US Potential red wave turns into trickle in disappointing midterm elections for Republicans - House, Senate control still in balance morning after Election Day

Potential red wave turns into trickle in disappointing midterm elections for Republicans

Republican hopes for a red wave didn't materialize in the midterm elections. Control of the House and Senate is still up for grabs as of Wednesday.

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Republican Rep. Mayra Flores of Texas, going down to defeat capsulized what ended up being a less than stellar performance by Republicans in the midterm elections.

"The RED WAVE did not happen," tweeted Flores, whose June special congressional victory to flip a long-held Democratic House seat energized Republicans ahead of the midterms.

Back east, GOP congressional nominee Karoline Leavitt, whom Republicans hoped would flip New Hampshire’s very swingy First District, lamented in her concession speech that "this is not the outcome we wanted. Certainly not at all."

With Democrats facing historical headwinds — the party that wins the White House traditionally suffers major setbacks in the ensuing midterm elections — and a very rough political climate fueled by record inflation, soaring crime and a crisis at the nation’s southern border, all accentuated by President Biden’s rebounding but still underwater approval ratings and a GOP jump in the public opinion polls heading into the midterms, Republicans were riding a wave of optimism.

Conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, heading into the midterms, predicted in a Fox News interview that "I think this is going to be, not just a red wave, but a red tsunami."

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy emphasized that "it is clear that we are going to take the House back… we will be in the majority and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority.

As of Wednesday morning, the balance of power in the House and Senate is still in play.

"For two years, Republicans bragged about a GOP ‘red wave,’ but already the media and Republican members of Congress have conceded this election is far from it," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee executive director Tim Perisco argued. " We’ve got a long way to go, but win or lose, our candidates, our members, and our teams all have a lot to be proud of – they fought hard, even when everyone counted them out."

While spotlighting the GOP victory in the battle for the House, veteran Republican pollster and consultant Kellyanne Conway, who served as top political adviser to former President Trump, acknowledged that "it’s disappointing in terms of the margins."

In the Senate, Democrats may maintain their razor-thin majority, as they held their own in the battle for governorships.

Veteran Republican strategist Colin Reed noted that "it felt like we were heading towards a fairly sizable Republican wave and it didn’t materialize."

"Republicans will have to figure out what went wrong in these races that didn’t get over the finish line," Reed emphasized.

Democratic communicator Chris Moyer highlighted that "this night has gone far better than anyone could have anticipated after such doom and gloom for several weeks… It defies history in many ways."

Republicans enjoyed strong political tailwinds during the second half of last year and the first half of this year, as surging gas prices fueled record inflation, and rising crime and an unrelenting crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border grabbed outsized attention.

However, the blockbuster move in late June by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and send the combustible issue of legalized abortion back to the states energized Democrats, boosting them with female and suburban voters who helped power Democrats to a blue wave in the 2018 midterms.

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization abortion ruling, along with declining gas prices and a slew of legislative victories by Biden and congressional Democrats, gave the party a shot in the arm over the summer as their poll numbers rebounded.

However, public opinion polls in the final weeks leading to the midterms suggested that the Democrats’ summer surge did not last into autumn, as gas prices once again spiked, inflation concerns did not dissipate and Republicans inundated the airwaves with ads bashing the Democrats over crime.

According to a Fox News voter analysis of more than 92,000 respondents, the economy and jobs at 47% was the overwhelming most important issue facing voters. However, abortion at 10% and climate change at 9% came in just ahead of crime, which was at 8%.

"Abortion certainly played a major role in some of these races in a way that was kind of discounted over the last several weeks," Moyer argued. "And also candidate quality matters. You had some very strong candidates on the Democratic side who prevailed, and often their opponents were extreme candidates."

One extremely bright spot for Republicans was Florida, a one-time premiere battleground states that Republicans turned from purple to red on Tuesday.

"Thanks to the overwhelming support of the people of Florida, we not only won election, we have re-written the political map," Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis proclaimed at his Election Night victory celebration. "Thank you for honoring us with a win for the ages."

