Campaign Supernova: Democrats Score Generational Political Landslide |
Campaign Supernova: Democrats Score Generational Political Landslide
Donald Trump’s broken campaign promises set the stage for a Republican wipeout in the midterms.
Senior Reporter, HuffPost
Politics Reporter, Conservatives
Senior Political Reporter, HuffPost
Well, what did you think was going to happen?
Democrats on Tuesday night did even better than the polling data, which had predicted massive victories for the party: They are on track to win larger-than-anticipated majorities in both chambers of Congress, won a US Senate seat in Kansas for the first time since the 1930s and swept the statewide races in Texas after not winning there for three decades.
They broke Republican gerrymanders in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, and took total control of Wisconsin. They defeated the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. They finally ousted Maine Senator Susan Collins. More results are still coming in from western states.
It’s the largest set of wins since the backlash to Watergate in 1974.
And it all made sense. President Donald Trump, at rally after rally, had urged voters to pretend he was on the ballot, and it appears they did.
Trump had broken many of his campaign promises in the eyes of the public — raising tariffs instead of lowering prices, starting the........