They assume that Franken's seat is safe, and Franken now provides cover for Moore for as long as he remains in the Senate. Moore as much as said so this morning, calling on McConnell to call for Franken to resign.
That could backfire on Moore and actually increase pressure on Moore to follow Franken's example despite no credible evidence against Moore.
-PJ
“They assume that Franken’s seat is safe,”
They assume too much if that’s the case. If the Rs have a decent candidate to run in Minnesota, the Dems are at risk of losing that seat. Trump only lost that state by 1.5%. They’d have to hold a special election next year if Franken resigns.
Minnesota should be at a higher risk of flipping from the Dems perspective since a new candidates would have to spend some appreciable time distancing themselves from Franken as well as not go too heavy attacking Trump.
Finally, the DNC is *BROKE* ... they can’t yet another competitive seat in 2018.
I’ll bet Franken stays.
If the rats are doing this it means Franken has been getting ready to leave for a while and this was the opportunity to use for Franken to leave.
Maybe. but Moore says he didn’t do it. Frankenberry cannot say the same.
True, but Moore has thousands of people like us on FR who are using real evidence to prove all of the accusers are not telling the truth.
On the other hand Franken is fighting against photographic and video evidence that he really did grope women, and not 40 years ago but in the recent past.