MMC
03-07-2019, 12:20 PM
And a few 2019 bread crumbs suggest that the partisan pendulum may be swinging back toward the GOP in some places. Here's a bit of news (https://twitter.com/RSLC/status/1103098490740199424) out of Kentucky, where Democrats are again planning to spend big money to defeat Mitch McConnell next year:
Republican State Leadership Committee
✔ @RSLC (https://twitter.com/RSLC)
(https://twitter.com/RSLC/status/1103098490740199424)
Another big victory for state legislative Republicans tonight. Senator-elect Wheeler flipped the former Democrat minority leader's seat and @KentuckySRCCC (https://twitter.com/KentuckySRCCC) now has the largest Republican Senate majority in state history!
Sure, that happened in a deep red state, but as the tweet notes, this was not only a long-held Democratic district -- it was a seat that had been occupied by a member of Democratic leadership. The GOP has now hit its all-time high water mark in that state's upper chamber, with Democrats down to single digits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Senate) in the 38-seat body. And as a Republican operative points out (https://twitter.com/davidkanevsky/status/1103105609136779264), 2019 party gains have not been limited to Kentucky:
Let's review the other gains. In Minnesota last month, a conservative Republican won an open state senate seat (http://www.startribune.com/jason-rarick-and-stu-lourey-locked-in-tight-race-for-minnesota-senate-seat/505394902/) that had been held by Democrats "for decades," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
And in deep blue Connecticut, the GOP scored a pair of special election victories (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-flips-two-seats-in-connecticut-special-elections), flipping two Democrat-controlled seats -- including one in a district that Hillary Clinton won in a landslide in the last presidential cycle: …..snip~
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...ourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/07/blue-wave-backlash-gop-flips-fourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687)
While it is early to get into definitive projections. This does not take away from the fact that these Republicans are winning seats in long held Demo Districts. Even taking a Seat from Demo Leadership. What say ye?
Republican State Leadership Committee
✔ @RSLC (https://twitter.com/RSLC)
(https://twitter.com/RSLC/status/1103098490740199424)
Another big victory for state legislative Republicans tonight. Senator-elect Wheeler flipped the former Democrat minority leader's seat and @KentuckySRCCC (https://twitter.com/KentuckySRCCC) now has the largest Republican Senate majority in state history!
Sure, that happened in a deep red state, but as the tweet notes, this was not only a long-held Democratic district -- it was a seat that had been occupied by a member of Democratic leadership. The GOP has now hit its all-time high water mark in that state's upper chamber, with Democrats down to single digits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Senate) in the 38-seat body. And as a Republican operative points out (https://twitter.com/davidkanevsky/status/1103105609136779264), 2019 party gains have not been limited to Kentucky:
Let's review the other gains. In Minnesota last month, a conservative Republican won an open state senate seat (http://www.startribune.com/jason-rarick-and-stu-lourey-locked-in-tight-race-for-minnesota-senate-seat/505394902/) that had been held by Democrats "for decades," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
And in deep blue Connecticut, the GOP scored a pair of special election victories (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-flips-two-seats-in-connecticut-special-elections), flipping two Democrat-controlled seats -- including one in a district that Hillary Clinton won in a landslide in the last presidential cycle: …..snip~
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...ourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/07/blue-wave-backlash-gop-flips-fourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687)
While it is early to get into definitive projections. This does not take away from the fact that these Republicans are winning seats in long held Demo Districts. Even taking a Seat from Demo Leadership. What say ye?