Congressional math: majorities and vacancies

Politics & Elections
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I think an ongoing thread about the changes to the US House of Representatives may be of interest. Or for the Senate, although that doesn’t seem to be changing much at this time, but it’s always possible there could be a change there at any time. Here’s the situation in the House at the moment:

Republicans: 218
Democrats: 213
Vacancies: 4

The people at electoral-vote.com have a section in today’s edition about it:

There’s more at the article.

The four vacancies:

  1. The election to fill TX-18 (Turner’s seat) will be on the last day of January, so figure the election certified in early Feb. But the continuing resolution expires then, so the government may shut down again. In which case, who knows when Speaker Johnson will let the electee take their oath. It’ll definitely be a Dem elected, since it’s a runoff between two D’s.

  2. Election to fill NJ-11 (Sherill’s seat): primary Feb 5; general Apr 16. I believe the Dems are favored in that district.

  3. CA-01 (LaMalfa’s seat) has not had an election date set. If CAlifornia’s Governor Newsome wants to retaliate against Texas Gov Abbott, who set the date to fill TX-18 almost a year after Turner died, he can delay it until some time in the summer. California has legal dates he has to set the date by, so it can’t be almost a full year.

  4. GA-14 (Greene’s district) will have an election on Mar 10, but expect a runoff at a later date (April likely), since it’s unlikely anyone will get an outright majority.

Baird has been released from the hospital. I couldn’t find any info on when he’ll be voting in the House. If they really need his vote, they could bring him in on a gurney, as was the case for one Congressman last year. However, from the reports, he’s just in a neck brace, so he’ll probably come in on his own power to vote if the Repubilcans need it.

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I don’t trust anything from them since they made their ethnic bigotry clear.

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Explain please. What kind of bigotry?

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Ethnic “jokes” practically every other week against Canada and Canadians.

Some of the things they’ve said would fit very well in a press release from the current White House.

And when called on it, they give the standard bigot’s defence: “Can’t those people take a joke?”

I gave up on them a couple of years ago.

To get back to the OP, that’s why I don’t trust their accuracy, since bigotry is the opposite of reliable reporting.

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The you haven’t noticed that they largely stopped making Canadian jokes when Trump started making noises about Canada being the 51st state.

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Took them five years, of justifying their bigotry.

A bigot’s a bigot.

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And a joke’s a joke. I read them every day and they get their facts straight. See their take today on the ICE murder in Minneapolis, where they had to view the footage a half dozen times to see what happened.

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I’m not going to say any more about electoral-vote .com except to say I’m glad they stopped making those jokes.

So can we stop discussing that website and discuss membership changes to Congress. Not that I expect much discussion on this topic until new news happens. Like a date set for the election in CA-01. I think Newsome has a few weeks to make that announcement, so there may not be any news there for a while.