They barely squeaked by in 2022. And in the meantime, several GOP states have been hard at work with setting laws that make flipping those states next to impossible with little to no recourse and accountability for shady incidents.
I guess this may be more of glass half full/glass half empty thing for me. Gaining 1 senate seat–resulting in essentially a 50/50 split since 2 independent seats caucus with the Dems–and losing the House seems like a narrow victory to me.
But you’re right, many feared the 2022 elections would be much worse for the Dems and that didn’t happen, fortunately.
Republicans were expected to grab both chambers of Congress, and own house by a huge margin. Instead they have such a narrow margin of control of the House, they actually couldn’t get crap done, and removed their speaker of the house, had some 7 votes for a replacement before exasperatingly arriving at Johnson.
They barely squeaked by in 2022. And in the meantime, several GOP states have been hard at work with setting laws that make flipping those states next to impossible with little to no recourse and accountability for shady incidents.
“Barely squeaked by”? It should’ve been a blow out for the GOP and they barely took the house and lost a senate seat.
I guess this may be more of glass half full/glass half empty thing for me. Gaining 1 senate seat–resulting in essentially a 50/50 split since 2 independent seats caucus with the Dems–and losing the House seems like a narrow victory to me.
But you’re right, many feared the 2022 elections would be much worse for the Dems and that didn’t happen, fortunately.
Republicans were expected to grab both chambers of Congress, and own house by a huge margin. Instead they have such a narrow margin of control of the House, they actually couldn’t get crap done, and removed their speaker of the house, had some 7 votes for a replacement before exasperatingly arriving at Johnson.