{"id":12781,"date":"2018-11-07T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2018-11-07T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:49:55","slug":"dems-take-house-governorships-gop-holds-senate-questions-about-some-reported-results-bradcast-1172018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"DEMS TAKE HOUSE, GOVERNORSHIPS; GOP Holds Senate; Questions About Some Reported Results: ‘BradCast’ 11\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Some brakes — some<\/i> — may now finally be applied to our ongoing Trump-induced national emergency, in the wake of his election two exhausting years ago. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

Despite shameful obstacles<\/a> placed in front of voters across the country during Tuesday’s midterms, Democrats managed to wrestle back control<\/a> of the U.S. House of Representatives by flipping at least 27 seats, as of airtime, with the results of several other races still unknown, according to unverified computer tabulation in all 50 states. Setting aside partisan issues, women and diverse candidates<\/a> were the biggest winners yesterday…along with the American people.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the GOP reportedly picked up several seats in the U.S. Senate, even while Democrats racked up some very<\/i> important (and, occasionally stunning!) wins at the gubernatorial level<\/a>. Those wins and losses (including Scott Walker ousted<\/a> and Kris Kobach denied<\/a>!) are likely to reverberate for the next decade, as the next round of redistricting occurs after the 2020 census.<\/p>\n

Today we review as many of the noteworthy reported results from House<\/a>, Senate<\/a> and Governor<\/a> races as we can possibly jam into one single show….and then<\/i> we hit several important ballot initiative results as well.<\/p>\n

Moreover — and, perhaps, as importantly — we look at several “too close to call” races where no winner has yet been declared by media and\/or a number of contests with outcomes worth questioning, including in Florida, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere. (If only every<\/i> candidate sounded like Georgia’s Stacey Abrams<\/a> at the end of a reportedly very close election night!)<\/p>\n

Election Day may be over, but the fight for public oversight of results may just be beginning.<\/p>\n

Oh, and as we long predicted would happen if results didn’t go Trump’s way on November 6, today he fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions<\/a> to begin his move against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Nonetheless, for today at least, we won’t allow Trump to hijack our<\/i> news cycle on The BradCast<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast: Some brakes — some — may now finally be applied to our ongoing Trump-induced national emergency, in the wake of his election two exhausting years ago. [Audio link to show is posted below.] Despite shameful obstacles placed in front of voters across the country during Tuesday’s midterms, Democrats managed to wrestle back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1190,1228,1154,675,1006,952,479,930,750,427,1149,967,477,654,1237,822,546,977,523,1170,658,1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","category-andrew-gillum","category-beto-orourke","category-bradcast","category-brian-kemp","category-claire-mccaskill","category-donald-trump","category-election-2018","category-gavin-newsom","category-jeff-sessions","category-jon-tester","category-karen-handel","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-laura-kelly","category-native-americans","category-rick-scott","category-robert-mueller","category-scott-walker","category-stacey-abrams","category-ted-cruz","category-tony-evers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}