What's driving rabid Trumpers nuts after the election?

My father and stepmother, rabid hate-mongering Trumpers, are going apesh*t over Cortez ("that socialist" AND she's a woman!), and are beside themselves over the (gasp!) Muslims that were elected. And all those females!

Kind of amusing. Feels good after the last two years.

So the Trump plan may be to kill the Mueller investigation before Dems take control

of the House.

I hope Mueller's ready. Because he may be about to be shut down, either directly or indirectly. And any report hidden.

I fully support Stacey Abrams' insistence on counting all the votes.

There is less than 100,000 votes difference. All the absentee and provisional votes aren't counted. And there was fraud going on...I think there's a lawsuit still on file about it. She's hoping for a runoff, which I fully support at this time.

I'm sure she's discouraged and dirt tired. I commend her for her grit and energy in going the distance. She's amazing.

Sad that Gillum conceded, since there is also less than 100,000 votes difference, and that's a huge state. Maybe that will change...do they still count all the votes, even though one has conceded?

I hope we haven't seen the last of Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Gillum.

Two very talented politicians.

34 House Flips for the Democrats (12+ females unseat white Republican males)

Here are the Democratic Party flips.

(The "(F)" = female replaced a Republican male in the seat.)

1. AZ 2nd: Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick topped Republican Lea Marquez Peterson.

(F)2. CA 25: Democrat Katie Hill ousted GOP Representative Steve Knight
3. CA 48: Harley Rouda beats Dana Rohrabacher
4. CA 49: Democrat Mike Levin beats GOP Harkey

5. CO 6th: Democrat Jason Crow unseated incumbent Republican Mike Coffman.

(F) 6. FL 26th: Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell defeated Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo.
7. FL 27th: Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Clinton admin official, beat Republican Maria Elvira Salazar, a TV journalist.

(F) 8. IA 1st: Democrat Abby Finkenauer unseated Republican incumbent Rod Blum.
(F) 9. IA 3rd: Democrat Cindy Axne defeated incumbent Republican David Young.

10. IL 6: Democrat Sean Casten defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Roskam.
(F) 11. IL 14th: Democrat Lauren Underwood unseated incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren. (woman of color defeated white Republican male.)

(F) 12. KS 3rd: Democrat Sharice Davids defeated Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder. (woman of color - Native Am. - unseats white Republican male)

(F)13. MI 8: Democrat Elissa Slotkin defeated Republican Mike Bishop
14. MI 11: Democrat Haley Stevens defeated Republican Lena Epstein

(F) 15. MN 2nd: Democrat Angie Craig unseated Republican incumbent Jason Lewis
16. MN 3rd: Dean Phillips defeated incumbent Republican Erik Paulsen.

17. NJ 2nd: Democrat Jeff Van Drew defeated Republican Seth Grossman
18. NJ 3rd: Democrat Lucy McBath unseats GOP Rep. Karen Handel
19. NJ 7th: Democrat Tom Malinowski ousted incumbent Republican Leonard Lance
20. (F) NJ 11th: Democrat Mikie Sherrill won the race for the open seat against Republican Jay Webber.

(F)21. NM 2nd: Democrat Xochitl Torres Small defeats Yvette Herrell (Repub seat held by Steve Pearce, who didn't run for re-elect.)

22. NY 11th: Max Rose defeated Republican Dan Donovan, the only Republican House member in New York City.
23. NY 19th: Democrat Antonio Delgado edges out incumbent Republican Rep. John Faso (man of color unseated white male Republican.)

(F) 24. OK 5th: Democrat Kendra Horn defeated Republican Steve Russell.

25. PA 5th: Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon won against Republican Pearl Kim in the district which was reformed after the state’s gerrymandered map was redrawn.
(F) 26. PA 6th: Democrat Chrissy Houlahan beat out Republican Greg McCauley for the open seat.
(F) 27. PA 7th: Democrat Susan Wild defeated Republican Marty Nothstein for the open seat.
28. PA 17: Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Repub Keith Rothfus

29. SC 1st: Democrat Joe Cunningham defeats Katie Arrington

(F)30. TX 7th: Democrat Lizzie Fletcher unseats Repub John Culberson
31. TX 32nd: Democratic ex-NFL player Colin Allred beat incumbent Republican PETE SESSIONS (prominent pug). (man of color unseated prominent white male Republican.)

(F) 32. VA 2nd: Democrat Elaine Luria beat out incumbent Republican Scott Taylor.
(F) 33. VA 7th: Democrat Abigail Spanberger beat incumbent Republican Dave Brat.
34. VA 10th: Democrat Jennifer Wexton unseated incumbent Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock.



Several seats still being counted.
NY 22 - Democrat Brindisi is leading Republican Tinney; still counting, not called yet.
FL - Nelson in a manual count.

The Dems flipped SEVEN governorships. That's a big deal. (+ Guam...let's not forget Guam!)

Michigan. Wisconsin. Illinois. Kansas. (Kansas? That was a surprise!) Maine. New Mexico. Nevada.

(NOTE: STACEY ABRAMS IN GEORGIA HAS NOT CONCEDED.)

(The Repubs may pick up Alaska from an Independent...results not finalized yet, on CNN. But the Repub has a solid lead.)

FIRST FEMALE GOVERNORS IN THE FLIP LIST:
**MAINE
**GUAM (wish Guam were a state; there's actually a bill proposed to make Guam & Puerto Rico states)

The House: Subpoena power; Controls the Purse Strings.

Okay. Let's see what we can do.

Looks to me like the voters intentionally put Democrats in the House as a check on the Presidency, while deciding to keep their governors and Senators, for the most part. They want a check on the uncontrolled power, and maybe protection of Mueller.

CNN calls FL governor - DeSantis. :( Very disappointing.nt

CNN is calling Cruz winning. :( nt

CNN's Jake Tapper says Democrats are still on track to win the House...

He says it's not a good night so far for Democrats, but it's been mainly the Senate. The Democrats are on track for the House, if everything holds.

A big blue wave didn't happen, though.