UN US Midterm Elections 2018 Megathread - Blue Wave or Red Tsunami? Because you know we need one.

November 6th, 2018.
You have less than one month to sperg about the midterm elections.

Hot Takes :
Tis the end of Drumpf!

It's been an inauspicious beginning to the voting season for Mr Trump and his Republican Party, which continue to struggle under the weight of near-constant self-imposed crises and chaos.

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Could the US midterm elections break Trump's presidency?

President Donald Trump. Source: AAP


Voting in the US midterm elections is now underway.

UpdatedUpdated 27 September
By Rashida Yosufzai, Nick Baker
In this article...

• What are the midterms?
• What do the polls predict?
• Why do these elections matter?
• How could recent developments affect things?
• Could Trump be impeached?
• Will the youth vote make a difference?
• What does it mean for Australia?

Americans have started to cast their ballots in a vote that could shape the rest of Donald Trump's presidency.

Although the US midterm elections are technically held on 6 November, early voting has already started in a handful of states.

Minnesota was the first state to allow early in-person voting on 21 September, with a handful of key states following, including New Jersey, California and Arizona.


Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia offer some form of early voting, meaning every day until 6 November counts for Democrats and Republicans.

It's been an inauspicious beginning to the voting season for Mr Trump and his Republican Party, which continue to struggle under the weight of near-constant self-imposed crises and chaos.

80 per cent chance of winning back the chamber.

Republicans have a 1 in 5 chance of keeping control of the House, while Democrats have about a 4 in 5 chance of winning control of the House. https://t.co/lyNh30TEIw pic.twitter.com/O38qtMPpIz

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 25, 2018
The Senate though is likely to be retained by the Republicans.

According to CNN, the Democrats are defending some two dozen seats, including 10 in states where Mr Trump secured victory in 2016, and five of those where he won resoundingly.

FiveThirtyEight gives the Democrats just a 30 per cent chance of taking the Senate.

Trump's election one year on: What do Americans think of him now?[/paste:font]


The Democrats could also use their numbers to set up House select committees targeting the president.

"They will have an opportunity to set up special panels and committees to essentially smear President Trump," United States Studies Centre research fellow Dougal Robinson told SBS News in April.

Mr Robinson pointed to the Benghazi committee set up by the Republicans against Hillary Clinton in 2014 to further investigate the fatal 2012 terrorist attack on two US government facilities in Libya.

Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Once seen as cruising to an easy vote - fulfilling Mr Trump's key promise to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices - a string of sexual assault allegations has turned the Kavanaugh decision into all-out political war.

According to CNN's national political reporter Eric Bradner, the scandal and lukewarm response from some Republicans to Mr Kavanaugh's accusers could "drive suburban women away in midterms".

I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
Analysts also point to Robert Mueller's investigation as an ongoing potential source of political curveballs.

Mr Mueller has already indicted more than 30 people in connection with his probe into whether members of Mr Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to help get the real estate tycoon elected.

And speculation has swirled in recent days that Mr Trump may fire embattled deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein - who oversees the Russia collusion probe.

Doubts over how long Mr Rosenstein can keep the job have swirled since shock media reports that he once suggested secretly recording Mr Trump to collect evidence for ousting him under a constitutional amendment for presidents unfit to remain in office.

Mr Rosenstein's firing - and Mr Trump possibly putting someone more pliable in his place - would set off alarm bells over the future independence of a probe, which has the potential to rock both the midterms and the entire Trump presidency.

US wants ‘partnership, not domination’ in Australia and region[/paste:font]


A report co-authored by Mr Robinson predicted after the midterms, Congress would be highly unlikely to support a US re-entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership - a trade deal between 11 Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand which Mr Trump pulled the US out of last year.

Another issue that may affect Australia is that if the Democrats retake the House, it is likely to lead to lower defence spending.

Additional reporting: AAP, AFP

This article was originally published in April 2018 and updated in September 2018.

