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House vacancies leave Democrats with tenuous hold on majority
Cbsnews.com ^ | 4/7/21 | Grace Segers

Posted on 04/08/2021 3:17:09 AM PDT by cotton1706

Democrats entered the year with a tenuous grip on Congress, with 50 seats in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House. But that House majority has become even smaller thanks to five vacancies with pending special elections.

Three Democrats left the House to join the Biden administration: presidential adviser Cedric Richmond, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. With the death of Congressman Alcee Hastings on Tuesday, Democrats now hold 218 seats. There is also one vacant Republican seat, after the death of GOP Congressman Ron Wright in February, leaving Republicans with 212 seats in the House. With the five vacancies, 216 votes are needed for a majority.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
There's always the "helpful" republicans like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, etc.

But there's not many of these left.

1 posted on 04/08/2021 3:17:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

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2 posted on 04/08/2021 3:19:11 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Democrats entered the term with a tenuous grip on Congress......50 seats in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House.

Even more schadenfreud-ish.....
<><> Nanzi had been predicting substantial gains .....
<><> Obama was financing a gerrymander-proof body (which he lost bigtime)
<><> the media was leak-happy
<><> Zucker and Soros were spending big bucks.

3 posted on 04/08/2021 3:28:23 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Which Democrats have gone to jail?


4 posted on 04/08/2021 3:40:09 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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They’re all ‘safe’ districts & will be re-filled with Dems at, I expect, special elections to be held soon.


5 posted on 04/08/2021 3:49:44 AM PDT by Glenmore
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There's always the "helpful" republicans like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, etc. But there's not many of these left.

Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots. If the RINO-controlled state legislatures had followed the constitution and enforced voter ID, Trump would still be president.

Make the traitor RINOs pay in 2022.

6 posted on 04/08/2021 4:17:00 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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There are too many of these left.


7 posted on 04/08/2021 4:36:10 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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GOOD!

Lord, More please. Please clear out more of the dems and replace them with God fearing, Constitution loving men and women like Rep Greene.

Which is asking for a Red Sea sized miracle in the voting process.


8 posted on 04/08/2021 5:47:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: HandBasketHell

Truly ending rigged elections as well as truly ending all political cheating must happen, first, or else all activities on the Conservative GOP side will be moot!


9 posted on 04/08/2021 6:12:39 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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The reason that DS xiden et al are in such a hurry to pass the CCP agenda in the next two years.


10 posted on 04/08/2021 8:08:47 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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“ Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots”

Conservative patriots might win 150 House seats. Might.

In NH we primaried out the RINOs and have 2 Dem Senators and 2/2 Dem House members.


11 posted on 04/08/2021 8:15:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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