Election Updates
As promised, here is some more from me!
Mike
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Election Updates
In Saturday morning’s seemingly endless vote count, Republicans now have 211 House seats and Democrats have 199. (Fox News projects that the Dems have 201, but I think they’re sometimes jumped the gun a little, so I’m going with Politico.)
https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/
218 are needed to take the majority. The Dems would need to win 19 of the remaining races, and the GOP only 7. Of those outstanding, Politico rates 5 as toss-ups. For the Republicans, 2 are likely GOP and 9 lean GOP. The Dems have 4 solid, 1 likely, and 4 leans. That means the GOP just has to win 7 of their 11 likely or leans GOP races. The Dems would have to win every race where they have an advantage, all 5 toss-ups, plus 5 of the likely/lean GOP races. That seems highly unlikely.
But don’t put it past them. Somehow, the longer vote counting goes on, the more ballots seem to turn Democrat, even in the most unlikely places. It’s sort of like how yellow bananas always turn brown if you just give them enough time.
Speaking of that, Decision Desk projects that Sen. Mark Kelly has won reelection over Republican Blake Masters in Arizona, though the vote is still being counted (they assume there aren’t enough GOP votes left to overcome Kelly’s lead.) That puts the Senate at 49-49, with Nevada still out and Georgia headed for a run-off.
In Arizona, Kelly ran as a moderate, pro-business Democrat, and his heavy advertising blunted Masters’ quite accurate message that Kelly voted in lockstep with Biden’s radical agenda, including open borders that are devastating Arizona. Masters made it pretty clear to Tucker Carlson who he largely blames for not having enough money to get his message out, and that’s Senate Republican Leader (for now anyway) Mitch McConnell, who wrote off the race early.
Another Republican who’s not thrilled with McConnell is former President Trump, who seems to be a bit ticked off at several fellow Republicans this week. This time, he might have a point. Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other GOP Senators are also calling for delaying the election of the Party’s Senate leaders.
Democrat Adrian Fontes also won the race for Secretary of State in Arizona, which means we’ll have another Democrat running the 2024 election process there, just like we do now, oh joy of joys.
In the Governors’ races, after several more vote count batches were added in, Democrat Katie Hobbs (who refused to debate, was a terrible candidate, and wouldn’t recuse herself from running the election she was competing in – one that’s been marred by embarrassing incompetence) maintains her inexplicable lead over Republican Kari Lake. Lake has said that with the outstanding votes, it was mathematically impossible for Hobbs to win, yet somehow, she’s currently leading by 32,000 with 83% of the vote in at this writing. Well, you know how Democrats are always able to do very unlikely things with math.
One bright spot in Friday’s news: the GOP finally flipped its first Governor’s seat with Sheriff John Lombardo defeating Nevada's Gov. Steve Sisolak by 49.2% to 46.9%. Sisolak was unpopular for several reasons, chiefly his draconian lockdown policies that killed Las Vegas tourism, the state’s economic engine. With literally “a new sheriff in town,” maybe we’ll see some new election integrity measures that will finally end the jokes about Democrats always pulling out a win in Clark County after they count the ballots found in car trunks.
I like to observe the old rule of patriotic conduct that most people have thrown out the window, so I try not to criticize our President about the way he’s representing the US when he’s overseas. As long as he’s at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, I’ll just criticize his staff for not doing a better job of impressing upon him that he’s in Cambodia, not Columbia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mistakenly-thanks-colombia-hosting-asean-summit-cambodia