How will Trump keep his voter base energized? "More Winning."
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TRUMP HAS A TWO WORD RESPONSE WHEN REPORTER ASKS HIM HOW HE WILL KEEP GOP BASE ENERGIZED
5:52 PM 10/10/2018
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large

President Donald Trump made portions of the White House press corps chuckle with his response on how he intends to keep Republican voters fired up after the ultimately successful confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“How do you keep your base energized now that you have this Kavanaugh victory?” one reporter asked. Tuesday was the first day that Kavanaugh sat on the court after a contentious battle over his nomination.

“More winning,” Trump said.

Trump was leaving the White House on his way to a campaign rally Tuesday night when he took questions from reporters in the White House driveway.

The president was also asked about the mobs of paid progressive protesters that took over Capitol Hill during the contentious debate over Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Trump was specifically asked about the intense “energy” of the protesters.

“A lot of those were paid protesters. You saw that they are all unhappy because they haven’t been paid yet,” Trump alleged about the protesters. (RELATED: Trump Has A Theory Why The Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Are So Mad)


Trump brought up his new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a major policy win. “Our deal with Mexico and Canada was fantastic,” Trump said. “China wants to make a deal so badly. We will see where it goes. But I don’t think they are ready.”

Trump Will Lose 60 Seats in the house... Unless... Please Visit My Site
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MATT DRUDGE WARNS OF MIDTERM BLOODBATH: TRUMP TO LOSE ’60 SEATS IN THE HOUSE LIKE OBAMA DID’
2:41 PM 09/14/2018
Peter Hasson | Reporter

Conservative news giant Matt Drudge on Friday made a somber prediction about Republicans’ chances in the November midterm elections, predicting President Donald Trump will see his party lose 60 seats in the House of Representatives.

Drudge, who runs the influential Drudge Report, compared the upcoming midterms to the electoral bloodbath Democrats suffered in the 2010 midterm elections under former President Barack Obama.

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“Trump and Obama both have 47% approval at this time of presidency, according to Rasmussen. Trump will also lose 60 seats in the House like Obama did during first midterm!” Drudge wrote on Twitter. (RELATED: Democrats Should Immediately Abolish ICE After Retaking Congress)

He added cryptically: “Unless…”

Democrats have to gain 23 House seats in November in order to flip the lower chamber. Democrats have an 83 percent chance of retaking the House, according to FiveThirty Eight.

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The Weird :
Mark Taylor "Red Tsunami Prophecy"
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Mark Taylor (The Trump Prophecies): Most Important Midterm Elections In All Of US History
July 30, 2018 29 3159


Mark Taylor says the upcoming 2018 elections are the most important mid-term elections in all of America’s history. Here’s why…

Mark Taylor interviewed by Greg Hunter on USA Watchdog

Mark Taylor, author of the popular book “The Trump Prophecies,” contends, “If you are part of the army of God, you need to be ready also because there are going to be politicians that are going to resign. We have had the biggest number of resignations probably in history. This midterm election is going to be huge. This is going to be a red tsunami. They keep talking about the blue wave. I think it’s going to be a blue drip, a leaky faucet, and that is all they are going to get. You have had more resignations than we have ever seen. Now is the time to go in and capture this ground and hold it for the Kingdom of God. . . . It’s not a left or right thing. God is moving us towards a place of righteousness. That’s what’s happening right now. So, he’s going to be replacing these people. If you are called to be a judge, senator, congressman or a council person, I don’t care what level local, state or federal, take your place and get ready. If you are in the Army of God and you don’t vote, you need to get off your behind and register to vote. These are going to be the most important midterm elections in America’s history—period.”

In closing, Taylor says, “I don’t think there is going to be another Democrat in the White House for a long time, if ever again. I believe you are seeing the death of the Democrat party right now.”

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Mark Taylor, co-author of “The Trump Prophecies,” which has been made into a movie that is releasing in early October.

