With any luck, this puts the final nail in Trump's coffin and we can stop having the party held back by him and his bad choices.
United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread
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With any luck, this puts the final nail in Trump's coffin and we can stop having the party held back by him and his bad choices.
KilroywasNOTHere
"BEEP!"
I'm going to be nice and say I respectfully disagree. You probably won't want to hear my not-so-nice version.
I don't really view that as the case.
We are going through a political realinment, those take time and are painful. 2020 showed the newly born populist revolt that they had a lot of house cleaning to do. This election was that house cleaning, its less building up for victory now and more paving the way for a party that can act and win in the future.
Prince Ire
Section XIII
Right-wing populism and Trump worship aren't the same thing, IMO.
The Populares was bigger then Grachi and this movement will be bigger then Trump.
But quite simply put a political establishment gets a whole lot of chances before their forced to give up power and Biden more or less condensed the entire establishment around himself. That said this decade is going to structurally suck so be prepared for a really shitty 8 years.
I'd love to be wrong on this, but so far it looks like outside of Vance, all of the candidates that were aligning themselves with Trump and his endless attempts to reiterate 2020 are at best struggling, but mostly going down in flames.
It looks a lot like popular sentiment was turned against the democrats, and then people went to the polls and went "eh, dems suck, but I ain't pulling the lever for that wacko".
By which you mean the Democrats spent hundreds of millions to get weak GOP candidates in place in the primaries.
KilroywasNOTHere
"BEEP!"
all of which were picked by the swamp. I will give you a bone and say I'm beginning to think that the Black Pillers have a point.
VictortheMonarch
Victor the Crusader
I love how in a predicted red wave, with the most unpopular dem canidates, they somehow win by large margins despite the masses signing up for the republican party. Feel as if things aren't going to be very fun in a few years for them once people start realizing the random jumps throughout the election night in favor of Democrat candidates.
Still watching the house.
Vyor
My influence grows!
House is outright going red.
and you are completely right on that.
The senate is a nice to have, the state legislatures are where the action is.
Indeed. A lot of the laws that have been making news nationally are not the Federal ones. It is the State ones. Just look at how many States have legalized Weed to the point it is almost defacto nationwide legal. Or the pro 2A States that have massive reciprocity with each other due to State Legislatures making it happen.
TheRomanSlayer
Proud Anti-Catholic Bigot
Hold on a sec, what happens if there's no majority in the Senate?
McCuck endorsed message.
Planchar
Professional Propofol Pusher
VP is the tie breaking vote
Well, looks like the fuckery and interesting election issues are going to be a continuing trend.
The GOP is probably going to take the House, might get the Senate, and has got a few governorships it seems (still waiting on AZ).
However, this is nowhere near the 'Red Wave' a lot of people on the Right kept acting like was a foregone conclusion.
Also, don't assume any race is 'won' till the court cases are finished; we may end needing SCOTUS to sort things again.
The GOP is probably going to take the House, might get the Senate, and has got a few governorships it seems (still waiting on AZ).
However, this is nowhere near the 'Red Wave' a lot of people on the Right kept acting like was a foregone conclusion.
Also, don't assume any race is 'won' till the court cases are finished; we may end needing SCOTUS to sort things again.
notice how I repeatedly warned people not to brag?
That's still in place, and even then getting the house back is still a pretty damned good deal all things considered.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Is it like 2018 in the reverse?