I figured I’d get ahead of the Protection Racket Media with a “GOP Seizes” headline. I tried to use pounce instead, but it just doesn’t work.
As expected, Republicans took control of the Senate in the next session by defending all of its incumbents and making at least three pickups. The only Senate Republican incumbent that was supposedly at risk was Ted Cruz in my state of Texas, and … well, let’s just say we’ll be talking about polling in a separate post. Cruz beat Colin Allred by over eight points and currently leads by 979,000 votes, with a small number of precincts left to report.
Republicans picked up two seats that practically dropped months ago into their lap. Jim Justice replaced the retiring Joe Manchin in West Virginia, 69/28, over a token Democrat. Tim Sheehy finally unseated Jon Tester in Montana, whose luck in trying to convince voters of…
