I don't think McConnell wants him to. I think he likes seeing the Democrats set themselves on fire while in the majority. It wouldn't make a big difference for them at this point anyway. They'd have a 51-49 majority with regular defectors. That won't get anything done. After the election? That's another matter. He'll want as big of a majority as he can get. I'm sure he'll invite Manchin. He may invite Sinema, but I doubt she'd switch. She isn't a conservative. She's a liberal who isn't insane.
The democrats and their mercenaries are only left with pointing out the crazy on the right, creating fear about Trump and trying to exploit January 6th as something it wasn't. Also, NOT talking about Hunter's laptop, the fentanyl crisis, the border crisis, inflation, or high crime/murder rates. In the end, James Carville was right. "It's the economy stupid."
The more I see of Cawthorn it makes me think the minimum age to be in the House should be raised to 30 like in the senate. The guy seems unable to quit acting like a frat boy.
It's a whole new issue, but I don't understand the tendency of our society to lower the minimum ages for doing things - holding office, voting, buying booze, buying cigarettes, etc. Are young people generally more mature than they used to be or less? When given the opportunity, do they more often make smart choices or less often? The answers are pretty clear. We should, if anything, be raising the age for people to do all of these things.
I think the GOP may have just figured out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. All these trigger laws and this new SCOTUS ruling virtually ensure a flood of money to Dem's and 5 months of heightened emotion/motivation leading to the midterms.
it may not change your/their existing sentiment about who you would vote for but i do think it dramatically changes their motivation to get to the polls and their campaign cash.
It would be stupid since if Roe is reversed, then the decisions about abortion move to the state level. I think this is why the dems are mad. It takes away a national issue for them.
HEY CNN Those Are Biden's solutions to our gas problems Now if she had said let Keystone XL be built , open up more federal land to drilling And do away with the many onerous regs and fees Biden instituted that make it harder to drill That would be a departure
Apparently it can get worse for Cawthorn. Link. They should have made up a pee tape about him. I'd be surprised if there isn't one.
I'm really surprised that McConnell weighed in with a possible federal law banning abortion. I usually give him more credit for being a savvy (if calculating) politician. I think this abortion issue just took the GOP pick-ups from a possible 30+ down to a hi-teens. There are enough tight races that this issue will likely make the difference. who knows, maybe the calculation is that we have short attention spans and this will burn itself out before Nov, but the history of this topic doesn't seem to support that.
A lot of these cop groups are public employee unions or quasi-unions. They tend to like Democrats so long as they aren't openly anti-cop. If Cortez-Mastro wasn't a vocal Defund the Police kook, I'm not surprised that they may have originally backed her.
6 month countdown begins. The pressure will mount on dems. At some point it will be demoralizing, which will make Election Day worse. With six months left, ominous outlook remains for Democrats - Roll Call
Cawthorn is gone, conceding in a race where neither he nor the winner even hit 35%. Meanwhile, PA is still too close to call...less than 2K votes separating at last count, and again, neither of the top two have even hit 35%, showing what the impact of a disjointed race can be...Barnette is only around 25% but much of her vote tally likely would have gone to Oz. Given the dalliances of Cawthorn which have come to light, I chuckled when one talking head discussed his having gotten a nod from Trump, but that it was not exactly a "full throated" endorsement. Someone had fun writing that script...
Rep. Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from scandals ahead of midterms A little different. He was giving away the game. I haven't seen AOC or Omar highlight when there were cocaine orgies.
