The Repubs knew they were going to take a hit this fall due to their blatant and shameless acts of legislating much more of the nation's wealth over to our country's patriotic plutocratic pirates who own their asses.
I guess they're banking on their gerrymandering, voter suppression legislation and their loyal (brain dead) constituency who just love to flagellate themselves for the good of the party.
The sad part about this whole self-defeating scenario that the Repubs finds themselves in is the fact that their legislators are going to have to rely more an more on their few wealthy donors and over-saturate their diminishing constituency with much more lies, ridiculously ramped up fear and hate, more disingenuous acts of betrayal and paying much more attention to the evangelists, racists and supremacists who have nowhere else to go to find representation.