I obviously have many thoughts about the election, but I’m going to hold off on most of it until the dust has settled and we have final numbers.
I’ve actually had a lot of pent up things that I’ve been holding back for months, but that can wait.
I will say this: Amy McGrath and Jon Ossoff were never going to win. I said that all along. In fact, I used Ossoff’s special election loss to make my point about McGrath. If you thought that either of them were going to win, you need to stop getting your news from the tv once and for all, and diversify your online journalism portfolio to include one major newspaper and at least half a dozen outlets with good track records.
Track records matter, and if you weigh Steve Schmitt’s opinions more heavily than Michael Moore’s, then you’re not being objective.
I am shocked about Susan Collins. I really thought she was done.
I’m surprised at the margin of victory for Lindsey Graham (although I did think he was likely to win).
There were forty million more votes cast in this election compared to 2016. Those are overwhelming numbers that are frankly too big to steal. Disappearing votes is one thing, but creating votes that never existed is something that I frankly find inconceivable. Like it or not, republicans were way more motivated than the mainstream media led you to believe.
I never thought there was going to be mass defection numbers from republicans to democrats, and I’ve been telling you that The Lincoln Project was a big con all along. The last 40 years have been about approaching politics from a team mentality, and that won’t change until millennials and Zoomers are 70% of the electorate. They’re not interested in a team. They’re interested in policies that will dig them out of the hole that was dug for them.
We still don’t know how the presidential race is going to go, and please don’t mistake this post as an admission of defeat. It is simply an observation about how this should have never been as close as it is, and an explanation of why this is happening.
That’s it for now. I will have a lot more to say when all of the races have been called.
