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Land Shark

(6,346 posts)
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 04:24 PM Nov 2018

Foreign Friend Asks: What is Being Done Against Trump??

When we want Trump out of power so badly, because he remains in power it is tempting but deceiving to think "nothing is being done."

That was a first thought when a European friend asked what is being done against Trump.

Can you help answer this queatuon by posting lists of accomplishments and/or efforts made against Trump?

To start:
1. We organized the largest midterm voter turnout in a century and flipped Jouse seats, 36 and counting....

2. How would you expand about our efforts and actions against Trump?
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Foreign Friend Asks: What is Being Done Against Trump?? (Original Post) Land Shark Nov 2018 OP
The 2010 R midterm wave had 45M R votes, we got 60M+ in 2018 midterms Land Shark Nov 2018 #1
Dems got 60M+ votes and still counting: Trump only got 63M in 2016 Land Shark Nov 2018 #2
Partial list of firsts and records smashed in 2018 elections Land Shark Nov 2018 #3
Indictments, etc listed Land Shark Nov 2018 #4

Land Shark

(6,346 posts)
1. The 2010 R midterm wave had 45M R votes, we got 60M+ in 2018 midterms
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 04:41 PM
Nov 2018

The highest youth vote of all time in 2018.

Land Shark

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2. Dems got 60M+ votes and still counting: Trump only got 63M in 2016
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 05:21 PM
Nov 2018

Had turnout been a presidential 60% instead of the all time midterm record of 50.2% (a midterm a century ago will likely be eclipsed once all votes are counted) Trump would definitely have been defeated

Land Shark

(6,346 posts)
3. Partial list of firsts and records smashed in 2018 elections
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 05:35 PM
Nov 2018

These elections broke major records for:

Fundraising for congressional elections (over a billion more than any other election including presidential elections)

Early-voter turnout in a non-presidential election

The number of female candidates running
The number of female candidates elected

The number of LGBT candidates running

The number of women of color running

The youngest woman ever elected to Congress

The first Native American women elected to Congress

The first Muslim women elected to Congress

The first openly bisexual US Senator

The first openly gay governor

Land Shark

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4. Indictments, etc listed
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 05:51 PM
Nov 2018

191 criminal counts
35 people/entities charged
6 people pleaded guilty
1 found guilty in trial

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