If you thought losing the Presidency to one of the worst Democrat candidates in history because of an even worse Democrat in the Republican nomination, now consider the awful possibility that he’ll take down the House too.
From the Washington Post:
Much of the professional political class within the Republican Party has resigned itself to the likelihood that Donald Trump will lose the presidential race to Hillary Clinton. The operative question now for this group is whether a Trump loss could cost Republicans their majorities in Congress.
For a very long time, the idea of the House being in play was treated as a Democratic pipe dream. After all, Republicans control 247 seats — their highest watermark since 1928. And because Republicans controlled lots and lots of the congressional redistricting processes after the 2010 Census, the country’s congressional seats tend to be solidly aligned behind one party or the other. The number of truly competitive districts in the country is, maybe, two dozen.
But, as Trump’s numbers — nationally and in key swing states — continue to tank, a creeping fear has taken root within the Republican establishment that maybe, just maybe, a landslide loss at the top of the ticket could cost the party not only the upper chamber of Congress but the lower one, too.
They go through the calculations and it’s worth looking at but it suffices to say that there’s a chance, even it’s slim, that we lose the House too.
And of course, this should surprise no one, since the idiot has actually, literally, said it might be better for him if Republicans lose the Senate. Which is absolutely insane. But if things keep going the way they’re going, he’ll get his idiotic wish…