Posted on 10/25/2020 4:46:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
President Donald Trump made a prediction about the GOP's control of the Senate at a fundraiser this week,
"I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough," Trump said, according to an attendee who shared the President's comments on condition of anonymity with the Post. "There are a couple senators I can't really get involved in. I just can't do it. You lose your soul if you do. I can't help some of them. I don't want to help some of them."
Trump's comments were made at a closed-door gathering held in Nashville, Tennessee, before the last presidential debate, according to the Post, where he said that he thinks the GOP will "take back the House."
Hours after the Post released its story, Trump told reporters that he hopes the GOP maintains control of the Senate.
"I hope to hold the Senate, we do. I think from a presidential standpoint we're winning a lot of states including this one. I think we're doing very well here. The crowd is certainly enthusiastic. I hope that we do. I think we're gonna take back the House because people are tired of Nancy Pelosi..."
Trump's comments come at a time when Republicans in tight down-ballot races, who had hoped to ride the President's coattails to victory, have little desire to align with him. Several influential Republicans have pleaded with Trump to abruptly change his tactics in the final two weeks to zero-in on an economic message, stop downplaying the coronavirus pandemic and to quit launching attacks against his public health experts -- namely Dr. Anthony Fauci.
... President at times has even seemed to not be interested in saving members of his own party. In Maine, Trump has gone after endangered GOP Sen. Susan Collins...
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To quote a buddy of mine, “Name names or f**k off”.
Vulgar maybe, but I agree with him.
To be honest, with backstabbing pricks like Romney, Cornyn, Sasse, Collins and Murkowski, just to name a few, that doesn’t surprise me in the least. I had to hold my nose like there is no tomorrow to vote “for” Cornyn in this election. I hope and pray that I never have to do that again.
In general, the Congressional Republicans have shown very little concern about their houses for this election. They truly lack any sense of urgency which is especially damning after losing the House in the 2018 midterms and then having the RATS pad their new majority by nine or ten additional seats through post-election ballot harvesting, and coming up three or four seats shorter than they should have in the Senate. All I see is a lot of whining about how much money the RATS have poured into every race as if it’s been a hugely guarded secret for two years what they were going to do.
Yup..he said “tough”......but not “impossible”.
Fake news from anonymous sources from CNN as usual to suppress Republican votes?
You bet.
So how the heck would President Trump say we will win the house while at the same time saying we’ll likely lose the US Senate?
Does that compute?
Nope.
The House would be much harder to win than the senate. If we are winning the house, then we are winning the Senate too. Period.
Take a deep breath. This is CNN.
The headline was almost alarming until I say CNN as the sorce.
CNN, but...I tend to agree with DJT...
The American people many times seem to create the checks & balances needed to preserve the Republic...
I believe Trump will win, but so many RINOs are in trouble...
Several of these RINOs Trump will never stump for...Collins, McSally, Linda...
They have all crapped on him during his term...
They should have learned...”you don’t shit where you eat”...
They all deserve what they get...
One real hope is that John James pulls it out in Michigan...this could save the day...
My daughter lives in an incredibly liberal town in CA. The residents look like escapees from Woodstock. Today she called and told me there was a huge pro Trump caravan winding through the downtown.
And maybe it was a little bit of the glass half empty to get the donors to pony up a bit more in the last days of the race to keep the Senate?
That’s may be because the RINOs in the Senate suck.
Does anyone think that it is ever easy to control the Senate, especially with the prissy, nervous Nellie Republicans candidates.
Yep. Right now the best case scenario is the next four years being like the last four years. I fully expect the Dems to impeach Trump again. Why not? The GOP Senate didn’t lift a finger in support of him.
Those “nervous Nellies as you called them have confirmed more federal judges than almost any other US Senate and are on the verge of confirming the third US Supreme Court Justice.
“condition of anonymity”
Fake and Gay, as in not true.
One of my favorite example of those whose grammar should be impeccable is the split infinitive.
It doesn’t bother me when a friend or acquaintance makes the mistake, but it steams me when a JOURNALIST does this
Lousy CNN can’t even get good help to work for them
Well one thing for sure....it is not going to be the sweep or tidal wave the Democrats were hoping for back in the summer. Graham is going anywhere, Perdue looks safe, we are flipping Alabama and God willing, Michigan. They would have to flip 6 senate seats at that point. Honestly, I think McSally is in. She was basically robbed during the ‘blue wave’ and what came after.
Yeah....I doubt that.
The Republicans will lose a seat in Colorado and gain a seat in Alabama.
After that races in Maine, Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina, Minnesota and Michigan will all be close. The Democrats are the incumbents in Michigan and Minnesota with the Republicans defending the other 4.
I expect Tillis to win in NC given Jody Cunningham’s sex scandal, his refusal to be honest about it and rumors of another mistress.
Ernst has consistently led in Iowa. Its close but I expect her to hold on.
The other 4 races - McSally vs Kelly in Arizona, John James vs a nondescript Democrat in Michigan as well as the races in Maine and Minnesota are all tossups at this point with 2 seats currently held by each party.
It will definitely be tough. For starters, Collins (ME) and Gardner (CO) are gone. McSally has a shot at holding her seat in AZ, as does Thom Tillis in NC, but those odds are at best 50%. On the upside, the GOP will probably flip the AL seat. Most likely the Senate will be at 50-50 or 51 GOP.
Biden:
NJ Trump 45 Biden 48 (Biden +3)
NM Trump 45 Biden 46 (Biden +1)
OR Trump 46 Biden 47 (Biden +1)
Trump:
NV Trump 49 Biden 46 (Trump +3)
WI Trump 50 Biden 45 (Trump +5)
NH Trump 49 Biden 46 (Trump +3)
ME Trump 48 Biden 46 (Trump +2)
PA Trump 50 Biden 45 (Trump +5)
MN Trump 47 Biden 44 (Trump +3)
AZ Trump 50 Biden 45 (Trump +5)
MI Trump 50 Biden 44 (Trump +6)
FLA Trump 52 Biden 44 (Trump +8)
TX Trump 54 Biden 42 (Trump +12)
NC Trump 53 Biden 43 (Trump +10)
OH Trump 53 Biden 41 (Trump +12)
IA Trump 54 Biden 41 (Trump +13)
In the states where Trump leads, he's up an average of 6.5%...
Margin of error is usually +/- 3%.
In only one state where Trump is ahead, is it well within the margin of error (ME) at 2%.
Three others (NH, NV, MN) are *at* the margin of error at 3%.
Only one of the states Biden is leading (NJ) is he AT the margin of error.
NJ at 3%.
The other two are within the margin of error:
NM and OR at 1%.
and
CO and VA are tied.
Tie:
CO Trump 47 Biden 47
VA Trump 47 Biden 47
Undecideds usually stay home or break for the incumbent.
This has the makings of a Trumpslide...!
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