Mid-Day Snapshot · Nov. 10, 2022

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Joe Biden’s ‘Good Day for Democracy’

In a rare press conference, the divider-in-chief gloated about his party not having lost too badly.

Douglas Andrews

“Nothing.” Zip, zilch, nada.

That was Joe Biden’s response yesterday when asked during a rare press conference what he planned to do differently during the final two years of his one and only term. If Biden’s response doesn’t already seem arrogant enough, consider the exact question that was asked: “Seventy-five percent of people say the country is heading in the wrong direction. What do you intend to do differently?”

“Nothing”? Really?

Biden then explained: “Because they’re just finding out what we’re doing. The more they know about what we’re doing, the more support there is.”

That can’t be so — not unless soaring inflation, a looming recession, a surge in violent crime, a wide-open southern border, a failing educational system, a war on American energy, and a weaker military are more popular than we’d thought. Nevertheless, by doubling down on his ruinous policies, Biden reaffirms H.L. Mencken’s well-worn quip about democracy being the belief that the people know what they want, and that they deserve to get it good and hard.

Asked specifically about the midterm elections, whose votes are still, maddeningly, being counted in close races across the land, Biden said: “We’ve lost very few seats for certain. It was a good day for democracy.”

He continued: “While the press and pundits were predicting a giant red wave, it didn’t happen. I felt good during the whole process. While any seat lost is painful, we lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any president’s first term in last 40 years.”

He’s right about that, but mostly because the continual gerrymandering of congressional districts by both political parties has left fewer and fewer seats up for grabs. On top of that, the Republicans were starting from a high floor in the House to begin with — meaning that they were already just five seats from being in the majority — so the wild predictions of a 30- to 40-seat bloodbath were, in retrospect, idiotic. (Here, we’ll admit to being swept up in the moment, and we’ll vow to be better going forward.)

As for yesterday being “a good day for democracy,” Biden clearly meant “a bad day for Republicans,” who couldn’t seem to convince enough voters that myriad other issues were a graver threat to their way of life than overturning Roe v. Wade’s incorrectly adjudicated federal guarantee of abortion on demand.

But November 8 might not end up having been such a bad day for Republicans, except in terms of poorly managed expectations. How so? In Nevada, Adam Laxalt is hanging on to a narrow 1.8% lead with 83% of the votes counted in his bid to unseat incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. If Laxalt wins, control of the Senate will come down to a December 6 runoff in Georgia between Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Thus, the Republican hopes of wresting control of both houses of Congress aren’t yet dead — far from it. Under-promise and over-deliver, as they say — not the other way around.

The other blessing that Republicans might draw from Tuesday’s middling results is a slightly strengthened Joe Biden, who didn’t lose as badly as was expected. We say this because it might make him even harder to usher off the stage between now and 2024.

Unlike just about everyone else on both sides of the aisle, Biden hasn’t ruled out a potential 2024 reelection bid. We can dream, of course. We can root for him to run because we don’t see how an octogenarian whose approval rating is stubbornly stuck in the low-40s can possibly win reelection.

Then again, we didn’t see how nearly three million Pennsylvanians could vote to send John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate, so we should probably shut our lousy soup cooler.

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Abortion in the Election

For Democrats, this was an effective rallying cry this midterm.

Emmy Griffin

The overturning of Roe v. Wade marked the beginning of a successful propaganda narrative that Democrats constructed in order to rally their pro-abortion base for the midterm elections. The results are somber for pro-lifers.

The Washington Post crowed about the exit polls on this matter, stating the polls found that “almost 3 in 10 voters nationally said abortion was the most important issue in their vote, and that about 4 in 10 voters nationally said they were ‘angry’ that Roe was overturned.” Hillary Clinton likewise weighed in, “It turns out women enjoy having human rights, and we vote.”

But there are other indicators that abortion played a major role in voting this election.

Five states had abortion on the ballot, and all of the proposals went in favor of abortion.

Michigan’s infamous Proposal 3 — which makes abortion a part of the state constitution and allows for the termination of a baby at any point during the nine months of pregnancy — passed with 56.2% of the vote.

In Vermont, voters overwhelmingly enshrined abortion in their state constitution with more than 78% of the vote, which, according to LifeSiteNews, makes Vermont “the first state to formally enshrine abortion ‘rights’ in its constitution.”

