Has anyone heard anything about Nevada recently?

Another win for the good guys:

Republican Anna Paulina Luna defeated Democrat Eric Lynn in Florida’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday, flipping party control of the seat previously held by former Rep. Charlie Crist (D).

The 13th was one of the few competitive districts left after the Florida state legislature approved a heavily gerrymandered congressional map pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) earlier this year. With more than 95 percent of precincts reporting results, Luna carried roughly 53 percent of the vote to Lynn’s 45 percent.

https://thehill.com/homenews/c...r-to-house-majority/



https://www.voteannapaulina.com/meet-anna

She defeated this guy:


https://ericlynnforcongress.com/priorities/m

Just sittin' here thinking about 2016, when we came so close to having President Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump stopped her. There was no other Republican candidate that had a chance. Who was going to stop her? Jeb Bush?

Try and imagine what it would have been like without those four years of the Trump Presidency. Every American who believes in the Constitution owes Donald Trump an eternal debt of gratitude.

Those of you here who think it's now open season on Donald Trump in this forum, better think again. I see the sniping going on in this thread, the testing of the waters. If you have a complaint, a gripe or a point to make, then, make it, but I'm gonna stomp on rabble rousers.

Fair warning

On a side note will taxpayers be asked to pay for a closed caption transcriber if the individual cannot understand spoken speech?

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Try and imagine what it would have been like without those four years of the Trump Presidency.

Eight years of Hillary Clinton, with a Democrat Congress in her first two years, and possibly more. And no chance to catch our breath after 8 years of Obama

I shudder to think what our country could have been

The Absurdity of the Blame Trump Campaign
https://amac.us/the-absurdity-...lame-trump-campaign/

In an Election Day interview, Donald Trump quipped something to the effect that if his endorsed candidates won on Tuesday, he should get all the credit, and that if they lost, he should get none of the blame. As Trump surely knew when he made the joke, what would actually happen on election night was always destined to be the exact opposite. From the moment the polls closed, the media pundits and establishment Republicans eager to dispatch the former president from the stage were working frantically to ensure that where Trump’s endorsed candidates lost, he would get all of the blame—and where they won, he would get none of the credit.

But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.

The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump.

Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.

Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by the former president: numerous strong House candidates handpicked by Kevin McCarthy lost races the consultant class had expected to win, including Yesli Vega running against vulnerable Democrat Representative Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Rhode Island Republican Alan Fung, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia on the Texas border, and many others.

If Washington, D.C. consultants and establishment leaders are truly looking for someone to blame for the lack of a red tsunami on Tuesday, there are far more suitable candidates than Trump. First among them would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose allies appear to be behind much of the Blame Trump campaign.

Whatever virtues McConnell may have as a legislative tactician and fundraiser—and they are evidently considerable—the fact is that McConnell failed to use his power over the past two years to shape the political terrain in ways that would support an overwhelming Republican victory. Even worse, he actively undermined Republican candidates at critical junctures.

At no point in the past two years have Americans seen McConnell and other top Republican leaders in Washington pick real and effective fights with the Biden administration. At no point have they managed to focus the nation on controversies that would be politically advantageous to their party. In Trump’s absence, the GOP establishment has reverted to McConnell’s preferred style of opposition, one of passivity and accommodation.

Time and time again, the Senate Minority Leader has proved fundamentally unserious about opposing the overreaches of the radical left. If establishment Republicans believed that the border crisis was the existential national security disaster they claimed in their speeches, nothing about McConnell’s actions in the Senate would suggest they actually believed it. There were no threats of a government shutdown if the border was not restored. There were no real conflicts over spending bills. There was no significant effort to block key nominees or exact a price for the Biden administration’s extremism. Worst of all, there was virtually no effort whatsoever to use McConnell’s considerable power in a 50-50 Senate to set up strategic fights—to force Joe Biden to finish the wall, or to stop the Department of Homeland Security from trying to censor free speech.

Instead, in a Senate that routinely needed Republican votes to pass Democrat priorities, McConnell ensured that Democrats routinely got them with as little fanfare as possible.

Since January 2021, McConnell’s Senate minority has greenlighted some of the left’s most unpopular legislative and foreign policy initiatives—from the $550 billion “infrastructure” package to emptying out America’s arsenals and sending them to Ukraine. Even if he intended to pass the tens of billions for Ukraine, an effective Republican opposition leader would have insisted on including provisions to secure America’s own border in the process. The American people would have rallied to the Republicans’ side.

That would be the kind of leadership that could have forced the media to give some coverage—any coverage—to Congressional Republicans doing something useful.

Instead, McConnell’s theory appears to have been that he could win the Senate majority by default. When asked what Republicans would do if given the Senate majority, he famously replied that he would tell us after they had won. When NRSC Chairman Rick Scott attempted to put forward a positive vision for the party to rally around, McConnell slapped him down.

In retrospect, these appear to have been grievous mistakes. Republican leaders in Congress succeeded only in making themselves effectively invisible and allowing Democrats to drive the subject of national conversation to other issues—abortion, “democracy,” January 6th.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/10/...staved-off-red-wave/

Biden’s illegal student-loan bailout bought off Gen Z — and staved off a red wave

The White House is reportedly “giddy” and “gleeful” to have avoided electoral disaster despite high inflation, widespread concern about crime and the natural tendency for midterm elections to favor the party out of power.

