in Florida as of today is bad, bad news for Republicans.
What are you talking about? Everything in Venezuela is free!
It’s free all right, it’s just there’s none available . . .
Why can’t we get that tiny percentage of the black vote to switch parties, which wipes out the Democrat party?
Yes, that’s why Trump needs a Holder-type “wingman” to help protect him.
Dingell was a top-notch grass root guy whose personal familiarity with his district was remarkable. He was also an old-school democrat who delivered goodies and personal service and was for a long time probably the most powerful man in the House. The Levin brothers pushed the right buttons and could raise money. Before Republicans can dominate in southern Michigan they probably need to make people think differently about what they want from their representatives, which is hard to do.
Because going after Kavanaugh worked so well for the Democrat Senators. Impeaching him would extend the Kavanaugh effect to the House in 2020.
Cart or horse? Did we lose because they retired, or did they retire because they knew they would lose?
The felons being re-enfranchised are not all, or even a majority black (it’s 46%). More to the point, they are still a low propensity voting population even if we assume “felon” equates to “Democrat” regardless of race. If another half million voting age African Americans is going to torpedo Florida for the GOP, then we aren’t holding onto it whether Amendment 4 passed or not.
The only “wavering” in WI was the gubernatorial election. And in a state controlled by the Teachers’ Unions, it’s not too surprising that State Superintendent of Schools Tony Evers did well. It’s very surprising he (allegedly) won. (That last minute “discovery” of 47,000 uncounted ballots in Milwaukee remains suspicious. But we are the original “Deep State” here. And as Hugh Hewitt says, “If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.” Walker couldn’t get past the margin of fraud.)
Other than that, everything else in this state remains as it was prior to the election. Both houses of our legislature remain controlled by Republicans (hopefully checking Evers’ attempts to return to budget deficits and high unemployment. We still have the same number of GOP Representatives and Senators as we had before. As hard as it is for me to swallow the idea of Tony Evers as our governor (:: vomit ::) I can’t agree that the results from here looked particularly bad for President Trump in 2020. The red areas remained Red. The blue areas remained Blue. Paul Ryan’s district stayed Red. There was a slight blue-ward shift in rural counties in the southwest, but otherwise, the electoral maps for Governor 2018 and President 2016 are, county-by-county, almost the same. Also, the electoral maps for Scott Walker’s re-election in 2014 is, again, almost the same.
The difference this time appears to be turnout. (And isn’t that the key?) Everyone I talked to yesterday and today mentioned just how packed the polling places were. Walker got 35,000 more votes in 2018 than he did in 2014. But Tony Evers got more than 200,00 votes more than did Walker’s opponent in 2014. And still, if you take away the mysteriously-appearing-at-1:00 am uncounted 47,000 Milwaukee votes, Evers and Walker were in a virtual tie all evening.
In short, I think nothing’s really changed here. We’re as reddish-purple as ever. But I wouldn’t mind if Illinois annexed Milwaukee and Madison.
Mollie Hemingway in The Federalist, today.
Think of the people now heading up the leadership and committees in the House: Pelosi, Nadler, Waters, Schiff… OMG, America. What were you thinking??!
LOL
Should I send a letter to my new Congresswoman, the commie-moron-half a crimewave at all times-anti-semite Ilhan Omar, to tell her to hurry up on this impeachment of Kavanagh?
You can’t make this up.
Nobody has mentioned what happened in Colorado yesterday. Sickening. I think everybody was prepared for openly gay Democrat Jared Polis to win governor, but the Republicans fielded outstanding candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of State (an incumbent), and they both lost to weak, inexperienced candidates. Sad. Democrats won statewide offices down the line and both houses of the legislature. I have even heard that one county sheriff who was an incumbent and an exceptionally good sheriff lost. Our conversion to a deep blue state is complete, fueled mainly by the Denver/Boulder liberals, since much of the rural areas of the state remain conservative, but the population of Denver/Boulder is getting hard to beat. We had an anti-fracking measure on the ballot that fortunately failed, thanks to some of the rural areas voting 85-15 against it, which is what it takes to overcome Denver voting for it. But I hear some of the oil and gas companies are already looking to move out, since everyone figures Polis will work against fracking one way or another. This is all very depressing. My little corner here is somewhat conservative, so I see sad faces today.
Isn’t that the gal who married her brother to get him into the country?
Yes. The level of legal chaos surrounding this chick is mind boggling, and the state controlled media does jack about it.
When she isn’t being an anti-semite, she’s spewing out hackneyed socialites tripe. It’s unreal.
Good thing she’s a cute Muslim.
As mentioned in the PIT, do you think new MN Attorney General Keith Ellison will do something about it?
Terrible. Where are you @acook? I’m in the Springs. Polis with a D legislature? We’re in for a world of hurt. We’ll need to get out before Colorado becomes California of the Rockies because our daughters need serious healthcare. I’ve been here since 1983. Mr. C longer than that. Sad, and not sure where we’ll go.
She gets busted on all kinds of stuff. She went to Estonia on her Minnesota legislature budget. For some reason.
I’m sure he will assign his best people to work on it.
Illinois has enough problems.