Going back to this, we're still waiting to see how control of the Senate and House shakes down, but it's looking like Biden is having one of the best midterms of any first term president since Bush 1.
Yup. Usually the party that controls the whitehouse loses seats in congress during the midterms. It has been that way for decades. Republicans lost 41 house seats in the 2018 midterms when Trump was president. Republicans gained 13 house seats in the 2014 election when Obama was president.
Given that historical trend (as well as high inflation, an issue that Biden has little control over), and various republican dirty tricks (voter suppression and gerrymandering), the republicans were expected to have HUGE gains. Yet their gains in the house are tiny compared to other midterm elections, and we could be looking at another 50-50 senate.
Even many life-long republicans think this is a major problem and that the party needs to correct itself.
Maybe they could have started by not trying to force 10 year old girls to give birth to the children of their rapists.