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[thismanlies]

This is a U.S. Senator. We're all fucking doomed.

I can hear her screeching through that picture. And I can smell tuna too.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

There's a difference between """moderates""" that mostly call themselves such as a cover for the fact that they are deep in the tank for one cause or another and want to intellectually jerk themselves off, and people who don't wholly subscribe to one politics team or the other on all issues and have a more a-la-carte take on politics.

Describing moderates as "people with no firm convictions" is some political fanboi take. Stop treating politics like sports teams, that's half of how this environment got so bad. I'd argue if you 100% agree with one political side or another and have literally zero deviations from the party platform you're the one without any firm convictions.

There's nothing really moderate about that though. I mean I take extreme positions from both arbitrarily defined sides of the aisle but no one would accuse me of being a moderate.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

i'd wager that around 95% of anti socialists have absolutely no problem with basic workers rights and protections (and the remaining 5% are fedora tipping libertarians lmao)
the point where it becomes icky is when it crosses from 'protect workers and secure their livelihoods' to 'make welfare leeching a viable lifestyle', because at that point you are no longer protecting the interests of workers, but advancing the interests of non-workers at the direct expense of all tax paying workers.

and by now, that change has happened to almost all 'socialist', 'social democrat' and 'workers' parties across pretty much the entire western world. almost all of them are openly shitting on the working class in favor of the non working underclass, to the point where they go out of their way to import more of that underclass from foreign countries (to the great detriment of the local working class)

Little tip about ideologies: All ancaps are libertarians, but not all libertarians are ancaps. Though they do all love ancap memes.

 

[Ineedahero]

Federal prosecutors reviewing altered election documents tied to Florida Democrats

https://www.politico.com/states/flo...on-documents-tied-to-florida-democrats-695299

What? The DNC worked to fuck over their own voters? Somebody explain this to me like I am a small child because I am not getting it :/

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Did shit like this happen to democrats recently? People keep saying the right is being like the left with accusations of election stealing but... I don't remember boxes and boxes of republican votes ever being found a week after the election, after illegally banning cameras, after illegally destroying votes...

I mean, am I just not remembering? I know there was the whole thing with bush-gore in florida, but I don't remember people flagrantly breaking the rules.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Did shit like this happen to democrats recently? People keep saying the right is being like the left with accusations of election stealing but... I don't remember boxes and boxes of republican votes ever being found a week after the election, after illegally banning cameras, after illegally destroying votes...

I mean, am I just not remembering? I know there was the whole thing with bush-gore in florida, but I don't remember people flagrantly breaking the rules.

They're probably trying to compare it to "selected not elected" re: Bush. Which is kind of hilarious since that too was a Democrat-caused shitshow full of the same people pulling the same stunts, just that back then the courts stepped in and brought the hammer down because they weren't going to put up with that for the Presidency.

 

[Adamska]

The difference is that the Republicans tend to prefer using judges to do their vote rigging shit while the Dems tend to prefer stuffing ballots and wasting time like tards to do their vote rigging shit. They have different mechanics when it comes to that.

 

[thejackal]

Ocasio Cortez is full of shit. I'm already sick of her bitching and moaning. She's complaining about "being directed to a spouse event" and "treated like an intern".

Come on, just give the ID politics a rest for ONE DAY. Technically you're not sworn in yet and most congressmen and women are in their 40s and older not 28 so of course some people will mistake you for an intern.

Seeing the same stupid shit with the Pelosi for Speaker factions. Blah blah blah how could we not elect a woman. Give it a rest you're all on the same team the Dems don't have to always pull a fucking brianna wu and start every sentence with "as _______".

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Occasio-Cortez is making an ass of herself already and embarrassing progressives with her reeeeeing and identity politics. It’s herself and the movement:

If John Flynt had won (LMFAO) he would have been the Michelle bachman of the left but Occasio-Cortez has taken that crown.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Ocasio Cortez is full of shit. I'm already sick of her bitching and moaning. She's complaining about "being directed to a spouse event" and "treated like an intern".

