pelosi is the only politician after Biden to beat Trump. I’ll rephrase that, pelosi and Biden are the only AMERICAN politicians to beat trump.
Define "beat"? She never ran directly against Trump and just lost 8 seats from where I'm sitting, and only managed to deliver a lame duck presidency thanks to the shit show in the Senate.
Congressional democrats should look for new leadership. Pelosi is easily one of the strongest leaders in the history of the Congress. That’s right, the entire history of Congress. Republicans hate her because she got a progressive agenda through during the obama years and made Trump look like a fool at every turn. They should hate her. She’s a winner but her time is passed. Schumer does not have the same accomplishments under his belt. He should just give it up and Sherrod Brown should take the leadership. As to the midterms in 2022, the democrats will be on defense because of that is the nature of having a president in the same party, if Biden actually wins. However, show me the vulnerable districts of the new house make up. There really isn’t many. The senate is a totally different story. Republicans will be defending many more vulnerable seats than democrats. So, this idea that democrats are seeing nothing but doom and gloom in the midterms isn’t exactly a guarantee. Additionally, we are seeing sun belt movement and the idea that republicans can just keep pushing a Trump cult of personality instead of a party platform and understandable agenda isn’t exactly a winning strategy either. Plus Trump isn’t going anywhere. That’s the gift that will keep on giving.
Fine as far as you went in your commentary. However, the midterms are notably and historically a referendum on the new president and you sort of ignored and skated out around Joe Biden. This is sort of the way it went in the campaign too. It was all democrat, democrat, democrat, not-trump, not-trump, not-trump talk. We did not see much of Joe of interest in him. No need to explain why. We understand but at some point, Joe Biden himself and his performance are going to be a factor. Just not being Trump got him to where he is today. Not sure that is enough for the long haul and if it is not, then the dems will feel it bigtime at the midterm. Even Obama, who was treated as the Second Coming of the Baby Jesus, and had massive interest from dems took it up the bo-bo bigtime in his first midterm election. So don't start feeling too comfy about Joe holding things together in the House. Holding things together is not really Joe's strong point. He is lucky if he can find two socks that match.