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So I’m curious how Trump is going to spin the mid-terms as a major victory and a mandate for him personally as President.
I’m mean keep the Senate and the House and even expand seats? Sure, confirmation of him as President.
Losing the House and therefore having the DEM’s do what the GOP did to Obama meaning, that his ability to pass any major initiatives will be gone in January.
How will the man that won the GOP Primary with a plurality of votes (not a majority) and came in 2nd in the popular vote react?
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Democrats capturing the House but not the Senate (most likely scenario) could fairly be seen as a repudiation of Trump, probably because of what appears to be much stronger engagement in the election, primarily by women and millennials. But a squeaker in the House and/or Senate by the GOP is a “confirmation”? Since we don’t “get” to vote for him this year, all we have are the polls. And the majority of people in this country disapprove of him, as a President and a man.
He has shown a history of exaggerating the positive and ignoring the negative.
So with a blueprint like that, I can see him saying, “They thought they’d take the Senate. They were banking on it. Everybody thought they’d do it. But what happened? Republicans kept the Senate.”
And he’d say similar things about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and how the Supreme Court is safe for conservatives for then next 100 years.
As for the House, I think he’ll ignore the results. A Democratic House will only serve his purposes next year when he needs something to blame.
I can safetly say that Trump will most definitely not blame himself if the Rs lose either the House or Senate (or both). I can also safetly say that he will take full credit if he keeps both chambers Republican majority.
I think that the buck stops somewhere between the start of Hillary’s driveway, where she leaves her recyclables on Monday nights, and her front door, because there’s no way that Trump is building up the courage or the fortitude to place the blame directly on her front door mat like the UPS man, because what if she opens the door?
Yeah I think he will consider it a victory. I think Republicans have their eyes on giving the courts some conservative judges. Hopefully another supreme court justice pick.
I will stay consistent in my view on these midterms as I did in 2010. I thought 2010 was a referendum on Obama and I believe that as well with 2016 with trump.