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McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggle
« on: August 18, 2022, 07:55:44 pm »
Ok, so I'm seeing this as Mitch has already sold the GOP Senate down the toilet.

McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggle

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday offered a meager forecast of his party's chances of flipping the Senate this November as Republican nominees in key races struggle to catch up to their opponents.

"I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," McConnell said in Kentucky, per NBC News's Frank Thorp V. "Senate races are just different, they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

McConnell's outlook comes as GOP nominees in the nation's most closely contested states struggle to keep up.

According to FiveThirtyEight, polls show Dr. Mehmet Oz trailing Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a seat the GOP is looking to hold. In another race to replace a retiring Republican, Rep. Tim Ryan is performing better than expected against author JD Vance in much more Republican Ohio. While in Georgia, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock is slightly ahead of former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker.

The party's current struggles are why multiple prognosticators now see Democrats as having some serious momentum. FiveThirtyEight currently has the party as slightly favored to hold on to their thin-as-can-be majority in a 50-50 Senate where Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote is the decisive factor.

This shift comes as President Joe Biden's approval ratings remain underwater. A president's party typically struggles in a midterm election year, which had Republicans giddy about their chances of retaking both houses. The worst inflation in over 40 years also signaled that November could be a GOP wave. But a series of recent policy wins has Democrats hoping that they can defy history.

A split in the House and Senate is rare but not unprecedented. Democrats rode a historic anti-Trump wave to the House majority in 2018 while actually losing ground in the Senate.................

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-offers-dour-midterm-forecast-180948547.html
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2022, 08:33:22 pm »
Not 'candidate quality' there Mitch, but a lack of any leadership, platform, or agenda from you whatsoever.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2022, 08:38:52 pm »
So mitch would rather have socialists in the senate than republicans.... Wonder why????   :tongue2:
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2022, 08:42:40 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on August 18, 2022, 08:33:22 pm
Not 'candidate quality' there Mitch, but a lack of any leadership, platform, or agenda from you whatsoever.

 :thumbsup:
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2022, 08:46:33 pm »
Here's an idea for a bumper sticker ---

""Annoy the hell out of Mitch --- Give him the majority!'
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2022, 08:54:00 pm »
Mitch McConnell Sounds The Alarm On Republicans’ Senate Chances


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August 18, 2022 2:16 PM ET
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed concern Thursday about Republicans’ ability to take back the Senate during the upcoming November midterms, as polls show GOP candidates trailing Democrats in key races.

“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different, they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell told reporters, according to Frank Thorp V of NBC News.

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https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/18/mitch-mcconnell-sounds-alarm-gop-senate-chances/
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2022, 09:07:12 pm »
I haven't been to hopeful....for a while.

You would think AZ could do better.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2022, 09:08:48 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on August 18, 2022, 08:42:40 pm
:thumbsup:

Any thoughts on why it is so hard to produce a platform ?

Seems like the GOP has struggled for a long long time in that regard.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2022, 09:49:19 pm »
Quote from: HikerGuy83 on August 18, 2022, 09:07:12 pm
I haven't been to hopeful....for a while.

You would think AZ could do better.

Yes, because McCainiac Lamon was SO MUCH BETTER.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2022, 09:53:34 pm »
Quote from: HikerGuy83 on August 18, 2022, 09:08:48 pm
Any thoughts on why it is so hard to produce a platform ?

IMO @HikerGuy83  the majority of establishment GOP leadership are assistant socialists ---- and they prefer not to admit it.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2022, 09:58:03 pm »
Turtle's leadership is 90% of why the chances of a flip are "dour" or "lukewarm"

Hard to get any enthusiasm or GOTV efforts when your actions and policies are complicit with our enemies.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2022, 10:04:07 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 18, 2022, 09:58:03 pm
Turtle's leadership is 90% of why the chances of a flip are "dour" or "lukewarm"

Hard to get any enthusiasm or GOTV efforts when your actions and policies are complicit with our enemies.

Turtle's leadership also means that he has a great influence over who is allowed into the Senate; either you're a RINO and willing to play his game or you don't get into the country club.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2022, 10:05:44 pm »
Is someone sandbagging on the campaign funding??
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2022, 10:11:57 pm »
Mitch will, once again, do everything possible to torpedo Republican candidates that failed to kiss his ring.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2022, 10:12:30 pm »
McConnell needs to be removed as GOP Senate Leader.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2022, 10:15:14 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 18, 2022, 10:11:57 pm
Mitch will, once again, do everything possible to torpedo Republican candidates that failed to kiss his ring.

I am thinking someone has pictures on him.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2022, 10:15:48 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on August 18, 2022, 10:12:30 pm
McConnell needs to be removed as GOP Senate Leader.

That SOB would have been gone long ago if it were up to me!
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2022, 10:17:20 pm »
Quote from: HikerGuy83 on August 18, 2022, 10:15:14 pm
I am thinking someone has pictures on him.

He, and his wife, are charter members of the swamp preservation committee!
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2022, 11:51:07 pm »
Migosh, folks.

Three, four months' back everyone was toasting the coming "red wave".

Now the Pubbies are gonna be lucky to keep 48 seats in the Senate, if that many.

Wha' happened...????????

At the rate things are going, Republicans may emerge with a bare majority in the House for 2023...
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2022, 11:59:08 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on August 18, 2022, 10:12:30 pm
McConnell needs to be removed as GOP Senate Leader.

A long time ago. But they keep voting him for SML.

Which is why though I will not vote for Dems, I'm not naïve enough to think it will help the problem.

Until the GOP gets rid of the trash, we go nowhere.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2022, 12:02:22 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on August 18, 2022, 11:59:08 pm
A long time ago. But they keep voting him for SML.

Which is why though I will not vote for Dems, I'm not naïve enough to think it will help the problem.

Until the GOP gets rid of the trash, we go nowhere.

That's right... Throw the Bastards Out.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2022, 12:02:22 am »
After midterms, Trump may turn his attention to the turtle.
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Re: McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggl
« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2022, 01:29:39 pm »

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1560607083745222656

My response: "Don't hold your breath waiting for that!"
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