A close race in the 2022 US midterm elections. The forecast was for a red wave given Biden’s unpopular rating. What does the possible outcome mean for the rest of the world?
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US Midterm Elections is Close
A close race in the 2022 US midterm elections. The forecast was for a red wave given Biden’s unpopular rating. What does the possible outcome mean for the rest of the world? Follow @nytimes.com
422 responses to “US Midterm Elections is Close”
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Trump lost credibility worldwide when he wouldn’t concede he lost 2020 election.
USA is no longer interested in that fuckwit clown with the ego of a child in politics anymore.
He always was just a bad joke to dick the establishment.
A racist backlash against a black PotUS with a white mummy and black daddy. -
@John
“Warnock would have lost his Senate race decisively to his Republican opponent Herschel Walker without 116,000 votes from 18-29-year-olds, the Tufts analysis found. In Arizona, where counting has not yet finished, the Democrats’ Katie Hobbs has a slim lead in the gubernatorial contest over Republican Kari Lake thanks to more than 400,000 votes from young people.”Very insightful stuff. Translated to Barbados.. 30-0 could have been 0-30 if folks did not vote for the BLP. Slicing, dicing and not counting votes could make anyone a winner l.
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Trying to figure out how loan forgiveness hurts the person who proposed it and benefits those who block it.
Just me, but I would encourage my friends to support the person getting rid of some of my debt.
Based on the results of my random sample I will look for my election news elsewhere.
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You cannot spin a story a full 180 degrees, which is what you are trying to do.
Here’s how I would have spin the story…
Warnock ‘s slim lead may vanish if his large number of young voters becomes frustrated with the demonrats’ inability to deliver on their promises.
Round 2 may look like Warnock 0 – Walker 1.
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Grasshopper
So long to figure it out!!!!
Look what’s happening in California.
The Democrat Party is dying, killed by its own leftwing policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ggNbVd8f3M
You can look at the House Seats and see the frantic attempts to stop Republican control of the House at all costs.
If the Republican’s get control of the House chances are the Democrats demise will come quicker.
The countrywide student loan forgiveness was a frantic attempt to hold on to power regardless of legality or constitutionality.
It may just work, but GP’s prediction will come to pass …. total absolute chaos and degeneration into evil.
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Trump showed everybody an alternative way.
Just as the Democrat Party is dying, so too is the Republican Party.
Trump has given rise to a new Republican Party, the MAGA Republicans if you like.
Nothing similar has occurred in the Democrat Party.
The media hate it, so every attempt is made to destroy it and Trump, but the genie is out of the bottle, people realise there is an alternative, and most importantly, they understand their future is not in the hands of big government.
If you look at Mitch McConnell in the GOP, you will see the last desperate attempt to keep the charade going.
Look at what he did in Alaska to defeat the MAGA Republican candidate and keep Murkowski.
It will all come out …. sooner or later.
GP is right, more chaos is on the way.
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It can hurt them because someone who managed their finances wisely, put off vacations and purchases to clear the student debt of my carefree neighbor will be angry. That money is coming from taxpayers.
Unfortunately, voters love handouts but they never see the effect it has on inflation, taxes and essential social services so the net effect will be to the person who proposed it unless the person blocking can clearly show the ramifications backed by experts.
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The republicans failed to surf the huge red wave because it was too big for them to handle. They were not prepared so they wiped out when it finally came.
1) The civil war between the MAGA wing i.e. working class and Dinosaur wing focused on maintaining the status quo needs to be won first. A house divided cannot prosper.
2) The republicans needed to coalesce around a single sensible abortion message based on mandatory counseling and your body your choice with bans after the first 15 weeks unless medically necessary.
3) Clearly show the direct links between the Democratic policies and its direct impact on their wallet and family.
4) The early mail-in vote which the Democrats have down pat is killing Republicans so they need their own early vote strategies. Republicans wait until game day to vote but if something happens they don’t get to vote.
5) Greater efforts to clean-up the voter rolls and flawed registration processes.
6) Counter the major traditional and social media outlets which are hard liberal or lean liberal.
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These midterms have accomplished many things.
1) Mitch and the dinosaurs are exposed in the GOP. He realises it too and is moving to fund Walker.
2) In all likelihood Americas youth Gen Z will grow up and become as conservative as Gen X is.
