The Election Day failure of Senate Democrats is more pronounced by the day, as evidenced by the repeated opposition hits on their new majority-maker, Raphael Warnock.
While empty suit Jon Ossoff was already exposed to the national spotlight in his 2017 House special election loss, Warnock is facing it for the first time. Warnock was able to cruise through the primary as Republicans knew it would go to a runoff, but with national focus on both Georgia Senate races, Warnock is spending his time trying to dodge questions about attending Fidel Castro speeches and his ties to anti-Semite Jeremiah Wright.
In sports terms, this is his “Welcome to the league, rookie” moment.
But Democrats never thought it would come to this. They claimed they had a stellar list of recruited candidates and that they were poised to pick up multiple seats. Chuck Schumer was threatening Republicans from the minority, where he vowed vengeance for Amy Coney Barrett’s completely legitimate and constitutional appointment to the Supreme Court.
Instead, it fell apart. All the talk of changing demographics had no effect on Texas (again). Democrats were convinced Lindsey Graham was in trouble, but the massive fundraising numbers and the extremely optimistic polls couldn’t stop a double-digit GOP victory. Republicans came closer to winning Senate seats in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Mexico than Democrats did to beating Joni Ernst in Iowa.
Schumer’s big operation was a failure in all but two states, the obvious win in Colorado and Martha McSally’s surrendered seat in Arizona. Even Ossoff, the better of the two candidates in Georgia, couldn’t get more votes than GOP Sen. David Perdue as Biden was winning the state.
Schumer has been unable to outrun his own failures. Even now, he promises, “We take Georgia, then we change America.” Nothing calms the nerves of people in Georgia like a New York liberal promising to change the country after “taking” their state.
Now, those failures are poised to give way to one more. Warnock could be Democrats’ majority-breaker and is likely to drag down the already trailing Ossoff for a GOP sweep of Georgia’s seats. Schumer has effectively cut off the chances of most Democratic senators being appointed to Biden’s cabinet, and now, he’s poised to take up the role once again of yelling from the bleachers while Mitch McConnell stifles the Democratic Party’s best chance to advance its national agenda since 2008.
