Posted on 08/30/2021 7:17:40 PM PDT by hapnHal
Dianne Feinstein’s age and health mean the stakes could include the party’s majority in the U.S. Senate.
The Sept. 14 recall to decide the fate of California Gov. Gavin Newsom is beginning to look like it could get ugly for Democrats. Recent polling has shown that the state—a bastion of blue—is basically split in half on the question of whether to recall the governor. Structural quirks in the recall system paired with the Democratic Party’s approach to the challenge could make it hard for Democrats to retain power if the recall succeeds, despite a sizable statewide advantage. But the worst possible outcome of the recall challenge goes far beyond Newsom. The true nightmare scenario for Democrats would be this: What if Newsom loses, a Republican replaces him, and then 88-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein becomes unable to finish her term?
This is not some kind of paranoid thought experiment. Not only is the senator nearly 90 years old with COVID bouncing around the chambers, recent reporting has highlighted the “rumors of her cognitive decline,” as the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer put it at the end of last year. As Mayer wrote at the time:
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Oh, I dunno...maybe because the ‘fix’ is in?
Vote YES! Let’s get rid of Newsom and Feinstein
Elder is the man who can do it!
Because they know who is going to ‘win’...the fix is in. Just as it was with Biden who never campaigned or did anything of substance. The fix was in.
How about Newsom and DiFi resign.
Then the new Gov appoints him to DiFi’s seat.
Better do it quick.
I’m worried about that, too. The absence of major democrats campaigning for Newsom worries me that these people already know the outcome of the election. Even before the ballots were mailed out they may already have known the outcome of this election.
..Because they sent out ballots to every registered voter, and then some, and have never culled the rolls? Meaning they have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of votes to be harvested....?
Man I love to see Slate in panic. You’ve made my day.
Right. like probably 30 percent of the vote will be democrat vote fraud. No accountability, and no one can stop them.
Dumb question...
Wasn’t the author alive during the 2020 elections?
The communists will never lose another election...
There is nothing stopping the Democrats from harvesting as many votes as they need.
It is a zero risk enterprise.
I thought about this and this is the answer: the Legislature adjourns next month. It’ll be almost 40 days before the recall is certified. Before they adjourn next month they’ll pass a bill requiring any replacement to be from the same party.
Mail in ballots? If so, there’s nothing to worry about for the Democrats. If people jave to show up at their polling places to cast their votes, then I can see how Gavin Newsom might be vulnerable. But the Democrats are way too “smart” and “corrupt” to allow something like that happen.
That Slate would publish this tells me that they are worried.
Yes.
Calif rule: in case of Senate vacancy, governor appoints new senator who serves until next general election.
It would be a really smart move for Feinstein to retire immediately and have ahole chose a RAT to replace.
We'll see. Politics can be very unpredictable. Of course, conceding defeat before the first vote is cast is always a safe bet for those without the stomach to fight.
That would tip the Senate 51-49 Republican.
Fraud will be threw the roof.
Problem solved. /s
Everyone in America with any sense of morality and a brain should start volunteering to be an election judge to stop this massive voter fraud that seems to be the status quo.
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