Looks like reps will gain about 50 seats nationwide

[ldub23]

Some are still being recounted but its a gain of around 50 for the GOP

 

[Pyrite]

Legislation requiring that people's genitalia be checked prior to allowing them to enter public bathrooms should sail right through the House.

 

[Phys251]

Some are still being recounted but its a gain of around 50 for the GOP

Largely due to the gerrymander.

 

[dmpi]

It wasn't just Trump vs. Harris. It was a grass-root groundswell of voters unsatisfied with Democratic performance on the economy and on immigration.

 

[Helix]

Largely due to the gerrymander.

That's true, but Republican voters did it. No excuses or shifting blame this time around.

 

[Phys251]

That's true, but Republican voters did it. No excuses or shifting blame this time around.

It's both.

 

[Helix]

It's both.

The last time they did this, I put part of the blame on the circumstances. Not this time.

 

[Pyrite]

It wasn't just Trump vs. Harris. It was a grass-root groundswell of voters unsatisfied with Democratic performance on the economy and on immigration.

"Groundswell"?

The Trump landslide that wasn't

Since the election, Trump's percentage of the national vote has been dropping. Turns out his victory was slim, not a landslide.

www.latimes.com

...“He of course wants to say he has a mandate, but it was an incredibly close election,” said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Price School of Public Policy....

...But as more of the popular vote is counted, it turns out that Trump’s victory came with the slimmest of margins — a few hundred thousand votes in key places slid him into office. The Cook Political Report, considered to be the expert on these things, has Kamala Harris earning 48.24% of the popular vote as of Wednesday, compared with 49.89% for Trump. That’s a difference of about 2.5 million votes out of about 155 million cast....

 

[Bok Tuklo]

This is why Republicans couldn’t rid themselves of Trump. He brings out the voters.

2026 will be interesting.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Some are still being recounted but its a gain of around 50 for the GOP

Damn. that's an 11.5% gain so far.

 

[ldub23]

Damn. that's an 11.5% gain so far.

His pre-election prediction was for a dem gain of 140

 

[Lord of Planar]

His pre-election prediction was for a dem gain of 140

What were they smoking this time?

 

[Cosmo]

Legislation requiring that people's genitalia be checked prior to allowing them to enter public bathrooms should sail right through the House.

It ain't the right that's cutting up kids' genitalia...

 

[Hari Seldon]

It wasn't just Trump vs. Harris. It was a grass-root groundswell of voters unsatisfied with Democratic performance on the economy and on immigration.

Explain Montana where the repuke super majority was voted out. Can't wait to see the malignant narcissist scumbag piece of shit liar grifter rapist seditionist felon and tax cheat **** 5hings up. Just look at the unqualified cabinet picks.

 

[dncc]

It wasn't just Trump vs. Harris. It was a grass-root groundswell of voters unsatisfied with Democratic performance on the economy and on immigration.

So there shouldn't be any more excuses for failure from the right, correct?

 

[Isidore]

STATE LEGISLATIVE RESULTS
...

Republicans have a net gain of 50 seems nationwide.

"Republicans appear on track to gain about 50 net seats among the 7,386 state legislative seats nationwide." – National Conference of State Legislatures​

50 / 7386 = 0.68%

A shift of less than one percent doesn't appear to be very significant. YMMV.

 

[ldub23]

"Republicans appear on track to gain about 50 net seats among the 7,386 state legislative seats nationwide." – National Conference of State Legislatures​

50 / 7386 = 0.68%

A shift of less than one percent doesn't appear to be very significant. YMMV.

True, but he was predicting a dem gain of 140

 

[Hari Seldon]

True, but he was predicting a dem gain of 140

So a prediction was off around 2%. I am shocked. Must be a mandate for the malignant narcissist scumbag piece of shit liar grifter rapist seditionist felon and tax cheat and his magidiot sycophants.

 

[george48]

Legislation requiring that people's genitalia be checked prior to allowing them to enter public bathrooms should sail right through the House.

Welcome to idiocracy

 

[nvflash]

How long are we going to play this game, swinging back and forth between two reprehensible parties before we realize they are all bought and paid for.

