Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House | Reuters
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Via: texan1211 • 3 years ago • 27 commentsBy: Trevor Hunnicutt,Nandita Bose,Jeff Mason (Reuters)
The White House has lowered its earlier optimism about the midterm elections and is now worried that Democrats could lose control of both chambers of Congress, administration officials say.
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By Trevor Hunnicutt , Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about student debt relief at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware, U.S., October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The White House has lowered its earlier optimism about the midterm elections and is now worried that Democrats could lose control of both chambers of Congress, administration officials say.
Recent polls have shown Democrats who once had comfortable leads in some Senate races on a knife's edge, and Senate elections that were considered toss-ups between the two parties now leaning Republican as high inflation persists.
The House of Representatives, which Biden and some allies and advisers predicted Democrats could hold earlier this year, is decisively swinging for Republicans, polling analysts including FiveThirtyEight say.
Losing control of one or both houses of Congress will profoundly shape the next two years of Joe Biden's presidency, with Republicans expected to block legislation on family leave, abortion, policing and other Biden priorities while pushing new laws to curb immigration and spending, using the debt ceiling as leverage.
Republicans are also expected to launch investigations into Democratic spending and the business dealings and private life of the president's son Hunter. Some lawmakers say they hope to impeach Biden, his cabinet members or Vice President Kamala Harris.
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They've spent two years ignoring the economy and ridiculing concerns over inflation while focusing on a riot and ensuring that men get to play women's sports. And their closing pitch is that the state has no interest in keeping kids from getting sterilized and mutilated.
And that will lose them the House and perhaps the Senate this November.
Time to pay the piper for their dirty deeds ....
And the lefty libs should be cueing in any moment to blame it all on them evil right wing whack jobs!
The dems blame everything on others will no doubt continue after the mid terms
$400B in graduation presents should suck their hope down the toilet.