Hokum Hawley defeats Claire McCaskill

[sandensea]

Using his infirm toddler to lie about his efforts to overturn pre-existing conditions coverage.

You may have won tonight, Joshie. But a special place in hell awaits.

[2naSalit]

1. Just saw that

sad, she was a good fighter.

[sandensea]

2. I must admit that this was the hardest to accept.

I mean, using his toddler - with a congenital illness no less - to hoodwink Missouri voters about his craven lawsuit to strip coverage for the very problem afflicting his little son.

A new low - even for the GOPee.

[2naSalit]

7. Just keep exposing him and calling him out

at least the House can keep a check on the Senate when It comes to legislation and funding. So over the next two years, Dems in your state has to work to correct the situation.

[sandensea]

9. Hear, hear.

A lightweight like Hawley can only give Mitch McCocaine another butt to warm a Republican seat.

When the House drags people familiar with Bitchy Mitchy's role in Russiagate, he'll wish he had lost to Lundergan-Grimes 4 years ago.

[2naSalit]

11. I still wish he'd lost to her

and I'm not from Kentucky.

[sandensea]

16. It would've been great - and for Mitchy, richly deserved besides.

Second only to a loooong jail sentence on RICO drug trafficking charges (by way of his narco in-laws).

[2naSalit]

17. And the money laundering

which probably loops back to the WH KKKlan.

[sandensea]

18. Amazing.

Today's GOPee leadership are walking crime scenes.

[2naSalit]

19. I would beg to differ...

I think it's walking crime syndicates!

[sandensea]

22. Bada-bing!

[Garrett78]

3. The state of my birth has gone round the bend. From bellwether to insane asylum.

[sandensea]

4. It's a crying shame.

I have friends in Wentzville (suburban St. Louis). I'm sure they're not happy about this,

[regnaD kciN]

8. Unfortunately, that seems true for several states...

...Florida, Ohio, etc.

We seem to have reached another level of polarization. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled/relieved we took back the House, but the view from here is that the red states have become a lot redder, while the blue states have become much bluer. It seems we’re well on the way to becoming “one nation under hate, thoroughly divisible, with rancor and rage for all.”

[Garrett78]

21. Indeed. It puts the Democratic Party at a huge disadvantage in terms of the Senate.

There are too many stark red states.

The Republican Party has moved drastically rightward over the last few decades, while the Democratic Party is just recently inching leftward. Meanwhile, any Republican who isn't openly a neo-Nazi is called a "moderate" by the media. But wanting universal health care is "extreme." Go figure.

[budkin]

5. FUCK

How many seats have they picked up in the Senate now?

[sandensea]

13. Three thus far: IN, MO, and ND.

Florida is coimng down to the wire, so with a little cheating they may pick that one up too.

On the other hand, we may pick up AZ and NV.

That would give them a net one seat pick-up - and the 2020 map is much more Democratic-friendly than this year's.

[Polybius]

14. Four if you count Florida (hasn't been officially called yet)

The other three are this one, IN, and ND. We didn't pick up any, but we might in Arizona.

[xmas74]

6. If you look at the SoS site

the numbers do not quite match up to any projections. How is he winning at nearly 60 percent to her less than 40 percent? That is not matching any exit polls. Same with the auditor vote. And right now they have Cleaver possibly losing too, which makes absolutely no sense.

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. Several elections in a row.

Claire was projected +3 this morning.

Someone really needs to examine the discrepancy in Missouri exit polling. We are being robbed of good governance.

[sandensea]

15. Electronic voting

Foisting that on the U.S. electorate was the Midland Idiot's biggest (and perhaps sole) lasting gift to the GOPee.

I might add that right-wing regimes around the third world are trying to impose it as well, having seen how well it serves the GOPee here in the U.S.

[LenaBaby61]

10. The poor Dems in Missouri ....

Will have that lying turd Hawley as it's Senator.

I never got the feeling she'd win tbh.

[budkin]

26. Remember when MO was purple?

I guess all the Dems moved away?

[LenaBaby61]

27. Remember when MO was purple?

Yes.

[SaschaHM]

20. Remember his name because he's going to run for President in 2024 (or 2020 if we're blessed)

He's a ladder climber pure and simple. The Senate was his stepping stone to the presidency.

[sandensea]

23. I don't doubt it.

That one has Manchurian Candidate written all over him.

And as his toddler can attest, has the ethics that would make even Paul Singer blush.

May Hawley end up like Eric Greitens.

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. Where does his funding originate?

Someone is backing this guy.

[Willie Pep]

24. Missouri is interesting.

Earlier this year Missouri voters defeated a right-to-work law via referendum and yet they vote against McCaskill for Hawley the Republican, from the same party that supports right-to-work laws! Any Missourians who can explain this? I often think that maybe red states are not as conservative as they seem but they keep voting for Republicans.

[sandensea]

25. Some of it may have had to do with Hawley's effective hoodwink on the pre-exisiting coverage issue

A special place in hell.