2018 Midterms Election #ElectionNight.

New York City, USA November 8th, 2018 (FOX News). The big story coming out of Tuesday’s midterm elections is how totally the news media missed the issue of what waves were building. There was no red wave. If there had been, Republicans would have kept majority control of the U.S. House and had even more pickups in the Senate.

There was no blue wave. If there had been, Democrats would have gained control of the Senate. There was an underreported green wave, which attempted to drown Republicans in left-wing money. And there was the usual anti-Republican liberal media wave, which tried to prop up Democrats.

This was a fascinatingly complex election in which unique Republican personalities won re-election as governors in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maryland – three clearly blue states and one purple state in the Northeast. The biggest change in this election was the sheer volume of money generated by left-wing billionaires and activist groups who hate President Trump. In congressional race after congressional race, Republicans suddenly found millions of dollars poured in against them on a scale that resembled Senate races in the past.

House Republicans had hurt themselves by allowing the number of House incumbent retirees to become larger than any time since 1930, when the Brookings Institution started tracking congressional retirements. Breaking an 88-year record for retirees is a tough way to start an off-year election for the incumbent president’s party.

Despite this institutional disadvantage, President Trump’s House losses were far less than either the 54 seats President Clinton lost in 1994 or the 63 seats President Obama lost in 2010. Measured against the Clinton and Obama standard, you would have to give President Trump an A+ for keeping Republican House losses to a minimum – and setting the stage for a Republican majority comeback in the 2020 presidential election.

In the Senate, the president, working with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., put together a great, focused campaign that has reversed historic norms and gained seats. In fact, as I am writing this, it appears that enough Republicans will have won Senate seats that it will be far more difficult for Democrats to have a shot at winning a Senate majority in 2020 than anyone might have expected.

The best example of the green wave’s failure is Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas. He became the darling of the media – the left’s political rock star to battle Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who the media despises. O’Rourke raised more than $70 million, a record for a U.S. Senate race – and an amount we used to associate with presidential campaigns. After all the liberal media hype, and the sheer volume of money from the green wave, O’Rourke lost.

Once again, the voters of Texas disappointed the liberal media by refusing to elect their darling. Republicans gained Senate seats to an unprecedented degree, because President Trump personally crisscrossed the county holding massive rallies, which dwarfed the size of former President Obama’s rallies.

This was President Trump’s victory, and he and Sen. McConnell will use it well to continue getting judges and other nominees confirmed by the Senate, to block left-wing actions by the Democrats, and to set the stage for key legislative achievements the American people want (probably starting with infrastructure investments and reforms).The president defeated both the money wave and the liberal media – and had a very successful midterm election for a first-term president.

FULL PROJECTIONS 

Order for poll closing time and winners in this time.

Mississippi Special - RUNOFF

Arizona - TOO CLOSE TO CALL

 

MAJOR PROJECTIONS

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MSH WorldWide By Marcelo Santiago Hernández™. 

2018 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).

Conservative Political Action Conference Wednesday, February 21, 2018 – Saturday, February 24, 2018 (Slate) February 24th, 2018 Gaylord National Resort Camp; Convention Center: 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745. There was much talk, throughout this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, about the supposed crisis of free speech—the purported epidemic of conservative speakers being oppressed, suppressed, threatened, and silenced not only on college campuses but, as the NRA’s Dana Loesch reminded attendees during her speech Thursday, within the mainstream press. “I had to have a security detail to get out,” she said of her loudly jeered appearance during CNN’s town hall on the Stoneman Douglas shooting last week. “I wouldn’t be able to exit that if I didn’t have a private security detail.”


If so, Loesch can now commiserate with National Review’s Mona Charen, who was loudly booed for criticizing the Republican Party’s selective indifference to sexual misconduct during one of the last panels of the conference. “I’m disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in or party, who are sitting in the White House,” she told a shocked audience. “This was a party that was ready to endorse—the Republican Party endorsed Roy Moore for the Senate in the state of Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester. You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that.” The shouts in response to this and, minutes later, her denunciation of CPAC speaker Marion LePen—“I think the only reason she was here was that she was named LePen And the LePen name is a disgrace. Her grandfather is a racist and a Nazi”—led to her being escorted out by three security personnel.


This was one of the few pulse-quickening moments of a dull but subtly remarkable conference. Two years ago, Trump, fearing a chilly reception, skipped CPAC to campaign in Kansas. By the time he took the stage last year, his capture of the conservative movement was mostly complete. Evidence of a new brazenness—a willingness to say the quiet parts loud—was on offer during the Ronald Reagan dinner on Friday night, where CPAC’s communications director, Ian Walters, recounting the past several years of turmoil on the right, criticized the selection of former RNC chairman Michael Steele. “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy,” he said. “That was the wrong thing to do.” This remark passed entirely without comment from American Conservative Union chairman and CPAC head Matt Schlapp, who was standing alongside Walters on the mainstage as he made his remarks. Steele later confronted Schlapp about the comments during a radio interview. “I don’t know what gave Ian, in his role as the communications director, the comfort to think that he could go before this body and—I’ll put it direct—disrespect you as its chairman, disrespect attendees,” Steele said. “Did he somehow think this was somehow going to be acceptable to say?”


