Tag: 2022 Midterm Election

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Hannity Wants To Know Who Predicted A ‘Red Tsunami’ Midterm – Even Though It Was Him 

Fox News host Sean Hannity is confounded by all the talk about why there was no “red tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections. After all, he insists, who was saying such a thing in the first place?

As it turns out, he was.

The Daily Beast notes that Hannity made his remarks about the results of the 2022 midterms on his show Wednesday.

“I can’t say for sure whether rumors of the red tsunami started because polls in almost every key race were within the margin of error, mostly only one or two points,” Hannity said at the top of his show Wednesday night. “The glowing predictions of a big red wave were frankly foolish. I have a rule in life: Never overpromise and underdeliver. You want to underpromise and overdeliver.”

And yet, here’s a tweet from the Fox host in January.

He also told former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer:

“All of the foundational issues are there for the Republicans to have a wave election.”

And Hannity used his show in recent weeks to hype others who were predicting a massive win for the GOP.

The former White House shadow chief-of-staff and longtime Trump confidant had used his show in recent months to boost influential conservative voices and GOP candidates relentlessly promising a red wave on the horizon.

“I think it’s going to be a great night,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich beamed last week, predicting Republicans would gain as many as 44 House and five Senate seats.

There’s also this supercut of all the times Sean said he expected that Congress would soon be controlled by Republicans:

Of course, none of this should surprise anyone. Fox and its hosts constantly spread lies and conspiracy theories instead of reporting facts because that’s what their brainwashed viewers want to hear.

But when the bullshit comes back and hits Hannity and Fox square in the face, they just grin and try to act like they never said exactly what the video shows they did.

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Don Jr. Prematurely Claims GOP Midterm Victory And Gets Pelted With Internet Mockery

At exactly 8:15 p.m. Tuesday night, Donald Trump Jr., the son of failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump sent out a tweet that he probably wishes he hadn’t.

Bloodbath? Maybe as it applies to his old man’s planned “comeback” on the political scene, but if the returns proved anything, it’s that the majority of voters are sick and tired of Trump, his lies about the 2020 election, and his attempts to blame everyone but himself for his massive failure in the last presidential race and the midterm.

Perhaps the most crushing loss for Trump was that Democrat John Fetterman beat GOP candidate Mehmet Oz and will be the next senator from the state of Pennsylvania. That seat was previously held by Pat Toomey, who decided not to seek another term.

So where exactly is the bloodbath? A look the mockery aimed at Don Jr. on Twitter suggests it might be in the bashing he took online.

 

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Fox Commentator Calls Midterm Results A ‘Searing Indictment’ Of The GOP

The predicted 2022 midterm election “red wave” we’ve been hearing about ever since President Joe Biden took the oath of office in January of 2021 fizzled out in humiliating fashion on Tuesday, with the Republicans still uncertain of whether or not they’ll control the House, and, even if they do, with a margin of just a few seats.

The Senate also appears headed for a 50-50 split or slim majority for Democrats once the race in Georgia between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and his GOP challenger, Herschel Walker, is decided in a runoff on December 6.

Just how bad was the midterm for Republicans? So much that Fox News political commentator Marc Thiessen is declaring it “an absolute disaster” and an indictment of the GOP, their message, and their candidates.

Thiessen sounded a warning for Republicans, noting:

“We have the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse in real wages in 40 years, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in U.S. history. We have Joe Biden, who is the least popular president since Harry Truman — since presidential polling happened — and there wasn’t a red wave. That is a searing indictment of the Republican Party. That is a searing indictment of the message that we have been sending to the voters. They looked at all of that and looked at the Republican alternative and said ‘no thanks.'”

Despite some conservatives attempting to put a happy face on the election results, Thiessen made it clear 2022 will go down in history as a debacle for the Republican Party.

 “The Republican Party needs to do a really deep introspection, look in the mirror right now, because this is an absolute disaster for the Republican Party, and we need to turn back. We need to look at who won today: Ron DeSantis, (Mike) DeWine. These governors. (Brian) Kemp, Abbott. Look at these governors. This is the path to the future. And electing these radical candidates who ran far behind them has put the Republican Party in a terrible position. And voters have indicted the Republican Party.”

