MEGHAN MCCAIN: Last night was the final nail in Trump's political coffin - because too many of his suck-up duds lost an unlosable election. Now is the moment for DeSantis to take charge of the ship
What the hell happened last night? The highly anticipated 'red wave' turned into a light pink ripple... at best.
The nation is still waiting for all the election results to come in, but enough has happened to start to understand why so many Republicans are waking up this morning outraged and confused
According to the exit polls, President Biden's favorable rating is underwater, a majority of voters are angry and dissatisfied with the direction of the country, and more voters think Biden's policies are hurting instead of helping them.
We have the highest inflation rate in decades. Crime is up everywhere. The Southern border is a lawless mess, and the American public is less optimistic about the future than we've seen in modern times.
The Biden presidency, to put it mildly, is not going well.
There was an expectation among Republicans, as well as many Democrats, that all of the polling laying bare Americans' fears and frustrations would translate into huge GOP wins.
That just didn't happen.
The expectations before last night were that Republicans would pick-up somewhere between 20-35 House seats and potentially capture control of the U.S. Senate in an historic wave election rivaling the Republican Revolution in 1994 and the midterm thrashing dealt to President Obama in 2010.
Pundits, analysts and pollsters have been speculating about this for months now.
But this morning, Republicans are white-knuckling it to the end and a GOP House majority, while still likely, is not even a sure thing.
Congressman Kevin McCarthy's future as Speaker of the House, once thought to be guaranteed, is now officially in play.
The 'red wave' was a mirage and nothing of the 'historic win' Republicans were anticipating. Nothing.
This will go down as a giant warning sign and, hopefully, a convincing argument against the delusion that President Donald Trump is the future of the GOP.
Too many Republicans lost in an unloseable election last night, and they have no one to blame but themselves.
MEGHAN MCCAIN: Too many Republicans lost last night thanks to Trump
MCCAIN: The 'red wave' was a mirage. We can now see two clear pathways ahead. One leads to success and the other to failure for the GOP.
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