Well, why wouldn’t he have? The conference was gripped this year by a force even stronger than support for Trump—a revulsion at political correctness and offense-taking broadly speaking. The loudest applause of the event came not for Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, but for Ben Shapiro, who warned that the new political correctness on the left was “contributing to the downfall of the greatest civilization in the history of mankind.” Young conservative activist Charlie Kirk, for his work antagonizing the campus left as head of the group Turning Point USA, was rewarded with a slot interviewing the president’s son, Eric Trump. In another speaking slot, he wedded criticism of the cultural left to the conservative movement’s domestic policy agenda. “Oh, you might have had something bad happen to you a hundred years ago, therefore here’s all these government benefits and people should feel sorry for you,” Kirk said. This is how the “neo-Marxists,” he warned, intend to take down, again, Western civilization.


As has always been the case, the demons to be exorcised aren’t the ones that led to screams at Mona Charen in defense of Roy Moore, but the animating principles of liberals and leftists, particularly young minorities and women battling racism and sexism. The reactionary impulses behind criticisms of political correctness have been complemented, in Shapiro and Kirk, by an evangelical fervor—the promise of deliverance and victory over a fallen and wicked people in a cultural war that righteous people ought to wage. It was hard to escape the feeling, listening to them, that the rhetoric of opposition to political correctness is expanding to fill the vacuum in conservative cultural politics left by the collapse of the Christian right. Ben Shapiro seems less a “cool-kid’s philosopher” than the new Billy Graham, whose death, incidentally, was mentioned not even a handful of times from the main stage during the conference.


These kinds of shifts are ultimately what makes CPAC, despite its circus-like atmosphere, important to follow. It remains a critical part of the conservative movement’s infrastructure, too. Thousands of young people and potential donors are funneled into various organizations and causes. Young activists are trained; there is a well-attended job fair. The question of whether Trumpism and the forces it has unleashed on the right will have a shelf-life beyond Trump—of whether the chaos can be organized—will be settled, in large part, here. It ultimately depends on how well those changes take within the think tanks and campus groups and publications and nonprofits that fill their ranks and coffers from the conference’s annual attendees. Apart from the Charen flare-up, the transition so far has been largely seamless. The NeverTrumpers and whatever “principled” religious conservatives are left in the movement have self-deported. The kids, the Sheriff Clarkes and Gorkas, Hannity and company—CPAC is their party now. So too is the GOP.

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MSH WorldWide By Marcelo Santiago Hernández™.

2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

2016 Election: Donald Trump Wins the White House in Upset Washington DC, November 09th, 2016 (NBC News). America woke up Wednesday to a new and unexpected reality — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States.

In a resounding rebuke to the political establishment, the Manhattan mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th president following one of the most bitter and wildly unpredictable campaigns in the nation's history, Trump, in an upset for the ages, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by running the table in battleground states across the country from Florida and North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania.

He declared victory Tuesday night before a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters, pledging to help unite the country after his rancorous battle with Clinton. "Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division," Trump said at the Midtown Hilton in New York City. "I say it is time for us to come together as one united people." He congratulated Clinton on a "very, very hard-fought campaign." Clinton called Trump sometime after 2 a.m. ET to concede the race, he told supporters.

She did not address her supporters on Tuesday night and her campaign chairman John Podesta told her stunned followers not to give up hope in the face of likely defeat. "Let's get those votes counted and let's bring this home," he told a subdued crowd from the stage of the Javits Center in Manhattan.

President Barack Obama, who campaigned furiously for Clinton, congratulated Trump by telephone early Wednesday and invited him to a meeting at the White House on Thursday.  "It was a very warm conversation," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told TODAY. "They resolved to work together, which is exactly what this country needs … to help unify and heal the country."

Still, it is likely to be an awkward face-to-face conversation — Trump was behind the so-called birther campaign designed to discredit Obama by questioning whether he was born in the U.S.Trump's bitter Republican rival, Jeb Bush, also congratulated him — via Twitter — and said he and his wife Columba "will pray for you in the days and months to come."

As of 10:30 a.m. ET, Clinton was actually ahead of Trump in votes, with 59,333,856 compared to her rival, who had 59,166,034. That arithmetic put Clinton on track to possibly become the fifth presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election.

Despite Trump's electoral win, there were still several states where the victor had not been decided. Here's the current tally, according to NBC News projections:

Clinton wins: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine (three of four electoral votes), Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington state and Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump wins: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida (apparent winner), Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska (four of five electoral votes), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too close to call: Arizona, Michigan and New Hampshire.

 

 

Trump's victory gives the GOP a lock on power in Washington. NBC News projects that Republicans will retain control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

 

Heading into Election Day, Clinton was leading Trump by 4 points in the last NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken before Tuesday. By that evening, it became clear that narrow advantage was a mirage

© 2016 ALL RIGTHS RESERVED
MSH WorldWide By Marcelo Santiago Hernández™.