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Current Status of the House Elections
In the Land of Confusion podcast that we taped Friday night, I gave a brief update on the election results in the House of Representatives. At that time, five races remained undetermined, according to RealClearPolitics. Two of those have now been called, one for each party. Here is the current status of the House as detailed by RCP (here):
The Democrats lead 222-210, with three races undecided. Thus far, this is a gain of 10 for the Republicans and a loss of 9 for the Democrats. Of the three undecided races, two were previously held by a Democrat and one was previously held by a Republican.
Republicans have a majority of the state delegations in 26 states, Democrats have a majority in 20, and 3 are tied. One remains to be determined — Iowa — which will either result in a Republican majority or a tie.
The three open races are:
1. California District 25: Republican incumbent Mike Garcia leads Democratic challenger Christy Smith, 50.1%-49.9%. The current vote totals per RCP are Garcia 169,060, Smith 168,660, a margin of just 400 votes. This is a rematch of a special election on May 12, 2020, which Garcia won pretty handily (54.9%-45.1%).
2. Iowa District 2: Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks leads Democrat Rita Hart, 196,862-196,815, a margin of just 47 votes. In rounded percentage terms, this is 50.0%-50.0%. The incumbent is a Democrat who did not seek re-election.
3. New York District 22: Republican challenger Claudia Tenney leads Democratic incumbent Anthony Brindisi 49.0%-48.9%, with a margin of 300 votes, 154,730-154,430.
If the current vote count holds, Republicans will win all three seats and end with an overall gain of 13 House seats. The Democrats will have a House majority of 15 at the most, 9 at the least.
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Hopefully the latter group, however large, stayed home and voted by mail.
Well not wanting to speak for HW, I didn’t find it dismissive. I found it illustrative, as the actions of the left really do make me feel anxious and nauseous, conditions which led me to reluctantly voting for Trump.
I do not believe this for a second. As of 2 AM election night, Trump won. The votes after that were manufactured, and even had Trump had more voters, there are plenty more liberal ballots on the printing presses where the other ones came from.
I wanted to say “s*^t in my pants” but I thought that might violate Ricochet’s rules. I try to avoid profanity.
All summer as I watched the rioting in the cities around America and listened to Leftist talk about defunding the police while they also talk about confiscating everyone’s firearms, I was very much on the brink of “doo-dooing in my pants.”
There was no intent to be disparaging. Just trying to keep it “clean.”
Losing control of one’s bowels out of absolute terror, regardless of the specific words used, carries a strong implication of cowardice and lack of self-control.
It’s a figure of speech.