The 2022 Mid-Term Elections Thread

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

That was the fat & dumb reference above.

Just remember: for all the broader issues affecting the country, don't be surprised if individual races here and there go pear-shaped for Republicans depending on the circumstances.

Well that reference of fat and dumb would now be the Obama’s who came in barely making few hundred thousand and now are close to being billionaires because of politics.


My reference is your average family knowing they can comfortably have a vacation with their family maybe once year without worrying if they can pay all the other bills.

 

[Webster]

 

[DrLeftover]

Illinois may change one career criminal for another, and nothing will change.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

She was a horrible weak on crime woke sheriff

 

[Webster]

She was a horrible weak on crime woke sheriff

When Val Demings Stood by Police Officers Accused of Excessive Force

Biden’s VP hopeful has billed herself as a reformer, but people who followed her years as Orlando police chief think otherwise.

www.politico.com

And yet people accused her of being too tough on crime....

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

When Val Demings Stood by Police Officers Accused of Excessive Force

Biden’s VP hopeful has billed herself as a reformer, but people who followed her years as Orlando police chief think otherwise.

www.politico.com

And yet people accused her of being too tough on crime....

They can say whatever they want but she was weak on law enforcement for Orlando

 

[Webster]

They can say whatever they want but she was weak on law enforcement for Orlando

She's still a better choice than Sen. Marco "Hey let's punish today's Cubans for their fathers' sins" Rubio....

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

She's still a better choice than Sen. Marco "Hey let's punish today's Cubans for their fathers' sins" Rubio....

No democrats are a better choice for anything

 

[Scarlet Rose]

When Val Demings Stood by Police Officers Accused of Excessive Force

Biden’s VP hopeful has billed herself as a reformer, but people who followed her years as Orlando police chief think otherwise.

www.politico.com

And yet people accused her of being too tough on crime....

Yeah, it definitely doesn't look promising for meaningful reform to come from her. I am not terribly surprised though given how shocking the political landscape is over there. Which is all the more distressing as we have a really bad habit of following US political trends here in New Zealand. We just have a delay.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Democrats’ apparently resurgent fortunes ahead of November’s midterms are pushing Republicans into panic-buying “aggressive” media slots in markets where believe they are lagging.

That’s the assessment from Axios, which has looked into Republican campaign spending across the country, including a $125m ad buy by House minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s political action committee, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), in almost entirely Democrat held districts.

Of McCarthy’s spending, “$9 of every $10 [is] targeting seats carried by President Biden in 2020,” Axios reports.

“CLF is doubling down on offensive spending, even in places where Biden won by double digits two years ago”.

Biden’s approval ratings have climbed steadily since earlier this year, buoyed by a series of legislative successes including the Inflation Reduction Act, and a perceived backlash by more moderate voters to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade federal abortion protections.

Republicans who once assumed retaking control of the House in November was a given appear increasingly fearful that there will be no rout of the Democratic majority, and the rash of sudden spending is an attempt to shore up their support, Axios says. “Democrats hope to harness voter energy around protecting abortion rights to motivate their base and appeal to independents in an election Republicans had hoped would focus on economic anxiety,” the media site says.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) There are exactly 10 weeks until November’s midterm elections, and Democrats are daring to believe that what was once expected to be a Republican rout might not yet come to pass.

It’s only one poll, but some good news for the party comes from Arizona, where incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly leads Republican challenger Blake Masters by more than three points.

Kelly is among Republicans’ top targets as they seek to win back control of the Senate, but Arizona appears to be one of a number of states where the Supreme Court’s reversal of federal abortion protections this summer appears to be resonating.

Masters, who believes in a “federal personhood law” recognizing unborn babies as human beings, has been attempting to promote the argument that his approach is common sense, and it’s Kelly’s support for abortion rights that represents the “extreme” position.

NBC reported that Masters has backtracked, and replaced pro-life statements on his campaign website with softer messaging.

There’s a long way to go of course, in Arizona and elsewhere, but there are signs the abortion debate could prove a clear vote-winner for Democrats in November. Last week in New York, pro-choice Democrat Pat Ryan defeated his opponent Marc Molinaro in a swing House seat expected to fall to the Republican. Masters is not the only Republican candidate appearing to realize that presenting a strong anti-abortion message could be harmful in the fall election. CNN has details of a number of GOP hopefuls “trying to shift or paper over” their more conservative positions.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Crist resigns from House to prepare for DeSantis fight
Charlie Crist, who last week won the Democratic nomination for governor of Florida, resigned from Congress on Wednesday to concentrate on his campaign to try to unseat Republican Ron DeSantis.

Crist, himself a former Florida governor as a Republican, was House representative for St Petersburg, on the state’s west coast where he has his campaign headquarters, since 2017. He told the Tampa Bay Times in a brief statement that his resignation from Washington DC would be effective at the end of Wednesday.

He gave no reason for his decision, but there are fewer than 10 weeks left before the November election in which he faces an uphill battle to topple DeSantis, a popular figure in Republican circles for his “culture war” agenda and a likely candidate for the party’s nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Representing the people of his district, Crist said, was “an honor and a privilege”.

His resignation erodes Democrats’ working majority in the House, i.e. only voting members, to just three votes.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Crist the used car salesman running for Governor. He is pathetic!

 

[Webster]

Crist the used car salesman running for Governor. He is pathetic!

Beats Ron DeFasicst--oh, I meant Ron DeathSantis...oh, waiit; you get the idea....

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Beats Ron DeFasicst--oh, I meant Ron DeathSantis...oh, waiit; you get the idea....

I know who wants freedom and the ability to support their family.

 

[Webster]

I know who wants freedom and the ability to support their family.

Who, the authoritarian wannabe in Tallahassee?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Who, the authoritarian wannabe in Tallahassee?

That’s the federal government and every state that did lockdown

 

[Webster]

That’s the federal government and every state that did lockdown

*shrugs* They had to do something with what they had; beats letting everything run open.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*shrugs* They had to do something with what they had; beats letting everything run open.

No it doesn’t beat it. Throughout history we protected the elderly and accepted society needs to continue. And I’m the end the lockdowns did ZERO good and the lefty states still managed to literally murder tens of thousands of elderly anyways.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Massachusetts is on course to elect its first woman and first gay governor after Maura Healey won the Democratic primary on Tuesday and a Trump-backed candidate, Geoff Diehl, won the Republican contest to face her.

Healey, the state attorney general, said: “I am honored to receive the Democratic nomination … Together, we’re going to win in November and build a Massachusetts that works for everyone.”

Massachusetts has a long record of electing moderate Republicans. Only one Democrat – Deval Patrick, from 2007 to 2015 – has been governor since 1991.

Healey, a former college and professional basketball player, has been attorney general since 2015. Polls give her huge leads over Diehl.

The Republican backs Donald Trump’s lie that his defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 election was the result of electoral fraud, opposed the extension of mail-in voting, opposed public health mandates in the Covid pandemic and supports the supreme court decision overturning Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion. The abortion issue alone has driven electoral successes that have Democrats hoping they can prosper in the midterm elections.

On Monday, Trump – the de facto leader of a party dominated by supporters Biden has called “semi-fascist” – told Massachusetts Republicans that Diehl would push back against “ultra-liberal extremists” and “rule your state with an iron fist”.