Posted on 07/04/2021 5:12:40 PM PDT by T Ruth
Eric Holder must have a tough time convincing his donors they got much “bang” for their bucks in 2020. ***
The blueprint for nearly permanent Democratic control, which the Capital Research Center exposed in our report on “The Left’s Voting Machine,” was supposed to be straightforward:
***3. Control the 2021–22 redistricting process, when all 435 U.S. House and 6,766 state legislative districts are redrawn by the party that controls the state legislatures (and in many states the governor’s veto power), a process which only happens every ten years following the census.
But things didn’t exactly go according to plan. Despite clinching[stealing] the White House and historically slim majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, Democrats and their activist allies underperformed in the local races they needed to win in order to control the 2021-22 redistricting process: state legislatures.***
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Most of the group’s prominence comes from Holder himself, an icon of professional activism who briefly floated a presidential run in 2020. He’s almost certainly the most partisan attorney general in U.S. history, too, as well as the first to be held in both criminal and civil contempt of Congress.
(It’s also worth pointing out that Holder’s hypocrisy for castigating conservatives for pursuing a slew of recent election integrity laws under the pretext of widespread 2020 election mischief—what leftists call “the Big Lie”—while telling USA Today, “I’m still convinced that Stacey Abrams won” her race for Georgia governor in 2018.)
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So how’d the NDRC do? Taken state-by-state, not so well ***
Besides the off-year elections in Virginia and Louisiana, Democrats lost in every state Holder and Co. targeted in 2020—sometimes big. In Kentucky, for example, Republicans picked up a whopping 25 seats in the very same legislature NDRC hoped to flip.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Foreigners have just as much at stake in our elections as we do. Maybe even more.
And we have stakes in foreign elections as well.
politico.com
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
07/09/2017 09:56 PM EDT
Obama returns to politics with redistricting fundraiser
Barack Obama will make the first official political move of his post-presidency on Thursday, headlining a private fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee at a private home in Washington.
The event, which will also be attended by NDRC chair Eric Holder and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is to support the group he’s helping back to coordinate Democratic efforts in state races and lawsuits to push back on Republican success in gerrymandering over many cycles. In many statehouses and Congress, that’s left Democrats at a baked-in disadvantage.
Obama oversaw massive losses for his party in state legislatures and in the House during his presidency, but has said tackling redistricting is a major political priority after leaving the White House. So far since he walked out of the Oval Office in January, he’s been circumspect in his political involvement—and aside from releasing several statements in defense of Obamacare, he’s kept his political activity to making calls to Democratic National Committee members in support of Tom Perez’s chair bid and throwing a steady stream of subtle digs at President Donald Trump in paid and public speeches.
Holder has kept in touch with him about the NDRC plans, and briefed him formally at a meeting in the spring.
The radical left is attempting to move Democrat voters from precincts where Democrat candidates receive 80% of the vote into precincts where Republican candidates get 51% of the vote.
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