11/7/2018
By John Solomon
Opinion Contributor
Two election waves — one blue, the other Trumpian — collided on Tuesday night and left the electorate with a split decision that defies history and further exposes the tale of two Americas.
Democrats won control of the House they so coveted, giving them a check on Donald Trump's hold on Washington and a platform for relentless investigation of their arch nemesis.
But the blue wave Democrats so ferociously sought to build, with record fundraising and relentless Hollywood celebrity endorsements, crashed right into the Trump tsunami we discovered in 2016, which has not yet crested.
As a result, Republicans picked up at least three — it could be as many as five — extra seats in the Senate, expanding their majority in an election in which history almost always imposes losses for the party controlling the White House.
The GOP was poised to hold three of the most cherished statehouses for the 2020 election — Florida, Ohio and Iowa — which will give the party a key advantage when redistricting begins.
And without much fanfare, Republican chief executives in Northeast — once declared as extinct as the T-rex — continued a steady comeback, as popular GOP governors in traditionally Democratic Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont won reelection and were joined by fellow Republican Chris Sununu in New Hampshire.
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