Yesterday the House voted 211 to 204, Roll Call 317, to refer Massie’s impeachment resolution, H. Res. 1655, against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee. That referral effectively killed the impeachment for this Congress. Veterans pushed back hard, especially on X. It’s Wednesday, Veterans Day, a week after the election, and the votes are in. Democrats took the House and the Senate. Speaker Mike Johnson spent Election Eve telling Republicans the polls were wrong and that they would defy history. They didn’t.
The man I’m talking with today saw this coming. Mark Mitchell is the founder and head pollster of The Honest Poll. His company was built on a simple idea: people are biased, polls shouldn’t be. Last November he sat with the president at the White House and has said he told him, sir, you are going to lose these midterms unless you get back to economic populism. His last Honest Poll before Election Day had likely voters at Democrats 54 percent and Republicans 41 percent.
On October 14 he called a Democratic House almost a mathematical certainty. That House call was right. Public tallies this week have Democrats at 254 House seats, with some races still uncalled. His Senate talk that it could go either way was too cautious. Democrats flipped the chamber. Election Day is behind us but the fight is not. Republicans have to win those voters back and stay in the fight through 2028, standing behind President Trump’s agenda instead of telling the base the polls were wrong. We value your privacy
