HISTORIC: Trump just third president in 100 years to gain Senate seats in midterm

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Meanwhile the Democrats will satisfy their malevolent, puerile impulses with subpoenas, investigations, etc. A one way street to nowhere.

Disaster averted: Trump just third president in 100 years to gain Senate seats in midterm election while losing House seats

Republican strengthen control in Senate even as they lose House

By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch, November 7 2018:

 

Rick Scott, right, helped President Donald Trump and Republicans extend their control of the Senate with a close win in Florida. The state’s governor eked out a victory in his Senate race vs. Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.The 2018 midterm election wasn’t a disaster for Donald Trump like it usually is for the president’s party: Republicans strengthened their control over the Senate even as the lost command of the House for the first time in eight years.

How unusual is that? It’s only the third time in the past 104 years that the party holding the White House has gained seats in the Senate in a mid-term election while losing seats the House. The same split outcome also occurred in 1970, 1962 and 1914.

Historically the party in the White House has lost a badly in midterm elections, especially when a president’s job-approval rating was below 50% as it is now with Trump. The president’s party has lost an average of 37 seats since the end of World War Two.

Read: Democrats take control of House after health care, immigration drive voters to polls

Republicans on Tuesday lost at least 26 House seats, with more than a dozen whose outcome is still undecided. Democrats could end up winning more than 30 seats.

In other words, the losses suffered under arguably the most polarizing president in modern times fit right in line with the norm.

Success is a rarity. The president’s party has won seats in both the House and Senate just twice in the past century in a mid-term election: 2002 under George W. Bush and 1934 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The White House can take solace in the party’s gains in the Senate, but they were more likely the result of a unique map than anything the president did.

Democrats had to defend 26 Senate seats, including 10 in states that Trump won in 2016, some by very large margins.

Republicans had to defend just nine seats and only faced true competitive threats in a few, mainly Nevada, Arizona and, surprisingly, Texas, where incumbent Ted Cruz is unpopular. He eked out a small victory over a charismatic Democratic challenger.

Republicans picked up Senate seats in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota — all of which lean conservative or staunchly conservative. Only the race in Florida was nail-biter. The others were convincing wins.

Republicans appeared primed to hold on to a Senate seat in Arizona by the barest margins, but Montana was too close to call.

For now it looks like a pickup of three seats to give Republicans a comfortable 54-46 margin in the Senate. Even in the House, the Democratic majority is projected to be narrow.

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Has the outcome for Jon Tester of Montana been declared yet?
Trump rallied for Matt Rosendale.
Trump was pissed at the LIE Tester promoted to keep the guy he picked to head the VA.
Trump seemed to focus on more Senate races.

Votes · 88% reporting

DEM Jon Tester
48.7%
211,596

GOP Matt Rosendale
48.4%
210,575

Remember this? ABSOLUTE LIES and proven to be LIES. Trump doesn’t forget……
Trump calls for Senator Jon Tester to resign over Ronny Jackson claims
Montana senator released damaging allegations about VA nominee
Trump tweets: ‘His reputation has been shattered. Not fair, Tester!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/trump-senator-jon-tester-resign-ronny-jackson
Lying scumbad DEM Jon tester on the left and the HONORABLE Ronny Jackson on the right.comment image?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=46655e354e4ba539285f752460773a45

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I don’t fault President Trump for not keeping the House.
We just love him more for working his tail off .
He worked harder than the candidates running.
Rot in hell, Ryan and McCarthy. Hopefully Jim Jordan will be the next minority Speaker.
We don’t need Boehner 3.0 through RINO McCarthy.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I too don’t blame Trump. Who I DO blame, besides gullible, highly impressionable, weak-minded, fickle, easily distracted voters and the usual lot of unpatriotic, un-American, anti-American ingrates and malcontents, are: the leftist media, Soros money, and the censorship of conservative voices imposed by Facebook, Twitter, Google et al. And in that last aspect, with the Commiecrats now running the show in the House, it’ll only get worse.

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago

I feel sorry for both the future of America and its loyal patriots today because the politics of “identity” used by the left to undermine society have gained what by their beliefs and activity they did not deserve i.e greater presence.

The POTUS is right to press to the real issues, just keep on doing what fair minded people can identify with and believe in like Justice, fair immigration by LAWFUL means and the maintenance of freedom so a more prosperous future can be gained by all willing to work for it.

Zavrzlama
Zavrzlama
5 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

“I feel sorry for both the future of America and its loyal patriots today
because the politics of “identity” used by the left to undermine
society have gained what by their beliefs and activity they did not
deserve i.e greater presence.” —> Same here! It´s gonna be a tough fight. In 2 years more left-voters will be on the scene who will reach the voting-age (thanks to the leftist indoctrination in schools). And immigration especially from lower intelligent folks must be completely stopped. See what Latino immigration caused in Texas? A very tight race! Texas almost became blue! That´s because of all the Latinos there with their anti-american interestes! Just to give an example how versatile and deep the problem is.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago
Reply to  Zavrzlama

The issue of voting age and this leftist indoctrination and radicalization, is precisely why there should be a movement started to RAISE the minimum voting age to at least 26.

Besides what I noted in other places about young people being part of some of the most destructive political, cultural and social movements in history throughout the world (the Pioneers and Komsomol in Stalinist Russia, the Brownshirts and Hitler Youth in Germany, the Red Guards in Mao’s China, the Khmer Rouge in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and of course in our time Occupy and Antifa), I forgot to bring up two others: the 1968 Paris riots, and that year’s bedlam outside the Democrat Convention in Chicago. As well, the issue of the human brain not being fully formed until age 26, the growing immaturity of the 18-24 age group, and other factors that do not in any way bode well.

Zavrzlama
Zavrzlama
5 years ago

I LOVE you for this comment! I just wanted to bring up that issue the brain not being fully developed till the age of 25, but you were faster haha! That´s exactly how it is. And the left evil knows that very well too. That´s why they concentrate so much on the indoctrination of our youngest ones (even in Kindergarten already!) because the earlier the brainwashing begins, the more effective the result is for their evil purposes.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

THIS makes sense because it was right around 1913 America began to choose communism as our political agenda. it’s even represented in the Constitution by some illegal Amendments that have brought US where we are today.

BANKRUPT over PHONY money.

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