3) The Democrats lost the Hispanic vote and are in the process of losing the Black vote. Too many lies and fabrications.
4) The Democrats have been forced to change or die. Fetterman and Biden can hardly be considered the future.
5) The Maga Republicans have emerged with a plethora of leaders and held the line. Their future is bright.
6) The Media has been utterly exposed. Very few trust them. Twitter is in capable hands and Truth Social is available for those who want liberty.
7) Trump can fade into the sunset … or not as he sees fit.
Trump is the man, and it is entirely his choice to make.
America now needs to act.
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Trump is the man!!
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How do you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Ask Donald Trump and the Republicans, there is a group of people that are cheering the return of Donald Trump, they are called Democrats who will turn a two-time loser into a three time one.
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V=John on November 13, 2022 at 9:38 AM said”:
“It may just work, but GP’s prediction will come to pass …. total absolute chaos and degeneration into evi.”John on November 13, 2022 at 9:49 AM said:
“GP is right, more chaos is on the way.”Looks like the bat signal needs batteries or the bat mobile has flat tire..
Batman, where art thou? -
Gentleman, quite perplexing notes provided.
** Mid-terms always ACCOMPLISH interesting countervailing political events! All in recent memory since the massive red wave under Gingrich ‘Contract With America’ in the mid 90’s have done that.
In these circumstances one can argue just the opposite of the rhetoric being pursued above i.e: Republicans have now breached that Contract of 1994 and are seen as destroyers with their ‘success’ on abortion and their divisive insurrectionist and racist policies!
** There MUST always be tension between the vibrant youth and the experienced dinosaur wing in politics; in practical life it’s a workable ‘tension’ that continually rejuvenates the party as the representatives pass the torch of institutional memory and methods to new legislators!
This crew of newbies want to burn down the institutions into which they have been elected. That WILL eventually be exposed for what it is!
** Why has electoral practices become such a divisively inane issue? Mail/Absentee votes in NOT a party issue … it’s a feature of CONVENIENCE for ALL citizens particularly the elderly and infirm.
It’s absurd to say condemn mail-voting when it’s used beneficially by ALL! On one hand it’s argued that people vote more conservatively (thus Republican) as they get older … and then in same breath that absentee voting favors the Dem party. That just makes no practical sense and is simply INCCURATE … considering that there are actually some places which ONLY use the mail-in process! 🤦♂️😒 … This foolishness was NEVER a serious aspect of Republican rhetoric until #45.
** The cable news network with the largest reach which often has twice as much viewership as the next two news networks combined is the conservative Fox. Additionally, there are multiple popular online sites with an editorial and news policy directed to conservative views.
In fact, Fox is so focused on supporting the views on the right to the detriment of FACTS that subsequent to the 2020 presidential election they fired their Director of Politics (for their election night analysis) because he COMPETENTLY and accurately ‘called’ results that were unfavorable to President Trump’s reelection results.
It is therefore quite amusing to say that conservatives/republicans need more ammunition against the liberal media like NY Times or Washington Post when the owners of Fox also own the other leading national media property ‘Wall St. Journal’ and many other very popular publications/broadcast stations around the US and globe!
** Trump is indeed the man. And with that England T20 victory today I am reminded of Ben Stokes also being the man in that victory as I compare him to #45 … in reverse!
Stokes ‘led’ his team to resounding defeat 6 years ago … and since then he was banished from his team for some personal problems. But then he returned and led them to TWO world cup championships. Undoubtedly for any cricket enthusiast he is DEFINITELY the man of the moment!
His political doppelganger – of sorts – has done just the OPPOSITE. And for political fans he is definitely NOT the man, surely … unless to lead his party to pain and suffering and to leave a legacy which one of his MAGA acolytes described as:
>”Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans…”!
I gone.
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Mail-in/Absentee is not the same thing.
Absentee ballots must be requested while Mail-in ballots are mass mailed to all registered voters.
Mail-in voting is ripe for fraud unless properly regulated.
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Liars, Bullshitters, Bullies will always get what they deserve eventually.
The Peak Trump Racism they call Populism was reached in 2016 with a Sneak Attack and ain’t popular. Trump and Trumpers are too dense to see it though. -
The Democrats are scared sh!tless that the Republicans take the House and elect Trump as Speaker!!!
