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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has raised more than $66 million so far this calendar year, the most it has raised at this point in a midterm election year, it says. The DNC posted on Twitter on Saturday that it raised $16.1 million during the month of May, contributing to that record total. Politico was the first to report the figures.

The House Democrat’s campaign chief, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), tweeted on Monday night abortion will “now” become the “central choice” in the November midterms after Politico leaked a draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade. “Republicans just gutted Roe v Wade, the Constitution’s guarantee of reproductive freedom, and will ban abortion in all 50 states if they take over Congress,” Maloney tweeted. “Only Democrats will protect our freedoms. That is now the central choice in the 2022 election.”

President Joe Biden made his first endorsement of the midterm election cycle on Saturday, lending his support to Rep. Kurt Schrader (Ore.), a centrist Democrat locked in a contentious primary. “We don’t always agree, but when it has mattered most, Kurt has been there for me,” Biden said in a statement. “And in doing so, he has helped to pass much of my agenda into law ― making a huge difference in the lives of the Oregonians he represents and all of America.” “Now we have a lot more to do and to get it done we need to keep...

Soaring gas prices, historic inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, lifting crime rates, a porous southern border, and increasing U.S. absences on the global diplomatic stage. President Joe Biden will reportedly address these issues – amongst many more – dogging his administration in an election year with the simple mantra: “It’s not my fault, blame the Republicans.”

Far-left Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) admitted in a New York Times op-ed that Republicans may win the midterm elections, reclaiming the House and Senate. Warren, writing about the need to revive President Biden’s costly “Build Back Better” package, acknowledged the package may never become law, threatening the Democrats’ ability to retain power.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday said former President Trump’s endorsements in the upcoming midterm elections will not be “determinative.” Asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” what role Trump’s endorsements will play in November’s midterm races, Christie said they will “always be a factor” because of the ex-president’s influence in the Republican Party, but argued that they will not always determine the outcomes.

Democrats warn it's time to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to the upcoming midterm election as the White House defended its messaging strategy amid sagging approval ratings for President Joe Biden. Six months out from the election that will determine which party controls Congress, Democrats are facing an increasingly nightmare scenario that involves the war in Ukraine, high prices for food and gas, immigration problems at the Southern border and the remains covid pandemic. It has them worried they will lose control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in November.

Democrats are beginning to really worry about the 2022 elections. And they should. **SNIP** The odds are that the House Republicans will gain 25 to 70 seats as the voter tsunami builds in response to the economic, cultural and practical pain created by the Democrats’ policies. Fox News reported on the scare tactic the Democrats think they will be forced into: "MSNBC analyst John Heilemann revealed a ‘dark’ strategy Democrats are considering using to curb potential losses during the November midterm elections on ‘Deadline: White House’ Tuesday. The only solutions that will alleviate the various crises Biden is overseeing would...

House Republicans are scheduled to pick up at least ten House seats due to Democrat retirements alone, according to an analysis by left-leaning Punchbowl News. Republicans are only in the minority by five seats with 30 total Democrat retirements, the largest mass exodus in three decades.

Republicans are building a growing advantage on the generic midterm ballot ahead of next year’s midterms, according to a new CNBC All-America Economic survey. The GOP has a 10-point edge over Democrats among Americans polled, 44 percent to 34 percent. That’s up from a 2-point advantage from the same survey in October. The survey, which was reviewed by The Hill, marks the first time the GOP has ever enjoyed a double-digit lead on the question in a CNBC or NBC poll. It is in line with other polls showing Democrats losing on the generic ballot, though few have shown so...

