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The Midterms No One Saw Coming
Supporters cheer for John Fetterman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen via Getty Images)
A postmortem on the red wave that wasn't with Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Kraushaar, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Olivia Nuzzi.
By Bari Weiss
11.10.22 — U.S. Politics
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With inflation soaring, the worst crime wave in decades, and Biden’s approval rating at 41 percent, just about everyone predicted Tuesday’s midterms would be a bloodbath for the Democrats

It wasn’t. Not even close.

The red wave the Republicans were hoping for did not arrive. In fact, it was barely a trickle. While results are still coming in, it looks like Republicans will narrowly win control of the House, and Democrats will remain in control of the Senate.

So . . . what happened?

Why did pundits and pollsters get it wrong? Is Trump his party’s Achilles’ heel? Is Ron DeSantis the new GOP kingmaker?

Journalists Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Kraushaar (Axios), Batya Ungar-Sargon (Newsweek), and Olivia Nuzzi (New York Magazine) join me to discuss the surprising results of the 2022 midterms.

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Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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Ute Heggen
Nov 19, 2022

Here's a link about what you have to say when the father of your children now says he's their mother, for dinner table discussions at Thanksgiving:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Sgl9Vl8_bk

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Comprof
Nov 14, 2022

Yep. And if he were to lose. Wouldn't be surprised. See? That's how it works.

GOP gets their ass handed to them everytime re: popular vote - hmm....I would recalibrate how "popular" I think I am. Maybe out and meet "Real America"

You probably thought overturning Roe v. Wade was gonna be popular, too.

Why would I let myself be conned out of 19.95? That's for suckers.

Yeah...cell phone data of people walking within 2 blocks of drop box out in public?

Using maps of Moscow and claiming they're American cities?

Oh, publisher has pulles DeSouza's book, too - due to "editorial concerns."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/true-the-vote-election-fraud/

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