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2022 midterm elections

Friday 19th of April 2024

2022 midterm elections Ben Franklin said our country was a republic, if you can keep it. Well, we can't.  And unless a miracle happens on Tuesday, we didn't. Democracy is  on the ballot, and, unfortunately, it's going to lose. And once it's gone, it's gone. It's not somethng you can change your mind about and reverse. That's gender. Bill Maher. Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections Biden will be a crippled duck when he goes up against the 2024 Trump-Kari Lake ticket. And even if Trump loses, it doesn't matter. On inauguration day 2025, he's going to show up, And this time he's not going to take no for an answer because this time he will have behind him the army of election deniers that is being elected in four days. There are almost 300 candidates on the ballot this year who don't believe in ballots, and they'll be the ones writing the rules and monitoring how votes are counted in 2024. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections  The Democrats averted a midterm catastrophe, yes, but it is rather startling to consider that Republicans spent the past two years defending a corrupt demagogue, attacking the democratic process, banning abortion across much of the land, offering few considered policy ideas of their own — and having taken the House, come so close ot claiming the Senate too. Given all this, Democrats would be wise to treat the 2022 elections not as a vindication but as a stay of execution. Alexander Burns, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections The good news is, we are going to get the House back. We are going to get the House back. That is a done deal. … We have everything working in our favor right now. We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country.  That alone should get us the majority back.  Ronny Jackson, once Physician to the President, now a House member from Texas, admitting Republicans will rely on gerrymandering to win in 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections It's crystal, crystal, crystal clear.  We lose with Trump if we stick with Trump. If we dump Trump, we start winning. Paul Ryan, retired Republican Speaker of the House © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 modterm election Plausible theories about why Republicans fared so badly in 2022 abound. … The economy? … Abortion? … Attacks on democracy? … All of these factors clearly played a role. But don't under-weight the impact of the performative obnoxiousness that now pervades Republican messaging. Conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs on Republican campaigns, then jobs in state and federal offices, and then jobs in conservative media. Dsvid Frum, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections Roughly half the Republicans running for federal or statewide office believe the presidency was stolen from Donald Trump in 2020. That means America’s system itself is on the ballot next Tuesday. Edward Luce, Financial Times, November 2, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections There is an entire species of political ads on the Right where the candidate just shoots something they don't like. A lot of these ads make no mention of policy at all. It's just: Truck. Gun. Me like these things you like. VOTE ME! Bill Maher. Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
2022 midterm elections This really is the crossing the Rubicon moment when the election deniers are elected, which is often how countries  slide into authoritarianism — not with tanks in the street, but by electing the people who then have no intention of ever giving it back. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com