Timothy Birdnow

How the GOP fumbled the ball in the Virginia gerrymandering vote.

They were outspent by a whopping amount - $62.3 million vs. $20 million to barely scratch out an 81,188 vote gap. The GOP spent less to win this than they did to save John Cornyn from a primary challenge. Two to four million more would probably have won the election for the GOP. Now Democrats pick up four more seats and completely own the state, a state that went 49% for Donald Trump just last year.

As of now the Republican National Committee is sitting on a warchest of $109 million and couldn't be bothered to spend it on saving a critical state.

They gave $91 million to John Cornyn.

I've long argued the Establishment doesn't want to gain ground; they prefer a neck-and-neck Congress where the voters cannot afford to lose a single seat. That means RINO Republicans can keep the "radical" MAGA types from running away with the show. They have a cozy little relationship with the Democrats, are making money and enjoying the fruits of being in Congress, and don't want to actually win and have to do anything useful. Also, many of them are fellow travelers with the Democrats in terms of what they believe. So they want to keep Congress razor thin so that they don't have to worry about being primaried. The aforementioned John Cornyn is a prime example of that. The fought bitterly to keep him in place and shut out Ken Paxton, who is a Middle American - type MAGA guy and who will be a solid vote for Conservatism.

Now it's up to the liberal Virginia Supreme Court, which has twice before refused to act against this travesty. And until the state supreme court acts it cannot be appealed to Federal Court, and then it will go through the notoriously liberal district of Northern Virginia.

I want to know, too, about voter integrity in this election. Who voted and how many times? If there was ever a chance for vote fraud this would be the time for Democrats to utilize it.

Until we get a Republican Party that actually wants to win we are never going to make any headway. We aren't losing America because we are being outplayed so much as because our leadership doesn't want to take the field.

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