DeSantis, who narrowly won the governor’s office in 2018, crushed his 2022 Democratic challenger, former GOP governor turned former Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist, by close to 20 points, according to the latest results, topping then-Republican Gov. Jeb Bush’s resounding 13-point re-election victory in 2002.

It was a similar story in the state’s Senate race, with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio making history as the first Republican in the Sunshine State to win a third six-year term. Even though Democratic challenger Rep. Val Demings dramatically outraised and outspent him, Rubio won re-election by over 16-points, according to the latest vote count.

Fueling the GOP wave in Florida, the party’s increasing support from Hispanic voters, who are one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in the state.

"It’s great to be here, gathered in the red county of Miami-Dade," Rubio touted in his victory speech.

Miami-Dade County — with over two million residents, is Florida’s most populous — has long been a Democratic stronghold. But Rubio and DeSantis both carried the county on Tuesday.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

I am not democratically aligned, I have never been registered as a democrat, Trump is more a more a Democrat than I am.

Not accusing you of that. But if anybody was going to try to criticize this particular audit when its results were released, it would have been the Democrat-aligned-- that's what I meant.

 

[Coldgrip]

because you touch yourself

I touch your mother.

 

[Wormy]

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced by the bye.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

I have done earnest research on my part... sadly, it appears you have not.

I have taken one of your points as an easily disproved claim.

This claim is not true. This claim could be easily proven... so, we'll start here.

Voter registration is public, deaths are public, so super easy to prove. Where's the proof?



Neat. Anyway, I read audits. I am not democratically aligned, I have never been registered as a democrat, Trump is more a more a Democrat than I am.

I, have course, have not read everything regarding all 50 states. I found this topic really interesting, have read hundreds of articles from Rockwell to Huffpo, have read a few of the audits regarding the election, and have personally been involved in elections. So, that's where I'm coming from.

I never stated that the number of dead people claimed to have voted in the 2020 election were greatly attributable to the outcome and the number of them claimed also accounts for what is essentially the smallest voting discrepancy cited on the entire list that I presented to you such that it's honestly coming across to me that you might just be incredibly disingenuous, but regardless, when the subject matter is actually examined critically dead people are found to vote in small numbers in many elections all throughout the US, not just Presidential ones. Here's an article from the New York Post talking about evidence of dead people voting in NYC in Nov 2020 (https://nypost.com/2020/11/02/dead-people-caught-voting-in-nyc-elections-records-show/). Here is a list kept track of by the Heritage foundation where cases of voter fraud have been established and also in many cases prosecuted for throughout a large number of varying elections throughout the US over many years (https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search). While most the evidence established citing dead voters in the 2020 election has mostly been kept behind closed doors in judicial settings there have at times been short lists of names released which have been cross-checked (https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/0...r-rose-from-the-grave-to-cast-mail-in-ballot/). Here's an article from ZeroHedge about the Public Interest Legal Foundation suing the Michigan Secretary of State for failing to remove about 26,000 dead people from the voter registration rolls (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/court-fight-over-dead-people-voter-lists-heats-michigan) and also (https://www.zerohedge.com/political...oses-round-fight-over-dead-people-voter-rolls). NPR article from 2012 discussing research done by Pew finding over 1.8 million dead people with active and valid voter registrations (https://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote), though unfortunately the original Pew article can no longer be found at the link they cite.

In any case if your evidence for "no dead people voting" amounts to a "fact check" from a place like CNN, Politifact or Reddit where disturbingly often their greatest evidence in opposition of a claim is to cite nothing besides "nuh uh" and a political "official" saying "no waaaay that didn't happen" then, like I said, you're being disingenuous... that or you're retarded.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

