I’m back after a brief trip with my final midterm election observations and opinions.

No, Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot, but regardless of what you are being told about it being only about individual House and Senate seats, it is about Trump.

Surely, you recall how the leftist media told you how the president’s low approval rating was going to affect the results. Now, with his rating hovering around 50 percent and drawing huge crowds in an ambitious schedule of appearances, the media is reverting to the “all elections are local” message.

Incumbent GOP candidates and those seeking a seat in the House or Senate should have attached themselves to the president’s coat tails. Those who didn’t, did so at their own peril. After all, he came into office with an agenda packed with promises he intended to keep, and did (minus the wall). For the most part, they merely tagged along with a lowly 19 percent Congressional approval rating.

As I write this, we are told the races are tight, reflecting those dubious polls. With 2016 a not-so-distant memory, I don’t want to believe what I am hearing.

Much of the failure in the House, in my opinion, falls on Speaker Ryan’s inability to control the caucus in-fighting with a focus on furthering Trump’s agenda, forcing the president to swallow big spending with no wall funding to get his defense authorization through was a travesty.

Ryan recently proved again that he wasn’t on the Trump team when he stated out rightly that the president could not change the illegal birthright law with an executive order. Rather than shoot down the president’s statement out of hand, he could have been more politically astute with a “we’ll have to look into that” response.

Unless there’s another 2016 surprise, it appears that we could lose the House, and we may not know officially until Wednesday. It’s hard to believe a few of the Senate seats are as close as indicated. We should be picking up one or two seats.

With 33 state houses currently in control of Republican governors, can you believe we are facing two socialist leftists in Georgia and Florida?

Back to my initial view of Trump being on the imaginary ballot. If, in fact, it is the economy stupid, voters have been handed a prosperous package of tax cuts, unmatched unemployment in all sectors and wage increases, all made possible by the creation of a business-friendly environment that produced the kind of growth Trump predicted.

Forget the thinking that the party in power always loses. With the president’s impressive list of accomplishments, a midterm loss for the GOP can only be the result of the Democrat’s hate campaign and their unwillingness to admit that he won the presidency.

If you haven’t voted.  Please go to the polls and vote Republican.  Most likely, you will have never voted in an election as important as this one.

 

            May God bless the United States of America.