The House would then impeach Harris for her handling of the border and Biden for the Student Loan fraud, his involvement with Hunter with the Chinese and other threats he has caused to National Security.
The Speaker would replace these two duds and that speaker would be Trump.
The Democrats would then be rid of both Biden and Harris and only get 2 years of Trump instead of 4 years if Trump runs in 2024.
If the House were to impeach President and Vice President, it would fall to the Senate to convict.
Would being rid of the two duds plus only having to live with Trump for 2 years be worthwhile for the Democrats to convict the two in the Senate?
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The word that comes to mind with John and his Republican Mind is
“Manipulation” or “Manipulate”Bitch Slaps or Happy Slaps for all of them (white people) is the only solution.
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As much as I would love to see Trump as Speaker of the Senate, that ain’t happening but the real investigations coming on suppression of Hunter Laptop by FBI, Border Crisis, COVID origins, treatment and vaccine malfeasance and suppression of legitimate medical treatments and studies.
They will put all the evidence in the public just like the Democrats tried with Jan 6 committee, Impeach Joe Biden and hang that around their necks when the Senate votes No in 2024 election labeling the Democrats as the party of corruption.
What did you know and when did you know it shall be a popular question.
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CA
What would be the point of impeaching Biden in the House for the Democrats in the Senate not to convict?
As much as they want Biden gone, the Democrats will wind up with a bigger liability in Harris.
I think both parties want both gone.
The next inline would be the Speaker of the House.
The advantage of putting Trump there means he only gets to be president for 2 years.
Will be interesting to see if this pans out.
… but … no way the Democrats are going to let the Republicans control the House easy so they will try every underhanded way to stop it.
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Most people eyes are not as open as yours, mine and a few others. I knew but I still can’t believe how brazen these people can truly be.
The whole laptop is supposed to have proof of pay to play schemes and they have witnesses to call under oath and can obtain financial records to corroborate everything with House control.
The point of impeaching Biden is to force the mainstream media to show and discuss the evidence, then when the Democrats not convict, more eyes will be opened as to how truly corrupt the whole system is.
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The corrupt people have been doing it so long, they have gotten complacent.
All that has been lacking is people willing to prosecute and the courts to hear the case.
COVID opened many many eyes to what has been going on for decades and many crazies were not crazy at all.
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This is good.
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So intelligent Republicans are arguing that during the four years of their party’s DOJ administration when they appointed a Special Prosecutor to investigate the origins of the Russia influence scheme and they also
investigated claims of voter fraud and several other matters demanded by the then President, but did NOT investigate COVID origins or any of the above that this new Republican congress should now investigate and examine all those things to show corruption by Democrats!When did commonsense in governance die and political investigations based on ‘whatever’ a particular party determines is good theater become ideal!
The Jan6 committee interviewed REPUBLICAN WH officials, judges, federal & state government executives and elected state parliamentarians who gave indisputable evidence about malfeasance and corruption by other REPUBLICAN officials!
So the Jan6 Committee didn’t TRY … they DID give facts beyond any reasonable doubt or, if you prefer, by a preponderance of the evidence that showed corruption and malfeasance by Republicans led by their President!
Why do you guys lies so brazenly about such simple truths!
There are no grounds to impeach this current President on any of the matters raised above.
Your party will be punished badly for any type of stupid tit-for-tat impeachment as suggested by congresswoman Green and others because it’s INSANE and not the practical method of governance.
Clearly any such act without any serious and egregious offenses charged (of which they are none) will beggar the question: did Biden “restore honor and dignity” to the WH after the scandals and corruption of his predecessor??
YES, of course … so why are petty losers and insurrectionists seeking to further demean US governance.
Thus we are back to a reminder of #45’s scandals vrs Biden … and we already know how that ends!
Republican political stupidity and malpractice… I hope they go for it guys!
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“Most people eyes are not as open as yours, mine and a few others.”
what’s it like to be black and right wing
a token boy for the racists
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Spot on monlogue.
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That is the problem with people as blind as you that only see every issue as political left wing or right wing.
Don’t you realize both the left and right are mostly controlled by the same puppet master’s strings.
They want us to pick a side so we will ignore the facts behind issues.
Ask yourself when did abortion, lockdowns and vaccine mandates become a political issue?
