2022 U.S. Senate Races

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#754
Okay, I'm changing my mind and calling the shot: The Rs are going to win the Senate with at least 51. While some of the races are close, there are governor races that are not and I believe they will pull their corresponding Senate candidates across the finish line (see Georgia).

The Rs go 3-1 in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada. Might pick up NH at this point. The incumbent there is weak and the challenger is particularly strong and has closed the gap.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Okay, I'm changing my mind and calling the shot: The Rs are going to win the Senate with at least 51. While some of the races are close, there are governor races that are not and I believe they will pull their corresponding Senate candidates across the finish line (see Georgia).

The Rs go 3-1 in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada. Might pick up NH at this point. The incumbent there is weak and the challenger is particularly strong and has closed the gap.
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I don't see it myself. I think the Ds hold and the senate ends up 50-49-1
 
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hog88 said:
I don't see it myself. I think the Ds hold and the senate ends up 50-49-1
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I know. You had me convinced several weeks ago, but momentum seems to be swinging pretty hard to the Rs. Not that they'll know what to do with having the Senate, but at the least, they can stop some of the crap. Unfortunately, I don't think this will be all that great in terms of turning things around. When Clinton got whacked, he had enough sense to see the light and worked with the new majorities. Obama, meh.

But this senile moron in the White House and his Merry Band of Idiots are clueless. I really think he is too stupid to understand what happened because of his policies and is too inept to change. His fossil fuel policies are crippling the economy and Congress will not be able to do much about it.

And if you think the southern border has been bad, just wait until next year. Biden will double down on allowing illegal crossings and Mayorkas, who would be the leader for the Heisman Trophy for Government Buffoons if there was one, will do all he can to facilitate it.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
I know. You had me convinced several weeks ago, but momentum seems to be swinging pretty hard to the Rs. Not that they'll know what to do with having the Senate, but at the least, they can stop some of the crap. Unfortunately, I don't think this will be all that great in terms of turning things around. When Clinton got whacked, he had enough sense to see the light and worked with the new majorities. Obama, meh.

But this senile moron in the White House and his Merry Band of Idiots are clueless. I really think he is too stupid to understand what happened because of his policies and is too inept to change. His fossil fuel policies are crippling the economy and Congress will not be able to do much about it.

And if you think the southern border has been bad, just wait until next year. Biden will double down on allowing illegal crossings and Mayorkas, who would be the leader for the Heisman Trophy for Government Buffoons if there was one, will do all he can to facilitate it.
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I just don't see the powers that be allowing the Rs to take the Senate. Ds control the major cities in every state with a contested election so I expect to see many of the same shenanigans that went on in 2020 happening again.
 
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hog88 said:
I just don't see the powers that be allowing the Rs to take the Senate. Ds control the major cities in every state with a contested election so I expect to see many of the same shenanigans that went on in 2020 happening again.
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Yeah, Pennsylvania worries me most in that aspect. Georgia not as much.
 
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Why No One’s Talking About This Swing-State Senate Race That Could Determine the Balance of Power in Washington

Generic candidates battle it out in North Carolina

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RALEIGH, N.C.—"We are so excited about Dave Matthews!"

Cheri Beasley, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, is doing her best to rally the party's base. It's a Tuesday night in the state capital, and hundreds of college-educated white millennials and Gen Xers are definitely excited to see Dave Matthews perform at this DNC-sponsored event exactly two weeks before the 2022 midterms. (Matthews, 55, is best known for releasing a hit album several weeks before the 1994 midterms.)

The near-capacity crowd grows restless, nursing local IPAs, as the candidate rattles off some talking points about everything "at stake" in this election: abortion rights, climate change, "safe communities." Whatever that means. (Beasley's record as state Supreme Court justice and her willingness to associate with radical "defund the police" activists suggests an expansive definition of the term.) Her abbreviated stump speech does not mention inflation but concludes on an inspirational note: "Things can get worse."

Most Americans have never heard of Cheri Beasley or her GOP opponent, Rep. Ted Budd, a gun-store owner from Davie County outside Winston-Salem first elected in 2016. The two candidates are running to succeed Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.), who is retiring after three terms in office. It's a race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate for the second half of President Joe Biden's first (and probably last) term in office, but the national media aren't paying attention.

That is almost certainly by design. Both parties nominated generic candidates unlikely to make headlines. No celebrity doctors. No hulking stroke victims in cargo shorts who speak with the coherence of a teenage beauty queen explaining (and embodying) the failures of our education system. No eccentric football legends betraying the black community by running against a Democrat. No 2024 contenders who might disrupt former president Donald Trump's path to the GOP nomination.

Why No One's Talking About This Swing-State Senate Race That Could Determine the Balance of Power in Washington - Washington Free Beacon
 
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Mark Kelly Says He’s a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took $350K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group.

A dark money group that wants to defund police and abolish federal immigration agencies has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Arizona Senate race, providing a last-minute boost for Democratic senator Mark Kelly, whose once-sizable lead has evaporated ahead of Election Day.

Living United for Change in Arizona has spent nearly $350,000 since Oct. 21 to help the Kelly campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. The expenditures have gone to pay wages for canvassers to knock on doors in the Grand Canyon State to turn out the vote for Kelly.

The donations create an uneasy alliance for Kelly, who fashions himself a moderate criminal justice reformer. Living United, which has received funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has called for defunding the Phoenix Police Department, saying, "The police do not protect or serve us." The group, which has held protests outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, made national headlines in October 2021 after its members filmed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) in a bathroom on the campus of Arizona State University and grilled her over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass a voting bill.

Mark Kelly Says He's a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took $350K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group. - Washington Free Beacon
 
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Warnock’s Church Airs Sermon Calling Evangelical Christianity the ‘Ideological Basis’ of White Supremacy

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At a voter outreach event on Saturday, Georgia Democratic senator Raphael Warnock’s church featured a fiery sermon from a reverend who denounced evangelical Christianity as the "ideological basis" for slavery and white supremacy.

The Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as senior pastor, hosted a "Super Voter Saturday" panel discussion last weekend and aired a pre-taped 2020 sermon by Rev. Billy Honor. The event took place just a few days before voters will head to the polls in Georgia, which has one of the largest evangelical Christian populations in the United States.

While Warnock did not speak at the event, his name was at the top of a welcome message to attendees that played at the beginning of the program. The sermon could reignite concerns about Warnock’s own controversial statements and promotion of extremist rhetoric, including a sermon in which he said Americans need to repent for their "whiteness" and his defense of anti-Semitic pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Warnock's Church Airs Sermon Calling Evangelical Christianity The 'Ideological Basis' Of White Supremacy
 
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hog88 said:
IDK Atlanta Metro area will decide that race and I'm not talking just about the voters there.
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Agreed it will decide. But I think the legislature made it harder to “cheat.” No more mass mailings of absentee ballots. I still believe a lot people “voted” for Biden and the idiot Senators that have no idea they did. We will see. I still think Kemp is going to pull Walker over the finish line.

I do think, however, the Game Saturday could affect the race. If UGA wins, Herschel benefits from a boatload of positive feeling in the state. If they lose, they’ll be depressed and it could deflate turnout just enough. It may sound crazy, but as close as it is, a small fraction of people not voting because Of losing the game could affect the outcome.
 
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volinbham said:
Honestly this is a dumb as Q stuff. It's patently absurd and to the extent he believes this he should seek help.
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The MSNBC crowd is unique from the host to the guest. They daily get away with their audience what they believe they are trying to stop. Constant fear mongering, tolerated racism, all things Trump while protecting Biden.
 
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