Sunday, November 13, 2022
Gingrich: GOP Got Nearly 6 Million More Votes but Lost Many Races, ‘What’s Going On?’
I had an extended discussion about this this morning with my very conservative son. He says that abortion was the one issue the donks had going for them so that has to be THE issue behind the vote. Anti-abortion attitudes are probably not very important to many who hold such attitudes but PRO-abortion attitudes are probably very influential and will remain so
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been in politics for decades, and never has an election bewildered him as much as the 2022 midterms.
“I’ve never been as wrong as I was this year,” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said on Nov. 10. “It makes me challenge every model I’m aware of, and realize that I have to really stop and spend a good bit of time thinking and trying to put it all together.”
People from both sides of the aisle were projecting substantial losses for the Democratic Party amid rising discontent over inflation, the economy, and crime. But that expected red wave didn’t happen.
The Senate is currently a tossup. And with 211 House seats won against the Democrats’ 192, the GOP is still poised to take charge of the lower chamber when Congress convenes in the new year, but with less leverage than initially hoped.
Gingrich, having previously expressed confidence that his party would score sweeping gains in both chambers, is, like many others, at a loss trying to explain what went awry.
He pointed to a vote tracking sheet by the Cook Political Report, a bipartisan newsletter that analyzes elections, which shows a roughly 50.7 million Republican turnout for the House—outnumbering Democratic votes by nearly 6 million.
Gingrich noted this gap could shrink to 5 million when ballots in deep blue California are fully processed. “But it’s still 5 million more votes,” he said.
“And not gaining very many seats makes you really wonder what’s going on,” he added. “I want to know, where did those votes come from?”
It’s a puzzle that the former speaker hasn’t been able to solve.
Questions and Inconsistencies
Part of what made a difference in this race was how the incumbent lawmakers have fared. In both the 2020 and 1994 House elections, no Republican incumbents lost seats to their Democratic challengers, while 13 and 34 Democratic incumbents, respectively, were ousted. Had the same scenario played out this time, “we’d be six or seven seats stronger than we are now,” he said.
So far, Republicans have flipped 16 seats while Democrats have flipped six— Michigan’s 3rd District, New Mexico’s 2nd District, Ohio’s 1st District, North Carolina’s 13th District, Texas’ 34th District, and Illinois’ 13th District—of which three GOP incumbents lost their seats.
In exit polls by the National Election Pool, about three-quarters of voters rated the economy as weak, and about the same number of people were not satisfied with the way things were going in the country.
On Election Day, Facebook’s parent company Meta said it will cut 11,000 jobs, reducing its workforce by 13 percent, which Gingrich noted as a further sign of economic anxiety.
“But their votes didn’t reflect that,” said Gingrich.
The former speaker said he struggled to reconcile multiple such inconsistencies he observed in this election, particularly in the two races that decided the New York governor and Philadelphia senator, which were won by Democrats Gov. Kathy Hochul and John Fetterman respectively.
“How can you have 70 percent of the people in Philadelphia would say that crime is their number one issue, but they voted for Fetterman even though he had voted to release murderers and put them back on the street?” he said.
“Of the New York City voters, about 70 percent voted for the governor even though she had done nothing to stop crime in New York,” he added. Hochul won the race with a 5.8 percent edge against Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), with 96 percent of the votes counted as of Nov. 11.
“It makes me wonder, you know, what’s going on? How are people thinking?” he said, questioning why people’s attitudes didn’t align with the voting patterns.
“I don’t fully understand how the American people are sort of rationalizing in their head these different conflicting things, and I think it’s going to require some real thought on our part to figure out what to do next.”
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De-transitioned teen, 18, who had a double mastectomy aged 15 SUES doctors who operated on her
A de-transitioned teenager who had a double mastectomy aged 15 has revealed she is suing the surgeons who operated on her.
Chloe Cole said she launched legal action against the doctors to hold them 'accountable' for removing her breasts and pumping her full of puberty blockers.
The 18-year-old also told how she was 'devastated' by the operation and fears she will now never be able to bear children.
She transitioned to a male aged 13 after telling her parents she was 'distressed' with her gender and consulting medical professionals.
Cole, from Central Valley in California, had the life-changing surgery when she was just 15, before regretting it and de-transitioning a year later.
Now she said she was suing the doctors who performed on her and slammed them for letting a child make such a important decision.
She told Fox News' Tucker Carlson: 'They were concerned, and they wanted what was best for me.
But they weren't really sure what to do with me, so they sought professional help and from then on, I was basically referred [to] in my gender identity without any questioning from any medical professionals, and they pushed transitioning as the way to treat gender dysphoria.'
She told how she was devastated about losing her breasts and was concerned she would never be able to have children.
Cole said: 'As an adult, I will never be able to breast-feed whatever children I will have.
'I don't even know if, because I was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at only 13 years old, I don't know if I'll be able to conceive a child naturally.
'I made an adult decision as a child.' She said suing the doctors was an attempt to stop the practice from being done on other children.
She continued: 'I want to hold the adults that put me in harm's way accountable because what happened to me is horrible.
'But it also didn't only happen to me, that's the worst part. It's happening to children all over the U.S., all over the West, and it's spreading all over the world.
'I want to be able to create a precedent for other people who have been in my situation to find justice themselves.'
