Who cares consolation department?

[jimnyc]

Perhaps after awhile it will feel more like a win for these areas, but as well all know the big prize and the oval office is what is wanted on election day.

But appears the senate stays republican, which is a huge deal with the likely incoming president and surrounding socialist friends.

In addition to that one, Trump appears to have done quite well with minorities. So while his true haters are angry that he even got any votes, and blame racism and all of America for it, will see that many minorities are starting to wake up to democrats. But will all of these folks that moved to the right this year ultimately stay on the right?

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Democrats frustrated, GOP jubilant in Senate fight

Senate Democrats are feeling frustrated and disappointed as their effort to retake the majority appears to have fallen short once again.

The likelihood of being relegated to the minority for the next couple years hit home Wednesday when Democratic challenger Sara Gideon conceded to Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the blue state of Maine.

While it now appears Democratic nominee Joe Biden will probably eke out a victory in the presidential race, Democrats were hoping for a bigger night — especially after failing to flip the Senate in 2016 and 2018.

John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado and the only Democratic challenger to officially knock off a Senate Republican incumbent on Tuesday, said, “I was hoping that we would sweep to victory with a number of Senate wins.”

“We’re still cautiously optimistic, but it’s not the level of excitement I was hoping to wake up to,” he said.

Other Democratic strategists and aides expressed their dismay.

“I’m very disappointed, of course, but I also think it’s not entirely over. In Georgia, if that other race ends up going to a runoff, we could have two runoff elections in Georgia, which will determine the fate of whether we get to 50-50 or not,” said Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist.

Rest - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/524561-democrats-frustrated-gop-jubilant-in-senate-fight


Despite ‘racist’ charges, Trump did better with minorities than any GOP candidate in 60 years

For four years now, Democrats and their media allies have tarred President Trump as a reprehensible white supremacist leading a dying party. The Trumpian, populist GOP, they claimed, was doomed to become a regional rump party, whose electoral prospects were tied to a shrinking share of bitter, downscale whites.

That narrative was always bunk. It finally died, once and for all, on Tuesday evening.

Team Trump and Republicans nationwide made unprecedented inroads with black and Hispanic voters. Nationally, preliminary numbers indicated that 26 percent of Trump’s voting share came from nonwhite voters — the highest percentage for a GOP presidential candidate since 1960.

In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, the heartland of Cuban America, Trump turned a 30-plus-point Hillary Clinton romp in 2016 into a narrow single-digit Joe Biden win. Texas’ Starr County, overwhelmingly Mexican American and positioned in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, barely delivered for the Democrats. Biden’s Hispanic support in other key swing states, like Ohio and Georgia, tailed off from Clinton’s 2016 benchmarks.

Rest - https://nypost.com/2020/11/04/despite-racist-charges-trump-did-better-with-minorities-than-any-gop-candidate-in-60-years/

[Kathianne]

Perhaps after awhile it will feel more like a win for these areas, but as well all know the big prize and the oval office is what is wanted on election day.

But appears the senate stays republican, which is a huge deal with the likely incoming president and surrounding socialist friends.

In addition to that one, Trump appears to have done quite well with minorities. So while his true haters are angry that he even got any votes, and blame racism and all of America for it, will see that many minorities are starting to wake up to democrats. But will all of these folks that moved to the right this year ultimately stay on the right?

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Democrats frustrated, GOP jubilant in Senate fight

Senate Democrats are feeling frustrated and disappointed as their effort to retake the majority appears to have fallen short once again.

The likelihood of being relegated to the minority for the next couple years hit home Wednesday when Democratic challenger Sara Gideon conceded to Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the blue state of Maine.

While it now appears Democratic nominee Joe Biden will probably eke out a victory in the presidential race, Democrats were hoping for a bigger night — especially after failing to flip the Senate in 2016 and 2018.

John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado and the only Democratic challenger to officially knock off a Senate Republican incumbent on Tuesday, said, “I was hoping that we would sweep to victory with a number of Senate wins.”

“We’re still cautiously optimistic, but it’s not the level of excitement I was hoping to wake up to,” he said.

Other Democratic strategists and aides expressed their dismay.

“I’m very disappointed, of course, but I also think it’s not entirely over. In Georgia, if that other race ends up going to a runoff, we could have two runoff elections in Georgia, which will determine the fate of whether we get to 50-50 or not,” said Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist.

Rest - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/524561-democrats-frustrated-gop-jubilant-in-senate-fight


Despite ‘racist’ charges, Trump did better with minorities than any GOP candidate in 60 years

For four years now, Democrats and their media allies have tarred President Trump as a reprehensible white supremacist leading a dying party. The Trumpian, populist GOP, they claimed, was doomed to become a regional rump party, whose electoral prospects were tied to a shrinking share of bitter, downscale whites.

That narrative was always bunk. It finally died, once and for all, on Tuesday evening.

Team Trump and Republicans nationwide made unprecedented inroads with black and Hispanic voters. Nationally, preliminary numbers indicated that 26 percent of Trump’s voting share came from nonwhite voters — the highest percentage for a GOP presidential candidate since 1960.

In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, the heartland of Cuban America, Trump turned a 30-plus-point Hillary Clinton romp in 2016 into a narrow single-digit Joe Biden win. Texas’ Starr County, overwhelmingly Mexican American and positioned in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, barely delivered for the Democrats. Biden’s Hispanic support in other key swing states, like Ohio and Georgia, tailed off from Clinton’s 2016 benchmarks.

