Donald Trump is apparently not in good spirits after Tuesday night’s midterm upset.
According to CNN’s Jim Acosta, an aide to the former president said he was “livid” and “screaming at everyone” on Wednesday after what Republicans hyped up to be a red tsunami turned out to be more of a ripple. As of Wednesday afternoon, Republicans appeared poised to win control of the House, but the fate of the Senate still hung in the balance.
And though Trump wasn’t on the ballot, more than one-morning headline dubbed him the election’s biggest loser. Democrats outperformed Republican nominees he endorsed, and voters largely rejected candidates who parroted his election-denying rhetoric.
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Trump was fuming, in particular, over the loss of Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania to Democrat John Fetterman, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported. He reportedly blamed anyone who advised him to support the celebrity physician, including his wife, Melania Trump.
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engineer
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Wed 9 Nov, 2022 08:13 pm
@engineer,
The Hill is saying Boebert is losing by 62 votes in Colorado with a few more ballots to count.
CNN — At 9:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, Mehmet Oz did something that used to be de rigueur: He called John Fetterman to concede the Pennsylvania Senate race.
And then he released a statement saying, in part: “We are facing big problems as a country and we need everyone to put down their partisan swords and focus on getting the job done. With bold leadership that brings people together, we can create real change.”
Which is gracious. And kind. And the sort of thing that was once an accepted part of campaigns – especially losing ones.
But that is not the moment we are in. Especially for candidates, like Oz, who were endorsed and promoted by former President Donald Trump.
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Thu 10 Nov, 2022 07:46 am
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:
She'll be hanging around the unemployment line soon enough.
I hope not. But if she loses I hope she runs again and reclaims her seat.
Interesting article at https://fivethirtyeight.com/ about how "Candidate Quality Mattered". The conclusion from the article is that quality matters, but I think they make a weak case. Sure, Walker underperformed Kemp in Georgia by 8%, but Walker's numbers look very similar to where Perdue and Loeffler came in during the 2020 election and he is clearly not as good a candidate at they were.
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Thu 10 Nov, 2022 07:52 am
One of the more emblematic races in the election is where Emilia Sykes, (a young Democrat who sponsored the bill that allows unmarried singles to file orders of protection against their abusive partner) defeated a Trump-endorsed Beauty Pageant contestant who believes abortion in cases of rape & incest should be up for debate as possibly criminal.
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Thu 10 Nov, 2022 11:51 am
Representative Boebert is now ahead by a handful of votes.
Race NOT called. It still has a chance to go back the other way.
And what is taking them so long to count the ballots? Not just in this race, but in all the other races where the counting seems to be stalled.
Race still NOT called though. It could still go the other way.
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Fri 11 Nov, 2022 11:59 am
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GEOFFREY SKELLEY
NOV. 11, 12:21 PM
Laxalt leads Cortez Masto by about 1 point in Nevada’s Senate race, but Cortez Masto has a path to victory — if she can win a clear majority of the outstanding votes, that is. ABC News estimates around 95,000 votes are still in the process of being counted across Nevada, and Cortez Masto would need to win about 55 percent of those to edge ahead of Laxalt. Most of the remaining votes are mostly ones cast by mail, which are Democratic-leaning, so there’s a good chance she will win more of those than Laxalt will. About two-thirds of those votes are in Clark County, and another 20 percent or so are in Washoe County (Reno), and Cortez Masto has been winning more than 60 percent of the vote batches most recently reported from those places. All of this suggests that Cortez is more likely to overtake Laxalt than not, but we’ll have to wait and see what the actual votes say.
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NATHANIEL RAKICH
NOV. 11, 11:56 AM
As we wait for more updates from Arizona tonight, here’s where things currently stand in the Senate race. About 500,000 ballots remain to be counted, and we estimate that Masters would have to win at least 61 percent of them in order to get more votes than Kelly overall, considering Kelly’s current 115,037-vote lead. That’s a tall order.
And it goes on and on and on. She is a dismal representative for her district. I have a feeling a lot of Republicans voted for her opponent. I sure would have. She's an embarrassing person of less than average education - let alone average smarts. Say what you want, she's not the brightest crayola in the box, and you know it. There are some people who should not be allowed around semi-automatic weapons, and she and her husband are two of them.
