FreeAndClear
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- Apr 23, 2018
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I think if the primaries are held today then it would change. if the election was held probably nothing would change. Just look at the Senate gains for the GOP. I think that screams that nothing has really changed other than in the eyes of political junkies.
Reality, the senate elections heavily favored the republicans in November. Yet even though they were supposed to pick up most of the vacant seats, they only picked up 2 senate seats.
trump went to Montana several times to unseat Jon Tester. Tester won.
Picking up 2 seats isn't significant when the projections were for republicans to win several of those senate seats.
Meanwhile the democrats picked up 40 seats so far in the House with one seat still undecided. Even with the republican heavily gerrymandered districts.
Change will come to our congress next week. We will finally have the constitutionally required checks and balances on trump. The American people spoke very loudly. We want proper checks and balances on trump and we want honest investigations into his crimes.
Having the majority in the Senate no longer guarantees control of all legislation. The republicans instituted the non stop filibuster in the Obama years when they were the minority to retain control of all legislation in the senate. Now, the tables have turned. Democrats are the minority and have control of all legislation in the Senate with the filibuster. So your small minority in the Senate is meaningless because the republicans instituted the non stop filibuster giving the minority all the power of legislation.
Have fun the next 2 years.
And then there is Florida...