Good points.
I would refute your Desantis comment, he won handily, even in areas that were normally D., without Trump’s endorsement, and even with some trash talking by Trump right before the election. That deserves some pondering.
My feeling is that Desantis would stand a better chance than Trump in the general election, and even though that’s not best case scenario, it’s the most probable step in the right direction. My fear would be a Trump loss and 4 more years of Dem policies shoring up (buying) voter support into the future.

I listened to Dan for about five minutes this afternoon on may way to pick up materials. I was curious. He was patting himself on the back for being right that there would be no red wave.

Same to you about good points, I think DeSantis is a great leader and Im glad I dont have to be in the mix to say ye or nay for 2024. The thing about is if any other person just adopted what Trump did action wise, and wasnt a washington DC swamp dweller I wouldnt mind voting for them. The women in politics are going to become very interesting. Nikki Haley, Tulsi Gabbard and some other national upcoming starpower.

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You don’t “seek common ground” or compromise with soulless communist scum. Period. The days of you do your thing and I’ll do mine are gone. Not because of the Right, but due to the fact that the communist filth that has infected our public schools, institutions of higher learning and the Demonrat party can’t tolerate the thought that someone can provide for themself and don’t wish to be dictated to by self righteousness, feckless, useless wannabe tyrants.

I do NOT trust Tulsi! Something just seems awry there...could be wrong though.

These rinos just don't realize that Trump could single handedly destroy the republican party once and for all and not in the pearl clutching way they fear.

The GOP is facing a Whig moment. Much as the slavery issue split the Whigs, populist conservatism is splitting the Whigs progeny.

With one word Donald Trump could form a third party that would strip the GOP of support.

Now that would be suicide for both as Trump's wing lacks the infrastructure of the GOP and the GOP is dead without Trump's voters.

BTW, Trump's voters for the most part have been with the GOP since Reagan hoping and begging and pleading for action. Holding our noses and voting for rino after rino ever hoping to push the party to respond to our needs. Then Trump came along and shocked everyone, both those who were early adopters or opposed him like myself. That shock was that finally after all these decades was someone who would actually do something wrong wrong or otherwise this guy is a doer not a talker and his heart is in it.

Haley is a self serving back stabbing female dog. Just look at her actions and comments following the J6 plansurrection.
Tulsi has always seemed to be a straight shooter on what she stands for, unfortunately she has stood for some awful stuff. I welcome her disaffection with the evil party but until I hear her lay out a proper argument for strong constitutional principles and can see a complete repudiation of her past will I consider her anything other than a pet democrat.

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I can't believe I fell for Clay Travis for as long as I did. A lifelong DEMOCRAT, voting for his first Republican, Donald Trump. in 2016. The guy is dead to me. I can't believe the widow Limbaugh decided to pass that crap onto us.

Where is Mark Styne when we need him?

I realize Styne and Boco are both Canadiens, but I give Styne a pass.

If the Repubs. win the House and GA not to bad. I wish Evers was gone.

Trump scared the pants off of them all....so, they decided to never loose again. I think the elections have been compromised since the first obama election...after the Gore disaster they found a way..thru the internet that Gore established. Trump outsmarted them in 2016 but that will not happen again...

Still counting votes two days after the election. What a joke.

The assumption has long been that the chamber would go red. But this election has certainly tested plenty of assumptions.

Democrats have been projected as the winners in 188 House districts, while 208 have gone to the Republicans. The magic number for a majority is 218, so Republicans are obviously much closer.

But those raw numbers are misleading: Most of the yet-to-be-decided districts are out West — read: Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington — where the vote counting is slower, and most lean blue. There are seven clearly blue-leaning districts in California alone that don’t have enough votes in to be called, but are very unlikely to flip.

That leaves about 30 potentially competitive but uncalled races. Republicans would only need to win 10 to get their House majority. As things stand, the latest election results show them leading in 12 of the outstanding districts. But many of the races feature substantial numbers of uncounted votes, meaning there could be significant shifts — in either direction — depending on which precincts the uncounted votes are coming from.

What seems clear is that the margin in the House is going to be much slimmer than Republicans had hoped, and the GOP being in control seems less of a foregone conclusion than it did even 24 hours ago.