Unsurprisingly, California also voted for abortion to be added to the state constitution.

Montana’s proposition asked voters if there should be medical care provided to babies who survive abortions. As of this writing, with 89% of the vote in, the “Nos” are winning at 52.57%. Horrific.

Kentucky’s proposal was an amendment to say there was no right to abortion. As of this writing, with 99% of the vote counted, the “Nos” are at 52.4%.

Pro-abortion advocates are celebrating their victory in the red state of Kentucky, which was largely viewed as an anti-abortion stronghold. But the voters said they didn’t want a ban in the state constitution, which leaves the state open for overturning some of the abortion restrictions there. Tamarra Wieder, state director for Kentucky Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said, “Abortion transcends party lines.” That is not the sort of unifying statement that inspires anything but deep sadness.

Many factors played into these tragic results, but the biggest of those factors was how close the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was to the midterm elections. The mainstream media was able to sell lies and euphemisms to an already angry and suspicious electorate.

One of the lies the pro-abortion crowd was able to sell was: “The loss of Roe means your children and grandchildren have less rights than you did.” This implies that women not fighting for abortion rights were anti-feminist and retrograde. This right was never in the Constitution in the first place, and reverting abortion policy back to the states is the correct course of action by SCOTUS.

Pro-abortion activists also said that if abortion is outlawed, women who have miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies might be investigated for breaking abortion laws and/or prevented from receiving treatment. This is just a flat-out lie. Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies are not abortions. Not receiving care would result in medical harm to the mother. No pro-lifer in their right mind would object to medical intervention in these circumstances. Yet this lie was so ardently championed by the leftist propaganda machine that an elderly canvaser in Michigan was shot for contradicting that lie.

The icing on the cake in this deadly campaign was how Democrat candidates, in conjunction with the media, successfully avoided airing their extreme abortion views to the voters. Katie Hobbs, who is in a close race for governor of Arizona, would not say when she thought abortions should be illegal. The platform of the Democrat Party is that abortion is okay during all nine months of pregnancy for any reason (Michigan’s Proposal 3 is a perfect example). This position is more extreme than any abortion law in Europe and is on par with tyrannical dictatorships like China and North Korea. Not a good look.

Perhaps the results would have been different if pro-lifers had an equal hearing in the MSM. Sadly, pro-life advocates have an uphill battle in this arena.

Pro-life activists and crisis pregnancy centers have been crippled when it comes to getting out their life-saving message. Big Tech is censoring them and their advertising. Furthermore, the DOJ has decided to use its power to attack pro-life activists and ignore the many cases of arson, vandalism, and threats made to these crisis centers.

Ultimately, abortion — not typically a factor for deciding on candidates for elections — was a key issue for many Democrats. They outflanked pro-life Republicans on messaging, and now the unborn babies in those states are more vulnerable than ever.

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Patriots, How Will You Respond?

On Tuesday, we lost some battles, but it is time to regroup and redouble our vigilance and our actions.

Since the dawn of our nation, Liberty has been threatened by those who promote tyranny, and those who seek to empower themselves. It will take more than one election cycle to pull our nation out of the ditch we are in — but there has been a great awakening among our fellow Patriots in the last decade, and our ranks have grown rapidly during that time.

We rise every day tasked with a mission to “support and defend” our Constitution and the Liberty it enshrines. The future of Liberty rests on all our shoulders, and with God’s help we will keep moving the line forward.

Do not dare withdraw from the battle. Today, please support our mission so that we can continue to grow our ranks, and meet the enemies of Liberty on the next field of battle with force and resolve.

Thank you for all you do to sustain Freedom for the next generation.

Executive News Summary

Stock market was hoping for a red wave, conservatives won in New York, Russians are slowly retreating in Ukraine, and more.

Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler

Cross-Examination

  • The stock market was hoping for a red wave: Following the midterm election results, Wall Street saw a deflation in stock values as the anticipated red wave failed to arrive. The Dow Jones dropped 530 points and the NASDAQ fell 229 points. The biggest factor in the market slump was due to uncertainty as to which party ends up controlling the House and Senate. While the House looks likely to come under Republican control, the Senate leaves a lot of questions up in the air for investors. The lack of a clear mandate from the electorate against the Democrat agenda further breeds a sense of unease in the market, as the notion that any big changes will be coming from Washington appears to be limited. Ironically, at the end of the day, Republicans may have won, but it feels like defeat because expectations weren’t met.
  • Conservatives won in New York: The Empire State gubernatorial race appeared to be reaching tossup territory in the final week leading up to the election, but Democrat incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul was able to defeat a serious challenge from Republican Representative Lee Zeldin. The thought that Zeldin even had a chance against Hochul in reliably blue New York was remote. However, while Zeldin didn’t win, Republicans did better across the state, effectively eroding Democrat dominance there. What put New York in play for Republicans has much to do with the Democrats’ poor record on crime. As violent crime has been rising, especially in New York City, voters were motivated to look to Republicans for solutions. On the national scene, Republicans netted at least three U.S. House seats from New York, which included the surprising defeat of the Democrats’ House campaign chief, Sean Patrick Maloney. So, while states like Florida got redder, New York’s blue has a decidedly more purple hue.
  • Russians are slowly retreating in Ukraine: For the past several months, the tide of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has clearly turned against the Russian strongman. Following the collapse of Russian military forces in northeastern Ukraine near the major city of Kharkiv in late summer, Putin’s forces have been slowly losing the ground they gained early in the war. Now, after months of sustained pressure and heavy loses inflicted by Ukraine’s military in the southeast, Russian military leadership announced a planned withdrawal of forces from the key regional city of Kherson. The loss of Kherson for the Russians would be a major blow for their military strategic capabilities, and it serves to continue to increase pressure on a military that is clearly struggling to adapt to an increasingly superior-armed Ukraine. The exfiltration from the Kherson region of an estimated 40,000 Russian troops will be no easy feat. The few bridge crossings over the large Dnipro River have been severely damaged by Ukraine, forcing the Russians to use barges to move men and equipment across. With winter fast approaching, the prospects of any success for Putin from this war continue to dim.

Headlines

  • Georgia Senate race will go to a runoff (PJ Media)
  • GOP grows support among black, Hispanic, youth voting blocs (Daily Wire)
  • Exit poll shows nearly 70% of single women voted Democrat in midterms (Daily Wire)
  • Don’t blame Gen Z for voting Democrat; blame the people who told them to (RedState)
  • How accurate were the polls in the 2022 elections? (Intelligencer)
  • Inventories of diesel in the United States are the lowest they have been heading into winter in 70 years (Washington Post)
  • Biden courted oil companies before threatening them with windfall tax (Washington Post)
  • Biden says Elon Musk’s Twitter deal “worth being looked at” (The Hill)
  • Trump attacks DeSantis: I got more votes than him, needs to be “more gracious” to me (Daily Wire)
  • Mike Pence suggests a Lincoln Project ad convinced Trump he could overturn the 2020 election on January 6 (Fox News)
  • Policy: Heritage Foundation releases top seven priorities to promote conservatism in next Congress (Fox News)
  • Humor: Millions of Americans struggle to fill the void in their lives left by absence of political commercials (Babylon Bee)

For more editors’ choice headlines, click here.

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Will the Election Change Inflation?

Gridlock at least can’t hurt, but “transitory” inflation will continue to persist for the foreseeable future.

Nate Jackson

One subsiding red wave is actually good news — the red ink in your budget caused by inflation, which might have peaked and be on its way back down. Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report brings some welcome news, given that inflation in October came in below those always-entertaining expert expectations. But…

CPI increased 0.4% in October, and it’s now 7.7% for the year. The latter number is the best rate since January. It’s down from 8.2% in September and continues an overall downward trend in the annual rate from June’s peak of 9.1%. But cumulative inflation since Joe Biden signed the inflationary American Rescue Plan is still nearly 13%, month-over-month inflation is still expanding faster than July and August when Biden was touting 0%, and even an annual rate of 7.7% is a far cry from the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%.

There’s also the fact that much of the slowdown was caused by a decline in prices for a few things like medical care, apparel, and used cars. On the flip side, shelter costs increased 0.8%, the most since 1990. “Also, fuel oil prices exploded 19.8% higher for the month and are up 68.5% on a 12-month basis,” CNBC reports. “The food index rose 0.6% for the month and 10.9% annually, while energy was up 1.8% and 17.6%, respectively.” Gas prices were up 4% for the month and 17.5% for the year.

