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Heading Toward Midterm Elections, Democrats Not Up Off the Floor, by Michael Barone – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Heading Toward Midterm Elections, Democrats Not Up Off the Floor, by Michael Barone

Be For Me a Healing Remedy, by Joannie Watson

Baggage. by engin akyurt. Unsplash

By Michael Barone, Patriot Post, Aug. 1, 2025

It looks like the Democrats’ baggage, especially from the Biden years, is heavier than the loads Trump Republicans must juggle.

Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president’s party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats.

There are two structural reasons for this. One is that parties in power tend to do things or produce results that some voters dislike. The second reason is that out-party candidates can adapt to local terrain, focusing on issues on which the president’s party’s stands are unpopular. But that depends on the out party being an acceptable alternative.

Which leads to the clue referred to above. Politico’s Andrew Howard reports that former Democrats Brian Bengs in South Dakota (Trump +29 in 2024) and Todd Achilles in Idaho (Trump +36) are joining former Democrat Dan Osborn of Nebraska (Trump +20) to run for senator as self-declared independents, with no credible Democrat in the race. …

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