I never stated that the number of dead people claimed to have voted in the 2020 election were greatly attributable to the outcome and the number of them claimed also accounts for what is essentially the smallest voting discrepancy cited on the entire list that I presented to you such that it's honestly coming across to me that you might just be incredibly disingenuous, but regardless, when the subject matter is actually examined critically dead people are found to vote in small numbers in many elections all throughout the US, not just Presidential ones. Here's an article from the New York Post talking about evidence of dead people voting in NYC in Nov 2020 (https://nypost.com/2020/11/02/dead-people-caught-voting-in-nyc-elections-records-show/). Here is a list kept track of by the Heritage foundation where cases of voter fraud have been established and also in many cases prosecuted for throughout a large number of varying elections throughout the US over many years (https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search). While most the evidence established citing dead voters in the 2020 election has mostly been kept behind closed doors in judicial settings there have at times been short lists of names released which have been cross-checked (https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/0...r-rose-from-the-grave-to-cast-mail-in-ballot/). Here's an article from ZeroHedge about the Public Interest Legal Foundation suing the Michigan Secretary of State for failing to remove about 26,000 dead people from the voter registration rolls (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/court-fight-over-dead-people-voter-lists-heats-michigan) and also (https://www.zerohedge.com/political...oses-round-fight-over-dead-people-voter-rolls). NPR article from 2012 discussing research done by Pew finding over 1.8 million dead people with active and valid voter registrations (https://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote), though unfortunately the original Pew article can no longer be found at the link they cite.

In any case if your evidence for "no dead people voting" amounts to a "fact check" from a place like CNN, Politifact or Reddit where disturbingly often their greatest evidence in opposition of a claim is to cite nothing besides "nuh uh" and a political "official" saying "no waaaay that didn't happen" then, like I said, you're being disingenuous... that or you're retarded.

I don't care if you think I am disingenuous.

YOU gave it as one of many points; it's the EASIEST point to prove or disprove, as anyone with time can do so... you don't have to be an insider or have any special knowledge to prove it. YOU said "tens of thousands" of dead voters voted in that specific election; anyone can prove that; before reading the links you've provided, I'll take a wild guess and say NONE of them come close to doing so. But I will check them out.

I never said it didn't happen, that's a nice straw man you've made for yourself; I stated that "this is not true" (i.e., tens of thousands of dead people did not cast votes in that election). Now, before reading the links that cover "various elections" and such...

Do you now concede, that, in fact; claiming tens of thousands of dead voters voted in that election is FALSE; that anyone with the time and inclination to do so could prove this claim, and it has not been CLOSE to being true; and, lastly, that you were wrong to include that FALSE claim?

If you admit it; I'll move on to another claim! I'll even let YOU pick your favorite.

EDITED TO ADD:
I've read your links, thank you, I think this topic is very interesting.

1. NY Post: A few odd cases, all proving it's easy to detect those cases when a spouse or someone else votes in a dead person's name.
2. Heritage foundation: An extensive list of voter fraudsters, all caught trying to cheat; like making fake ballots for example, since it takes a pretty intensive paper trail that quickly proves the ballot is fake (I.D./ birth certificate, registration, then ballot- multiple points of detection). That's why politicians just spend money on advertising instead, with a 90% return on investment and no chance of being caught).
3. Someone related to original dead voter used wrong ballot. Oh no, please save our democracy.

I'll read the rest, if I come across anything notable I'll be sure to post about it!

 

[Snekposter]

Why is it that these faggots always write paragraphs of nonsense that constantly boil down to "I'm just going to pretend I never saw any of that"?

 

[heathercho]

Why is it that these faggots always write paragraphs of nonsense that constantly boil down to "I'm just going to pretend I never saw any of that"?

Paid by the word count. Genuinely.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

Why is it that these faggots always write paragraphs of nonsense that constantly boil down to "I'm just going to pretend I never saw any of that"?

I can see you didn't bother to read any of that, as usual.

I took one of his points, read all six links provided... ZERO proof of the claims made in court by Trump. No evidence provided by Trump (specifically mentioned in the Neveda article) in his court case of this easily proven claim that tens of thousands of dead people voted in the election.

Why does this always happen, with two years to prove your case that the election was stolen? It is a mystery.

Paid by the word count. Genuinely.

You can always just provide a link to this evidence of the stolen election in 2020.

But... there isn't any! Sorry.

 

[Desu Mountain]

You can always just provide a link to this evidence of the stolen election in 2020.

