Not a done deal, of course, but this is pretty encouraging. After oral arguments, it still seems there are only 3 hard yesses on the ludicrous "independent state legislatures" doctrine ("original intent" that somehow never came up for 200 years).
Kavanaugh is partially sympathetic, but not all in. And Barrett seems skeptical, like Roberts.
Interesting. Trump is risking going so far that he undermines even support within the party.
And there it is more explicitly.
What does Lindsey Lickspittle think is driving that great D fundraising?
From Manu Raju:
Pat Toomey: “It’s just one more data point in an overwhelming body of data that the Trump obsession is very bad for Republicans but normal Republicans are doing extremely well"
Graham to me: "I think we're losing close elections, not because of Donald Trump," citing D fundraising
While this is true, coming from Graham it sounds like an attempt to shift blame away from Trump. "It's not that Trumpism did badly, it's that Ds were so good!"
And this is a major reason why GA is no longer solid red. This is a county with a million people.
GA 2020 was not a fluke (which, for example, NC and IN in 2008 were). It is no longer a safe red state.
As the Washington Post fact checks the ludicrous idea that Twitter's temporary restriction of the Hunter Biden nonsense "cost Trump the election" (it was only when they restricted it that the story really attracted attention) - there's a deep additional irony in all this.
The "Trump would have won if people had known about the laptop!" line, moronic though it is.... *ADMITS THAT TRUMP LOST.*
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.