Her attorney Harmeet Dhillon said they have brought a medical malpractice suit against the doctors and she was being represented by Center for American Liberty.
She said: 'Our website at libertycenter.org has the letter, a very detailed letter that details all of the medical symptoms that Chloe has and the medical malpractice.'
She added: 'And frankly, the mutilation that was perpetrated by these medical professionals. We intend to shut down these barbaric and unnatural practices.'
Cole started suffering from gender dysphoria aged nine and spoke to a pediatrician about it when she was 12.
She claims she was then coerced into a gender transition operation and between the ages 13 and 17 took puberty blockers, hormones and had a double mastectomy.
Her lawsuit claims doctors told her her gender dysphoria would never go away and said she was at high risk of suicide unless she transitioned.
She claims they asked her parents: 'Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?'
Last month Cole branded Joe Biden's stance on 'gender-affirming' medical treatment 'dangerous.'
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Pro-Life Father Arrested by Biden DOJ Reacts to Press Sec Claiming Democrats Aren’t Locking Up Pro-Lifers
A pro-life father arrested by armed FBI in front of his children reacted to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim that Democrats aren’t locking up pro-life activists.
Paul Vaughn of Tennessee previously told The Daily Signal that the FBI showed up with “guns pointed at the door, banging on the house, yelling and screaming, ‘Open up. FBI.’” They arrested him and charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations.”
If convicted, the father of 11 children could spend 11 years in prison and face a fine of up to $250,000.
But on Monday, Jean-Pierre emphatically and repeatedly told reporters that “it’s a lie” that Democrats are “locking up pro-life activists,” as former President Donald Trump reportedly claimed at a Thursday rally.
“Clearly that’s not true,” she said. “I’m not going to say much more than that. It’s just not true. It’s false. It’s a lie. It’s not true.”
“Clearly, Jean-Pierre doesn’t know how to define truth and lies,” Vaughn told The Daily Signal, adding that her remarks are “not surprising” since she “doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman, between a peaceful protest and an insurrection, and between inflation and deflation.”
“I suppose since they are not persecuting me I don’t have to show up for court on Jan. 10 to defend myself,” Vaughn added.
“In the meantime,” he said, “it is a shame the House [Judiciary] Committee wasted 1,000 pages documenting all the evidence of these facts, only to find out ‘it is simply not true.’ Perhaps, Jean Pierre could be more specific. Which piece of the 1,000-page report is not true?”
Video provided to The Daily Signal in early October by Vaughn, taken by his wife, shows FBI agents outside the family’s home. Vaughn’s wife follows them, videotaping their conversation.
“I wanna know why you were banging on my door with a gun,” she says. “Are you not going to tell me anything?” “No, we are not,” one agent replies, while another adds, “I tried.” “No, you didn’t!” she shouts back. “You did not try.”
Vaughn’s arrest came as the the Justice Department announced it had charged 11 more pro-life activists with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021.
The 11 activists, including Vaughn, were charged with FACE Act violations stemming from their 2021 “blockade” of an abortion clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. That blockade was reportedly peaceful.
News of Vaughn’s arrest came amid national outcry over the dramatic arrest of Mark Houck, a Catholic father and pro-life activist who was reportedly dramatically arrested by armed FBI agents in front of his family for allegedly pushing a pro-abortion activist who allegedly harassed his son.
At least 86 Catholic churches and 74 pregnancy resource centers and other pro-life organizations have been attacked since the May leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a Catholic Vote tracker.
Many of these buildings have been vandalized with threats such as, “If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you,” making the attacks incidents of suspected pro-abortion violence.
A list of recent cases on the Justice Department website indicates that the DOJ has not prosecuted a single attack on a pro-life organization or church under the FACE Act.
That list includes seven enforcements of the FACE Act in 2022 alone against pro-life activists: The DOJ has charged 26 individuals with FACE Act violations since the beginning of the year.
The Justice Department has refused to explain this discrepancy to The Daily Signal.
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Exit Polls Reveal Which Key Group Propelled Democrats During 2022 Midterms
Sixty-eight percent of unmarried women voted for Democrats in House midterm elections compared to 31 percent who favored Republicans, according to exit polls.
About 52 percent of unmarried men favored Republicans as compared with 45 percent who favored Democrats, exit polls published by CNN show.
For married men, 59 percent supported Republicans compared to the 39 percent who supported a Democrat. And 56 percent of married women supported a GOP candidate, compared with 42 percent who supported Democrats.
In all, 59 percent of unmarried voters supported Democrats as compared with the 39 percent who supported Republicans, the data shows. About 58 percent of married voters backed Republicans, compared to 41 percent for Democrats.
The national exit poll was conducted by Edison Research in conjunction with broadcasters across the United States. Those who were surveyed included 18,571 respondents who voted for U.S. House candidates, with 8,688 being men and 9,797 being women.
An editorial penned by Washington Examiner columnist Colin Carroll suggested that the breakdown of the traditional family unit unilaterally benefits Democrat candidates.
“The good news for the Democrats is that the number of unmarried women is growing every year. From the earliest census up through 1950, roughly 80 percent of households were led by a married couple,” he noted. By 2000, that percentage had fallen to 52 percent, and by 2010, for the first time in the nation’s history, most households did not include a married couple. Marriage has only continued to decline since then.”
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