Huh?
Are we seeing a turnabout here?
Democrats ARE taking the suburbs and Republicans are now looking for the minority vote to get over?
(These recruits CANNOT live on Trumpism…..)
REALLY?
House Republicans will reclaim their majority in 2022 by offering candidates who are women, minorities or veterans, a memo obtained by Axios says.
Why it matters: The document, drafted by a super PAC blessed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, names top Democrats to target — Jared Golden of Maine, Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania and Ron Kind of Wisconsin — and the type of Republican candidates to beat them.
- The Congressional Leadership Fund spent $140 million during the 2020 cycle, helping Republicans defy the odds and come within five seats of winning the House. The group now plans to play a key role in shaping the 2022 contests.
The details: The memo, written by CLF President Dan Conston, singled out Golden, Cartwright and Kind because they live in Trump-friendly rural and working-class districts.
- Conston recommends “star Navy SEAL” Derrick Van Orden seek a rematch with Kind but says the GOP needs to find new, “stronger recruits” to take on Golden and Cartwright.
The memo is blunt about candidate recruitment.
- “In 2020, all 15 of the seats Republicans flipped were won by a woman, a minority or a veteran,” Conston writes. “Continuing to recruit similar candidates is a foundational building block to the majority in 2022.”
Between the lines: House Republican candidates performed substantially better than Donald Trump did in suburban districts. The suburbs don’t need to be the GOP killing fields that they were under Trump.
- Republicans will benefit in 2022 from “Democrats’ overreach” on policies such as lengthy school closures, curtailment of fracking and pipeline cancellations, Conston writes.
The big picture: The memo sounds the alarm about insufficient Republican candidate fundraising, calling it the “single biggest threat to Republicans taking back the majority.”
- In competitive races, Democrats out-raised half of all Republican incumbents and all but three Republican challengers were out-raised, the memo states.
- During the final stretch, Democratic candidates spent $88 million more on television than Republicans….
In argument before the Supreme Court over new voting suppression laws adopted in Arizona,a Republican lawyer admitted that the reason the Republicans wanted these restrictions adopted was because it would hurt Democrats.
Voter suppression admittance at the high court , eh?
GOP Lawyer Admits Voting Restrictions Hurt Democrats
“A Republican attorney defending Arizona’s voting restrictions in front of the Supreme Court told justices Tuesday that the GOP was defending the measures because they disadvantage Democrats,” NBC News reports.
“The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over Arizona voting restrictions in a pair of consolidated cases challenging a state law banning ballot collection and a policy that tosses ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Democrats have sued, saying the rules discriminate against minorities and violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”
The Washington Post and the New York Times report that justices “seemed inclined” to allow the voting restrictions.
Supreme Court Could Soon End Affirmative Action
Vox looks at a Supreme Court case which could “end all race-conscious admissions programs altogether.”
“The Harvard case is the first major affirmative action suit to reach the Supreme Court since Republicans gained a 6-3 majority on that Court, and it’s the first such case to reach the justices since Anthony Kennedy’s retirement in 2018. Kennedy had unexpectedly cast the key vote to uphold an affirmative action program in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin in 2016.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else.”
Former House Speaker John Boehner describing Ted “the Cancun Kid” Cruz
The rabidly pro virus Trump Party Governor of Texas,Greg Abbot ,in a move sure to result in thousands of new infections ,has opened the state up “100%.”
In [Wash State GOP Rep.] Herrera Beutler’s view, a member of Congress’ toughest challenge is “when your own team does something you don’t like, and you have to step out and oppose them.
Herrera Beutler’s stint in the national spotlight hasn’t faded yet. After a 12-year House career spent steering clear of controversy, her high-profile moment of rebellion against a former president who’s still molding the GOP in his image made her into a potential prototype for how to cross Trump and survive in the party. Though Republicans are already lining up to primary her, she’s already shown how to win in a suburban and rural district that became increasingly competitive under Trump.”…..
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