Reply to: Trump Returns...

[AtW]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...lon-musks-poll

[SueEllen]

Elizabeth Warren will be so disappointed!

[hugebrain]

first woman president of Indian heritage.

Elizabeth Warren will be so disappointed!

[SueEllen]

And...?

They do in the US as well.

[malvolio]

Lots of people tactically vote in the UK.

And...?

[_V_]

[SueEllen]

You need to look at these results in the light of previous midterms, where the incumbent party got a hammering from the usual protest vote. That didn't happen this time round. I'm pretty sure that wasn't because Biden is so wonderfully effective or popular with the electorate.

Lots of people tactically vote in the UK.

[malvolio]

You need to look at these results in the light of previous midterms, where the incumbent party got a hammering from the usual protest vote. That didn't happen this time round. I'm pretty sure that wasn't because Biden is so wonderfully effective or popular with the electorate.

[vetran]

Vote Donny!

[cojak]

…like a wet fart.

[jamesbrown]

Excellent news for the Dems, assuming he gets the nomination, which seems....not forgone.

[vetran]

Then Biden keels over and they get their first woman president of Indian (and black) heritage.

oh that will go down well with the racists, an achievement based on "Positive Action" and by default.

[SueEllen]

He's now the Korbyn of the Republican Party, so I too hope he does run in 2024 and Biden (if he's still breathing by then) wipes the floor with him.

Then Biden keels over and they get their first woman president of Indian (and black) heritage.

[_V_]

He's now the Korbyn of the Republican Party, so I too hope he does run in 2024 and Biden (if he's still breathing by then) wipes the floor with him.

[SueEllen]

I think I read that all the candidates he supported in the recent house and senate elections lost.

Not exactly true -

https://news.sky.com/story/us-midter...laims-12742373

Looking at the House of Representatives, for instance, the former president officially endorsed 174 of the 430 Republican candidates.

Although 159 of Trump's chosen candidates emerged victorious, 149 of them were defending Republican seats.

A truer measure of a candidate's success is the extent to which they managed to increase the share of people voting for the Republican Party compared to the 2020 presidential election.

Looking at the 71% of counties where more than 90% of results have been reported, House candidates backed by Trump managed to increase the Republican vote share by two percentage points.

That's well short of the 7.1 percentage point increase for the party in counties without Trump-endorsed Republicans.

The difference was largest in areas defended by the Democrats. In areas where the local Republican candidate was backed by Trump, the party's vote share fell by 3.6 percentage points. But when the Republican challenger was not endorsed by Trump, the Republican vote share increased by 5.9 percentage points.