I just do not understand why we can't win D+8 seats in places like California and Oregon. I mean it's unacceptable for Young Kim to defeat a Democratic incumbent on the same day that Biden heavily carried the district. I firmly believe that the Dems seriously need to Fox Newsify their base for this reason.
Yep. No incumbent should be losing when their party’s nominee for President is winning the district/state. This was the most annoying part of the 2020 election.
Had Dem incumbents held onto their Biden seats in FL-27, CA-21, CA-39, CA-48 in 2020, they would have held 226 seats in this last congress (rather than 222) and all of those incumbents (except Shalala in FL-27) would have won this year. That would have given Dems three more seats after this election and potentially the majority. Dems need to do a better job making sure their Presidential voters vote Dem down the ticket.
We need to demonize the opposition and get it through voters' heads that no matter how much your local Republican pretends to be moderate on TV, they're all the same. I mean look at the IRA, which not a single Republican voted for whether they were the Freedom Caucus or from a D+27 district in California. You also have the clueless swing voters like the one woman from Pittsburgh mentioned on Atlas a few weeks ago who voted for Shapiro for governor and Oz for Senate jUsT tO sWiTcH iT uP.
