Everyone has their own two cents on what will maybe possibly happen
(Fox News) It’s finally here.
After hundreds of campaign rallies, billions of dollars in donations, a nonstop blitz of TV advertising and polling that’s been in full swing since summer, Election Day has arrived – and with it, voters’ midterm verdict on whether Republicans should hold or lose their grip on power in Washington.
Democrats have been working toward this day since the moment President Trump was sworn in. They’ve waited two long years for the shot to win enough seats in Congress to cripple the 45th president’s agenda.
In the end, the elections will go one of three ways: Republicans hold both chambers, Democrats take the majority in both, or the parties split the House and Senate. Either of the latter two scenarios would be problematic for Trump, immediately putting a damper on his agenda.
By the numbers, 35 Senate seats, 36 gubernatorial seats and 435 House seats are up for grabs on Tuesday. And the biggest names in both parties say the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Well, really, we hear this every single election. Every two years we’re now hearing that this is the most important election of our lives.
Democrats need a net pickup of 23 seats to take control of the House, where they promise endless investigations which Trump will blast while also telling them to go pound sand. Prediction: Democrats pick up 20 seats and complain a lot about voter fraud, Republicans/Trump stealing the election, and Russian interference.
In the Senate, Democrats only need two seats for majority. Prediction: GOP picks up 4 seats.
For those 36 governorships, we’ll see what the people of those states think of a roaring economy that keeps getting better. And that’s where a lot of voters are going: the economy. They saw the malaise during the Obama years, and how it started pumping the minute Trump came in. Who gets out the vote the most? And how many Democrats #WalkAway? Democrats have been working hard to see who can go the furthest left. If Democrats do not get the Blue wave, they are going to be very blue, and there will be major, major meltdowns.
Thoughts?
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would not back down from a hike in fuel tax, despite plans for nationwide protests this month and his personal popularity reaching a new low.
During a Saturday rally for Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump’s top agriculture official used the term “cotton-pickin’†to describe the importance of Florida’s gubernatorial race, which also features Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is running to be Florida’s first black governor.
Scientists are warning that rising temperatures caused by climate change will turn cities worldwide into ideal rat breeding grounds.
Two New York lawmakers are working to draft a bill that would propose a social media check before a gun purchase.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger slammed environmentalists for failing to “sell” concerns about climate change to the American people, and argued that individual states like California “cannot rely on the federal government” for environmental protections.
The Washington, D.C., City Council is preparing to vote on a bill to lower the voting age to 16 for all elections, both local and federal.
