INSIDE THE GOP'S CALIFORNIA NIGHTMARE

[RandySF]

Rep. Steve Knight’s (R-Calif.) campaign went into election night thinking another tough victory was at hand.

Knight ground out a win in 2016, in a district President Donald Trump lost, despite relentless Democratic attacks linking Knight and his party’s leader. But Democrat Katie Hill swept him out of Congress by more than 8 percentage points in 2018.

“We never had any indication, any poll, that we’d see anything close to the margin we got,” said Matt Rexroad, a Republican consultant who worked on Knight’s race.

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 Donald Trump in districts from Orange County to California’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.



https://news.immitate.com/2018/12/01/inside-the-gops-california-nightmare-politico/

[PaulX2]

1. Republicans Are Beginning To Realize Their Fuhrer / Messiah Trump Is A Piece Of Garbage

And he is dragging them down into the gutter with him.

Some people still like Trump but the stench is reaching everywhere.

It isn't really Trump though. It is the foundation of lies their whole party is built on.

Too many people are seeing through them.

Too bad scumbags.

[maxrandb]

10. I've always said, in honor of former Retrumplican Senator Larry Craig from Indiana;

"if it wasn't for Hate-Radio, you wouldn't be able to find two Retrumplicans to rub together in a public men's room".

Their policies and ideals suck. Take out Hate-Radio and they'd be lucky to win 30 seats in the Senate, or 180 in the House.

[JI7]

2. the attack ads against the women candidates comparing them to Nancy Pelosi made no sense

in california in places that hillary won they used the same attacks that have been used against Hillary and Pelosi against these new female candidates and they thought that would help them among voters that went for clinton ????

[BigmanPigman]

3. And we are being punished for being a blue state.

No FEMA trailers for fire victims yet.

[safeinOhio]

4. All trends start there and then move East.

Seems that way to me.

Congratulation, the rest of the country can't be far behind.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, hopefully DNC leadership has learned from Beto campaign how to turn Texas. Now that they

... see it can be done they're needs to be a good investment there.

Just imagine a city the size of Vegas beet red?

That's what Fort Worth is ... cause there's been little investment in candidates and policies there at root levels IMHO.

4 counties that make up America's 4th largest metro area by size and 3 of those counties vote republican.

If the KGOP can be wiped out of OC and west Houston then DFW is no doubt in play ... and Texas goes blue.

[AZ8theist]

5. Unfortunately, the TRAITOR Nunes survived...

Hopefully he gets indicted and tried for treason.

[BSdetect]

9. That is amazing. Perhaps he will be if we can really investigate his scams

[uponit7771]

6. I know folk in Cali, as soon as a Pence type is nominated they'll go back to KGOP in droves. It's...

... Trump, they don't like him cause of SALT and he's a bad person in that order.

The DNC could use a campaign of tying the KGOP leadership to Red Don, get rid of them whole cloth ... the KGOP culture is too poisonous

[kwijybo]

7. The GOP really believes in polls then?

After years of arguing that polls were just another type of 'fake news', it turns out they actually believe them?

Shocked at their hypocrisy, shocked I tell you /s