Posted on 03/04/2016 8:48:22 PM PST by Steelfish
CBS NEWS March 4, 2016 by JACQUELINE ALEMANY How Donald Trump Could Affect The GOP's Efforts To Hold The Senate
Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid previewed what's to come this November if Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination.
"Republicans are supporting a man who refused to denounce the KKK," Reid said Wednesday, tearing into the "Frankenstein Party" that could nominate Trump at this summer's Republican convention in Cleveland.
"A man who continues to denigrate immigrants, Muslims and the disabled," Reid said. "Donald Trump is the standard-bearer for the Republican Party."
Democrats up and down the ballot plan to savage their Republican opponents if Trump is the GOP standard-bearer, with constant reminders of the things he's said.
In GOP debate, Donald Trump is unpredictable and proud of it Trump shifts gears on torture: "I will be bound by laws"
After a 2014 drubbing that saw them lose control of the Senate, Democrats are playing offense in 2016, aiming to take back five seats against a Republican Party that must protect senators who came to power in the Republican wave of 2010.With Trump at the top of the ticket, there's an argument to be made that their job might be easier -- especially in Senate battlegrounds like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Nevada, places with significant populations of suburbanites, young people and minority voters.
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Stay in the loop until his UN Sec'y General appointment goes through.
If Democrats win, he will surely want to exert influence over where they try to take the country, everything that goes on in the Presidency and Congress.
If Republicans win, he will want to fight with all he's got to keep them from ruining all he thinks he's accomplished.
Would be in the best position to have the knowledge for giving lots of speeches and making lots of money.
He seems to enjoy fundraising.
Just wants to stay connected however he can.
He can still golf to his heart's content which is surely a high priority.
IIRC, it came up months ago that he planned to stay in DC; then it was Hawaii, then speculation the library would be built in Chicago. Now it's definitely DC again. He can do all of the above in DC, and it remains to be seen if Michelle will be happy with that arrangement. Their lives will never be really private again anyway unless they move to Hawaii or someplace like Martha's Vineyard where there is more seclusion.
For some reason, it doesn't appear that he wants to take his family back to their home in Chicago.
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