Republicans see Democrats without confidence in their own agenda one week before legislative elections

Historian Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, said on Fox's "Hannity" program that Democrats "lack confidence" in their own agenda and resort to maneuvers to try to win elections. The assessment was made a week before voting day in the mid-term elections in the United States, according to the presenter.

The comment refers to the federal investigation into Alaskan Senate candidate Mary Peltola, accused of trying to recruit "spoiler candidates", according to the program's description. Hanson called the episode "amateurish" and said one would expect something like this in a high school student election, not a Senate race.

In Hanson's reading, the case is part of a broader pattern. He stated that the Democratic Party is afraid to defend positions such as open borders, cutting funding for the police or the Green New Deal, and cited the figure of 51% to argue that some of these ideas would not have majority support. The transcription does not detail the origin of this number.

The "projection" thesis

Hanson also argued that Democrats tend to “project” what they do onto their opponents. According to him, the party talks about electoral integrity while adopting practices that it criticizes, and compared the situation to the use of the term "lawfare" and accusations of foreign interference in 2016. This is the analyst's opinion, not actually verified.

Charlie Hurt, co-host of weekend "Fox & Friends," said suspicions of Democratic involvement had existed for months. He stated that what shocked was the "explicitness" of the text messages revealed in a New York Times report, which, in his assessment, show the party's desperation.

For Hurt, the Democratic candidate, rejected by the state's voters two years ago, would have resorted to the idea of ​​running another candidate with the same name as his opponent, Dan Sullivan. He classified the strategy as a sign of contempt for the voters themselves. The allegations are from commentators and were not confirmed in the transcript.

Disputes that could define the Senate

As for the big picture, Hanson said he was watching the Oregon gubernatorial races and Senate races in Minnesota, Michigan and Maine. In his assessment, if these races are close, the Republicans will have "a very good night", even if they don't win all of them.

The analyst also cited the election in Israel as a sign of supposed global fatigue with left-wing agendas, a thesis that he attributed to a movement also visible in Europe. Hurt, in turn, stated that he believes that Republicans should maintain control of the Senate and said that the Chamber will be much more difficult, for historical reasons, without ruling anything out.

For the market, the message is caution: the composition of Congress influences the fiscal, tax and regulatory agenda, variables that usually weigh on interest rates, the dollar and the stock market. The transcript, however, does not provide economic projections, and the evaluations above reflect the views of the program participants.

Automatically translated from Portuguese.