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what’s it like to be black and independent yet running back to the white agencies borrowing and begging all the time?
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@Critical for you to call me ‘blind’ is LOLROF🤣🤣🤣🤣 material!
I based my rhetoric simply on right and wrong.
Unlike you my eyes have been “opened […] to what has been going on for decades” so please cut the charade!
You have supported via your agreements with JohnFellow the very corrupt acts and behavior of the last president so again I say cut the charade to come now and shout about others being corrupt.
Don’t ask rhetorical sounding queries that really only show how closed your eyes truly must have been …
… the COVID vaccine nonsense was indeed unnecessarily MADE into a political football but to get on an apparent bang wagon that this is all a part of the ‘deep state’, Illuminati or Knights Templars or whichever is your preferred secret society of all powerful world governance is beyond my tolerance for what has been happening in the US.
So again I say cut the stupid charade.
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Abortion has always been a single issue for religious right wingnut Conservatives and their White Privilege racism is their comfort blanket.
Trump’s Republicans set up a bent Supreme Court and they were all rejoicing when prejudice Judges put their bias fix in which was the undoing of the Republican Wave.
The pious religious kinks ended up pissing all over themselves with a Golden Shower.
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Here is the State of play as I see it!!
There was never going to be a Red Wave in the Senate as Mark Levin pointed out, it is a mathematical impossibility.
The Republicans were supported by almost 6 million more Americans in House Elections, an increase of over 9 million from 2016 when “Crooked” won the popular vote by 3 million.
All of the left coast states registered a swing to Republicans, …. New York, California, Oregon and Washington.
There probably will be a Red Wave in 2024.
However, it is likely for 2022 that the Republicans will flip the House, open a way for Trump to be President and fire Pelosi.
His second term if he gets it, will be less than 2 years and he might even get a third term in 2024, need to look at the rules/constitution.
Alaska and Colorado have exposed Mitch and the RINO’s plans to stop Trump at all costs.
The old GOP way is dead.
O’Dea in the Colorado Senate race was anti Trump and was blown away instantly.
Murkowski in Alaska will go to the wire. She is currently 2 points down from the Alaskan Maga Republican Party’s candidate and ran as a Republican supported by Mitch and the old GOP.
The new GOP has been ushered into existence by Trump and will only grow.
Nevada and Arizona senate races will also go to the wire with Trump appointees as will some House races around the country with Democrat incumbents.
The Democrats are dead unless they change.
They have potentially lost the youth vote (Georgia will tell us if Walker wins) as they have lost or are losing the Hispanic vote and the Black vote.
Their policies suck and have been exposed for all to see.
If the Republicans get the House, they can set about trying to repair the damage caused in the last two years which may well be irrevocable, but at least they can try.
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22nd Amendment
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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If Trump gets APPOINTED and not ELECTED to be President in 2023, he can be ELECTED for a second time in 2024!!!
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Spoken like someone lapping up every word the left leaning media tells you.
The Supreme Court just has Conservative slant which is good for everyone because it means they are rolling back past overreaches of the court where judges made judgements that legislated from the bench.
Courts are not supposed to interpret the laws and make judgements that legislate from the bench.
Roe vs Wade decision was a bad decision because it allowed the states and congress to avoid the critical debate of the issue necessary to draft and pass proper laws at the state or congress level.
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“The new GOP has been ushered into existence by Trump and will only grow.”
New GOP = Old KKK
cue the moronic rightwing trope from John Plantation Money about white racists down south were DEM
ignoring subsequent racist GOP Southern Strategy Psyops MO about Blacks are CriminalsConclusion
John is a waste of space
Some people believe nonsense
and are Fuckwits for reasoning with
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@John
Republicans lost because they were too gentlemanly like to play by all the rules of the game in the state.
Republicans have to start ballot harvesting and getting low turn out voters to mail-in/drop-off their votes to avoid the risks of game day voting in the states that allw it..
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CA wants to be John’s Tag Team partner in talking shit
GP has gone away far away and may never come backPolitikal Trolling has now become a slow game of chess
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The KKK is a creation of the Democrat Party in the reconstruction era after the civil war.
It had a rebirth under Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) and expressed its tendencies to reduce the Black population through Eugenics.
