Senators from soft Blue States in NM, NH, MN and 2vin the purplish State of MI may be the ones to move.
The polls do not matter.
The Democrats don’t care about winning the majority at this point. They care about holding their seats in the face of primary threats and those threats will elevate to reality if any of them bend the knee.
It’s going to take a retiring senator or eight who don’t care if their primaried to end the shutdown, and I don’t think there are eight getting ready to retire. They’re extremists are far more extreme than ours. Primarying the go along to get along GOPe was never ever a real threat.
Their people as part of their Trump hatred will primary anyone who bends the knee and allows Trump to have another CR
Isn’t it getting close to a moot point anyways? 5th week of an original 7 week CR? Chuck Schumer = Hero of the Stupid.
My pathetic state of NM is the most dependent state on the largess of the taxpayer, especially now that our governor declared war on oil and gas.
21.2% of the state is on welfare.
5% works for the federal government, not counting military.
A equal amount are civilian contractors.
So about 1/3 of our state will miss their money come tomorrow.