[eclectic]

It can be 55/45 or even 56/44 in the Senate.

[bigbob]

The democrats will be able to make more noise, but they won’t be able to make law. Trump will still be Potus, R’s gained in the Senate putting an end to the likes of Susan Collins as Kingmaker, and there will likely be another Scotus opening in his first term and the Dems will be powerless to stop it.

Smoke and noise lasts a few news cycles or even a few months, but Trump’s nominees to the judiciary are going to have impact for decades.

[SENTINEL]

Trump/"Q" lost 1/2 his power tonight because he didn't have the moral potence to arrest TRAITORS the last 2 years. Next 2 years Trump is little more than Pelosi's bitch.

Prepare to defend yourselves patriots. Peace is dead.

[grey_whiskers]

The Senate confirms cabinet picks, tresties, AND JUDGES (including Supremes. Think they'll forget The Kavanaugh lesson?)

And what about the 61k sealed indictments? What if a couple dozen rats in the House get sent to Gitmo? (the RINOs having been allowed to resign quietly, thinking they were throwing the election, which they'd blame on Trump, and then elect Jeb)?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

If I had to compromise tonight this is the split we needed.

The House can pass all they want, it will never move in the Senate.

The judicial pace can now pick up steam and all of the Senate approval roles going unfilled in various agencies can get filled.

56 Senators is a lot to work with when it comes to putting the stamp on things.

This is a generational election for changing the judiciary. The house can get flipped in 2020.

[SENTINEL]

Tremendous duccess my ass. Trump/"Q" lost 1/2 their power tonight...gambling on some plan that didn't include arrest of a single traitor in 2 years. Now Trump is Pelosi's bitch the next 2 years. No one to blame but himself...Soros still steals God's air...Clintons walk free...Podestas still raping baies, and the lack of a wall helping illegals vote en masse.

Q is bullshit!

[familyop]

Rosendale is ahead of Tester in Montana for the Senate at this time.

[snarkytart]

FROM ANOTHER THREAD and FREEPER willk:

First midterm election for new President:

Clinton 1994

House -54
Senate -8

Obama 2010

House -63
Senate -6

Trump 2018

House -30 (roughly)
Senate +4 or +5”

Obama and Clinton didn’t have to deal with 40 anti-Trumpers retiring. Otherwise Trump would have probably maintained the house too.

[familyop]

Might see 56 seats in the Senate. We’ll see.

Think of the judicial appointments. :-)

[Jeff Chandler]

Holding the Senate gives Trump the opportunity to continue the historic pace of judicial nominations that have dominated the chamber's calendar in recent months.

[familyop]

Democrats are going to be pushing Pelosi real hard to make a lot of noise from the House. One real downside of a Democrat majority House, by the way, is that immigration reform won’t happen without a Republican majority in the House. Draining the swamp will be more difficult, too.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

They are calling House electxions too soon here, assuming the liberals get Republican sections of California that they never get, per H.A. Goodman.

[SmokingJoe]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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“There’s only been 5 times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in the Senate in the off year election. Mr. Trump has magic about him. This guy has magic coming out of his ears. He is an astonishing vote getter & campaigner. The Republicans are........
unbelievably lucky to have him and I’m just awed at how well they’ve done. It’s all the Trump magic - Trump is the magic man. Incredible, he’s got the entire media against him, attacking him every day, and he pulls out these enormous wins.” Ben Stein, “The Capitalist Code”

[redgolum]

Trump is going to be fighting impeachment proceedings for the next two years.

Not a time to say “We won!”

But it could have been much worse.

[SmokingJoe]

As I see it, the only major (and preventable) blip for President Trump tonight was Kris Kobach defeat in his race for Governor of Kansas. With hindsight, President Trump should probably have advised Kobach to not run at all so the incumbent GOP Governor could run (and win). Sad really. Outside of that, President Trump’s record on yesterday’s elections was just awesome.

[metmom]

Something to keep in mind is that Pelosi is 78, Waters is 80, and Feinstein is 85.

Ginsberg is 85 and Beyer is 80, and IIRC he’s got health issues already.

None of the Assoc. justices are spring chickens either.

People don’t live forever.

I’d say there’s a reasonable chance that some attrition is going to be happening over the next few years.

For my part, although I will not pray for evil to befall someone, or that they would die, I am praying that God would remove them by whatever means He sees fit.

[familyop]

Knight is ahead by a hair in California with only 33% reporting.

[familyop]

Denham, Kim and Walters are still ahead, with the Denham election still very close.

[piasa]

We could take any of Pelosi’s house bills, gut them, and stick whatever we want in them in the Senate... like they did with Obamacare... and “see how they like them apples.”

[SkyPilot]

We lost several House seats in large part because of the Tax Bill.

I predicted this last December, and said so here on Free Republic.

The GOP will probably lose the House in 2018. The campaign commercials about Republicans raising taxes on many families so that corporations could get massive tax cuts will write themselves. And the democrats don't even need to lie this time.

December 2, 2017

That bill raised taxes for millions of Americans, including those in high tax states like CT, NY, NJ, CA, and others.

Corporations got a MASSIVE tax break (from 35% to 21%), and to "pay for it" they raised taxes on middle income Americans by capping or eliminating altogether deductions. People are now forced to pay taxes to the Feds upon taxes they already pay. Yes, the tax cut to corporations helped the economy, but not everyone in the middle class got a tax cut because their deductions were capped or destroyed. The Feds "needed the money."

It violated the President's pledge as a candidate:

"We will massively cut taxes for the middle class, the forgotten people, the forgotten men and women of this country, who built our country....Tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class taxpayer. They will receive the biggest benefit and it won't even be close." Candidate Trump, Oct 2016

The television ads were devastating. Some people on FR liked telling other residents of states they don't like to p___ off, and that none of this mattered.

Well, it did matter. We lost some House seats directly because of this issue. People are not stupid.

These are photos of people lining up last December (right during the holidays) to pre-pay taxes so as to be less screwed by the Feds come April.

Virginia

Colorado

New York

Georgia

Maryland

New Jersey

I wish we didn't lose the House. But it happened. People here can say that raising taxes on millions of middle class families didn't play a role. Fine. They can keep believe that.