What Happened to the Red Wave?
A red ripple? Perhaps. A red wave? Definitely not.
Despite two years of appalling leadership by the Biden administration and an ultra-radicalized Democratic Party, election results for what was touted by the likes of Newt Gingrich as possibly the biggest Republican victory in a century were disappointing, to say the least. Not only did the GOP fail to pick up the net one seat required to take control of the Senate, they actually lost an open seat in Pennsylvania, and, as of this writing, may or may not retain 50 seats, pending the runoff election results in Georgia. Meanwhile, the GOP has barely taken control of the House, though by far less than the 20- to 40-vote majority anticipated by most of the polling punditry. As a visibly disappointed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told NBC News late at night on Election Day, when the contours of this election were first becoming clear, “definitely not a Republican wave, that is for darn sure.”
Dems’ Bragging Rights
No matter how the final results play out, bragging rights have been claimed by the Democrats. After all, despite two years of rising inflation, extreme radical social-justice policymaking, relentless attacks on the half of America that supported Trump, destructive energy policies, and all-around executive ineptitude, the Democrats not only held onto their razor-thin control of the Senate, they managed to get Pennsylvania’s incoherent John Fetterman elected over Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, flipping that crucial Senate seat, and both defended and flipped a significant number of House seats that they were expected to lose. Meanwhile, GOP darling Mayra Flores, who turned heads last June when she won a special House election in one of Texas’ most blue districts, was promptly unseated by Democratic challenger Vicente Gonzalez, putting an end to a short-lived fairy-tale candidacy and calling into question the widely-circulated narrative that Hispanics are abandoning the radicalized Democratic Party in droves.
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