Republicans will take US Senate in November: Senator Rick Scott

Republican American Senator Rick Scott has said Democrats are going to lose in the 2022 midterm elections in November and Republicans will take the Senate.

“I’m 100% certain we’ll take the Senate,” Scott, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), said in an interview with Gray Television White House correspondent Jon Decker airing this weekend. “I think we’re going to have a breakthrough.”

Scott pointed out the quality of Republican Senate candidates, naming Wisconsin candidate Ron Johnson, Pennsylvania candidate Mehmet Oz, North Carolina candidate Ted Budd, Georgia candidate Herschel Walker and Nevada candidate Adam Laxalt, among others.

“Just look at our candidates. I mean, look at them … These guys have great backgrounds. And they’re working hard. They’re running good races,” Scott said.

The Florida senator argued that President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings in contested states give him confidence that the Republicans have a chance at winning, calling Biden the “best advocate for why you do not want to vote for any Democrats right now.”

“This is a referendum on Biden,” said Scott.

 “I do know that Biden helps us every day when he has a party for inflation in the day that inflation is 8.3%. That probably helps us a lot when he continues to leave the border open, that probably helps us a lot … If you look at everything he’s doing when he says, ‘Oh, if you’re a construction worker, you’re going to pay off the debt of somebody going to an Ivy League school.’ That probably helps us win,” he added.

The GOP senator said that he thinks Democrats “have to talk about abortion” because in his view they are doing badly on other issues.

“They can’t talk about inflation. They can’t talk about job growth. We lost 242,000 full-time jobs last month,” he said.

“I mean, they can’t talk about the economy, they can’t talk about schools, they can’t talk about Afghanistan, they can’t talk about the border, they can’t talk about crime because it’s all bad issues for them,” Scott continued.

Analyst: Midterm elections could determine Trump's future in the party

Former US President Donald Trump is still playing an active role in deciding the fate of the Republican Party, according to American political analyst and activist Myles Hoenig.

Recent opinion polls have depicted a gloomy landscape for Democrats as they gear up for the 2022 midterm elections.

A recent USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found that Republicans maintain a clear lead on the congressional ballot over Democrats as Joe Biden's approval rating plunges to a new low of 38 percent.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64 percent, say they do not want Biden to run for a second term in 2024, including a troubling 28 percent of Democrats.

Biden has proven a disappointment for many who voted him into office last year, with 16 percent of those surveyed saying he has done a worse job as president than they expected. Overall, 46 percent of Americans hold that view.

More worrying for Biden, another new survey by Emerson College has found that Trump would beat the incumbent by two points – 45 to 43 percent - if the election was held today.

Analyst: Midterm elections are usually a sign of buyers' remorse

American political analyst and activist Myles Hoenig told Press TV Democrats “are guaranteed to lose. President Barack Obama called his first off-year defeats in 2010 a ‘shellacking’. How big a party loses depends on many factors, but losing is almost always the outcome.”

 He said that ending student debt for 46 million Americans can offset an embarrassing loss in November.

“First mid-term elections are usually corrective, often based on buyers’ remorse. This past election is different in that the losing candidate was Trump who broke all the rules for the Presidency and his party. But Biden needs to do a Herculean job in the next 200 days to reverse the expected outcome in 2022. There is so much that he ran on that he and his party have ignored. Even if he took on one major issue, like forgiving student debt, one of his campaign promises, he would stand a chance of offsetting an embarrassing defeat this November,” Hoenig stated.

“The total student debt in this country is $1.75 trillion for nearly 45 million Americans. With this debt, students (who are likely long into their adulthood) cannot buy a home, invest in a business, raise a family, or spend money freely. Most Americans have very little in savings and are often a paycheck away from bankruptcy. Medical bills, even when insured, is the #1 reason for bankruptcies. Relieving student debt will change the economic fortunes of generations,” the student added.

“Money spent monthly to the banks (including interest) to pay off these loans would be going instead to buying cars, fixing homes, recreation and travel, paying medical bills. The vast majority of Americans would like to see this happen yet both political parties are too beholden to the banks to make good on it. This alone, relieving Americans of this exploitive debt, would be heralded as President Biden making good on a campaign promise and at least pretending to show that he has an affinity and empathy with real working Americans, as phony as that would be. But in politics, messaging, even when specious, can work,” he concluded.

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