{"id":52346,"date":"2022-07-22T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52346"},"modified":"2022-07-22T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:36:12","slug":"gop-might-rescue-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52346","title":{"rendered":"GOP might rescue Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52347\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/donald-and-herschel.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There can be no greater political irony imaginable than to think that Democrats&#8217; greatest ally in the midterm competition against Republicans might be &#8230; <em>Republicans!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The GOP was poised to grab control of both congressional chambers once we count the ballots of the midterm election. Then something odd happened: the godfather of current GOP, Donald Trump, began endorsing certifiable nut jobs for high office.<\/p>\n<p>A.B. Stoddard, writing for RealClearPolitics, reports: <em>Republicans are now panicked that what was once a dream election year could end up a nightmare. A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/15\/senate-republican-candidates-herschel-oz-masters\">report in Axios<\/a>\u00a0described GOP anxiety this way: \u201cTop Republicans, once confident about winning control of the Senate in the midterms, fear they&#8217;ll blow it after nominating several deeply flawed candidates in winnable states, according to conversations with GOP strategists, pollsters and other officials.\u201d The Senate candidates they are most worried about are Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Herschel Walker in Georgia, J.D. Vance in Ohio, Blake Masters in Arizona, and Eric Greitens in Missouri.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oz, Vance, Greitens and Masters are seeking to keep Senate seats in Republican control. They all are trailing their Democratic foes. Walker is challenging a Democratic incumbent in Georgia and he, too, is trailing Sen. Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s recommendations haven&#8217;t exactly helped most of his endorsees. Many of the MAGA-friendly candidates are downright frightening. Herschel Walker comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/07\/22\/will_trump_and_maga_candidates_slow_the_red_wave_147937.html\">Will Trump and MAGA Candidates Slow the Red Wave? | RealClearPolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The so-called Red Wave well might swamp the House of Representatives. The Senate is looking like there might be an altogether different outcome than what many of us had expected.<\/p>\n<p>If the GOP falls short, I believe they should look inward and ask: Can we do better than line up behind the lawlessness promoted by a twice-impeached POTUS?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There can be no greater political irony imaginable than to think that Democrats&#8217; greatest ally in the midterm competition against Republicans might be &#8230; Republicans! The GOP was poised to grab control of both congressional chambers once we count the ballots of the midterm election. Then something odd happened: the godfather of current GOP, Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP might rescue Democrats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1941,7419],"class_list":["post-52346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52349,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52346\/revisions\/52349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}