{"id":1733115,"date":"2022-11-10T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1733115"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:48:05","slug":"could-the-gop-still-reach-52-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/could-the-gop-still-reach-52-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the GOP Still Reach 52 in the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcould-the-gop-still-reach-52-in-the-senate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1733115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5b2fce4e-d0e1-4e11-b22f-b995e9763d9e-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Republican wave may not have materialized as imagined last night, but the tide may yet come in for the GOP. And the books are very much still open on the Senate, despite the disappointing results last night.<\/p>\n<p>It took a lot longer for the media to call the Senate race in Wisconsin, where 100% of precincts had reported for hours, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/09\/ron-johnson-mandela-barnes-wisconsin-senate-race-results-2022-00064770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they finally declared Ron Johnson the winner<\/a>. It\u2019s the third narrow victory for Johnson, who managed to eke out the win over Mandela Barnes even as Democrat governor Tony Evers scratched out a re-election victory:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republican Sen. Ron Johnson won a third term in Wisconsin, defeating Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in one of the most expensive Senate races in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRHxQlglA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uRHxQlglA6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DxueoHOhpv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/DxueoHOhpv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1590382905284767744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The call came about an hour after Johnson went public with complaints over the delay, with Jason Calvi corroborating that the election reporting had been all but complete for hours:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senator Ron Johnson: \u201cThe corporate media is refusing to call a race that is over. The votes are in.\u00a0In all Democrat strongholds, municipalities are reporting 100% of wards are in and counted.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/swwzMF0R4G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/swwzMF0R4G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Calvi (@JasonCalvi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonCalvi\/status\/1590369309288976385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York Times is reporting only 91% of Milwaukee County is in, with a total of 347,579 votes.<\/p>\n<p>IN FACT, Milwaukee County itself says 100% of the 530 wards are in, with a total of 350,905 votes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uhnabFvdan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uhnabFvdan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Calvi (@JasonCalvi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonCalvi\/status\/1590372280680730624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With that call in place, Republicans now have 49 Senate seats confirmed in the next Congress, while Democrats have 48. Three races remain, all of which are held by Democrats in this Congress \u2014 Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona. None of those three have a winner called yet, and Georgia\u2019s Senate race has been called for a runoff between Herschel Walker and incumbent Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n<p>And that means the GOP\u00a0<em>could<\/em> get to 52 Senate seats after the December 6th \u2014 which was my pre-midterm prediction, in fact. But Republicans will have to run the table to do it. Can they?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the outstanding races first. Here are the up-to-the-minute results in Arizona, which don\u2019t look very promising:<\/p>\n<p>Blake Masters trails by five points with 74% of the vote in as of noon ET, when I wrote this post. That\u2019s not a great position, especially for a challenger against an incumbent, but it depends on\u00a0<em>which<\/em> votes are left to count. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MastersPress\/status\/1590372638173851649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters insists<\/a> that the remaining ballots lean Republican and that he\u2019s \u201cconfident\u201d of victory. Kari Lake is also insisting that the remaining ballots will put her over the top in the gubernatorial race, but Lake is only trailing by a point against a non-incumbent. That seems more reasonable,\u00a0<em>assuming<\/em> that the outstanding ballots lean GOP. That seems like a strange assumption to make \u2014 I\u2019d have guessed that non-Election Day ballots would lean the other way \u2014 but it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where Nevada stands with Adam Laxalt\u2019s challenge to incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto:<\/p>\n<p>This is the flip side of the Arizona argument.\u00a0<em>Doable<\/em>, definitely. Laxalt\u2019s up by almost two points with 87% of the vote counted, and he\u2019s likely been helped by Joe Lombardo\u2019s stronger performance in the gubernatorial challenge to Steve Sisolak. And bear in mind that a win here guarantees at least a continuation of the split Senate, with the 2024 Senate cycle a lot less friendly to Democrats than this cycle was.<\/p>\n<p>What about Georgia? Frankly, it\u2019s surprising that it\u2019s as close as it is. Brian Kemp\u2019s decisive victory should have been enough to pull Walker across the line, and might have been if Kemp\u2019s was the only voice in contest other than Walker\u2019s. The next four weeks will be heated in the Peach State, with both sides dumping tens of millions of dollars into the runoff no matter what happens in Nevada or Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans want to win the runoff, they need to keep it simple. Use Kemp and Ron DeSantis to rally voters, especially the latter, who has proven his ability to convert voters to the GOP. Donald Trump likely won\u2019t stay out of Georgia, especially if he\u00a0declares his intent to run in the 2024 presidential race this week. However, Kemp and DeSantis could flood the zone in order to guard against any blowback and minimize Trump\u2019s ability to provoke Democrat turnout. The GOP will have to make sure that the runoff is much more a referendum on Joe Biden than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>If the GOP can pull out wins in both Nevada and Arizona, the runoff might become slightly less acute, although still of critical importance. But I suspect that we\u2019ll see those split and the GOP leading 50\/49, which will make the runoff the biggest single story of the midterms. At the very least, though, Senate control is still within reach for Republicans, if they can manage to avoid defeating themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican wave may not have materialized as imagined last night, but the tide may yet come in for the GOP. 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