Town Hall - Matt Vespa:
Democrats should be happy. President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are not that stellar, around what George W. Bush’s were before the 2006 wave. The GOP owned a deeply unpopular war, scores of Americans were getting killed or wounded in Iraq on a daily basis—the country was on the verge of all-out civil war, and corruption scandals from Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX) and Duke Cunningham (R-CA) surely only added to the notion that a change in management was needed in Washington. We’re not fighting any wars with an intensity level of Iraq in 2006, any allegations of impropriety by Trump (i.e. Russian collusion) have yielded no evidence, and Democrats cannot find qualified candidates, unlike their 2006 farm system that found many. With Jon Ossoff’s loss in Georgia’s sixth congressional district to Republican Karen Handel, Democrats and their recruitment efforts for 2018 have taken another punch to the gut. Yes, the blame game on the Left has begun. And yes, Democrats have been performing better than expected, but they’re still losing.
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