I don’t understand why Democrats had a glimmer of hope this midterm season. Last December, it was pretty clear that Joe Biden’s approval rating would drop below 50 percent. It’s already the 1930s. He has to deal with many internal crises, some of which he knew about and some of which he did nothing about. Infant formula is one of those predicted crises. He sat on his hands and did nothing about inflation, claiming it was ephemeral. Gas prices have skyrocketed. Job growth is anemic. Going back to a job you never lost due to COVID lockdowns doesn’t create a new job, Democrats. We know Joe Biden has been a foreign policy disaster because he has been wrong on every major U.S. initiative for the last 40 years. Now this history of failure is moving into the domestic sphere. The person just doesn’t know how to do the job. He can’t do this job. As a result, his party, which has historically been headed for a beating, may face an even more brutal beating in November. Democrats have a 50-50 Senate and a four-seat majority in the House of Representatives. Florida’s new congressional map itself shows us the House.
Still, there were some redistricting maps that gave Democrats a mirage of security in the midterms. Then inflation hit, then gas prices, and now this potential quagmire in Ukraine. And then the numbers approving Joe Biden’s sinking. This man has become the Typhoid Mary of Democratic politics.
Each member of Joe’s team says, “just stay away from me this year‘ right now. It also doesn’t help that legal failures have all but erased Democratic redistricting victories. David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report called these legal defeats “astonishing.” This has become the Democrats’ new nightmare in 2022, according to Axios: :
What’s happening: Courts have thwarted some of Democrats’ biggest gains, including in New York, where the GOP could gain as many as 11 House seats in a red wave, according to Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.
Party heavyweights — including House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) — will now compete against each other in a contested primary.
Republicans are salivating over a Florida map that could give them an additional four seats.
The gigantic picture: Democrats were already at a huge disadvantage in the midterms – with a bare majority in Congress, dismal approval ratings for President Biden and historical trends favoring that party out of power.
The possibility of gerrymandering in New York, Maryland and Illinois – along with favorable lawsuits in Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania – gave Democrats reason to celebrate.
That optimism is now waning: “The legal complications and losses that Democrats have suffered over the last three months are astounding,” Wasserman says.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to draw his own congressional map, which he is allowed to do. This sent Democrats in his state into a frenzy. There was an order for this, but the court of appeals he brought it back which is simply a death signal for the majority in the Democratic House.
