2022 Election Results Thread

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(11-10-2022, 01:20 AM)Bengalzona Wrote:  2) they have a golden opportunity to unburden themselves from the yoke of Trump's hate and lies and head in a more respectable direction.

That's the tricky part.  The surprising and unprecedented flop that is the 2022 GOP midterms has rational republicans facing the facts that since they turned the party over to Trump they've managed a single victory and have racked up what could be considered 6 straight years of losing.

Yes, Trump won in 2016 but he also narrowly beat an immensely unpopular candidate in Hillary Clinton after the country was coming off 8 years of a democrat in the white house.  He lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, to boot.  Doesn't count per se, but it wasn't exactly a good sign that he was safe bet going forward.

Predictably, the GOP lost big in the 2018 midterms...standard stuff.

Then Trump loses the 2020 election

Then Trump has his pawprints and endorsements all over a massively disappointing 2022 midterm that should have been an historic win.

The issue the GOP faces is that Trump has 1 narrow victory 6 years ago and 3 straight losses to his credit (1 of which was understandable, but 2 of which were complete botches), but they allowed him to convince a significant portion of their voter base that he actually won each time by epic margins. 

A logical republican says Trump isn't winning, we need to move on to DeSantis, but he has to convince his MAGA allies to move onto DeSantis from Trump who has won 4 straight elections in a landslide and is the only one who can save this country from absolute ruin and systematic liberal sex trafficking pedos.

Good luck.