Thanks to inflation, wages are also down 0.1% for the month and 2.8% for the year. And the Federal Reserve is on track to continue raising interest rates, having already done so five times in 2022 for a cumulative hike of three percentage points. That has greatly slowed the housing market and could tip the country back into recession.

Finally, price increases may slow down, and many months (or years) from now inflation may return to 2%, but we’re unlikely to ever return to pre-inflation prices on much of anything.

Meanwhile, Biden is obstinately insisting he won’t change course after the midterm elections, when many voters did indeed stubbornly choose to stick with Democrats because they’re more afraid of Donald Trump or losing the “right” to terminate preborn babies than they are about the economy or their own family budget.

However, there’s still some good news. Republicans have almost certainly won control of the House, and the Senate is still in play. That means gridlock in Washington instead of the “progressives” passing their destructive legislative agenda. That may give stock markets time to recover as businesses can plan for not much happening in DC. Maybe the economy can regain its legs without major Democrat agenda items as well.

Besides, as Biden said of inflation Wednesday, “I am optimistic.” What could go wrong?

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COVID’s Continued Hit on America’s Workforce

Exploring the mystery of America’s “missing workers” two and a half years later.

Thomas Gallatin

While the overwhelming majority of Americans who have been sickened by COVID have recovered, the American economy has yet to fully recover from the pandemic. The current employment number is still roughly one million workers shy of pre-pandemic levels, and that’s two and a half years after the novel virus hit. The question is why, since the pandemic has ended. Although people are still coming down with COVID infections, the hospitalization rate and mortality rate have declined significantly — now producing numbers comparable to the annual flu.

So, what explains the lingering slump in the American workforce? The number of working-age Americans who died from COVID was approximately 300,000, a number that doesn’t explain the million-plus loss in workforce.

Recent research conducted by two economists, Gopi Shah Goda of Stanford University and Evan J. Soltas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that despite the fact that COVID deaths don’t explain the loss in the number of workers, the virus has still sickened many workers for longer periods of time than prior to the pandemic. This led to losses in productivity as well as wages.

In an average month this year, roughly 630,000 more workers have missed at least a week of work due to COVID-related issues than missed a week due to illness in the years prior to the pandemic. This represents a 0.4% reduction in workforce efficiency over pre-pandemic numbers. The lack of work efficiency has a domino effect down the chain, slowing work flow.

When a worker or a worker’s child is sickened by COVID, this often results in days off and lost productivity. In some instances, the loss of work hours prompted some workers to change jobs or to become self-employed. The self-employment decision has been made by a significant number of workers who either wanted to avoid COVID-related mandates or who wanted to avoid a situation where they couldn’t set their own work schedules and more easily take on dynamic situations with children getting sick.

Then there are those suffering from what has been termed “long COVID,” where months after getting infected they find themselves still suffering from various debilitating symptoms. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that approximately 7.5% of the adult population is suffering from long COVID. This produces a negative impact on work efficiency as well as employment numbers.

Finally, there are those who have simply taken advantage of the COVID-related relief programs, electing not to return to the workforce because there are other ways to pay for groceries, even after some of those programs were reduced or ended.

All these factors are contributing to the seemingly stagnate employment number. Furthermore, it doesn’t look like things will be changing anytime soon, despite the fact that the pandemic is over.

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The Looming Trump-DeSantis Battle

It’s the elephant in the Republican room, and it won’t go away if we simply ignore it.

Douglas Andrews

On Saturday, at a rally in western Pennsylvania, we saw the opening salvo of the battle yet ahead: “Ron DeSanctimonious.”

That’s what former President Donald Trump called his fellow Republican, the wildly successful governor of the Free State of Florida, Ron DeSantis — a man who would days later go on to win his reelection race in a stunning blowout of nearly 20 points.

It was a nasty swipe from Trump, utterly unnecessary and in full violation of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”

Trump, of course, doesn’t do Reagan. The classy, affable Gipper isn’t his style. Trump made his bones in the brass-knuckled world of Manhattan real estate, and he’s never taken any prisoners in the political arena.

