Subj : Re: Biden Receives Award!
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Fri Nov 11 2022 16:50:48

On 11 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> Others were apparently expecting most all Democrats to lose, which 
 MP> ot
 MP> >  MP> realistic.  They are disappointed I am sure but that was predictabl
 MP> > It's happened before, and when it did it was during a Democrat president
 MP> > midterms.
 MP> So we've had a mostly all Republican House in recent times?

Nope. But they do tend to make substantial gains in Democrat presidents'
midterms.

 MP> One thing I doubt we've had is so many ultra-right-wing candidates
 MP> getting money from Democrat donors leading up to primaries.
 
And yet there's no proff of that. At all. Maybe one or two, maybe.

 MP> >  MP> Maybe, but they really were not informative when it came to the 202
 MP> >  MP> election outcome.
 MP> > In a sense they were, and in a sense they weren't. Trump lost the 2020
 MP> > presidential election but won the 2020 Republican primary against severa
 MP> > arguably better general-election candidates. With the 2022 midterms behi
 MP> s,
 MP> > we're now turning to the 2024 presidential party nominations. It's not q
 MP> > time for the 2024 general election yet.
 MP> I would agree there were better candidates in 2016 (Ben Carson, for one).
 MP> I have no idea who you think was viable in 2020 and think you are mixing
 MP> your years up.

Yeah, that's true. He was pretty much unopposed. But the reason he was
unopposed was because he was the sitting president. Had another candidate won
the primary in 2016, *they( might have been the sitting president.

Jeff.

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