Rest - https://nypost.com/2020/11/04/despite-racist-charges-trump-did-better-with-minorities-than-any-gop-candidate-in-60-years/


Yep, this is a big story of this election-the parties are changing their makeups. Dems are richer and more educated-formally educated. They have an iron grip on the uneducated minorities.

Republicans are for small businesses, working classes, and are finally connecting with the formally educated minorities. Hispanics have always been a natural fit with conservative values, but were never pursued in a meaningful way until Bush and that was not throughout the party. Trump has done that. Trump also is the first since the 1960s to actually do things for Blacks that appealed to those that want to have the opportunities to educate their children, regardless of socioeconomics and support their fledging businesses, it is beginning to resonate.

[tailfins]

Consolation?!?!?!? The GOP picked up state legislatures, a governorship, kept the Senate, picked up US House seats, and the courts are far more conservative. If a very weak Biden is President, a continued GOP Senate AND a GOP US House is likely in 2022. The Democrats gained ZERO ground to influence Congressional redistricting. There are indications that Trump has been a drag on the GOP. How would things have been with Trump in the White House with a Democrat House and Senate?

I believe what John Bolton says about President Trump.



They have an iron grip on the uneducated minorities.

Not so fast! How ridiculous do you think a "Black Lives Matter" disturbance looks like that is 90% "woke" white women? Black men are waking up that the incarceration pipeline is much the fault of Democrats. Black men get ground up in the family court system even worse than white men.

[jimnyc]

What may work for the twitnits in one area may not play out on the overall scale for America.

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House Democrats savage Nancy Pelosi, demand she is replaced as Speaker and blame her and the Squad's backing of socialism for election disaster in wild conference call


Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a moderate Democrat, ripped into party leaders on a conference call on Thursday after House majority shrank
'No one should say 'defund the police' ever again,' Spanberger said, referring to one of The Squad's demands
'We will get f****** torn apart,' she added
Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the party, saying Democrats held the House
Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who lost, her race, cried during call
She said colleagues couldn't pronounce her name and were mean on Twitter
Details from the call played on live on Twitter as those on it leaked details to the Capitol Hill press corp, who promptly tweeted them
As details from the conference call emerged online, lawmakers demanded the guilty leakers be found


House Democrats savaged Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a family venting session that featured yelling and crying lawmakers in the wake of the party's losses on Thursday.

And the drama on the three-hour conference call played out live on Twitter, as details were leaked to the Capitol Hill press corps, who tweeted all the wild details.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat from Virginia who narrowly won a second term on Tuesday night, yelled out her frustration, accusing party leaders of bowing to demand from the liberals, like members of 'The Squad.'

Democrats kept control of the House in this year's election but their majority shrank and it was moderate members of the party who lost. The final results aren't in but Democrats could loss up to 10 seats.

'We need to be pretty clear,' Spanberger said of election night results. 'It was a failure. It was not a success. We lost incredible members of Congress.'

'No one should say 'defund the police' ever again,' Spanberger said, referring to one of liberals' demands, Politico reported. 'Nobody should be talking about socialism.'

Spanberger, continued to unload on Democratic leaders, warning if the party kept up these tactics in 2022 election: 'We will get f****** torn apart.'

Spanberger was hit with multiple attack ads accusing her of trying to 'defund the police' after she voted for a police reform bill. The issue was a heated one this summer during the mass of Black Lives Matters protests that swept the nation. President Donald Trump and Republicans countered the racial tension by accusing Democrats of not supporting police officers.

Pelosi pushed back against Spanberger though.

'I do disagree, Abigail, that it was a failure. We won the House,' the speaker said.

She also told lawmakers to come to her personally with any worries and gave out her personal cell phone number.

Meanwhile, one lawmaker who lost her race broke down and cried during the session.

Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell of Florida, who was expected to win re-election, cried as she spoke and mentioned how people can't pronounce her name and then told her colleagues to stop being negative on Twitter, a Washington Post reporter tweeted.

As details from the conference call emerged in the Twitter feeds of Capitol Hill reporters, lawmakers demanded the guilty leakers be found - information that was immediately leaked to the press.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a member of Democratic leadership, jumped into the call midway through to tell those on it to stop leaking. He also reminded them that reporters aren't their friends, the Post noted.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, took it a step further and demanded Jeffries find the leakers.

There are 232 Democratic lawmakers and all of them could have been on the call, which is for all members of the party. Staff could have been listening too, which would make it harder to find the person or persons who were leaking.

'Some of my colleagues are literally live-leaking our internal Dem Caucus call right now to CNN, The Hill, NBC, Politico, etc,' Rep. Jared Huffman tweeted during the call. 'I've gotten texts from 3 different reporters asking me to live-leak juicy details to them. No. We (Dems and the media) need to stop this nonsense.'

Jayapal, who is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, defended the left wing of the party against the moderate attacks.

'Our base is turning out to help save this country,' she said.

And Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a squad member along with fellow Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, defended their group, all of whom won re-election.

'Don't blame myself and others who are fighting for issues that matter to our communities,' she said. 'We need to do a real autopsy and dig through it' before attacking each other.

But Rep. Marc Veasey of Texas also voiced his frustration, saying the left's approach to defunding the police and banning fracking gave Republicans fuel for their attack ads.

Veasey said he had watched GOP 'commercial after commercial' using video footage of Democrats uttering the words, 'defund the police,' to great effect, The Hill newspaper reported.

The call was billed as a 'family session' but became a bitch fest between the liberal wing of the party and its more moderate members - all of whom were disappointed by the Democrats failure to win more seats. The party expected to pick up five or more on election night.

Rest - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8919195/House-Dems-cry-feud-wild-conference-call-leaks-live-Twitter.html