Posted on 04/01/2025 6:52:36 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
On Tuesday night, at 9:43 pm ET, a little less than an hour after the polls closed in Wisconsin, liberal Judge Susan Crawford was announced the winner of the state's Supreme Court race. She was heavily backed by Democrats.
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It’s going to be the same playbook for 2026 unless Trump is on the ballot.
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At least we won’t have Johnson to “kick around” in the House.
I doubt the democrats take the Senate under any condition.
They won't need the Senate to impeach Trump for the 3rd time.
As Teddy Kennedy said—we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
Lol.
Probably not.
First, the new state Supreme Court has to rule the existing district maps as unconstitutional and order a new map to be drawn up.
Then the GOP can sue, appealing to the federal district court arguing that the ruling to redraw the district map mid-decade is partisan, extreme, and unnecessary. The district court will likely side with the state Supreme Court. Then the GOP will appeal to the 7th Circuit Court. That will take more time.
The 7th circuit is overseen by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and is made up of 6 judges appointed by Republicans (4 by Trump, 1 by G. W. Bush, 1 by Reagan) and 5 appointed by Biden.
It's possible that the 7th circuit takes its time to hear the case; it's possible that the 7th rules that the existing map is acceptable and that no mid-decade redistricting is necessary; it's possible that the 7th circuit rules that the map is unconstitutional and remands it back to the legislature; and it's possible that the 7th accepts the map. If the gerrymandering is really bad, option 2 is the most likely outcome.
Second, Wisconsin then has to pass a new district map. Republicans have a 54-45 majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Republicans also have a 18-15 majority in the Wisconsin State Senate. Republicans can significantly delay the process of drawing the maps before they are even sent to the governor for his signature. The Republicans can use procedural tactics to delay the completion of the maps.
This will delay the effective date of the map and will likely push the existing map into the 2026 mid-term elections, keeping the districts as they currently are. That means that any new redistricted map won't take effect until the 2028 election, if at all.
The Democrats are counting on the 2-seat pickup in Wisconsin to give them control of the House in 2026, but this assumes that Republicans don't make any additional gains in 2026 that make the Wisconsin steal moot. If President Trump's policies show significant economic improvement going into the latter half of 2026, Democrats might become even more shrill and aggressive out of desperation, pushing more voters to the right and the GOP.
My hunch prediction: Republicans will pick up more seats in the House in 2026 to make the redistricting in Wisconsin irrelevant, despite a still-narrow majority. If the margin of victory is large enough, Democrats may abandon their redistricting after the 7th circuit remands it back to the Republican-controlled legislature.
-PJ
Yeah. In the meantime, we have nearly two years to pass Trump’s agenda.
whats NRC? RNC?
Musk didn’t turn the state?
BS!
Nothing about this vote has serious “national” implications...
It simply proves that, by hook or by crook, Soros out-smarted the GOP once again..
WI is a lost-cause blue state and remains in the ranks of other communist-controlled states like CA, OR, NM, CO, IL, NJ, CT, MA, ME, NY, DE, MD, and GA...
There was no chance those seats were going to flip. Even Christ couldn’t win them if he were a D. But they trending closer closer than this past fall.
Posters here told us that Fine was a terrible candidate, the GOP did not put enough money in the Florida district and polls showed us losing or the race too close to call.
Of course they were all lying—but hindsight is twenty twenty.
Yeah, a typo.
This will be an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will state it anyway and just hope it gets at least considered.
Too many people assume everybody who voted for DJT - in 2016, in 2020, and 2024 are 100% on board with everything he says and does.
This is simply not the case. I know this because *I* am one of them. I am a firm believer in free trade and capitalism and I an old school Reaganaut on foreign policy and the US’s place as the leader of western democracy.
I grit my teeth and accept the stuff I don’t like because the alternative offers me *nothing* and at least I know I will get *some* things I do like (fewer regulations, smaller government, lower taxes).
So - I vote how I vote, which is ironically how I’ve always voted because I mostly do not NEED nor EXPECT the government to “save me” or “do” anything for me. Mostly, I want it to leave me the hell alone. Needing mommy - or daddy - government to “fix things”? That was always a leftist idea - and it’s always been the biggest reason I can’t ever see voting the other way.
Don’t worry about my vote - bash me all to heck if you like, my future votes are pretty much locked in because the R is always gonna be the ‘least bad option’, at worst. But I just want to warn: I know colleagues, I know neighbors, I know friends - people I’ve lobbied, cajoled, and convinced to pull the R lever who don’t feel the same way.
I think - purely from an elections standpoint - President Trump has really done an amazing job bringing in voters to the R fold that I’d have scoffed at 10-20+ years ago.
However, I have to say - I can make my peace with a big tent, but the more MAGA denounces the so-called RINOs (like me, to some extent I guess) who are pure capitalists (which requires free trade) and even yes, believe the proper US place in the world is as the leader of global democracies... the tougher elections like this one are gonna get.
Just my 2 cents. Which won’t even get you a cup of coffee.
Trump won Wisconsin twice. How is that a lost cause?
They won’t need the Senate to impeach Trump for the 3rd time.
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They won’t get a conviction and they’ll be wasting time on stupid stuff that only hard-core anti Trump partisans care about.
I’ll be telling them two things if they launch another impeachment farce:
“The Third Time is the Charm”
Then
“Three Strikes, You’re Out!”
Trump is a pragmatist, rather than an ideologue. He mentioned some stuff about tariffs during his first term. Tore up NAFTA and replaced it with USMCA.
Hopefully, Trump is trying to secure better trade deals with nations and we are not going into a new age of protectionism.
Yeah. The voter Id law has been in place since 2011. Now it’s in the state constitution. This is no surprise. They thought, heck it’s already law and we’re used to it. We’re voting yes.
They'll do it anyway even if the only news channel covering it ends up being MSNBC.
Maybe Gavin Newsom will persuade them not to go with it.
Hypotheticals
That is my read as well.
President Trump is a master negotiator.
Obviously it is harder to negotiate while getting heckled by your own side.
Lol.
Let the liberals abort themselves out of existence. Then when they are extinct, conservatives can pass all the pro-life laws they wish.
Until then, we have to win elections.
Good observations here.
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