Republicans are not so giddy, to say the least. When analyzing what went wrong, the GOP shouldn’t overlook how President Joe Biden blatantly bribed some young voters to save him from the red wave — and they don’t even need the cash.

Per the Edison Research National Election Pool’s exit polling, 27% of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 cast ballots. That makes this the second-highest youth turnout in a midterm in nearly 30 years. And Edison estimates that in key competitive states, the youth turnout was even higher, around 31%.

Predictably, Democrats swept this voting block by a huge margin. But the gap was even bigger than most expected. Per the same exit polls, 63% of young voters voted for Democrats, a clear majority, whereas all other age groups were closely divided. And in the closest races that ultimately may make the difference, young voters swung even more heavily in favor of the Democrats.

In Pennsylvania, for example, John Fetterman won 70% of the youth vote compared with Dr. Mehmet Oz’s 28%. In Arizona, Mark Kelly claimed 76% of this demographic while his Trump-backed challenger, Blake Masters, got just 20%.

In such a close election, the youth vote may well have made all the difference. “If not for voters under 30,” as Harvard pollster John Della Volpe remarked on election night, “tonight would have been a Red Wave.”

Abortion ballot measures and Roe v. Wade’s overturn may prove to be the biggest single factor. But we can’t ignore the fact Biden, through his unilateral student-debt forgiveness initiative, attempted to funnel billions of dollars directly into the pockets of young people just a few months before the election.

That timing was not coincidental — and certainly seems to have bought his party some of their votes.

The president admitted as much in his reaction to Tuesday’s results: “I especially want to thank the young people of this nation, who I’m told — I haven’t seen the numbers — voted in historic numbers again” to “continue addressing the climate crisis, gun violence, their personal rights and freedoms and the student-debt relief.”

The president isn’t just speculating. A late October Harvard survey of youth voters found 9% viewed student-debt relief their first or second priority, a small percentage but enough to make a real difference.

A massive 45% listed inflation as their priority. This ties into student-debt relief because, according to Intelligent.com’s recent polling, many beneficiaries of the Biden bailout plan to use the extra money in their monthly budget to pay their other bills.

More than half plan to buy new clothes with the Biden bucks, while a whopping 46% of prospective beneficiaries say they’ll use the extra cash to dine out or go on vacation. With surprising candor, 28% even admitted they’ll use it to buy drugs or alcohol!

Biden’s student-debt “cancellation” surely had a significant effect on boosting the youth turnout. This might be smart politics, but it has jaw-dropping ramifications. After all, even Democrats like Nancy Pelosi had admitted that the president didn’t have the constitutional authority to enact his bailout unilaterally without Congress. This means that when Biden did it anyway, he did so knowing it’s almost certainly unconstitutional but that the courts wouldn’t have worked through it by Election Day.

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and indeed a judge has rules Biden's student relief is unconstitutional.

The site which previously led to the student loan applications now shows a message titled “Student Loan Debt Relief Is Blocked.”

“[A]t this time, we are not accepting applications,” the site reads, explaining the pause is due to the court ruling in Texas.

The site goes on to say the administration will continue to fight in court for the program and the department will hold the applications of the millions of borrowers who already applied for the relief.

https://hotair.com/headlines/2...applications-n510146

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Those watching the AZ races for governor and senate, there has been a development from Kari Lake's camp that 350,000 ballots of those who voted in the August primary (favoring Republicans) have not been tabulated yet. Giving Kari Lake and Blake Masters a good fighting chance, and for a Republican Senate majority, combined with news that Laxalt is still leading in Nevada by 9000 votes with 90.2% reporting.

https://twitter.com/karilake/s...155568588165120?s=61

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AZ counties confirmed outstanding ballot estimate as of 12PM MST Nov. 11

State: 518,034

Apache 8,500
Cochise 8,662
Coconino 12,231
Gila 269
Graham 118
La Paz 1,972
Maricopa 353,885
Mohave 10,600
Pima 114,203
Pinal 16,281
Yavapai 12,458
Yuma 9,180

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Originally posted by sdy:
Kyle Becker tweet

Maricopa County is delaying the release of in-person Election Day votes expected to tilt heavily to Kari Lake.

Why the delay?

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Why the delay?

D chicanery, and optics.

Regarding Trump, he got us three Supreme Court justices which effectively saved our country. He may not be perfect, but he saved our asses and we should never forget that.

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Originally posted by stoic-one:

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Why the delay?

D chicanery, and optics.

Coincidence, Lake is the most prominent MAGA candidate in the midterms.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Why the delay?

Because leftists are the same, the world over.

oddball has a post a few posts above. (2:18 pm) There is a link to a video.

You may have read that Maricopa Cty had trouble w tabulators that read the ballots. A voter could then drop the ballot into a slot marked "3" where the untabulated votes were collected. They were to be read manually and recorded later. People were assuring voters their vote would be counted.

But in that video, a woman says that in more than 2 voting centers, when the ballots were pulled out of the tabulators at the end of the day, the "separator" that separated tabulated ballots from "door 3" ballots was removed. So tabulated ballots and "door 3" ballots were comingled.

The question is- is there a way to distinguish between these ballots?

The discussion starts at 4:40 in the video

The woman says the best way to handle this is to retabulate all the ballots at these vote centers.

Alright-ty

Peachy keen

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The question is- is there a way to distinguish between these ballots?

Sounds like a valid reason for a complete re-count...

Apparently, every single thing that these poll workers do must be closely observed- every single move they make, no matter how small. Worthless