The voters are not running this country the big money special interests are.

Every few years we vote the bums out, only to vote in a new group of bums.

The richest country on Earth has half its people living paycheck to paycheck or EBT payment to EBT payment. We are $35 Trillion dollars in debt and all Congress can agree to do is take on more debt. We'll bailout bakers and corporations when their own business particles bankrupt them and no one goes to jail.

We have systemic structural problems we've known about for decades if not centuries that they refuse to address, yet when it comes to bailout time they can pass any amount of debt to ensure the rich never lose money no matter how bad the investments were.

Wake up people, you are not choosing your government to do your will, your government is choosing you to do it's will.

 

[VySky]

Largely due to the gerrymander.

No. Try again.

 

[Perotista]

Some are still being recounted but its a gain of around 50 for the GOP

50 seats? Am I missing something? Trump won the popular vote by 1.6 points which makes this the third closest election since 1900 with only 1960 and 2000 being closer. A rout in the electoral college, yes. But this shows a nation divided evenly. This evenly divide can be seen in the house elections which currently stand 220-213 republican with 2 seats not yet decided. Both are held by republicans, the democrat leads in one, the republican in the other. If that holds, that a loss of 1 seat from the current 222-213 GOP advantage.

The gain of 4 seats in the senate, the gain of Montana, Ohio and West Virginia was totally expected. Deep red states all of them. Pennsylvania maybe a bit of a surprise. But since Trump won Pennsylvania, not much of a surprise. No change in governors, state legislatures, the GOP gained 1.

 

[Perotista]

That's true, but Republican voters did it. No excuses or shifting blame this time around.

Yes, voter turnout was the key. The republicans got their base out, the democrats not so much. A drop in voter turnout, from 65.8% 2020 down to 63.7% 2024 using VEP, down from 159 million voters in 2020 to 156 million in 2024. The big difference was democrats made up 37% of those who actually voted to 35% for republicans in 2020. This year, the republicans remain the same 35% of those who voted, but the democrats dropped to 31%. This is very interesting since the democrats enjoyed a 3-point advantage in party affiliation this year. They didn’t get their base out.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results

https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0

This also explains the drop from Biden’s 81 million votes in 2020 to Harris’s 75 million rounding off. The question is why did so many Biden voters in 2020 sit this election out? Why the much lower democratic base turnout? The drop was huge, 6 points. It’s not like the normal one or two point deviation between elections. Trump’s gain from 74 million to 77 million can be explained by independents which went to Biden 54-41 in 2020 to Harris in 2024 by a 49-46 margin. A democratic drop from plus 13 to a plus 3. Still, it was the republicans who got their people to the polls, the democrats failed. Why becomes the big question. Taking a SWAG, I’d say those democrats who didn’t vote were very dissatisfied with Biden and company’s handling of the economy, inflation, rising prices, immigration. They opted to stay home, not vote rather than voting for Trump. It all comes back to job disapproval and the disapproval of the Biden administration handling of most issues

Had the democratic base turned out in the same numbers, percentage as 2020, Harris would be headed to the white house instead of going back to California. Why didn’t they?

 

[American]

Legislation requiring that people's genitalia be checked prior to allowing them to enter public bathrooms should sail right through the House.

Really? How many public bathrooms are at the WH?

 

[American]

50 seats? Am I missing something? Trump won the popular vote by 1.6 points which makes this the third closest election since 1900 with only 1960 and 2000 being closer. A rout in the electoral college, yes. But this shows a nation divided evenly. This evenly divide can be seen in the house elections which currently stand 220-213 republican with 2 seats not yet decided. Both are held by republicans, the democrat leads in one, the republican in the other. If that holds, that a loss of 1 seat from the current 222-213 GOP advantage.

The gain of 4 seats in the senate, the gain of Montana, Ohio and West Virginia was totally expected. Deep red states all of them. Pennsylvania maybe a bit of a surprise. But since Trump won Pennsylvania, not much of a surprise. No change in governors, state legislatures, the GOP gained 1.

NOO, for a guy that's been put through what he's been put through, and gets more votes than ever, it's ****ing political landslide! Democrats failed in every way that's possible, and they're continuing to defend it.