California Republicans Didn't See It Coming

[DonViejo]

December 1, 2018 at 8:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Politico: “It was one of several nasty midterm shocks for California Republicans: Internal polling described to Politico showed Knight and Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Mimi Walters — all of whom lost — narrowly leading their Democratic opponents at the end of the campaign. Not only did the GOP get crushed in California, the party also got taken by surprise by the intensity of the backlash in the nation’s largest state, where Republicans projected confidence nearly all year before watching Democrats flip a whopping six House districts — and possibly a seventh.”

“The nightmare results were the end result of a toxic brew of overconfidence and presidential unpopularity, as some Republicans failed to recognize and reckon with the unprecedented negative reaction to President Trump in districts from Orange County to California’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/01/california-republicans-didnt-see-it-coming/

[tblue37]

1. Womp womp. nt

[yardwork]

2. Trump's immigration policies left crops rotting in the fields.

Did Republicans think that the farmers wouldn't notice?

[Blue_true]

9. Not only farmers, but farm workers who were eligible to vote.

The Republican Party is so invested in suppressing the vote of minorities and young people that it simply can't compete in states where it does not have an iron fist on the voting mechanisms.

[FakeNoose]

3. California Democrats are awesome!

Next time Devin Nunes goes down!

[Charlotte Little]

5. From your lips to God's ears!

[Charlotte Little]

4. I am so proud of my state

Finally smoked out that rat nest in the OC.

[dembotoz]

6. they won't be fooled again

in my no california area we made strong inroads into what was thought to be very red area.

local, we still lost, but the area did not provide the gop votes needed for the statewides....they will not make that mistake again

[stopbush]

7. The Rs here in OC are in large part arrogant followers of tRump.

They won’t learn anything from their wipeout. They all believe whatever tRump tells them, and that means they believe voter fraud, Mexicans voting illegally, etc is why they lost.

[Hortensis]

8. "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher & Trump," Kevin McCarthy

Vox has a different take. Wonder why Political Wire doesn't weigh in the presumably huge factor of the Republican's (and Republicans') ties to Russia.

Rouda, a former Republican turned Democrat, flipped the long-held California seat mainly by focusing on Rohrabacher’s close Russia ties. He played ads showing Rohrabacher’s fondness for Putin and his rejection of a 2017 US intelligence assessment that said Russia tried to influence the 2016 elections.

“Rep. Rohrabacher has said that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies that were staffed by working men and women from diverse backgrounds, including our U.S. military ... were all wrong,” and that “the Russians had nothing to do with meddling with our elections,” Rouda said during an October debate. Clearly, he found a winning message. ...

Without Rohrabacher’s voice in Congress or on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, it will be even harder for Trump to find Republicans who want better relations with Moscow as much as he does. Instead, Democrats — who now control the House — will try to thwart Trump’s foreign policy. A major component of that will include looking into alleged connections between Trump and Russia and possibly strengthening sanctions on Moscow.

And that explains why Russia is unhappy with the midterm election results, or at least what we know of them so far. “It’s fair to suggest with a high degree of confidence there are no glowing prospects in terms of normalization of US-Russian relations on the horizon,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. It looks like Rohrabacher’s dream — and Trump’s — may have been lost along with his seat.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/10/18071518/midterm-election-results-dana-rohrabacher-russia-putin