So the “DeSanctimonious” comment was a shot across the bow — a warning from the 76-year-old Trump to the 44-year-old governor to wait his turn. Further proof could be seen Tuesday night at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where he refused to acknowledge DeSantis’s remarkable victory even while acknowledging the big statewide win of fellow Floridian Marco Rubio, who won his Senate reelection race by 17 points.

“Marco had a fantastic evening at 58 to 41. That’s really — that’s really tremendous,” Trump said, turning heads after DeSantis outperformed Rubio and delivered a rousing victory speech hailing his “win for the ages” and laying out a national message.

Later, Trump belittled DeSantis’s results while touting his own: “Now that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldn’t it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?” Funny that he didn’t mention DeSantis’s 59-40 margin, or his own 2020 spread of just 51-48.

On Sunday, the day after his “DeSanctimonious” swipe, Trump had this to say when asked about the prospect of DeSantis running for president in 2024:

I don’t know if he is running. I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly. I really believe he could hurt himself badly. I think he would be making a mistake, I think the base would not like it — I don’t think it would be good for the party.

Any of that stuff is not good — you have other people that possibly will run, I guess. I don’t know if he runs. If he runs, he runs.

Trump went on to say that if DeSantis does run, he’ll treat him the way he treated his other fellow Republicans during the 2016 primary. And maybe worse: “I would tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering,” he said. “I know more about him than anybody — other than, perhaps, his wife.”

In that same Fox News interview, Trump also said DeSantis is “a fine guy.” So go figure.

This is it for Donald Trump. It’s 2024 or never again. He believes in his heart — as do tens of millions of his supporters — that the 2020 election was rigged, was stolen from him, and he wants to reclaim the presidency that he believes is rightfully his. Further, he’s given every indication that he’s running, and he wants to clear the deck of any opposition.

As for DeSantis, his stock has never been hotter. He’s almost singlehandedly turned purple Florida solid red. Indeed, in recent years the Sunshine State has registered some 600,000 new Republicans, while the Democrats have registered fewer than 50,000 of their own. And DeSantis’s Tuesday night speech was a stemwinder, as rousing an indication yet that the Florida governor has plans for national office.

“USA! USA!” some supporters chanted. “Two more years! Two more years!” others shouted, in a not-so-subtle call for DeSantis to throw his hat into the ring for 2024. The speech itself is just a bit more than nine minutes long, but it has the “big picture” feel of Reagan’s 1964 “A Time for Choosing” speech — only with sharper elbows and a Churchillian throat punch: “We fight the woke in the legislature,” DeSantis intoned. “We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations. We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die!”

It was an unmistakable battle cry, and it was filled with fightin’ words.

Near as we can tell, there are three ways to avoid an ugly and prolonged and damaging brawl between the Republican Party’s current standard-bearer and its future one. The first would be for Trump to announce that he’s not running in 2024. (Yeah, we know: What are the odds?) The second would be for Trump to invite DeSantis onto the ticket as his running mate for 2024. That too seems unlikely.

Then there’s the third possibility, which Al Cardenas, a former chair of the Republican Party of Florida, has suggested. As the Miami Herald reports:

“Ron DeSantis is 44 years old. He’s been traveling the country, campaigning for candidates for governor and Senate and, for the first time, building up a pretty good Rolodex of IOUs — which is good for him,” Cardenas said. “Donald Trump can’t run for reelection if he wins so, if you’re 44 years old, and you’ve got a pretty good runway, why not be governor for two years and then start running for president two years from now? You’re still gonna be only 47 years old.”

Time is certainly on Ron DeSantis’s side — certainly more so than it is for Donald Trump. But there’s a sense among many Republicans that Trump can’t win again; that while his base is highly committed and highly enthusiastic, it represents considerably less than 50% of the country; and that while Trump can pack ‘em in at a campaign rally like no one else can, he also energizes and mobilizes the opposition like no one else can.

“There are huge pitfalls to Trump 3.0 that would be easily and nearly completely avoided by nominating and electing DeSantis, or any other Republican alternative,” writes National Review’s Rich Lowry, whose magazine has never failed to make clear its Never-Trumpism.

He’s right about the chaos and tumult that another Trump run would inevitably bring with it. But we think he’s dead wrong about today’s Democrats being somehow more accepting of a DeSantis candidacy. Joe Biden has already called him “Trump incarnate.” See how this works?

