Retiring RINOS Bought the Drive-By Media’s Blue Wave Scam
Nov 7, 2018
RUSH: I had so many people last night worried that there was actually a blue wave happening. There was no blue wave last night. In fact, let’s look at the record numbers of losses by a sitting president to the opposing party in midterm elections.
The most House seats ever lost by a president’s party in power was Obama in 2010. He lost 63. Next was Bill Clinton in 1994. He lost 52. In 1958, Eisenhower lost 48, as did Ford and Nixon in 1974. They lost 48. Lyndon Johnson in ’66, lost 47. Harry Truman in ’46 lost 45 seats. George W. Bush in 2006 lost 30. In 1950, Harry Truman lost 29. Reagan, in ’82, lost 26 seats, and in 2016 Trump is at 26 or 27 — and those are New York Times records.
That’s New York Times data since 1946. So it was not a blue wave, especially when you go over to the Senate. Now, the big difference in the Senate is that the people that Trump campaigned for won. Nine out of 11 people. And the way to look at this is… To me, I think this is crucial going forward, as you look at 2020. Everybody… I mean, nine out of 11 people the president personally stumped for won.
He admitted — you just heard him — he focused on the Senate. It was not possible to do rallies for House seats. And, frankly, most sitting presidents do not get involved in House races. Obama even stated that’s so beneath the presidency to go out in these little districts here and there. I’m not gonna mess with it. And there’s too many of ’em. You can’t.
So where he could he tried to combine a House race with a Senate race and the candidates and so forth. But nine out of 11. In the Senate now, gone are a bunch of Republicans who hate Trump, like Corker and like Flake and Senator McCain, they’re gone. And they have been replaced by senators that are Trumpists, if you will, senators who owe Trump their election victory.
So the Republican Senate is gonna be a much more solid Senate. If he wins all of the seats that are still outstanding, like Arizona and Florida where there might be a recount, he could have enough of a Republican Senate to not have to worry about Murkowski and Susan Collins, say, on judicial appointments. And of course the Senate’s role in judicial appointments and other appointments, such as cabinet appointments, is huge.
And the Democrats not turning the Senate is effectively a total shutdown of any attempt at agenda advancement they want to compete or attempt. It’s gonna be fascinating to watch how the Democrats in the Senate — or in the House, rather, go about all this. I actually think, folks, that what happened yesterday, and a little microcosm of it here in this press conference today, I think that if things play out right, Donald Trump was essentially reelected in 2020 because of what happened last night because of the way the Democrats are gonna deal with this.
Now, everybody thinks that Pelosi is gonna be speaker, but I’m not so sure. I think some of these young Millennial whippersnapper socialist victors, these young first time like Ocasio-Cortez and others, I don’t think these people are gonna be patient and tolerant with this octogenarian leadership on the Democrat side. I don’t think it’s automatic that Pelosi’s gonna be speaker. I think some of these young people are just gonna storm the gates.
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