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Growing List of Democrat Retirements Bolster GOP Hopes of Retaking House Majority in 2022
Epoch Times ^ | 08/23/2021 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 08/23/2021 8:36:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

When Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) announced Aug. 10 that he wouldn’t seek reelection, he became the eighth House Democrat to decide either to retire or seek a different office in November 2022.

Congressional incumbents always start a reelection campaign with major advantages over challengers, so losing eight of them at this point in the political cycle is ringing alarm bells among Democrats and encouraging growth in Republican optimism.

An Aug. 19 analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight was among the loudest of the alarms, saying “these departures are still an early warning for them, especially considering Democrats hold a narrow 222-to-213 seat majority, meaning Republicans need a net gain of just five seats to capture the chamber.”

Add to that factor the historical trend of a White House incumbent’s party virtually always losing seats in the first off-year election after gaining the Oval Office, and President Joe Biden’s plunging public approval numbers, and it’s hard to disagree with FiveThirtyEight’s analysis.

An NBC survey released on Aug. 22 found Biden’s public approval rating falling below 50 percent for the first time since he took office. Even more worrisome for Democrats is what the NBC survey uncovered on the public view of Congress.

“Forty-seven percent of registered voters prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress, while 46 percent want Republicans in charge. (That’s down from the Democrats’ 5-point advantage on this question in April),” the survey found.

Veteran GOP congressional strategist Brian Darling points to additional factors that he believes strongly suggest November 2022 could see a massive Republican victory.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2022; congress; democrats; retirement; ronkind; wisconsin
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1 posted on 08/23/2021 8:36:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Daily reminder that NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE TO SECURE ELECTIONS AND PREVENT VOTER FRAUD. ANYWHERE. THAT SHIP HAS SAILED. PREPARE FOR THE COLLAPSE. THERE IS NO PLAN. THERE IS NO 2022. THERE IS CERTAINLY NO 2024. WAKE UP.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 8:39:28 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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Yes, you are right. THAT IS THE X FACTOR IN ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 8:40:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

Including gavin newsome’s recall.


4 posted on 08/23/2021 8:42:09 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t get your hopes up. Democrats gonna sue their way into power in 2022. Election rigging thru ballot chaos is working for them, so that’s what we gonna get a whole lot more of.


5 posted on 08/23/2021 8:44:26 PM PDT by BRK
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To: SeekAndFind

The system is broken. Forget elections, courts, and polls.


6 posted on 08/23/2021 8:46:55 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SeekAndFind

Good-ish news. Team R has held both houses and the executive before in the last 20 years and they always found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 8:47:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Captainpaintball

Precisely !

At this very moment, Dominion is desperately trying to cover it’s tracks.

Unless they’re stopped, kiss free elections good-bye.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 8:50:37 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: SeekAndFind
The GOP will make exactly zero effort to take back the House or Senate. They are not a functional party at this point.
9 posted on 08/23/2021 8:57:05 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Here lies the USA, born in 1776, died in 2009.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Understand this: Neither the Republican party OR the democrat party wants REAL change in Washington. They were united in their eagerness to get rid of Trump. The ONLY reason the republicans didn't join in 100% was so they could still get elected.

They are all a bunch of scam artists.

10 posted on 08/23/2021 8:58:05 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: SeekAndFind

Which GOP are we talking about?


11 posted on 08/23/2021 8:58:06 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Captainpaintball

Watch for the LaBamba variant hype in early 2022 to necessitate further mail in ballots.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 9:00:01 PM PDT by hercuroc
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GROWING LIST? Dem’s? It should be republican retirements. Our people have to quit. New contract. Hold them to it.


13 posted on 08/23/2021 9:18:18 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SeekAndFind
I refuse to vote for any RINO that survives the GOP primary elections. We cannot win with RINO traitors leading the party and anyone that says otherwise is either a damned fool or a lying con artist.

Only a fool ignores the wisdom of the ancients and here is excellent advice from Cicero, a a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and Academic Skeptic that lived 2,000 years ago:

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero


14 posted on 08/23/2021 9:20:36 PM PDT by WMarshal (The Pleasant American)
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To: SeekAndFind
The GOP are going to lose seats and rightfully so. They have betrayed the nation by letting the commie democrats steal the 2020 election.
15 posted on 08/23/2021 9:30:20 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: SeekAndFind

praying praying Pelousy gets retired, removed ASAP!


16 posted on 08/23/2021 9:36:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Take the money and run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCFUGCOLLU


17 posted on 08/23/2021 9:50:38 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ron Kind retiring is absolutely the nail in the Rat coffin. I know commenters hear are understandably pointing out fraud but I still think Rat supporters are lazy. They ain’t gonna stuff ballots unless anger can be directed at President Trump and even then it’s not enough for your average local House race.


18 posted on 08/23/2021 10:07:32 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: SeekAndFind

They already have radical college students on video stealing mail in ballots with master locks of post office boxes. Where did they get the master keys?

Newsome, the Devil wouldn’t get 25% of the vote but he’ll win through cheating.

No voter integrity means stolen elections.

2022 is a pipe dream that will somehow go to the democrats.

Face it, the democrats know they can’t win without cheating.

Until they kill us off and bring in millions of illegals and now Islamists.

I tell you the truth, the end draws near. I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to die becoming like a Joe Biden. Hell awaits the democrats. Their only true policy was killing.


19 posted on 08/23/2021 10:56:05 PM PDT by Chuck N
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To: SeekAndFind
In his first three years in office, Trump actually issued more Green Cards and Naturalized more new citizens than Obama did during Obama's last three years in office...

New Green Cards:

Trump - 3.26 million
Obama - 3.25 million

New Citizens:

Trump - 2.31 million

Obama - 2.14 million

New immigrant citizens vote 70%-75% Democrat.

20 posted on 08/23/2021 11:40:21 PM PDT by zeestephen
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