Yeah, I’m seeing Johnson ahead by about 27,000 votes with 94% of votes counted. It’s not mathematically 100% certain that Johnson will win but multiple outlets have called it in his favor.
Alaska will go to a Republican, and Georgia looks likely to go to a runoff right now, but both Az and NV are leaning blue, which would be enough for Democrats to retain control of the Senate even if Georgia doesn’t go to Warnock in the runoff.
Ain’t no 101, 102 Senators!
When I said those two seats would be enough for Democrats to retain control I was including the current 50/50 scenario with Harris as tiebreaker.
If his party selects him to lead. I’d prefer that the Dems take the house, but here’s hoping that the GOP does what they do well and stabs him in the back. Hello, Speaker Elise Stefanik.
Good point, the smaller the GOP majority (if there is indeed one) the easier it is for members to throw a wrench in his carefully crafted plans.
It looks like a small group of hard-right members may try to extort concessions in exchange for their votes:
Manchin has signaled he’s going to be even more aligned with the republicans by saying he wants to revise Medicare and Social Security.
Having 51 or 52 would have removed his and Sinema’s leverage.
Former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, now the head of the city’s non-partisan political watchdog Committee of Seventy, confirms that at least two field cameras were found and removed. Those cameras were at the Shissler Recreation Center in Fishtown and Independence Library in Center City.
“It’s not necessarily illegal to place these cameras where they were,” Schmidt told us on Monday night. “Nor is it illegal for them to be taken down. Some voters could find them intimidating.”
City officials stress that investigators did a full sweep of all drop box locations prior to the polls opening at 7 a.m. on Election Day.
I am saddened and frustrated that we’re facing more Abbott and Paxton (and Dan Patrick) bs for the near term. These are not people who mean us well. Not a huge fan of USA Today but:
Luke Warford losing the Texas Railroad Commission race also stings a bit.
Aiming to close on an upnote… here:
He didn’t say is specifically, but I thought that’s what he was getting at around the 1:30 to 1:40 mark about the decision that took away people’s rights. It drove people to show up to vote against Republicans.
A million parodists and satirists working for a million years still wouldn’t be able to come up with something like MTG.
She’s more of a million monkeys tweeting situation.
Dunno, I’d expect a few more banana tweets.
With the Republicans taking the House & hopefully the Dems the Senate - they next two years will probably still be crazy. They can’t pass anything- but they’ll spend their time stopping the Biden agenda and trying to crash the country.
They’ll stop budgets being passed - continuing budget resolutions - try to undermine Medicare, Obamacare and social security. And of course target bipoc, women, lgbtq people- which won’t pass on its own - but they’ll try and tie it into the budget and force it through.
They’ll be a huge recession. Which they’ll find politically advantageous. For a while. But we won’t go full Nazi. They’ve been broken for now. But their death throws will be titanic. And 2024 - we need to start fighting that now to drive a stake through their hearts, or where their hearts would be, if they had one. They’re losing- but probably taking a scorched earth approach going forward.
Maybe my mood will improve after some coffee.
