Posted on 10/08/2024 5:12:44 PM PDT by T Ruth
President Donald Trump is coming to California this weekend, and plans to speak near Coachella. The question is why, given that no Republican presidential candidate has won the state in more than three decades, nor will he.
The answer is that there are several close congressional races in California that could determine control of the House of Representatives. Plus, there is lots of fundraising cash in California, even among the remaining Republicans.
In 2018, during the midterm elections that were held while Trump was president, Democrats won seven seats in California, using a hitherto-unknown practice called ballot harvesting, which the state first legalized in 2016.
In 2020, Republicans took back four of those seats, partly by playing the Democrats’ own game, putting ballot collection boxes in places that conservative voters were likely to trust, such as churches and Republican Party offices.
In 2022, the GOP managed to defend each of those four seats, in somewhat redrawn districts. But there will once again be close contests throughout the state. The most closely-contested areas will be Orange County; the inland areas of Southern California; and the Central Valley. Each of these areas has large numbers of Latino voters, whom the Democrats once considered a reliable voting bloc, but who have been trending towards Republicans in recent years.
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Friday the demographics guy on Glenn Beck said 5 US Senate seats are now either tied or tilted to Dems after being ones led by the GOP. Beck. Moaned. And good chance for Dems to re-gain the US House due to several states moving to Dems in poll averages.
“The harder to conflict the more glorious the triumph.”
—Thomas Paine
Funny, and we read articles here that say the opposite. So who’s lying? Follow the money.
I’ve been saying we have to get information that is not inside our bubble.
I want to believe we’re going to barely survive with our experiment constitutional republic intact.
Time stating the obvious: “The stakes are incredibly high. The party that controls the Senate will have power over the next president’s legislative agenda, Cabinet appointments, judicial nominations, and more.”
I don’t want to keep bringing bad news from the many clickbait headlines I see outside of our bubble.
People would turn against me, something I don’t want.
The Wicked Messenger
by Bob Dylan (1968)
....
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read
“The soles of my feet, I swear they’re burning”
Oh, the leaves began to fallin’
And the seas began to part
And the people that confronted him were many
And he was told but these few words
Which opened up his heart
“If ye cannot bring good news, then don’t bring any.”
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