Texas Senator Ted Cruz is sounding an alarm about the GOP’s lack of legislative achievements, predicting a possible “Watergate-style blowout” of losses in the 2018 midterm elections as a result.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is sounding an alarm about the GOP’s lack of legislative achievements, predicting a possible “Watergate-style blowout” of losses in the 2018 mid-term elections as a result.
CBS News is reporting that the lawmaker told a group of influential conservatives Friday, “If we do nothing, if tax reform crashes and burns, if Obamacare nothing happens, we could face a bloodbath. I think we have the potential of seeing a Watergate-style blowout.”
And South Carolina Senator Tim Scott said of Republican tax reform efforts, “Failure is a starting process, in my opinion, to losing the House, which will manifest in 2018 if we don’t get this done. And frankly, I think it destabilizes the Senate, we lose the Senate as well.”
The comments were made at a New York event of GOP lawmakers and prominent donors linked to the Koch brothers--a network the Washington Post is reporting intends to funnel as much as $400 million to 2018 election efforts.
There is speculation that Democrats may be able to make significant gains.
'According to Gallup calculations, the average seat loss for the president's party in Midterm elections dating back to 1946 is 36 seats -- when the president's approval is under 50% nationally. Trump is currently at 39% in the latest Gallup tracking poll,” CNN reported in late September.
