Thomas, you can perhaps take some comfort in the fact that you have plenty of company at the humble pie cafe. The much anticipated "Red Tsunami" does appear to have been more of a Red Ripple.
However, as you pointed out, Florida's DC delegation will be solidly Republican, so there's that, and we may find tat the House and Senate also go to the R's. Time will tell.
I don't follow FL politics, so will not make any comment about what happened there other than to say that between Trump and DeSantis, Gov. DeSantis would be a more credible 2024 presidential candidate should either of them decide to run, imho. (This is an outsider's view since I would not be voting for either of them). Nevertheless, if the White House should happen to be won by a Republican in '24, I would much prefer the prez-elect to be a) someone with a successful track record of having governed something somewhere and b) not be an unstable narcissistic fantasist. Democratic strategists might prefer to run against Trump, despite his HYUUGE following of loyal supporters, simply because of his very obvious shortcomings.
I've been pondering the implications of this election for Trump himself and will be writing about it soon. Considering how poorly his cohort of MAGA candidates performed, I'm inclined to think that the Trump/MAGA brand has been badly tarnished. He now has on his resume the 2018 midterm election, the 2020 presidential election, and the 2022 midterm election: debacles one and all. What more evidence is needed for the GOP to conclude that he's a cancer on the party?
Thomas, you can perhaps take some comfort in the fact that you have plenty of company at the humble pie cafe. The much anticipated "Red Tsunami" does appear to have been more of a Red Ripple.
However, as you pointed out, Florida's DC delegation will be solidly Republican, so there's that, and we may find tat the House and Senate also go to the R's. Time will tell.
I don't follow FL politics, so will not make any comment about what happened there other than to say that between Trump and DeSantis, Gov. DeSantis would be a more credible 2024 presidential candidate should either of them decide to run, imho. (This is an outsider's view since I would not be voting for either of them). Nevertheless, if the White House should happen to be won by a Republican in '24, I would much prefer the prez-elect to be a) someone with a successful track record of having governed something somewhere and b) not be an unstable narcissistic fantasist. Democratic strategists might prefer to run against Trump, despite his HYUUGE following of loyal supporters, simply because of his very obvious shortcomings.
I've been pondering the implications of this election for Trump himself and will be writing about it soon. Considering how poorly his cohort of MAGA candidates performed, I'm inclined to think that the Trump/MAGA brand has been badly tarnished. He now has on his resume the 2018 midterm election, the 2020 presidential election, and the 2022 midterm election: debacles one and all. What more evidence is needed for the GOP to conclude that he's a cancer on the party?