The Democrats found a better way in the 60’s … Abortion, just as effective, perhaps more so, than mass sterilization of the Eugenicist era.
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GP is rolling on the ground laughing.
Everything he said has come to pass.
He does not need to say much more.
My guess is Biden will be impeached, Harris will resign or be impeached, and the Speaker of the House will step in.
More confusion a la GP!!
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The Red Wave wash way the old GOP Guys and Gals like Mitch, Murkowski and O’Dea.
It brought to the fore new MAGA Republicans throughout the Country.
If the MAGA Republicans win the House and the Democrats stay with their policies, it will wash them (Democrats) way in 2024!!
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CA 708am,
Inaccurate.
Go and read about Lord Denning.
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At least one Democrat can see the writing on the wall!!
In Arizona she did not lift a finger to help Kelly against the MAGA Republican candidate and the other Democrats are fit to be tied!!
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She can see the wave coming and she is up for reelection in 2024!!
“The 2024 United States Senate election in Arizona will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Arizona. Incumbent one-term Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema was elected in 2018 with 50% of the vote, succeeded the retiring Jeff Flake.”
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@CA
“Republicans lost because they were too gentlemanly like to play by all the rules of the game in the state.”Sometimes, I think you live in a test tube. What you write often bear no relationship to current reality. What do you consider as gentlemanly? This is a 2020 article and all that has change is that as more election are elected they tamper with the voting process to their own benefit and to reduce/discomfort the numbers of blacks who can vote.
From Wikipedia
“Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it, Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive within several states across the country. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, as of October 4, 2021, more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states—with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far.
The bills are largely centered around limiting mail-in voting,
strengthening voter ID laws, shortening early voting,
eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration,
curbing the use of ballot drop boxes, and
allowing for increased purging of voter rolls.
Republicans in at least eight states have also introduced bills that would give lawmakers greater power over election administration after they were unsuccessful in their attempts to overturn election results in swing states won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election. -
“GP is rolling on the ground laughing.
Everything he said has come to pass.”
The delusional bullshit is an undeveloped nation, underdeveloped brain, state of mind trait, rife with Barbadian raised ghetto-ites who are well backward.
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In democrat lead states where ballot harvesting and mass mail-in ballots are allowed, most republicans in those states are not taking advantage of that and are still of the vote in person mindset.
Republicans have to get with it and play the same games the Democrats play once it is legal in that state.
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Q: If the Republicans get the House and impeach Joe Biden, where are they likely to get the 17 votes from the Democrats in the Senate to get a 2/3 conviction?
A: From the 23 Democrat Senators who will have to face the Red Wave in 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suspect there will be a lot of Democrats who resign as 2024 approaches.
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Now is the perfect time for the GOP to ditch Trump by supporting the Jan 6 investigation.
They can reinvent themselves if they use this midterm mauling to jettison him.
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“Spoken like someone lapping up every word the left leaning media tells you.
The Supreme Court just has Conservative slant which is good for everyone because it means they are rolling back past overreaches of the court where judges made judgements that legislated from the bench. ”
Black Right Wing Bwoy
Roe Vs Wade was a Supreme Court Decision that set precedent
GOP Trump boys reasoning fell flat when Anti-Abortion mandates got thrown out of the limo window like a demo tape when The People voted across States. Nowadays Abortions are Women’s Rights and 2a Gun Rights should be taken out of the statutes and Constitution
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The J6 Committee is dead if the Republicans win the House!!
Its members will be further exposed as has Cheney.
Kinzinger has resigned and will be no more!!
In 2024 there will be an additional benefit the Republicans will have.
The “Squad”!!
It was also augmented this time around and the Democrats are stuck with them till 2026 perhaps beyond.
They will have hell to change.
Next year, the Democrat representation will be more lunatic than it was, and the other 23 Democrats in the Senate will suck salt.
My bet is on a Biden impeachment in the new term.
The Chief Justice presides over the Senate/Jury which he will have no option but to instruct to convict.
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You keep saying
“IF” republicans win the house..
and then make up some speculative wet dream fantasy of yoursrepublicans gaming the system is abusing politics leadership and nation
people are sick of corrupting powers and not listening or serving people
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One thing I can say with absolute certainty, whether or not the Republicans win the House, there will be at least one J6 next year!!
…. well … maybe I will be corrected by GP!!
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