Churchill: We shall never surrender.
McConnel: Odds are we’re going to lose.
Unfair comparison. A mid-term election is not the same as an existential war, no matter the passionate hyperbole applied to the former....
McConnel: Odds are we’re going to lose.
Quite succinctly stated, my good FRiend.
(And, it's a prediction, up with which, we Conservative voters shall not put.)