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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
History Made
I know many of you who were expecting a red tsunami are feeling shell-shocked that so many of your fellow Americans cast the ballot equivalent of “Thank you, sir, may I have another.” You’re feeling as if you just watched one of those anti-establishment 1970s movies where the bad guys win in the end. I definitely get it. And I’ll dive into the election results in a moment, but first, let me share some positive news that gave me a personal reason for celebrating.
Congratulations to my daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, for her huge win as Governor of Arkansas!
Here’s my appearance on Fox News this morning discussing it.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6315222007112
I couldn’t be prouder or happier, and to those who rib me that she’ll be the best Governor in Arkansas history, I say sincerely that I think she will be, too. Although to be fair, she does have the advantage of a heavily GOP legislature. I had to deal with a bunch of Democrats who nailed my office door shut.
Sarah made history in several ways. She’ll be the first female Governor of Arkansas, the first daughter to follow her dad into that office, and along with Leslie Rutledge (just elected as the state’s first Lieutenant Governor), it will be the first time women hold both of those offices. You do know what a “woman” is, right?
People keep asking what advice I’ve given her. She hardly needs any, having grown up in politics and government (she won’t even need a tour of the Governor’s mansion because she lived there for years.) But I did tell her this: never make a decision for political reasons. Make decisions based only on what is best for the citizens of Arkansas, especially those who don’t have powerful voices in government or anything to give you. But I doubt she even needed to be told that.
And now, I believe there were some other races yesterday…
Don’t believe the polls
Well, now you know why I tell people at every election not to listen to polls. Can we all agree that they're useless and getting more so, at least until the next election, when the media start obsessing over them again? The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day, and in some places, that might not even matter.
Please note, though, that I am not going to be an election denier, like Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams or Joe Biden. There were the usual reports of suspicious activities around polling places, illegal electioneering, machine "malfunctions" in red areas, and Democrats trying to get judges to strike down election integrity laws. But the hard fact is that in most of the races where Republicans thought they had a chance in blue states due to the polls, the Democrats won by big enough margins that it’s very hard to attribute it to anything other than voters suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
The one exception I’ll make is John Fetterman’s win in Pennsylvania, which is almost certainly due to voter fraud. And I don’t mean hacking or ballot chicanery. I mean the right-out-in-the-open blatant fraud perpetrated on the voters that I previously cited, when his campaign lied that he was in much better health following his stroke than he really was and conspired to delay the one debate until after about five million early votes had already been cast. Fetterman’s margin of victory currently stands at fewer than 150,000 votes. Do you really think more voters than that wouldn’t have changed their minds if they’d known his actual condition? Those who place bets on politics are already moving ahead to wagering how long it will be before the Governor chooses a replacement for him.
Two Americas
As of this writing, early on Wednesday morning, control of the House and Senate remain undetermined, although the GOP is still favored to take the House by a much smaller margin than I hoped. We may not know about the Senate until December, if there’s a run-off in Georgia between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker (and Georgia Republicans had better show up and vote in that run-off; do NOT curse all of America with a Senate tie breakable by Kamala Harris again!)
Some other big races are also still nail biters. At this writing, Katie Hobbs, a wet dishrag of a candidate, is inexplicably ahead of Kari Lake for Governor of Arizona by about 30,000 votes. But that’s with only 63% of the vote counted, so let’s hope and pray that turns around. Hobbs couldn’t even competently perform her current job of running elections that she should’ve recused herself from. Lake fumed that it was an election “run by a bunch of clowns.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/kari-lake-explodes-seeing-voters-endure-election-run-bunch-clowns/
This midterm will make history as one in which one of the most unpopular Presidents of all time, who has inflicted policies that are almost universally disastrous, didn’t suffer a well-deserved rebuke from voters. In fact, the electoral results suggest we might be entering a new era of political polarity in which, regardless of how bad the President is, red states get redder and blue states get bluer until we really are living in two Americas.
In blue areas, voters have become so partisan and so unwilling to listen to anything other than propaganda from Party-approved outlets that they will keep voting Democrat no matter how much it hurts them personally. Look at Pennsylvania, where Democrats elected a Senator who clearly belongs home in therapy and not in the Senate; or Memphis, where they literally elected a dead woman with a (D) after her name – by 73%!
https://www.toddstarnes.com/opinion/memphis-elects-dead-democrat/
Democrats also reelected a dead man to the Pennsylvania state House.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-state-representative-reelected-despite-being-dead
Voters in New York, Michigan, California and Illinois reelected Democrat Governors by comfortable margins who treated them like abusive spouses and who are virtually guaranteed to continue making their lives exponentially worse. Republicans might wonder what it would take for New Yorkers to elect a Republican Governor; does someone have to club them over the head? Then you realize, they are getting clubbed over the head, and they’re still voting for Democrats.
Meanwhile, in red states, Republicans are winning by eye-popping margins. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won his last election by 0.4%; yesterday, he crushed Charlie Crist by nearly 20%. By the way, if you didn’t see DeSantis’ victory speech, it was great, and a wonderful blueprint for other Republicans to lead us out of this dark period of leftist insanity.
In other red states, Democrat dreams of winning the Governor’s race in Oklahoma evaporated, J.D. Vance easily beat Tim Ryan for Ohio’s Senate seat, and two of the Dems’ media darlings, “Beto” O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams, got their heads handed to them by Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia, respectively.
(On a side note, I want to thank those two for wasting so much Democrat donor money on their quixotic ego trips. It’s estimated that their two 2022 campaigns cost a combined $200 million. And “Beto’s” hat-trick of loserdom, for Senator, President and Governor, burned a combined quarter of a billion dollars that might’ve gone to electable Democrats. Most of it, of course, poured in from outside of their states. Having lost two presidential races myself, I honestly feel for them. It’s tough to work so hard and get rejected by the voters. But I had to pay off my own campaign debts, I didn’t turn losing into a lucrative career. And I can assure you, it’s possible to lose a race for less than a hundred million dollars.)
Is this phenomenon of blue and red states becoming ever more polarized because so many reasonable, hard-working, law-abiding residents of blue states are giving up and moving out, leaving behind blue states with majorities of criminals and what Steven Kruiser of PJ Media calls “socialist sheep?” He also makes the great point of what a mistake it was for Republicans to let leftists take over our education system and turn schools into leftist indoctrination centers.
In retrospect, despite the false hopes of the polls, maybe it was never possible for any Republican to win as Governor of New York because too many New Yorkers who’d be smart enough to vote for him already moved to Florida and voted for DeSantis.
If so, it doesn’t bode well for the future for a “United” States of America if we become two separate groups of states, one where freedom and prosperity are paramount, and the other where crime and failed big government tyranny reign supreme. Maybe Republicans should follow the Democrats’ playbook and try recruiting brave pioneers to move into blue states to vote Republican and save them from themselves. But good luck finding any volunteers!