I think Trump will be wildly boring and the social media will lose interest. Democrats finally master social media and get the house. But Susan Collins is still very concerned and the rest of the GOP senators will be clutching their pearls at awful things happening. But somehow hold on by one seat and then the VP to vote when Susan Collins is still concerned. She wins Maine by 2%. Less than 2020.
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Bump! Gerrymandering under way; R's set to steal five seats in Texas with Florida soon to follow. Trump working on redoing the "fraudulent" 2020 census. And there's still almost 15 months to the election.
This time rampant gerrymandering from the GOP will attempt to buck that trend. I expect them to lose the popular vote by a considerable margin but still have a majority in the House.
Not just gerrymandering, there's more to come. Trump is talking about issuing an executive order to outlaw mail voting and voting machines. No, he has no authority to do that, but as always, who's going to stop him? It's not unlikely R's in Congress will push through a bill for him to sign doing the same thing. That way while it's being fought in the courts, R's can just declare elections in blue states illegal and refuse to seat the winners. Except their winners, of course.
Yeah, there's gonna be all sorts of nonsense and shenanigans. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump declares martial law before the midterms if he doesn't think the other cheating efforts are gonna yield desired results.
Yes, Texas will probably be able to gerrymander Texas to get a few more seats. (Assuming there isn't some successful court challenge, but I figure the chance of that happening is minimal). I wouldn't be surprised if Florida follows suit. (And California has promised its own gerrymandering in response, but given the way California runs elections it probably won't be done in time for the 2026 mid terms.)
Perhaps he'll have his "law enforcement" goon squads occupy several major cities during the election, and to "fight crime" the number of polling places will have to be reduced. Or eliminated.
Or ICE could turn up at polling places to pick up 'illegals' so they can't vote.
I'm sure the occupation of DC is a trial run to see what they can get away with.
Let me point something out about the Texas redistricting. In 2020, Texas Republicans presumably gerrymandered the state as much as they could. What has changed since then that they think they can squeeze out another 5 seats with a new gerrymander? The movement of Hispanics towards Trump? I don't buy that yet as a long-term switch. Even if it works, with 5 seats won from the Democrats be enough? Remember on average the party in the White House has lost 31 seats in the House since the 2006 election (I cut it off there because there are oddball circumstances around the 2002 midterms--9/11--and 1998 midterms--Clinton's impeachment--that make them outliers).
A brownshirt in every polling booth.
What, last year?