But... there isn't any! Sorry.

https://kiwifarms.pa/threads/us-instances-of-voter-fraud-megathread.73973/

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

Why is it that these faggots always write paragraphs of nonsense that constantly boil down to "I'm just going to pretend I never saw any of that"?

Because there are faggots willing to have their time wasted by writing paragraphs rebutting them instead of simply mocking glownigger retards like them for the fuctarded spegs they are.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

Not one link? Not one point?

Two years and the best you have is the fucking MyPillow crackhead. I love it.

Nope. No linkypoos for you to pretend your tard wrangler read to you. No pointypoins for you to pretend you have the abilkty to understand. Just mockery of your sub 40 IQ, your desert dry dick, and your overwhelming odor of sour milk, desperation, and cheetos.

Your father hated you personally, thats why he left for cigarettes and never came back, it had nothing to do with your BPD whore mother. He just couldn't stand the mutant mongoloid that sprang from his aids riddled loins.

 

[Bridget]

Post test, things are being fucky.

 

[Bridget]

So, are there wordfilters or are certain words banned from being posted? Because I can't seem to post what I'm trying to without getting an error.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

So, are there wordfilters or are certain words banned from being posted? Because I can't seem to post what I'm trying to without getting an error.

No banned words. Some words may turn into other words however. So not sure why you are getting an error. Might just be the site having a moment. It has those every now and then.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Bright side: Balanced is still better than completely cucked.

Due to VP tie breaker votes, RINOS and dem aligned independents balanced is still dem control.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

‘The Red Wave we said would hapoen did not happen, please don’t look into all the stuff we did to make it not happen’

 

[CharlesBarkley]

It was abortion. Every single fat white woman despite political leaning on the majority thought sone states banning it was the worst thing on earth and that depressed economy and a possible world war would be an acceptable outcome for any sort of protection if it.

In short, as we men know, women once again are the blight of all our lives and everyday we curse not being a homosexual.

Oh well. On the bright side, picking up bitchs at bars is eazy now you just have to say “abortion is good and I believe in a woman’s ability to choose,” to get the opportunity to blow a load on her stomach.

 

[Looney Troons]

It would take some earnest research on your part to actually understand the ins-and-outs of the "fuckery", but here's a short list of bullet points to take a look at if you actually care to have a balanced understanding of the reasons why many people believe the US Presidential Election was tampered with. I'm personally on the fence over some aspects, but I absolutely do believe that there was at least some level of impactful election fraud, but I'm not able to say conclusively if it was significantly more in favor of one side over the other, though a lot of it does seem to be conveniently Left-leaning.

Please keep in mind that many of these points only represent known variables stemming from a minority of states and the actual numbers involved across the entire country could potentially be much higher.
1. Why were many of the ballot machines completely scrubbed of the raw election data, especially in places of contention, within weeks of the election despite the legal requirement that all election data must be kept for a period of no less than 22 months?
2. 353 counties across 29 states which had voter registration counts which exceeded 100% of the eligible voting population including Pennsylvania which had 200,000+ more votes than there were eligible voters. Arizona had 11,000 more.
3. Tens of thousands of votes from dead people.
4. Votes from felons counted despite not being legally allowed to vote.
5. At least 150,000 mail-in ballots from people who registered to vote after the deadline (figure is just from Arizona alone).
6. Tens of thousands of votes from people who were not legal citizens.
7. More than 174,000 votes in Michigan where there did not exist a corresponding voter registration number.
8. 100,000+ votes cast with mail-in ballots from people who no longer lived in that state.
9. 40,000+ people that voted more than once (who had their vote counted and added to the total more than once).
10. About 50,000 absentee ballots cast from addresses other than where the voters legally resided.
11. About 10,000 absentee ballots cast in Pennsylvania which arrived *after* election day.
12. More than 27,000 absentee ballots requested under the name of a registered voter without that persons consent in Michigan.
13. Vote "jumps" on election night exclusively for Biden which range from statistically unlikely to statistically impossible upon rigorous analysis.
14. The Dominion voting machines, which were used in 27 states, are confirmed to have been connected to the general Internet throughout election night and of the very few of them which were examined by security researchers almost all showed evidence of receiving connections from and exchanging data with foreign locations throughout election night. Guess the States which used the machines and were also the States with the highest incidence of statistical anomalies. Hint: All of the States which had statistical anomalies used the Dominion machines.
15. The Halderman report of the software vulnerabilities of Dominion voting machines, which, curiously, a Georgia district court judge then sealed the contents of which, conveniently, makes it completely unavailable for public analysis.
16. Over 20,000 votes from people who do not exist at all. (This data is only known for Arizona and Georgia)
17. As quantified via canvassing (in Arizona and Georgia), an estimated ~33% of voters who were sent absentee ballots were officially recorded as having not been returned despite citizens claiming they actually did return them.
18. Major discrepancies between official results and polling analysis which cannot realistically be accounted for.

