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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2022 23:24:15 GMT
James Carville just about said it out loud. That the next speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House.. Think former?
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Post by Scrapper100 on Nov 15, 2022 0:42:30 GMT
James Carville just about said it out loud. That the next speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House.. Think former? And here we go
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 15, 2022 0:49:04 GMT
James Carville just about said it out loud. That the next speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House.. Think former? I’ve seen talk about Cheney or trump. I think Trump would be more likely but don’t think it will be either.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 15, 2022 1:03:21 GMT
Somewhere I asked if he is made Speaker, does he in that position stay in the presidential succession IF something should happen to the president and VP at the same time. If it were one or the other that person could appoint a new VP, thus eliminating the need for the speaker to step in.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 15, 2022 16:38:27 GMT
Trump's losses and negative influence quantified www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/15/data-trump-weighed-down-republican-candidates/If we focus exclusively on districts where the margin of victory was less than 15 points, such that the seat was conceivably in the balance, the picture that emerges is quite different.
In these 114 districts, candidates bearing Trump endorsements underperformed their baseline by a whopping five points, while Republicans who were without Trump’s blessing overperformed their baseline by 2.2 points — a remarkable difference of more than seven points.
To give a clearer sense of what this cost House Republicans, we can examine the election returns visually. In the chart below, the lower-right-hand quadrant shows races in which Republicans lost (the Republican margin was negative) even though the district had favored Republicans in recent elections (the expected Republican margin was positive):
Considering only competitive races, decided by 15 points or less, most Trump-endorsed candidates underperformed
But there are five races in which the Trump penalty was probably decisive:
But close association with the twice-impeached president was a clear liability in competitive 2022 House races, turning what would have been a modest-but-solid Republican majority into (at best) a razor-thin one.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 15, 2022 17:55:05 GMT
It just breaks my heart! Poor losers!
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Post by papersilly on Nov 15, 2022 19:40:11 GMT
James Carville just about said it out loud. That the next speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House.. Think former? that would be beneath him. haven't we learned that he always wants the bigliest and be bestest? it's the presidence or nothing. i'm just throwing up at the thought that he will announce his candidacy tonight at 6:00 p.m.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 15, 2022 19:52:48 GMT
James Carville just about said it out loud. That the next speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House.. Think former? that would be beneath him. haven't we learned that he always wants the bigliest and be bestest? it's the presidence or nothing. i'm just throwing up at the thought that he will announce his candidacy tonight at 6:00 p.m. Although pillow guy said something about Kari Lake.. Mike Lindell: Trump's Tuesday announcement is 'divine intervention' in Kari Lake's electionDavid Edwards November 15, 2022 MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Tuesday declared that it was "divine intervention" for former President Donald Trump to announce his 2024 presidential run so soon after Republican candidate Kari Lake lost in Arizona. Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon spoke with Lindell about Lake's loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the race for Arizona governor. Bannon argued that there was "zero probability" that Lake lost to Hobbs. "What's to be done, Mike Lindell?" Bannon wondered. "There's a lot to be done," the pillow executive replied. "I think it's just a divine intervention today that the president will do this announcement. And everybody needs to keep the faith. I mean, this is all unfolding. We've caught them. They are absolutely caught. Everything that was done in Arizona. They are caught." Lindell predicted there would be an "unraveling" of election information. "Finally, everyone will say, 'You know what? We can't have machines in our elections,'" he said. "For them to blatantly steal this from Kari Lake, I think is — I'm looking at it — you see a silver lining. But the silver lining is we're going to have our great president back, our real president and we're also going to get to a place where we're going to have elections instead of selections." Despite Lindell's claims, there has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in Arizona. www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-kari-lake/
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 17, 2022 0:07:04 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 17, 2022 0:12:22 GMT
Stay tuned for endless investigations, unfortunately. Maybe more moderate members will reign in the Freedom caucus and far right? And probably the end of the Jan 6 investigation? MTG will be given committee assignments. Lauren Boebert, too if she wins her election. www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1133125177/republicans-control-house-of-representativesTop GOP members on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees have already said they plan to probe the business dealings of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the president's border policies, the origins of the coronavirus, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But because the margin is so slim there may be pressure from more moderate Republicans to pull back on some of the probes and instead focus on issues that show a GOP chamber can govern.
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Post by ntsf on Nov 17, 2022 0:14:02 GMT
my best friend who is a real inside democratic fundraiser was very pessimistic in early november about dems keeping the house and the senate. the fact we are not talking that is a big win.. and the narrative is, even if in the tight result in the house, we have had massive wins on the dem side and the republicans will spend a lot of energy fighting each other. we need to have that 51st senator but all is not lost.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 17, 2022 0:47:30 GMT
Democrats setting up 'War room' .... ALL may not be 100% lost! On Wednesday, POLITICO reported that Democratic strategists are launching a "war room" to investigate House Republicans in the event that they abuse their oversight powers in an incoming Republican majority."The newly relaunched Congressional Integrity Project initiative, details of which were shared first with POLITICO, will include rapid response teams, investigative researchers, pollsters and eventually a paid media campaign to put congressional Republicans 'squarely on the defense,' founder Kyle Herrig said in an interview," reported Heidi Przybyla and Jordain Carney. "It’s designed to serve as the party’s 'leading war room' to push back on House Republican investigations, Herrig said in an interview." Longtime Democratic strategist Brad Woodhouse will also be involved. According to the report, Herrig vowed the campaign will "investigate the investigators, expose their political motivations and the monied special interests supporting their work, and hold them accountable for ignoring the urgent priorities of all Americans in order to smear Joe Biden and do the political bidding of Trump and MAGA Republicans." This comes after top House Republicans, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), are vowing to launch a blizzard of investigations against both the Biden administration, including the Justice Department and FBI, as well as various figures who have become Republican scapegoats, like outgoing National Institutes of Health official Dr. Anthony Fauci. Similar investigative blitzes occurred during the Obama administration when House Republicans held endless hearings into the issues like failures in the "Operation Fast & Furious" gun-walking operation and the since-debunked allegations that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups. Perhaps most famously, the GOP ran a massive campaign trying to blame former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya — something that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) publicly boasted was designed to hurt her presidential campaign rather than to serve any legitimate investigative purpose. "In addition to Herrig and Woodhouse, the project’s leadership team will include Leslie Dach, a well-known Democratic communications specialist who has led progressive organizations for decades, served in the Obama administration and advised the Biden administration’s pandemic response," said the report. "In a sign of the important role the initiative will play over the next two years — and its proximity to the White House — other senior advisers include Jeff Peck, a former Biden aide during the president’s time in the Senate who served as treasurer and vice chair of the Biden Foundation as well as a senior adviser to the Biden-Harris transition." www.rawstory.com/investigating-gop/
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