The midterms may be cruel to House Republicans who signed DACA discharge
The midterms may be cruel to House Republicans who signed DACA discharge
Name
2018 election status
Mark Amodei Solid Republican
Mike Coffman Toss-up
Chris Collins Solid Republican
Ryan Costello Retiring
Carlos Curbelo Toss-up
Jeff Denham Toss-up
Charlie Dent Resigned
Mario Diaz-Balart Likely Republican
John Faso Toss-up
Brian Fitzpatrick Toss-up
Will Hurd Toss-up
John Katko Likely Republican
Stephen Knight Toss-up
Leonard Lance Toss-up
Mia Love Lean Republican
Erik Paulsen Toss-up
Tom Reed Solid Republican
David Reichert Retiring
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Retiring
Elise Stefanik Solid Republican
David Trott Retiring
Fred Upton Likely Republican
David Valadao Likely Republican
Source: Status according to CNN House Ratings
Moderate GOP voices on immigration are at risk of a November wipeout in the House
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/immigration-moderate-gop-november-midterms/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2018-06-18T21%3A24%3A56&CNNPolitics=Tw
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN
Updated 5:10 PM ET, Mon June 18, 2018
(CNN)House Republicans are at risk of losing several of their members in the midterm elections who are more moderate on the issue of immigration.
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Three of the most prominent members who signed the petition -- Reps. Carlos Curbelo, Will Hurd and Jeff Denham -- are in particularly tough re-election battles. CNN rates those three races as tossups.
Overall, of the 28 House Republicans whose districts are rated as toss-up, leaning or likely to go Democratic and could have signed the discharge petition (i.e. hadn't left the House), half of them did. That's incredibly high number given that there were only 23 in the entire House who signed it. Among the 159 seats rated as solid Republican at this point, only four House Republicans signed the petition.
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In the seats rated as toss-up or worse for the Republicans (i.e. seats Republicans are the most endangered in), the average Republican representative scores about a C+. That means the Republicans who are facing the toughest re-election races this fall are generally more moderate on immigration policy. (For comparison's sake, in seats that are rated as at least leaning towards the Republican, the average House Republican scores about a B+/B.)
All of this is to say that a big Democratic victory in November could lead to a Republican caucus in the House that is even more hardline on immigration than it is now. And while a Democratic-controlled House will lead to a more forceful pushback on Trump's immigration policies (the average House Democrat scores an F on NumbersUSA's scorecard), without moderate Republicans present, it might be more difficult to reach any agreement with the President and sign anything into law..................................
msongs
(67,502 posts)every republican left standing
A worthy goal and one with far reaching consequences for trump, his corrupt cabinet & the Vichy GOP still left in office. trump's impeachment is a remedy, but let it come as the denouement of the undoing of his destructive policies and the removal of his insane minions.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)the bottom line, they were screwed either way
remember big GOP donors sitting on the sideline until a permanent solution for DACA is completed. Now throw in this terrible treatment of people and families legally seeking asylum to US....The religious sector across the board starting to condemn the action...
SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)Get this POS out of office and get him out fast. One way (step 2) is to GOTV (we all know this already) and win in Nov. 2018. Step 1 is continuing to win special elections as they come up on a somewhat regular basis. These special elections seem to be favoring democrats so far.
Step 3 is to immediately take control of at least 1 legislative body in Congress (house or senate) and start action against this illegal president, who by now, is widely acknowledged as being there illegally because of election jury rigging in 2016.
Step 4 is to forever prevent this again, ever happening in our country.
Of course when I say ignore rump, I don't mean ignore his idiotic ravings and ranting over manufactured events. Rump has lied so much, to the American public that his efforts to cry wolf are going to the wayside and are now being ignored by just about everybody else but the minority that supports rump still.
He's proven very well of how much of a failure he truly is. No wonder someone like him had to declare bankruptcy so much, and that banks here in the US pretty well stopped doing business w/ him.