The modern Democrat Party is as vicious and hate-filled as any in American history. To think that Ron DeSantis or anyone else can somehow avoid its enmity is folly. The Left will eventually ramp up the hate machine regardless of who the next Republican nominee is. It’s only a matter of time.

In this respect, perhaps the best thing about Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is that they’re both great counterpunchers. Because they’ll need to be.

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SHORT CUTS

For the Record

“Imagine someone close to you has a drinking problem. Night after night, he goes out to the bars on wild binges, chugging down 10 to 12 beers a night. But then, in a supreme effort to reform himself, the drunkard cuts his consumption down to a six-pack every night. He starts boasting of his amazing self-control and good behavior. That’s analogous to President Joe Biden’s tall tale that he’s one of the greatest paragons of fiscal responsibility in modern times. … Biden’s administration has led the federal government in spending and borrowing more money in his first 20 months in the White House than any other president in history. No one else comes close to his record of fiscal recklessness. Biden is not even halfway through his presidential term, and he’s already signed into law federal spending over the next decade that will exceed $4 trillion. … Biden has turned the Potomac River into a sea of red ink. But sure, he’s the No. 1 deficit-cutter of our time.” —Stephen Moore

Upright

“Florida … demonstrated how to run an election. Florida has a ‘find my ballot’ app that allows voters to track their ballots, like one can track a letter or package, or a checked bag on an airline. The software tells voters when their ballot arrives at the counting station, when it is opened and when it is counted. This process greatly enhances election integrity and faith that the outcome is legitimate, protecting against conspiracy theories. Florida should be the model for the nation. They’ve come a long way from ‘hanging chads’ in the 2000 presidential election.” —Cal Thomas

Observations

“[Tuesday] night was not a referendum on Democrats’ excellence in governance; it was a referendum on Republicans lack of seriousness. Democrats will misread this and keep doubling down. So if Republicans get serious and drop the frivolous [crap], 2024 could look very different. IF. Culture war isn’t frivolous [crap], by the way. It’s key. But it’s the icing on the cake of competent governance and earning trust with voters (see DeSantis, Ron and Youngkin, Glenn). Icing on a bag of weird ain’t gonna win you elections.” —Ben Shapiro

“The nation, deeply dissatisfied with the way the Democrats were running things, looked at what the GOP offered as the alternative and concluded, ‘Nope, I’ll stick with what the Democrats are giving me’ in a lot of key places. If you can’t elect a lot of Republicans in an environment like this, when can you?” —Jim Geraghty

“What concerns me the most about the election is that all these angry explanations for why we lost, i.e., we came off as angry and extremist, including on abortion don’t ring true to me. What does is the possibility that the electorate has permanently changed.” —David Limbaugh

“Americans long for calm and normalcy more than they want to burn things down.” —Ben Domenech

“For all the affection Trump enjoys from his base, there’s a reason why it’s Democrats who are the most eager to make him the face of the GOP.” —Jonathan Martin

Non Compos Mentis

“Well, I think if [candidates I endorsed] win, I should get all the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all.” —Donald Trump

“I got [Ron DeSantis] the nomination. He didn’t get it. I got it. And I thought that he could have been more gracious, but that’s up to him.” —Donald Trump

“Now that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldn’t it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D[eSantis] got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?” —Donald Trump (“It is impossible to compare the turnout for midterm elections to the turnout for presidential elections because the turnout for presidential elections is always higher. What can be compared, though, is the margin of victory. In 2020, Trump won the state by 3.3 points or 371,686 votes. DeSantis won the state [Tuesday] night by 19.4 points or 1,507,081 votes.” —The Daily Wire)

Dumb & Dumber

“The Latino vote is not the same everywhere! There are huge generational differences and in Florida [the] population of older voters (more likely Rs) [is] much larger than younger. Socialism does not play there. And there is a massive disinformation problem in Spanish language media.” —former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

“[John] Fetterman as a nominee at some point for president — um, I know there are some variables, obviously. But I just, you know — what he did in the super-red, deep-red parts of Pennsylvania, and the way that he ran ahead of Biden, as you were saying, ran ahead of Trump, I mean, it just makes you wonder about his future.” —MSNBC’s Katy Tur

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