Good day all. The 2022 midterm elections did not turn out the way people had hoped and expected, and now the GOP blame game has begun. The first target is coming from the Never Trumpers and now the Fair Weather Trumpers saying that this was all Trumps fault. This, of course is inaccurate. President Trump was all over working to get Republicans elected.
As to why, particularly on the Senate side, things didn’t go as expected, there are several reasons. In the case of Pennsylvania, the brain dead lump, John Fetterman, won due to Pennsylvania’s early voting. A large number of votes, (we can discuss their legitimacy another day), were cast before the debate between Lumpo and Dr. Oz.
That debate showed that Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke, should have dropped out of the race. The reports from both sides of the political spectrum showed that the majority considered Fetterman mentally incompetent to hold office. The problem was, many of those same people had already voted and couldn’t undue their choice.
The race in Arizona between Blake Masters and Mark Kelly is still being counted, although the usual suspects in the MSM are saying Kelly won. In this case, there were major issues with the voting on election day in, to the surprise of no one, Maricopa County. That one is going to go on for a while. In Georgia, there is going to be a runoff between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock. In New Hampshire, Don Bolduc lost to Maggie Hassan in a race that was hard fought.
As to who may be to blame for these loses or close races? In my opinion, it’s Senator Mitch McConnell. Last summer and early fall, McConnell was badmouthing the candidates for both the house and senate races, saying they were “Poor quality.” in the final weeks of the campaigns, McConnell pulled all the funding from the races in Arizona and New Hampshire, (He has his own Super Pac supposedly set up to win races for the Republicans), which kicked the financial legs out of Masters and Bolduc. Instead, he poured money into the Alaska campaign to save Lisa Murkowsky who is behind currently Kelly Tshibaka.
People have been questioning this and, in many cased enraged over what McConnell did. McConnell’s claim was that he didn’t think these people could win. The actual reason is simpler. None of these candidates was going to support McConnell continuing as the GOP leader.
That, in my opinion, is why the Red Wave didn’t happen, at least in the Senate. Cocaine Mitch McConnell was not interested in the GOP winning the senate so much as he wanted to keep his position as the leader, preferably the Majority Leader, but he was quite willing to be Minority Leader.
Needless to say, McConnell’s machinations might just backfire on him, and he might find himself booted out. That’s a post of another day of course. Right now, the GOP needs to deal with things like early voting and mail in ballots. Those are the latest tools, along with Rank Choice, that the Democrats now use to game elections. How that will be handled needs to be dealt with before 2024.
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