Blue Wave Update: Democrats poised to win 40 House seats

[Cypress]

Dems are now at +35 in the House (more is likely to come).

‘Stunning’: Historic victory for a Democrat in Maine after federal judge rejects GOP lawsuit

Maine’s 2nd congressional district made history Thursday afternoon as it named Jared Golden (d) the winner of his race for incumbent Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s (R-Maine) seat, after the state used ranked-choice voting for the first time in a national race to determine the winner.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/stu...s-gop-lawsuit/

[Nordberg]

Voters in three deep red states begged for an expansion of Obamacare this week. Obamacare's Medicaid expansion was arguably the most progressive element of the Affordable Care Act

Some also voted for a higher min, wage. Even rightys approve of Dem policies.

[Nordberg]

Not a blue wave. According to rightys, a blue wave is whatever they get +2.

[Cypress]

Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California

LOS ANGELES — Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California's Reagan country, extending a rout of the state's GOP House delegation.

Porter's upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.

Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote lead.

Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.

She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.

She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

[Cypress]

Dems currently at +38 seats picked up, with three races still outstanding.

Ben McAdams beats Mia Love, flips Utah House seat to the Democrats, AP projects

Two weeks after Election Day, Ben McAdams, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake County, has defeated Republican Rep. Mia Love in Utah's 4th Congressional District, The Associated Press projected Tuesday.

Love's defeat was predicted by President Donald Trump, who slammed her by name the day after the elections for having criticized him.

"Mia Love gave me no love, but then she lost," Trump said Nov. 7. "Too bad.

NBC News hasn't called the race yet, but if the result is confirmed, Democrats will have picked up 38 House seats in this month's midterm elections, with three other House races yet to be called.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...ocrats-n938756

[Cypress]

Dems currently at +39 house seat pick-ups, with several uncalled races still outstanding.

But it looks all but certain this Brindisi dude will be seat pick up number 40 for the Democrats.

Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, Democrats are now poised to pick up an astonishing 40 seats in the House.

Election Day’s strong showing for Democrats in the House, where they initially appeared to have flipped 27 seats to retake control, turned out to be just the beginning of their building blue wave.

Democrats got to 39 on Wednesday, with the Associated Press calling the close race for Utah’s 4th District for Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, who ousted incumbent Rep. Mia Love, the only black Republican woman ever elected to Congress.

Now there are just four races left where the outcome has not quite been finalized, with absentee ballots continuing to trickle in and concessions yet to be made.

Another likely pickup for Democrats is in New York’s 21st Congressional District, where Anthony Brindisi declared victory over Rep. Claudia Tenney, a close ally of President Trump. With almost all absentee ballots counted, local newspapers have noted there is no path to victory left for Tenney, but the AP has not yet called the race and the Republican incumbent has not yet conceded.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dem...40-seats-house

[Cypress]

40th seat on the verge of flipping

Democrats close to flipping 40 House seats as straggler tilts in their favor

Democrats are on the cusp of flipping 40 seats in the House, solidifying what many prognosticators had long anticipated: a blue wave.

More than two weeks after Election Day, one unresolved race in California may yet be a pickup for the Democrats.

On Wednesday, Democrat TJ Cox had a slim 447-vote lead over Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford. Polling guru Nate Silver cast doubt on whether Cox could make up the difference as ballot-counting is expected to extend into yet another week.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...in-their-favor

[Cypress]

TJ Cox seizes lead in close California House race that would give Democrats 40 flipped seats
November 26

Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., surrendered the lead Monday in his close House race that will determine whether Democrats achieve a net gain of 40 seats in the next term.

Democrat TJ Cox jumped ahead by a margin of 438 votes — his first lead since Election Day on Nov. 6 — and prognosticators don't expect he'll relinquish it, even as thousands of votes have yet to be counted.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...-flipped-seats

[Cypress]

Democrats could win 40 House seats, the most since Watergate

Democrats have won at least 33 seats, but they look poised to win closer to 40 — there are 13 races that are either not called or too close to call, and Democrats have a solid chance of winning seven of those.
https://www.axios.com/democrats-2018...683757ed0.html


Democrats flipped seven governorships, six state legislative chambers, and more than 300 state House and Senate seats on election night.

Democratic wins in these 9 states will have seismic policy consequences
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...latures-agenda

Patriots and our long standing allies around the world should thank Donald Trump for being personally responsible for giving the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party.

Without legitimate oversight, I seriously doubt if Trump's corruption and complete disregard for ethical conduct, would never have been put on public display in this way.

I doubt a Republican senate will ever remove Trump from office, but Trump and his corruption and sleaziness are out in the open now, and every Republican candidate needs to have Trump hung around his neck in 2020.

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40 seats is a shit load considering that the party that currently controls the federal government and most state governments does not even pretend to respect democracy anymore, and does everything in it's power to suppress votes, gerrymander, subvert democracy, and thwart the will of the people.

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Not that exciting, Democrats will maintain the House but won't gain the Senate, and the GOP will win the majority of Governor races

https://www.politico.com/2020-electi...d-predictions/

[Cypress]

Democrats could win 40 House seats, the most since Watergate

Winning 42 seats in 2018 midterms is wave election.