Come on, just give the ID politics a rest for ONE DAY. Technically you're not sworn in yet and most congressmen and women are in their 40s and older not 28 so of course some people will mistake you for an intern.

Seeing the same stupid shit with the Pelosi for Speaker factions. Blah blah blah how could we not elect a woman. Give it a rest you're all on the same team the Dems don't have to always pull a fucking brianna wu and start every sentence with "as _______".

I thought treating newly arrived junior congressmen like shit was actually standard practice?

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

I thought treating newly arrived junior congressmen like shit was actually standard practice?

She's never had a job that she had to be the (TRIGGER WARNING) "low man on the totem pole". She doesn't understand how the real world works.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Apparently she's been running around like a braying jackass starting arguments, making noise, and trying to "shake things up," or whatever she thinks she's going to do.

And of course her fans are cheering this. "Yaaaaas gurl they old they white yell over them fight them don't listen to a word they say!" A few of her fans seem to be facepalming, but not many.

But she's not a fuckin' white male, so mission accomplished I guess?

 

[It's HK-47]

All of that effort, all of that struggling, and Brenda Snipes missed the deadline by two minutes. Jesus Christ.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

All of that effort, all of that struggling, and Brenda Snipes missed the deadline by two minutes. Jesus Christ.

So what does this mean in the long run?

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

All of that effort, all of that struggling, and Brenda Snipes missed the deadline by two minutes. Jesus Christ.

My soul screams out "Get fucked".

 

[It's HK-47]

So what does this mean in the long run?

The Florida bullshit was a complete Democratic failure and a waste of time. DeSantis and Scott go to office, and now we'll see what all of the investigations into the allegations of voting fraud turn up, since we know more than a few of them opened in response to Snipes' team dicking around.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The Florida bullshit was a complete Democratic failure and a waste of time. DeSantis and Scott go to office, and now we'll see what all of the investigations into the allegations of voting fraud turn up, since we know more than a few of them opened in response to Snipes' team dicking around.

I dunno, this news is making me blackpilled.

 

[Dysnomia]

Apparently she's been running around like a braying jackass starting arguments, making noise, and trying to "shake things up," or whatever she thinks she's going to do.

And of course her fans are cheering this. "Yaaaaas gurl they old they white yell over them fight them don't listen to a word they say!" A few of her fans seem to be facepalming, but not many.

But she's not a fuckin' white male, so mission accomplished I guess?
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You can clearly see a woman on the bottom row of the Republican elect pic who was suspiciously cropped. Like they cropped it right there for a reason.

 

[Adamska]

All of that effort, all of that struggling, and Brenda Snipes missed the deadline by two minutes. Jesus Christ.

I think my brain just had a seizure induced by euphoria. I cannot put into words just how fucking hilarious it is to see these corrupt masses of pig lard not only stall, cheat, and fabricate enough votes to represent a tiny country like Luxembourg to steal the vote, but they failed in even doing it. All of it because they failed to enter a quick buzzer beater to try and steal a seat that still wouldn't have stopped the Dems losing in the Senate and an (admittedly) more useful governor's seat. And now they might actually get strung up on corruption if the GOP stops shitting in the pot and hits them for what screams to the layman as sleazy.

The Dems' minds have collapsed so hard due to TDS they can't even properly steal an election.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

The difference is that the Republicans tend to prefer using judges to do their vote rigging shit while the Dems tend to prefer stuffing ballots and wasting time like tards to do their vote rigging shit. They have different mechanics when it comes to that.

Care to give an example? Because seriously, people keep saying stuff like this, but nobody ever gives examples. Do it punk, hit me with a citation and show me the republicans are just as sleazy. I know they're politicians, I expect sleaziness, just show me.

Or, do what the other drive by libs do, say something dumb, collect your negrates, and never come back. I'd prefer you engage in good faith though, it's more fun and informative.