{"id":384698,"date":"2018-11-12T03:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T02:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mid-term-divisions-the-trump-take\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T03:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T02:53:55","slug":"mid-term-divisions-the-trump-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mid-term-divisions-the-trump-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Term Divisions: The Trump Take"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald J. Trump has a special, strained take on the world. Defeat is simply victory viewed in slanted terms. Victory for the other side is defeat elaborately clothed. Both views stand, and these alternate with a mind bending disturbance that has thrown the sceptics off any credible scent. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t me being slow,\u201d <\/span><\/span>came<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> Frank Bruni\u2019s lamentation in <\/span><\/span>the New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/span>. \u201cIt was America.\u201d Dazzlingly unsettling, the results have been tight \u201cbut many of the signals they sent were mixed and confusing.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Those daring to make predictions that the House would fall to the Democrats were not disappointed, even if they could not be said to be spectacular. Losses to the incumbent party in the White House in the mid-terms tends to be heavy, varying between 24 and 30. President Barack Obama\u2019s presidency bore witness to 63 losses to his party in 2010. On this occasion, the GOP yielded ground in Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Senate, just to press home the sheer polarity of the results, slid further into red territory. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, who had, in any case, been deemed quite vulnerable in the state, <\/span><\/span>fell<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> to Mike Braun. Braun was one who drank from the cup of Trumpism, a move which seems to have paid off. Missouri Democratic senator Clair McCaskill succumbed to Republican challenger Josh Hawley. North Dakota also turned red.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Democrats showed <\/span><\/span>some<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> resurgence in various state level capitols. Key…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Donald J. Trump has a special, strained take on the world. Defeat is simply victory viewed in slanted terms. Victory for the other side is defeat elaborately clothed. Both views stand, and these alternate with a mind bending disturbance that has thrown the sceptics off any credible scent. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t me being slow,\u201d came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}