{"id":504790,"date":"2022-10-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-memo-republicans-gain-momentum-in-midterms-final-stretch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:00:00","slug":"the-memo-republicans-gain-momentum-in-midterms-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-republicans-gain-momentum-in-midterms-final-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Memo: Republicans gain momentum in midterms\u2019 final stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3941615b5e8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3941615b5e8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-republicans-gain-momentum-in-midterms-final-stretch\/#The_Memo_Republicans_gain_momentum_in_midterms_final_stretch\" >The Memo: Republicans gain momentum in midterms\u2019 final stretch<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memo_Republicans_gain_momentum_in_midterms_final_stretch\"><\/span>The Memo: Republicans gain momentum in midterms\u2019 final stretch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/voting_west-virginia_102622ap-sholten-singer_memo.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The midterm elections are tilting in Republicans\u2019 favor with just one full week of campaigning left.<\/p>\n<p>Polling in key Senate races has edged toward the GOP, with once-endangered Republican incumbents strengthening their positions and vulnerable Democrats looking more fragile.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Democrats, who believed less than two months ago that they might expand their Senate majority and perhaps even hold onto a razor-thin margin in the House, have grown less sanguine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear that Republicans have the wind at their back,\u201d said Jim Manley, a former aide to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). \u201cI thought a few weeks ago that we could keep the losses in the House to single digits. That\u2019s no longer the case. And my big fear is what is going on with the Senate races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those fears look to be well-founded.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, where Democrats had seen their best opportunity to pick up a seat, Republican Mehmet Oz has almost eliminated Democrat John Fetterman\u2019s once-sizable polling lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oz has gotten traction by attacking Fetterman as soft on crime, and was further helped when the Democrat, who is still recovering from a stroke, delivered a halting performance in a debate earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, allegations that Republican nominee Herschel Walker paid for two women to get abortions, while he now runs on a fervently anti-abortion platform, have not <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciably hurt his standing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Two recent polls have shown Walker leading incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), while Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was caught on a hot mic telling President Biden on Thursday that the party\u2019s hopes were \u201cgoing downhill\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two longer shots for Democrats to pick up seats appear to be slipping away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican J.D. Vance has edged ahead of Rep. Tim Ryan (D) in Ohio, and Rep. Ted Budd (R) now leads former state Supreme Court chief justice Cheri Beasley (D) by almost 5 points in the RealClearPolitics average in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Data and polling site FiveThirtyEight rates the overall battle for the Senate as a toss-up, having given Democrats a 71 percent chance of maintaining control of the upper chamber as recently as mid-September. The site\u2019s analysis gives the GOP a greater than 80 percent chance of taking the House.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have a straightforward explanation for why things are moving in their direction: the economy in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> and inflation in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation is hovering near a 40-year high, at 8.5 percent in September.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is clearly a positive issue environment for Republicans,\u201d said GOP pollster David Winston. \u201cWhen you are in the seventh month of inflation at 8 percent or higher, and gas prices have basically gone up more than 60 percent since Biden came into office and food prices are going up, inflation is the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean other issues aren\u2019t important,\u201d Winston added. \u201cBut inflation is overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden and the Democrats are under no illusions that the economy is the central issue of the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president has sought to focus on his job creation record, which has brought unemployment down to 3.5 percent from 6.4 percent when he took office. Earlier this week, Biden proclaimed that the economy was \u201clooking good\u201d and \u201ccontinuing to power forward\u201d after new data showed the nation\u2019s gross domestic product grew in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The president has also talked up the Inflation Reduction Act and its capacity to curb prescription drug prices.<\/p>\n<p>But polling provides little evidence those efforts have been successful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Economist-YouGov poll this week showed 56 percent of adults disapproving of Biden\u2019s handling of inflation while just 32 percent approved. Ratings on the economy at large were not quite so bad, but still negative for the president, with 48 percent disapproving and 40 percent approving.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is not as if Democrats have abandoned hope.<\/p>\n<p>Some note that, even if the picture is not as rosy as it appeared around six weeks ago, the party\u2019s nominees are competitive in almost all the major Senate races.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The potency of abortion rights as an issue remains unquantifiable \u2014 but it could mobilize voters in a big way after the Supreme Court\u2019s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats also contend that the GOP has nominated some obviously flawed candidates, including Walker, Oz, Vance and Arizona\u2019s Blake Masters. And, they say, the specter of former President Trump, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Trump\u2019s fictitious claims of election fraud could yet haunt Republicans with moderate voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is, with Biden\u2019s approval ratings, with inflation being where it is, none of these Senate races should be close \u2014 not one of them,\u201d said Democratic strategist Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trip<\/a>pi. \u201cThere are reasons they are close, and it\u2019s the extremism, it\u2019s candidate quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are pulling out all the stops in the campaign\u2019s final stretch, with Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Obama \u2014 the most popular figure in the party \u2014 hitting the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Friday also brought a reminder that dramatic events could shape the campaign\u2019s closing days, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) husband Paul was viciously beaten by an intruder. Though much remains unknown about the attack, it was instantly seen by some as a new and shocking example of the nation\u2019s slide into venomous instability.<\/p>\n<p>But, for all that, with Election Day just 10 days away, there is little question that things are moving in the GOP\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is whether that trajectory will continue until Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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