“The joke is that the GOP is really assembling the multiracial working-class coalition that the left has always dreamed of,” says David Shor, a Democratic polling and data expert who developed the Obama 2012 campaign’s internal election-forecasting system. https://t.co/1q96GVRUqr
NEW: ‘We’re the ones who won’ -- @GOPLeader in interview guarantees GOP House majority in 2022 after stymieing Democrats in suburbs: “We have never been stronger in the sense of what the future holds for us" https://t.co/n9M2QpreXN
Meanwhile, the 2020 House setback has thrown into doubt the whole Democratic strategy for building a durable majority -- the suburbs stopped swinging, at least for 1 cycle, with the GOP showing resilience in areas that Dems expected to move steadily left. https://t.co/n9M2QpreXN
There ya go: "70 percent of Republicans now say they don’t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, a stark rise from the 35 percent of GOP voters who held similar beliefs before the election." (Morning Consult)
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No one serious said election fraud was widespread.
Election fraud works if it is narrow, rare, and targeted.
Fraud also works if enablers like Twitter conveniently dispute, disparage, censor any concern or reported observation presuming they are automatically false.
For years the Dems have been preaching how unsafe and rigged our elections have been. Now they are saying what a wonderful job the Trump Administration did in making 2020 the most secure election ever. Actually this is true, except for what the Democrats did. Rigged Election!
Republicans outperformed the polls up and down the ballot in the 2020 election.
When you look at the average of the polls in the last week of the election versus the ultimate result, it's clear that Republicans were underrepresented across the country. https://t.co/YVlGuaMWPY
Democrats poured record-shattering sums of money into Senate races across the country, betting that President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity would provide their path back to power. It didn't happen. https://t.co/ywLf1VotQw
Instead of growing their House majority on election night, Democrats actually lost seats. Now the party is going through an internal reckoning on what went wrong.
Here are the most surprising House races of 2020 and what both parties can learn from them👇
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