“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Democrats are worried about the 2022 midterm elections, and one tiny fact about this week’s stunning primaries explains exactly how worried they should be.
This week, Republicans and Democrats held a primary in the ultimate swing state of Ohio. The big news came when J.D. Vance won the U.S. Senate primary, keeping President Donald Trump’s endorsement victory sweep going.
But there was one fact the media missed, and that fact tells you everything you need to know about this November’s midterms:
232,000 Republicans voted in the Ohio primaries on Tuesday.
Only 169,000 Democrats bothered. The rest, it seems, vanished with no enthusiasm.
That’s a huge gap. It shows that Republicans can’t wait to get to the polls, while Democrats don’t care enough to vote for their own candidates.
Sure, the Ohio Republican Senate primary was of the most heavily watched races in the U.S., but with incumbent Rob Portman retiring, this is the Democrats’ best chance of flipping the seat and maybe cementing their control of the evenly-divided U.S. Senate.
It’s a high-stakes race for both parties, but only one party voted like it mattered. And that’s the case nationwide.
Politicos on the ground say there are two reasons for the massive enthusiasm gap: “One, Ohioans are feeling the impact of Joe Biden’s failed policies, and two, Ohio Democrats have a weak slate of inexperienced candidates who were unable to motivate their voters,” Ohio Republican Party Spokesman Dan Lusheck told The Columbus Dispatch.
That’s not just the case in Ohio.
“Among Republicans, 55% say they are very enthusiastic about voting in the midterms, compared to just 35% of Democrats,” reported ABC News early last month.
If that holds up, reporters can paint the election results board red.
The D.C.-based newspaper Roll Call asked, “Will Biden’s 2022 midterms be worse than Obama’s in 2010?”—you know, the one Obama called “a shellacking.”
Things are so bad that Democratic strategists are trying to wake up their fellow Democrats to the danger. “We’ve got to stop fooling ourselves here,” Julie Roginsky told Politico.
Voters gave Republicans a seven-point lead over Democrats in the midterms in a poll released late last month. “Americans perceive the Republican Party to be the party who can better deal with the issues of national security (43%), the economy (42%), controlling inflation (41%), gun policy (41%), and crime (39%),” reported the pollsters at Marist.
With Democratic candidates drowning, the Democratic Party is throwing them an anvil.
Joe Biden is a gaffe machine whose policies keep making things worse—from inflation, to crime, to the border.
Americans are fed up with the president and his far-Left policies.
A huge 59% of Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing in a new CNN poll, released on Wednesday. That’s a whopping 18 points more than approve—and a 16-point increase since this time last year.
The reason is simple: Biden is making them poorer by the day.
The CNN poll found that 55% of Americans say Biden’s policies have “worsened economic conditions in the country”—a 10% jump since January.
Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way Biden has handled the economy, immigration, and helping the middle class.
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Half of all Americans say the economy is the most important issue in the 2022 midterms—and nothing else even comes close. And the economy has them worried.
Leading economists warn that a recession might be coming under Biden’s watch, and soon.
Americans are ready to throw Biden and his affirmative action-hire vice president out of the White House ASAP, and they’re going to take it out on the Democrats this November. Their low primary vote numbers show that Democrats know they’re going to take a beating and don’t want to show up to a losing fight.
With things already so bad in the country, and voters worried how they’re going to pay for such necessities as gas and groceries, how do Democrats respond? Democratic campaign consultants plan to run on abortion, Jan. 6, and how bad they think Donald Trump is.
Good luck with that.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicts Republicans could win as many as 70 seats in the 2022 midterm elections. “I think we’ll pick up between 25 and 70 seats in the House. We’ll probably pick up about four seats in the Senate,” he said earlier this week. “I think that people like Herschel Walker are going to do very, very well.”
If his prediction comes true, America will do very, very well, too.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”