With just two days to go before Election Day, where do things stand? An analysis by Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the New Yorker finds that Republican insiders are expecting a very good day. He talks to GOP consultants and pollsters anonymously, and the word "bloodbath" is being thrown around, especially in regard to Senate races. They think contests viewed as tight will end up as part of a clean sweep for Republicans, with winners including Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Herschel Walker in Georgia, Adam Laxalt in Nevada, Blake Masters in Arizona, JD Vance in Ohio, and perhaps even election denier Don Bolduc in New Hampshire.
- "Some elections are not complicated at all," writes Wallace-Wells. "As these Republican strategists saw it, their candidates did not get past unpopular positions on abortion with a tactical masterstroke, they simply absorbed the electoral hit and moved on. The economy is not good, and the President is both a Democrat and unpopular."