With the announcement last week that Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will forgo seeking a third term representing the Buckeye State, Democrats are increasingly bullish about expanding their slim majority in the midterm elections. Portman won big in 2016, and as Punchbowl DC reports, “this was a shock to the Senate … and Portman had said publicly as recently as December that he was running, so this is a real surprise.”
Sen. Portman joins a growing list of incumbent GOP members eyeing the exit in 2022, including Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). As the Punchbowl writers note, “Ohio has gone red in the last two presidential elections by substantial margins, but Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown won reelection here handily in 2018. So a Democrat with the right message can win, as long as the national political environment isn’t too bad in 2022.”
Republicans are on the hook to defend 20 of their seats in 2022, while Team Blue has just 14 seats to hold, all in states won by Joe Biden in 2020. With this map and all of these GOP senate retirements, Democrats are in a strong position to expand their majority and buck recent midterm trends with the president’s party in control.
Lock them ALL up for Treason !!!!
With the rise of the Anti-Trump Republicans (RINO’s every one), that party will get weaker until conservative unity is achieved – maybe by the Patriot party (hopefully)!
My conservative friends I believe this article portrays the facts of what we will face in 2022.
We do have a method to reverse this catastrophic trend. Support Trump! Support Majorie Taylor Greene! Support the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers!
Just laying the groundwork for the expected election fraud.
Actually those announcing early they don’t plan to seek reelection are being helpful to the Republican cause. Provides for a more orderly selection process, well in advance, for a strong candidate to emerge in order to retain the seat.