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Have Republicans Learned Anything from Last Week’s Election?

November 14, 2018 By Debbie Young

Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate Mitch McConnell, speaks at the dedication of the Dr. Norman Borlaug statue in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

Tucker Carlson believes that it is not just Democrats who should have learned something from the recent elections.

There were lessons for Republicans too.

Here’s one: voters care about campaign promises. If you don’t fulfill them, they’ll notice.

In 2016, Republicans promised to build a wall, get rid of Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood. They got elected, but they didn’t do any of that. Maybe that’s one reason they lost the House last night.

Read more here.

Tucker: Useful lessons from the midterm elections

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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