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Home Front: Politix
Live Updates*** 2018 Midterm Election Results
2018-11-07
[Breitbart] Welcome to the Breitbart News LiveWire of the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to take back the House of Representatives and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who is looking to regain her Speakership, said earlier in the day that she is 100% certain that Democrats will win back the House. As David Axelrod said on CNN, Trump will either win the House tonight or retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will lose it.

Democrats are less optimistic about taking back the Senate, especially after President Donald Trump barnstormed across the country in recent weeks to stump for key Republican Senate candidates. Odds favor Republicans maintaining control of the Senate and perhaps even gaining a few seats.

Real Clear Politics as of midnight Tuesday:
US Senate
Democrats 42 (-4)
Republicans 52 (+4)
GOP picked up Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota.
Arizona, Montana, Nevada still undecided.

US House
Democrats 193 (+24)
Republicans 178 (-24)
Eighteen districts still undecided.

Governors
Democrats 20 (+5)
Republicans 24 (-5)
Democrats picked up Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, and New Mexico.
Five states still undecided,
Posted by:Besoeker

#19  Trump endorses Pelosi as Speaker.

"In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats," Trump said on Twitter Wednesday morning. "If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor."

Release the Kraken of Cognitive Dissonance and let the circus begin!
Posted by: SteveS   2018-11-07 16:42  

#18  #12 #7 B, I'm a lot more optimistic than that. The goat rodeo we're about to see in the House may end the Dem party as we know it.

I applaud your optimism Matt. Maxine Waters as the 'chairperson of the House finance committee'.... just puts me over the edge.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-07 14:40  

#17  Beto won the 5 laqgest counties ïn Texas. It was the vast rural areas in Texas that put Cruz in the win column.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-11-07 14:20  

#16  Oh geez! Look who's back.

Depends. Maybe now would be a good time for Pelousy's meds list to leak into the public sphere.
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-07 13:54  

#15  Kansas.
So how did a carpetbagging cat lady with pikachu hair and some strange accent win?

More money to failed interstate school districts and legalizing pot.

She had 2:1 air time on TV (news channels are out of Wichita and Lawrence - interstate cities) plus the other three (3) candidates. She won I think only 6 counties, all interstate east Kansas cities.

Nearly every other position went to the republican candidate.

Other than Trump, I don't think Kobach received any discernible national republican support.

On the Judo side, it frees Kobach for a national position. Worth a look.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-11-07 13:30  

#14  Confirmations in the Senate ought to be easier for any new Cabinet posts and any new SC appointees, e.g. RBG. The Senate can counterbalance any Dem talk of impeachment and committee hearings in the House.

There might be a fight for Speaker in the House. Pelosi acts like she has it in the bag but she is not well-liked by younger Dems. She is 78 and Botox might catch up with her.

It is good Never-Trumper Ryan is gone; much of the time he acted like a Democrat.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-11-07 12:12  

#13  Better to have California economically collapse under a Dem so they own the problem entirely. I don't think Cox could have gotten the cooperation required to save the place anyway.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-11-07 11:45  

#12  #7 B, I'm a lot more optimistic than that. The goat rodeo we're about to see in the House may end the Dem party as we know it. Waters, Cummings and Occasional Cortex on the news 24/7 isn't a bad thing. The big question to me is whether the semi-sane Dem leadership, such as it is, can keep the crazies under some control. On the other side, I think the issue is whether DJT can finally get the DOJ moving in the right direction.
Posted by: Matt   2018-11-07 11:33  

#11  Predict McSally will make us miss McShame. And that's hard to take...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-07 09:36  

#10  #9 #7 They won the moment they took over the education system. Posted by g(r)omgoru

Yes, I blame the Blue Bird buses.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-07 07:29  

#9  #7 They won the moment they took over the education system
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-11-07 07:23  

#8  Ilhan, who married her brother. Ellison enforcing laws.. Welcome to the Ummah, Minnesota, hope you like sharia.
Posted by: Crusock Stalin3721   2018-11-07 06:46  

#7  ....The only thing interesting now is

The utter fecklessness and socialist leaning tendencies of the average American voter. The process as established by the founders was brilliantly constructed. It's the participants who have become unhinged.

But why should I be surprised after 45 years of Supreme Court sanction infanticide, sixteen years of the Clinton's and Bath House Barry, endless ME wars, public (read that gov't) debt than can never be repaid, and decades of unchecked illegal immigration and 'anchor babies.' And now Congresswoman Maxine Waters as Chairperson of the House Financial Services Committee ?

Yes, I fear we are doomed. I can almost hear Nero on his cithara.

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)


Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-07 06:12  

#6  Woodrow: They run in the same social circles. Peer pressure to not be singled out at the next country club meeting or some such.

Bill Nelson conceded to Rick Scott in Florida.

With 90% in Rosendal is up over Tester by 2%.

94% in Arizona McSally is up by 1% over Sinema.

With 70% reporting in Nevada, Heller is behind Rosen by 5%.

Gov Reynolds pulled it out over Hubbel in Iowa (I was personally worried there for awhile).

Brian Kemp leads Stacy Abrams in Georgia for Governor by 2% with only .15% left. Won't concede, go figure with allegation of attempted fraud. Kemp should come down on her like Mjolnir on a Frost Giants head.

And Gov Walker is talking about a recount, though down 1.5% (40,000 votes) and with only 1% to go, who knows. Wouldn't surprise me to have 100,000 thrown out for various reasons.

The only thing interesting now is the reports out of California, 45% to go and Deleon is behind Feinstain by 8%. And Gavin Newsom is the new Governor. God help them when the Creditors finally nuke their rating to Chicago status.
Posted by: Charles   2018-11-07 04:40  

#5  Nation of Islam Keith Ellison wins. WTF? Twin Cities Media all but crawled up his arse in full support.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-11-07 03:48  

#4  The new Speaker Pelosi (assuming no one can pry the gavel from her undead claws) will certainly say at the exact same time that: "She is the soul of bipartisan compromise." and "Donald Trump's Budget is Dead On Arriva1!"
Posted by: magpie   2018-11-07 03:37  

#3  Well done Trump. Thats not a shellackibg like zer0 got
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-11-07 03:10  

#2  This allows Trump to make the Supreme Court the most conservative in over a century.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-11-07 03:09  

#1  Oh geez! Look who's back.

Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365   2018-11-07 01:19  

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