It's so fun to go back just seven weeks ago and read what alien Rick Scott predicted would be the harmonic convergence of the Rick Scott Campaign Committee's work in the Senate.
Rick Scott: Senate Republicans have path to 55-seat majority
(Result: lost a seat, have 49.)
GREENSBORO, N.C. — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) says Republicans will likely control 52 Senate seats next year and have a pathway to a 55-seat majority, given how recent polls show GOP candidates picking up momentum.
(49)
..."we’re going to get 52 Republican senators, we have to win here,” Scott said at a get-out-to-vote event with Senate candidate Rep. Ted Budd (N.C.) at the Republican Black Community Center. “I think we can get 53, 54, 55."
(lost a seat. 49.)
“The energy is on our side. People are fed up with the Biden agenda,” he declared to applause from a roomful of Republican activists and supporters.
(Low energy was on his side. Party of God candidates had Fusion Ignition.)
Republicans would have to run the table of Senate races and knock off Democratic incumbents in five races...The most vulnerable Democratic incumbents are Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (who won ) in Nevada and Raphael Warnock (who won) in Georgia, followed by Sen. Mark Kelly (who won) in Arizona. After that, New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan (who won) is considered next-most vulnerable, followed by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, (who won) who is leading his Republican opponent by 6 points in a recent Marist poll.
(Beam me up Scottie: You ran the table in reverse, losing all five D-held states)
...while protecting their vulnerable seats in Pennsylvania, (which the R lost) Wisconsin, (R won) Ohio (R won) and North Carolina (R won) in order to build a five-seat Senate majority next year.
Scott, however, thinks Washington Sen. Patty Murray (D) and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) might also be in trouble if the GOP wave is as big as he suspects it could be next month.
(Murray won by 14.6%; Blumenthal by 15%; Red wave was a blue ripple.)
“If you look at the weekly polls and do we lot of polls, every week is getting better,” Scott explained in an interview with The Hill...
(Not the poll on Nov. 8.)
"...look at Herschel Walker, you look at all the polls, Herschel’s up three,” he said, without specifying exactly what polls he had in mind. “Georgia, we’ll pick that one up.”
(lost)
In Arizona, Scott said Senate GOP candidate “Blake [Masters] is barely behind.”
“We’ve defined Kelly,” he added referring to the incumbent Democrat.
(Kelly won by 4.9%)
Some Senate Republican strategists believe that Republican gubernatorial Kari Lake has a solid lead over Democrat Katie Hobbs and could help Masters down ballot.
(Stormy lost by 0.6%)
“Adam Laxalt has been up consistently, every one,” Scott added, referring to polls showing former Nevada state Attorney General Adam Laxalt with a lead over Cortez Masto.
(Laxalt lost.)
“Joe O’Dea’s barely behind, Tiffany Smiley is down two” points, Scott added, referring to the Senate Republican challengers in Colorado and Washington state. The National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman has told GOP officials in Washington for the past year that he sees the Senate contest there as a “sleeper” race.
(O'Dea was barely behind by 14.6% on Nov. 8; Smiley was put to sleep by 14.6% on Nov. 8.)
In New Hampshire, Scott said “there’s a poll out showing [GOP challenger Don] Bolduc down two”...
...some Senate Republican strategists think he could win if there’s a GOP tsunami.
(Blue tsunami in NH swamped Bolduc by 8.8%.)
“I’m optimistic it’s going to be a good night and we have good candidates, they’re running good races. There’s a lot of energy,” he said, predicting a wave of Republican wins on election night.
(Worst collection of freaks, defectives and low character candidates in modern Senate election history; ran totally inept races, lot of low energy; Blue ripple, net gain of 1. Rickety is the worst Senate campaign chair in modern history and he has my full 100 support to do it again and again and... )
