Another Election Day Passes with No Signs of the Blue Wave

RUSH: There was no blue wave yesterday in the elections. Republican turnout was way ahead of Democrat turnout, even in states like California, which is where the Democrats really think they’re gonna retake the House. They think the Republicans can’t win anything anymore, especially in California. I’m sorry, folks, but it just didn’t work out the way that they intended, and I have an entire Stack here of data about this.

They are trying to hold on.

They’re being aced out. And the reason the Democrats are losing ground and the reason Democrats, there is no blue wave, is because their radical progressives have become the face of the party and are taking over and they are not in any way even close to being a majority not only of the party, but of the country. So they’re left to wring their hands and twiddle their thumbs.

Here’s another sound bite. This is CBS morning news today. The morning anchor is Hena Doba, not to be confused with Hoda Kotb. This is Hena Doba. And the correspondent is Laura Podesta, not to be confused with John Podesta. And they’re talking about the primary elections yesterday. This is CBS morning news.

DOBA: It was the year’s biggest day of primary elections. Voters in eight states cast ballots yesterday for House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Democrats are hoping it’s the start of a blue wave that will give them control of Congress. Laura Podesta is here in New York.

PODESTA: Overnight we saw Democrats pick up seats they need in order to regain control of the House in November. But it will be an uphill battle.

RUSH: They picked up primary seats. They didn’t win any seats last night. That is classic misreporting. Democrats didn’t win any seats last night. It was a primary election. Finally, before we go to the break, here’s our old buddy Ron Brownstein who’s worked for everything there is to work for in Washington — the LA Times, CNN, you name it, he’s worked there. He appeared on CNN today answering the question, “Are you seeing energy in that blue wave that we’re discussing so much?”

BROWNSTEIN: Yeah, mixed signals on that. One thing that’s really striking to me is how many of the 23 seats, how big a share of them they can win back in states that are essentially blue. If you look at New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, California, and the suburban seats around Philadelphia, which have been reliably Democratic since Clinton in 1992, that would take you almost all of the way or potentially all of the way toward the 23. So part of this, a big part of this is finding ways to purge out or beat Republicans who are in these red pockets of otherwise blue places.

RUSH: Wait a minute. See, it goes from, yeah, we got the 23 here, we got it wrapped up, it’s in the bag, we’re almost all there, oh, except — he-he — we’re gonna have to purge some Republicans first. Yeah, because there’s pockets of these Republicans in our districts. They have these little districts in there that they own, we’re gonna have to purge them.

Well, there wasn’t any purging that happened last night. Republican turnout in many places exceeded Democrat turnout, which puts the lie to this bromide out there that the Democrats have all the energy and they’re just chomping at the bit and they can’t wait to get out there and vote. It’s just another media lie. One more. Frank Luntz was on Laura Ingraham’s show last night. And just listen.

LUNTZ: I actually think that now, if you look at the generic numbers, the Republicans are in a better position today than they’ve been at any time in 11 months. You know, I’m a pessimist. But I’ll tell you that the GOP is putting together the ingredients for success. What they better not do is they better not divide themselves and they better focus on economy.

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