Thiessen’s call for DeSantis, DeWine, Kemp, and Abbott to be the “path to the future” is also problematic for the GOP because all of them are far right extremists who want to jail women that have an abortion. If Republicans nominate any of them in 2024, they’re likely to lose again. That’s good news for the country but a political obituary for the GOP.

Here’s the video:

 

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Democratic Turnout Surpasses GOP In 3 Key States As The Predicted ‘Red Wave’ Fizzles

For almost a year now political pundits and pollsters have suggested that the 2022 midterm election will be disastrous for Democrats across the country.

But the number of ballots already cast in early voting shows that Democrats are trouncing the GOP in three key states: Georgia, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

During a panel discussion Monday on MSNBC, host Joy Reid told Nicolle Wallace that voters were sickened by the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and seeing the Supreme Court take away a woman’s right to make her reproductive choices.

“Women just don’t get over the idea that they no longer own their bodies. That’s not something that they say, ‘Hey, you know, I wish milk was a little cheaper. I’ll probably get over it.’ That isn’t something that happens. So, when I look at the electorate and the way that campaigns are looking at it, they’re saying, can Republicans catch up to that 4 million vote lead on Election Day? Because that’s when they are voting.”

That led Wallace to note that she doesn’t trust polls showing Republicans with the lead over their Democratic rivals:

“I think it’s unknowable. Because I think if you don’t trust your Apple watch to track your period, you’re not responding to a pollster about how, whether you care a lot or not at all. It doesn’t answer the question. I don’t know if you’re taking those calls anymore, if you are that kind of voter. I also think that this idea that the Dobbs vote peaked early — it’s 50 years of precedent overturned! You don’t get over it, in like 12 weeks.”

One thing that will definitely happen if the GOP doesn’t win big in the midterms: They’ll claim the election was stolen from them and try to overturn the results in court. But as we saw in 2020, that’s not going to be a winning strategy and will only further antagonize the majority of voters who don’t buy Republican conspiracy theories.

 

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Trump Fan Twists Himself In Knots Trying To Defend Herschel Walker’s Abortion Hypocrisy

According to many Republicans, abortion is murder and needs to be declared illegal across the country, no matter the reason a woman may be trying to terminate her pregnancy, with some on the right even going so far as to say there should be no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

That hardline position is leaving many right-wingers in a difficult position when it comes to Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who says he’s opposed to abortion yet reportedly paid for at least two women he impregnated to terminate their pregnancies.

Such was the case with a Georgia man who was interviewed by Jason Selvig of The Good Liars.

The man — who was wearing a pro-Trump cap and told Selvig that he did indeed support Walker — was asked:

“You think abortion is murder?”

The man replied:

Selvig then asked:

“Do you think that Herschel Walker is a murderer if he paid for an abortion?” 

The man responded:

“Well, actually we’ve all done bad things.”

Once again, Selvig pressed:

“Murder is, you know — that’s one of the worst you could do, right?”

The man attempted to change the topic to Walker’s opponent, incumbent Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock:

“Warnock hasn’t repented for his sins.”

But Selvig had the perfect comeback:

“But, I mean, totally unrelated to Raphael Warnock, if Herschel Walker paid for an abortion, and you think abortion is murder, does that not make him a murderer?”

That led the man to tell Selvig:

“You know, it’s according to what you want to call murder. I mean, if you see somebody breaking into your house and you kill him, is that murder? If you accidentally run over somebody—”

Selvig asked yet again:

“Is abortion murder?” 

The man replied:

“Well, if you do that, a premeditated taking of a life, I think that is murder.”

Selvig:

“So that, by definition, if the allegations are true, he was a murderer, but that’s okay with you because he repented.”

The man continued to twist himself into pretzel shape, replying:

“Well, what is sin is sin. I mean, some sins are more long lasting.”

Spoken like a true fake Christian who has either never read the Bible or read it and didn’t understand a word about forgiveness, redemption, and sin.

Here’s the video: