In two years, he can become Majority Leader again, can’t he?
Kornacki on where the rest of the votes are coming from.
Yes. Midterm effect notwithstanding, I like Dem chances to expand their lead in '22. Three GOP senators are retiring.
Certainly a possibility. But looking at the map, I don’t see a lot of places where the Democrats are going to lose.
Back in 2018, Josh Marshall put together a Twitter feed of the people he considered to be the best election geeks. It’s been my go-to ever since. Not only does it include people like Nate Cohn of the NYT, Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, J. Miles Coleman of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics, but it has a lot of other really smart election geeks that you probably haven’t heard of.
Yesterday evening, following that feed, I felt I knew exactly what was happening as it happened - and this morning, it was clearly no illusion. I went to bed at 10pm Eastern feeling pretty damn comfortable about the outcome.
Dems have a good shot at a hold in 2022, but there will be headwinds. Traditionally the President’s party loses seats in the first midterm election, although the trend is not as strong in the Senate as it is in the House. They have good opportunities for pickups in PA and NC where Republican incumbents are retiring, but they’ll also have two just-elected Senators back on the ballot in AZ and GA that are likely to face a strong challenge.
What publication does this come from? (click on blur spoiler at the bottom)
I’m a little surprised. I must have missed the memo where the conservatives were hating on Trump.
The chart here shows why there’s essentially no doubt about Ossoff’s win, and little doubt that he’ll clear the 0.5% recount threshold. There are ~50,000 ballots outstanding in counties that Ossoff leads (mostly by huge margins), and maybe 7000 ballots outstanding in counties Perdue leads.
Who said it was “the most openly racist campaign EVER”? Who made that claim? Can you cite it?
Emphasis mine.
Here is the original post. I presume that @ISiddiqui is too young (or at least in the wrong part of the country) to have seen some far more racist camlaigns during the Jim Crow era, or that he wasn’t around for the 1932 campaign for Germany’s federal government, or any of a huge number of other racist campaigns throughout history that would be included if he had said Loeffler ran the more racist campaign eVeR.
Not just that, I said it was ‘one of the most’ as well. But I’m not shocked at the twisting of my words - I just chose not to engage with that nonsense.
[fist bump]
For anyone who cared to look, there have been conservatives criticizing Trump for much of the past four years, especially among the old-guard, mainstream conservative movement and its institutions. This is especially true outside of the corridors of power. Plenty of Republican lawmakers sacrificed principles to partisan self-interest, but much of the conservative intellectual movement has been pretty solidly against Trump.
The filibuster used to be a useful tool. It guaranteed some sort of cooperation. However, the GOP happily nuked the filibuster for SCOTUS noms as soon as the Dems used it. Thus, the filibuster has no value anymore, since the GOP has shown it will dump whatever parts they want , whenever they want. Mitch did that to himself.
Mitch must be so pissed now, since trump basically handed control of the senate to the Dems.
Um, you do realize that the cite you gave actually debunks the claim you were trying to make?
Others will speculate about the Clinton campaign’s intentions and motives, as they already have. But without further evidence to the contrary, we see no reason to conclude that this is anything more than a standard attempt to make an attack ad appear sinister, rather than a special effort to exploit racial bias as some Obama supporters are saying.
Don’t you remember? He told us himself he’s tip-top-number-one super-double-plus the best at debunking liberal claims. Clearly this is an XK Red 27 reverse-psychology technique.
Did the Dems stop all legislation from getting thru? How often did the Democrats use the filibuster?
You are correct. When Clinton darkened Obama’s skin it was just a "standard attempt to make an attack ad appear sinister". But with Kelly Loeffler we know that’s not the case. Her ad was straight up racist because she is a Republican.
Can we pause this meaningful discussion for just a moment while our Vice President, House Speaker, senators and representatives are under attack by a Pro-Trump mob?
PBS just reported that someone was shot in the Capitol. Awaiting details