Added: Republicans didn't even have a candidate running in 39 districts in 2018. Democrats lacked candidates in only 3 districts. (It's easier to win when you run unopposed).
11/7/18, “The 2018 Midterms: Why the House Moved Left and the Senate Moved Right,” The Epoch Times, Thomas Del Beccaro (Mr. Del Beccaro was chairman of the California Republican Party 2011-2013)
“The Democrats Money Advantage—Despite Their Claimed Objection To Money In Politics”
“The Democrats now have a money advantage over Republicans. We can start with the three billionaires—Tom Steyer, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg. Their huge donations to Democrat-aligned groups played no small role in Tuesday’s results. As helpful as they were, it was just the start of the Democrats new found money advantage.
The Democrat House and Senate candidates nationwide outraised Republican candidates by over $300 million. That is an enormous advantage—call it their “crowd sourcing” advantage.
Whether it was for their Senate candidate in Texas or Arizona, or their candidate running for Florida governor, all of whom got far more than most of their contributions from outside their respective states, the Democrats now have a nationwide ability to support their candidates that far exceeds the Republicans’ ability.”…
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Added: I appreciate Mr. Del Beccaro’s information about the funding disparity. Mr. Del Beccaro was identified as a former Calif. State GOP Chair. Whatever he did there 2011-2013 may have pleased the Establishment but it didn’t help Republican voters (who are not to be confused with Clubhouse Republicans): “When his term as state GOP chairman ended, the party was at least $500,000 in debt, its voter registration was still on a decades-long slide.”
Added: I appreciate Mr. Del Beccaro’s information about the funding disparity. Mr. Del Beccaro was identified as a former Calif. State GOP Chair. Whatever he did there 2011-2013 may have pleased the Establishment but it didn’t help Republican voters (who are not to be confused with Clubhouse Republicans): “When his term as state GOP chairman ended, the party was at least $500,000 in debt, its voter registration was still on a decades-long slide.”
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Mr. Del Beccaro appears to be a Clubhouse Republican, which is fine, if you want to be in the Club of Rockefeller and Bush Republicans who were decisively rejected by Republican voters in 2016. Del Beccaro was Calif. GOP Chair from 2011-2013. He ran in the “jungle primary” for Senate from California in 2016 but the top two vote getters were both Democrats, Kamala Harris finally winning the gen. election.
Mr. Del Beccaro appears to be a Clubhouse Republican, which is fine, if you want to be in the Club of Rockefeller and Bush Republicans who were decisively rejected by Republican voters in 2016. Del Beccaro was Calif. GOP Chair from 2011-2013. He ran in the “jungle primary” for Senate from California in 2016 but the top two vote getters were both Democrats, Kamala Harris finally winning the gen. election.
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4/26/2015, “Former GOP chairman Tom Del Beccaro of Lafayette enters 2016 Senate race,” San Jose Mercury News, Josh Richman
Del Becarro is a “longtime GOP activist and the [California] state party chairman from 2011 to 2013.…“Del Beccaro’s critics point out that when his term as state GOP chairman ended, the party was at least $500,000 in debt, its voter registration was still on a decades-long slide, and it had made no significant gains in the Legislature and held no statewide offices.
“The good news is he has already introduced himself to party activists and county committees all over California,” [fellow Clubhouse Republican Bill] Whalen said. “The bad news is that he’s running on his record, which is not a terribly sound one.”
The other candidates took Del Beccaro’s entry in stride.”…
4/26/2015, “Former GOP chairman Tom Del Beccaro of Lafayette enters 2016 Senate race,” San Jose Mercury News, Josh Richman
Del Becarro is a “longtime GOP activist and the [California] state party chairman from 2011 to 2013.…“Del Beccaro’s critics point out that when his term as state GOP chairman ended, the party was at least $500,000 in debt, its voter registration was still on a decades-long slide, and it had made no significant gains in the Legislature and held no statewide offices.
“The good news is he has already introduced himself to party activists and county committees all over California,” [fellow Clubhouse Republican Bill] Whalen said. “The bad news is that he’s running on his record, which is not a terribly sound one.”
The other candidates took Del Beccaro’s entry in stride.”…
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Added: The two major parties are really one UniParty, extreme globalists who share views on loose borders, endless military interventions, and massive free trade deals. This leaves half the electorate without a political party behind them. This is a polite way of saying the US is a dictatorship.
6/27/2016, “The elites of both parties are, as if by rote, extreme globalists.” The American Conservative, Scott McConnell
……………Added: The two major parties are really one UniParty, extreme globalists who share views on loose borders, endless military interventions, and massive free trade deals. This leaves half the electorate without a political party behind them. This is a polite way of saying the US is a dictatorship.
6/27/2016, “The elites of both parties are, as if by rote, extreme globalists.” The American Conservative, Scott McConnell
Added:
“The real landslide of 2016” was what Trump did to the GOP in the primaries:
1/3/2017, “Trump utterly gutted the GOP in the primaries. That was the real landslide of 2016.”...CNBC, Jake Novak
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Added: GOP has often run weak candidates. For example, Florida Democrat Bill Nelson remained in the US Senate for 18 years “for good reason: He faced one weak opponent after another.”
11/17/18, Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times: “Time finally caught up with Bill Nelson. Florida’s senior senator, often described as one of the luckiest politicians alive, won three terms as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate seemingly without breaking a sweat, and for good reason: He faced one weak opponent after another.
1/3/2017, “Trump utterly gutted the GOP in the primaries. That was the real landslide of 2016.”...CNBC, Jake Novak
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Added: GOP has often run weak candidates. For example, Florida Democrat Bill Nelson remained in the US Senate for 18 years “for good reason: He faced one weak opponent after another.”
11/17/18, Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times: “Time finally caught up with Bill Nelson. Florida’s senior senator, often described as one of the luckiest politicians alive, won three terms as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate seemingly without breaking a sweat, and for good reason: He faced one weak opponent after another.
After 46 years in public office, he finally met his match in Gov. Rick Scott, whose vast personal fortune, trademark aggressiveness and single-minded discipline has proven to be just enough to produce an excruciatingly narrow victory--Scott’s third, close statewide win in eight years….
When [Democrat Bill] Nelson first won a Senate seat in 2000, he captured 38 of the state’s 67 counties. They included old Florida Madison, deep-south Jackson and Gulf in the coastal Panhandle. He won in Imperial Polk County and in a reddening Pasco County.
Nelson lost all of those counties in 2018, and wasn’t particularly close in any of them. Instead, he won 13 counties mostly clustered around Florida’s urban hubs.
In rural Washington County, where Nelson’s ancestors first put down roots in the hamlet of Orange Hill in the 1800s, Scott trounced him by a 5-to-1 margin.”…
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