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With the 2022 midterm elections largely in the history books, Democrats held the U.S. Senate, Republicans took the House of Representatives, and Nancy Pelosi, the current House speaker, will be stepping down from any leadership posts. The new leadership in the House will likely investigate President Biden’s son, Hunter, and the laptop controversy. Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman argues going after the president’s son could very well backfire on the Republicans and usher in a massive blue wave in 2024.
Now they want to go after Hunter Biden. Okay, fine. They’re going to do it. So then the question is, what effect is that going to have when we start thinking forward to 2024?
One of the things about 2024 is that in the Senate it’s a difficult map for Democrats. Democrats are going to have to defend Democratic seats in red or purple states that includes Ohio, it includes Montana, and there’s a couple of others. So on the Senate side, Democrats really need all the help they can get in 24, that’s why the December 6 runoff, if Raphael Warnock is able to win it, sort of serves as a down payment. If Warnock gets that seat, because remember, in the Senate it’s six-year terms, so everybody who was up in the Senate this year is not up in 24 — Warnock winning would sort of be like a down payment on 24 — it would be one seat Democrats don’t have to win in 2024.
In the House, we don’t know what things are going to look like in 2024 and any assistance that Democrats can get from Republicans mismanaging the control that they have is going to be very much welcomed by Democrats. The idea is, and with all of these ideas I don’t pretend to know how it’s going to go, I merely raise it as a question — humans are terrible at making predictions. The question is, if Republicans take over the House with the slimmest of slim majorities which they’re going to have, they accomplish nothing, they obstruct everything Biden and Democrats tried to do, and they just talk about Hunter Biden and maybe even try to impeach Joe Biden. Is that going to backfire on them the way that continuing to talk about supposed rigged elections backfired on them in 2022? If you are in the Democratic Party, your hope is that the answer is “yes.”
However, there are probably at least tens of millions of Americans who will go with whatever the Republican Party does as far as an agenda. And that agenda quite frankly, may be “just go after Hunter Biden.” Will it backfire? I don’t know. Could it backfire and lead to a massive blue wave in 2024? Absolutely, and we’re going to have to wait to see.
