The 2022 Midterms and the Trump Disaster
On November 7, Americans went to the polls to vote for their Senator, Governor and Representatives. This is known as the Midterm Elections and it occurs 2 years after a Presidential Election. Let's first set the record straight, it is not uncommon for the President's party to get voted out of power from the House and Senate (collectively known as Congress) during the midterms. It happened with Trump in 2018, Obama in 2010 and Clinton in 1994 [1]. So Midterms is more of how badly the President's party lose not if they lose or not. In the weeks leading up to the election, many analysts were predicting a 'Red Wave'. In other words, they were predicting Biden and Democrats were about to lose congress by significant margins. For example, 538, a credible polling website predicted there was a 60% chance that the GOP would win the Senate and a whopping 86% that the GOP would win the house. Chapter 1 - The Trump Disaster The result was an utter disaster for the Republicans...