{"id":46237,"date":"2026-11-04T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46237"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:58:00","slug":"the-2026-senate-campaign-updates-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/11\/04\/the-2026-senate-campaign-updates-51\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Senate Campaign: Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A RUMBLE IN THE DISTANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case my reader hasn&#8217;t been paying attention this morning, let me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/11\/04\/politics\/live-news\/midterm-election-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote<\/a> from <em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DEMOCRATS RETAKE CONGRESS IN STUNNING BLOW TO TRUMP<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Long time readers are well aware that this result is not surprising; indeed, there&#8217;s some disappointments, such as in Idaho, where Senator Risch (R) has retained his seat with ease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-46239 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C231&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C791&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C593&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1186&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1581&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C116&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?resize=194%2C150&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/PXL_20260710_184847141-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>But this is a lesson from the electorate to <strong>both<\/strong> Parties. No matter how much Democrats and their leftish allies strain to play it as a mandate of their policies, in reality this is a solid rejection of the <strong>current extremism on the right<\/strong>; it would be a logical error to assume that this election justifies madness on the left. The Democrats have, despite Republican spittle, a good, if not great, history in the economic realm, better than that of the Republican Party since 1990 or thereabouts, and they should be riding that hard as a first priority.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes <strong>cleanup<\/strong>. The priorities of the electorate are a great place to start: root out corruption, take back Congressional responsibilities such as tariffs, eliminate Trump&#8217;s tariffs, begin the process of rebuilding government services that the amateurs in the Republican Party destroyed in their arrogance, take steps to save Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes open questions, such as Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p>And all this comes with very hard questions: how to terminate <em>Trump&#8217;s War<\/em>, how to ramp up aid to Ukraine, do we impeach Trump or would Vance be worse, and more.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of discussion of non-governmental projects to be had: how do we reform both Parties, starting with the Republicans? That&#8217;s where it needs to start.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have to run off to work. As ever, feel free to email me with thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RUMBLE IN THE DISTANCE In case my reader hasn&#8217;t been paying attention this morning, let me quote from CNN: DEMOCRATS RETAKE CONGRESS IN STUNNING BLOW TO TRUMP Long time readers are well aware that this result is not surprising; indeed, there&#8217;s some disappointments, such as in Idaho, where Senator \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/11\/04\/the-2026-senate-campaign-updates-51\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46240,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237\/revisions\/46240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}