Great write up. It’s a real big shame the person it was directed toward couldn’t be assed to read any of it.

 

[Ser Prize]

It would take some earnest research on your part to actually understand the ins-and-outs of the "fuckery", but here's a short list of bullet points to take a look at if you actually care to have a balanced understanding of the reasons why many people believe the US Presidential Election was tampered with. I'm personally on the fence over some aspects, but I absolutely do believe that there was at least some level of impactful election fraud, but I'm not able to say conclusively if it was significantly more in favor of one side over the other, though a lot of it does seem to be conveniently Left-leaning.

Please keep in mind that many of these points only represent known variables stemming from a minority of states and the actual numbers involved across the entire country could potentially be much higher.
1. Why were many of the ballot machines completely scrubbed of the raw election data, especially in places of contention, within weeks of the election despite the legal requirement that all election data must be kept for a period of no less than 22 months?
2. 353 counties across 29 states which had voter registration counts which exceeded 100% of the eligible voting population including Pennsylvania which had 200,000+ more votes than there were eligible voters. Arizona had 11,000 more.
3. Tens of thousands of votes from dead people.
4. Votes from felons counted despite not being legally allowed to vote.
5. At least 150,000 mail-in ballots from people who registered to vote after the deadline (figure is just from Arizona alone).
6. Tens of thousands of votes from people who were not legal citizens.
7. More than 174,000 votes in Michigan where there did not exist a corresponding voter registration number.
8. 100,000+ votes cast with mail-in ballots from people who no longer lived in that state.
9. 40,000+ people that voted more than once (who had their vote counted and added to the total more than once).
10. About 50,000 absentee ballots cast from addresses other than where the voters legally resided.
11. About 10,000 absentee ballots cast in Pennsylvania which arrived *after* election day.
12. More than 27,000 absentee ballots requested under the name of a registered voter without that persons consent in Michigan.
13. Vote "jumps" on election night exclusively for Biden which range from statistically unlikely to statistically impossible upon rigorous analysis.
14. The Dominion voting machines, which were used in 27 states, are confirmed to have been connected to the general Internet throughout election night and of the very few of them which were examined by security researchers almost all showed evidence of receiving connections from and exchanging data with foreign locations throughout election night. Guess the States which used the machines and were also the States with the highest incidence of statistical anomalies. Hint: All of the States which had statistical anomalies used the Dominion machines.
15. The Halderman report of the software vulnerabilities of Dominion voting machines, which, curiously, a Georgia district court judge then sealed the contents of which, conveniently, makes it completely unavailable for public analysis.
16. Over 20,000 votes from people who do not exist at all. (This data is only known for Arizona and Georgia)
17. As quantified via canvassing (in Arizona and Georgia), an estimated ~33% of voters who were sent absentee ballots were officially recorded as having not been returned despite citizens claiming they actually did return them.
18. Major discrepancies between official results and polling analysis which cannot realistically be accounted for.

I was watching election night with a friend, remember that one counting station where they randomly decided "We're tired guys" so they proceeded to BOARD UP THE WINDOWS? And out of that place somehow millions of Biden votes showed up?

It was just so blatant I couldn't believe it.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Great write up. It’s a real big shame the person it was directed toward couldn’t be assed to read any of it.

My fault honestly. I mistook them for an adult with an honest curiosity about the subject matter when I should have realized they were a GLOWNIGGER from the very beginning.