Despite [[liberal media]] [[fake news]] reports, the Democrats would have to win 48 House seats and seven Senate seats to qualify historically as a "wave election," an unlikely prospect.<ref>[https://ballotpedia.org/Scott_Rasmussen%27s_Number_of_the_Day_for_June_25,_2018]</ref> Increasing [[leftist]] violence and resistance to accepting the results of a [[democracy|democratic]] election may be a decisive factor in the outcome.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/trump-resistance-continues-slide-toward-violence/</ref><ref>Although analysis by the [[Cato Institute]] and ''[[New York Times]]'' showed leftist-motivated violence on the rise since 2016 with killings 2.5 times higher than right wing extremists, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/term-alt-left-came the numbers ''do not'' include murders of [[police officer]]s by [[Black Lives Matter]] activists. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/police-officers-fatal-shooting-line-duty-nationwide/index.html</ref> | Despite [[liberal media]] [[fake news]] reports, the Democrats would have to win 48 House seats and seven Senate seats to qualify historically as a "wave election," an unlikely prospect.<ref>[https://ballotpedia.org/Scott_Rasmussen%27s_Number_of_the_Day_for_June_25,_2018]</ref> Increasing [[leftist]] violence and resistance to accepting the results of a [[democracy|democratic]] election may be a decisive factor in the outcome.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/trump-resistance-continues-slide-toward-violence/</ref><ref>Although analysis by the [[Cato Institute]] and ''[[New York Times]]'' showed leftist-motivated violence on the rise since 2016 with killings 2.5 times higher than right wing extremists, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/term-alt-left-came the numbers ''do not'' include murders of [[police officer]]s by [[Black Lives Matter]] activists. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/police-officers-fatal-shooting-line-duty-nationwide/index.html</ref> |