[Alberta's Child]

Losing the House was almost predictable. With 40+ Republicans vacating their seats, the GOP had a much tougher campaign than usual to defend their majority.

[Luircin]

I think the fact that the House margin is that narrow is a victory in itself, considering how we limited the losses.

And if I read this right, the ones who lost were RINOs—those who didn’t try to sabotage the House by retiring as well.

So in other words, the House is almost exactly the same as before, just with an outright globalist as Speaker instead of a hidden globalist.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, if most of those GOP Senators stay, we likely hold the House.

[chimera]

All those retirements killed us. Incumbency is a powerful tool. What is it, something like 98% of incumbents get re-elected? This is something the party has to work on with their incumbent officeholders. I know you can't force someone to stay in a job they no longer want, but they have to ask themselves whether it is better to hang in there and tough it out to hand another opportunity to your opposition who wishes you nothing but ill-will.

And please, save the flames. I know a lot of those who packed it in were RINOs and never-Trumpers, but I'm looking at the numbers here, which for some things in politics is what it comes down to. Things like the Speakership, committee chairs, and so forth. We might have not had the perfect group of legislators, but now we won't have much chance of doing anything.