At least Trump’s taking it well.
So is that ‘is losing’ or ‘has lost’ under the ranked choice method?
I’ll yield to DSY or any other lawyer in this thread, but I don’t think he can sue until he’s lost under that method, since that’s the point at which he can demonstrate that harm has been done to him by it.
Although maybe not the beneficiaries of a Blue Wave, Dems did better in the US Senate than some might think: Even in the Senate, 2018 looks like other wave years for Democrats | CNN Politics
Katie Porter now leads Mimi Walters in CA-45 for the first time, by 261 votes.
And Cisneros is only 700 votes behind Young Kim in CA-39. Assuming Cisneros eventually wins, which he probably will, there will be no Republican representatives from Orange County. Imagine that. This isn’t a blue wave, it’s a blue tsunami!
The rest of the country wasn’t quite as bad for them I know, but I can’t quite find the right word to describe what happened to the Republicans in California in this election. Crushed. Destroyed. Annihilated.
Before we get too self-congratulatory about the far-sighted wisdom of the California voter (of whom I am one), let’s recall 2 California Republicans who didn’t drown in the wave: Devin Nunes, Trump’s errand boy on the Intelligence Committee; and Duncan Hunter, who is (a) under indictment and (b) ran a blatantly racist xenophobic anti-Muslim campaign.
Democrat Josh Harder has been declared the winner over incumbent Republican Jeff Harder in CA-10.
Jeff Denham. Though it would be amusing if they were in fact paternal twins vying for the same seat ;).
LOL
As if this campaign season hasn’t been bizarre enough…
Dem Andy Kim has beaten 2-term incumbent Republican Tom MacArthur for NJ03 according to Bloomberg:
Leaving only one Republican Congressmember from NJ.
In the category of “things I once said that I can now claim were accurate predictions while ignoring all the stuff I got wrong”, I mentioned ages ago that Trump’s deliberate punishing of California in various ways was going to have some blowback in the House elections. I’d still argue that was a factor this round - the Republicans have spent two years saying “fuck you” to California and Californians are returning the sentiment.
A pity about Nunes and Hunter. On the other hand, what happens if Hunter gets convicted? A by-election?
Assuming he resigned or was expelled, yes. But that wouldn’t be automatic. I’d think his party would press for him to quit or else, to save the embarrassment, but who knows any more. My congressman was convicted of several crimes in 2006, and he had to be threatened with expulsion before he agreed to resign, and he held off on actually doing it for a few weeks too. He was completely broke and was trying to collect as many paychecks as he could.
They’re called special elections in the U.S., by the way.
And not to be confused with Special Olympics which are, in many respects, quite different.
And in some very un-PC ways, quite similar.
And sorry, I couldn’t remember what they were called off the top of my head.
I’m rooting for Oliver St. John Mollusc.