There's a pro-sedition caucus and an anti-sedition GOP caucus. Sadly, the former is outnumbering the latter 95% to 5% in the House.
In the Senate... who knows. Last percentage count was *does maths* 7 to 43? So 14% pro-sedition, 86% anti-sedition, if you go by accepting the election results.
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Trump had bad policies that probably hurt him in the 2020 election.
He could have instituted other policies that would have been bad, and could have helped in the 2020 election. He could have declared nationwide curfews and gone after Black Lives Matter, or something like that.
Conservatives who went from Trump to Biden aren't the protagonist of the 2020 election.
However, given how close the election was (less than a percent in the tipping point state) and how Biden hit various electoral sweet spots (connection to Pennsylvania, high approval rating among African American voters, etc.) it does seem likely that Democrats were lucky to have nominated him, and that if they had gone with Warren or Sanders, Trump would be a week away from his second inaugural.
This is something progressives should wrestle with. If they had gotten what they wanted in the primaries, would they have lost? If not, what's the evidence?
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It's kind of jarring to see someone casually admit that cracking down on an anti-racist movement (which by the way Trump in fact did) would make someone electable, without any remorse or qualification that this was a bad thing.
I already presented the evidence. Lichtman's Keys to the White House only has one key pertaining to the challenger. Is the challenger charismatic or not? The rest of the keys all have to do with the Incumbent. Biden wasn't charismatic per Lichtman's definition and he still won, because Trump was just that bad an incumbent.If they had gotten what they wanted in the primaries, would they have lost? If not, what's the evidence?
Had Sanders been on the ballot, he being charismatic would have taken another key from Trump.
Lichtman and others point out that Presidential elections aren't about campaigns, and not entirely about the platform or the challenging candidate. It's a referendum on the Incumbent, or the Incumbent's party candidate (in case of Prezs on the second and final term).
More direct evidence than that simply doesn't exist for either your argument or mine.
While there was obviously a whole lot going on today...
https://wgntv.com/news/police-reform...overnors-desk/
Police reform bill passes Illinois House and Senate, headed to governor’s desk
I wanted to bump this up from last night because this story was getting some play again today on MSNBC and CNN. I am curious as to who these members of congress were and so far no names have been released. There was a few more details brought out in this article I thought from the beginning there was inside help on this.
Majority Whip James E. Clyburn is not a signatory on the letter, but he has raised questions about how rioters knew some of the most hidden, obscure destinations in the Capitol to target and loot.
Clyburn’s second-floor office, with his name above the door, remained untouched during the destruction and violence last week. But a more private office, which is unmarked on the third floor, was targeted.
“There are many members of the United States Congress right now who could not tell you where that office is and could not find that office if they needed to,” the South Carolina Democrat told MSNBC.
“Yeah, but they found it. Nobody touched the door where my name is,” he said.
Sherrill was on with Maddow tonight. The reason why she can't name names is because there is an ongoing investigation, or will be soon. In time the names will come out, though there are some possible suspects in the news already. People crazy enough, or wrapped up in the cults enough to do something like that.
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GOP Rep. Paul Gosar's Siblings Call for his Removal, Citing Involvement in Capitol Riot.
His brother Tim also noted that Gosar was a birther and said Obama was an illegitimate president, believes the Pope is a leftist politician and that George Soros is a Nazi sympathizer who "gave up his people to the Nazis". I'd be willing to bet that he also believes the moon landing was fake and that Elvis is still alive."The message to my brother is that, you know, he must resign, if not be expelled, from Congress," Jennifer Gosar told CNN's Alisyn Camerota. "The point in time to reach my brother, I think that's been past. I know that at this point, the most that we can do as citizens, as constituents, as the public, demand that the members of Congress involved be held accountable, and that includes expulsion," she added. "To my brother, I think the time is up. It's time to acknowledge the hurt and the hate."
Paul Gosar, a staunch Trump ally, has been one of the lawmakers identified by far-right activist Ali Alexander as being instrumental in helping plan the January 6 insurrection. Alexander, who has identified himself as the individual who came up with the idea of storming of the Capitol, has told the press that he was regularly in contact with Paul Gosar, as well as Republican Representatives Andy Briggs and Mo Brooks.
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