Most voters think the leftist agenda will take some major hits in the 2022 midterm elections. According to a Rasmussen poll report released on Tuesday, 60 percent of voters think it is somewhat likely that “Republicans will pick up the five seats they need to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year.” Thirty-five percent think it is very likely. Only 30 percent of voters said it isn’t likely, with 10 percent undecided, according to the poll: Four years ago, when Democrats needed to gain 25 House seats to take control of Congress, less than half of voters...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death leaves an opening for the Republican president and Republican Senate to replacing a notorious pro-abortion, arch-liberal Supreme Court justice with a rock-ribbed, unflinching defender of young souls in utero. Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have made plain their intention to fill the vacated seat. Nothing short of a meteorite crashing into the Capitol dome will stop the President’s nominee from being confirmed. McConnell has herded the votes; Trump is giving no quarter to courtesies like making the pick contingent on November’s electoral outcome. Before the country enters a conservative counterpoise to the...

Senator Warren said this at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention, explicitly blaming Stacey Abrams’s narrow defeat in Georgia last fall on voter suppression "Massive voter suppression prevented Stacy Abrams from becoming the rightful governor of Georgia. ... They know that a durable majority of Americans believe in the promise of America, and they know that, if all the votes are counted, we'll win every time."

One man – McCrae Dowless – filed in-person requests for 592 absentee ballots at the Bladen County Board of Elections in the month's leading up to this year's midterm election. That's more than twice any other single applicant and accounts for 44 percent of the 1,341 in-person absentee ballot requests made at the Bladen County Board of Elections.

In the wake of Election 2018, analysts have delved deeply into a seemingly limitless supply of data points to explain the details of what happened. What role did suburban women play? Or health care? Was there a Kavanaugh effect? This obsession with details may be causing us to miss the bigger picture of what's going on. Donald Trump became the fourth consecutive president to win the presidency with his party in control of Congress and then lose control. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have all been there before. This swapping back and forth of political...

An examination of how Roman Catholics have voted in the past four midterm elections. Yr D R 2006 55% 44% 2010 44% 54% 2014 45% 54% 2018 50% 49% http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/07/how-religious-groups-voted-in-the-midterm-elections/ Democrats controlled the House in 2006 and 2018. For comparison with Presidential voting results I present the following below. Yr D R 1952 56% 44% 1956 51% 49% 1960 78% 22% Kennedy 1964 76% 24% LBJ 1968 59% 33% 1972 48% 52% 1976 57% 41% Carter 1980 46% 47% 1984 39% 61% 1988 51% 49% 1992 47% 35% Clinton 1996 55% 35% Clinton 2000 52% 46% 2004 52% 48% 2008...

Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats aren’t changing course, despite all those second-guessing them. Their vulnerable incumbents were free to ignore liberal orthodoxy over the past two years, but at least three red-state Democrats still went down hard in the midterms. And as 2020 looms, the party faces a steep challenge in clawing back to the Senate majority. But Democrats are finding only a bright side in Tuesday’s results, and are showing no sign of shifting strategies to try to shore up their performance in states President Donald Trump carried. In fact, they took heart in a GOP that’s “sliding in...

I've been living in Cincinnati 50% of the time this year and I am so glad Aftab Pureval and Jill Schiller both lost. I got so tired of seeing their happy smiling "I'm an immigrant." "I'm a mom." ads over and over and over while streaming shows. They spoke nothing about their stances, nothing about their backgrounds, presented no ideas, just happy happy fluff. Which, since they're Democrats, means they're card carrying communists from the Obama administration (Which Jill was.). I am happy to see all of the Senate flips of course but for some reason these House races really...

In judging the political climate these last two years there is one dynamic in particular that I would like to focus on, that speaks volumes, and transcends all other appeals from the many politicians pandering for your vote, and that is this; There has been more constructive and productive work done in these last two years to benefit workers, entrepreneurs, and unemployed people than has been done in a very long time. In fact, what is happening in the country right now, would have never happened, nor would have ever been attempted if Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. This...

As I have done every two years for quite some time, here are my predictions for the midterms. House of Representatives There are several dozen House races and five Senate races where one candidate or the other has a lead of 2 points or less in the most recent survey. Picking individual winners in these House races is hazardous since there are few public polls of these districts . Another few dozen House seats show a candidate leading by five points or less. The great majority of the close House races are Republican-held seats, hence their vulnerability to Democrats taking...