There are days left before the Democrats are crushed in the 2022 midterms, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit idle. If you still have time, you’re doing what you can to mitigate the blow when you lose in an election cycle, but that doesn’t negate the fact that this election is over. I’m not talking about the results — I mean the campaign narratives. What both parties said about these races is now ingrained in voters’ minds. It’s too tardy to regroup and repackage the 2022 campaign messages that Democrats have deployed for this cycle. That doesn’t mean Democrats won’t try, and Axios reports on the left’s wild run save something in this cycle:
Republicans — confident that they will be able to take the majority in the House of Representatives and reverse the outcome of the Senate — are focusing on further Democratic strongholds.
Democrats have reframed their closing message with a greater emphasis on the economy and health care, saying a Republican takeover would pose risks on both fronts. They are sending out Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama as high-profile closers, with Biden making calculated guest appearances.
Republicans are doubling down on crime and inflation messaging. That has helped them make significant gains in Senate races in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the gubernatorial races in Oregon and New York.
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Republican outside groups have spent or budgeted more than $7 million on behalf of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chairman of the Democratic campaign arm in the House of Representatives.
If Maloney loses, it will be the first time since 1980 that a party has lost its House campaign manager.
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House Democrats are cherry-picking resources to defend candidates in solidly blue territory. Last week, Democrats with House Majority PAC moved funds from an Oregon district that Biden won by nine points to save a suburban Portland district that Biden won by 13 points.
A national Democratic Party official told Axios they are “very pessimistic” about the prospects of Oregon Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who ousted moderate Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) in the primary. Schrader won re-election by six points in 2020.
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House Republicans are becoming increasingly aggressive, while Senate Republicans remain more cautious.
The Republican wing of the Senate campaign wants to shift attention away from states it believes it will win easily, such as Ohio and North Carolina, and focus on areas where Republicans have nominated pro-MAGA candidates, such as Arizona and New Hampshire.
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The McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund is taking fewer risks. The SLF announced Friday that it was cutting $5.6 million in aid to Republican Don Bolduc in New Hampshire and putting it toward Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz has been gaining in the final weeks of the campaign.
The thinking at the GOP super PAC is that Bolduc is underperforming in the New Hampshire Senate race, and the money would be better used to try to secure a victory in a race the party needs to win to regain the Senate majority.
Liberals got too comfortable with Biden’s initially high approval ratings, thinking they could cruise through 2022, using the January 6 hearings to paint the GOP as a radical group and further weaken their opposition. The only problem is that Biden’s approval ratings began to plummet after the failed Afghan evacuation and have not stopped falling since. Second, most of the issues that Democratic voters are concerned about are not real issues.
This year, global warming, abortion, and January 6th are the top issues for Democrats, showing how liberal America lives in a bubble. They have no idea what affects working people. Nobody cares about this little commotion in January, especially among working people, including non-white working class votersIndependent women aren’t stupid enough to become homeless over abortion rights and global warming — please — do I need to say more about how, for most voters, this doesn’t even register on the Richter scale of their concerns?
Democrats wasted a lot of time on abortion while most voters watched their economic situation deteriorate. The Democratic Party is indifferent to working Americans — Joe Biden, eating ice cream while saying the “economy is pretty damn strong,” couldn’t be more out of touch with reality. A week before the election, Democrats helped bring the red tsunami scenario to life with their total lack of awareness and systemic incompetence in governing.
Finally, I understand that with the GOP Senate race, it’s time to stay focused and not screw things up as we approach the finish line. However, something could happen in New Hampshire, as a modern poll shows all three Democrats fighting for their lives. Nothing is certain, but John Fetterman’s disastrous performance in the first and only U.S. Senate debate in Pennsylvania likely sealed the victory for Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. We’ll know more later this week, but the polls have shifted toward the GOP in the Keystone State since Oz changed his mind a few weeks ago and slammed Fetterman for his public safety.
