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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Both Kasich *AND* AOC should probably sit this out for the moment. There’ll be plenty of time for Dems to fall back into disarray AFTER WE FLIP THE TWO GA SENATE SEATS.
Understand this, everyone: As awesome as kicking Trump & his entire gang of thugs out is, if we don’t flip BOTH GA Senate seats you can kiss ANY remotely “progressive” or even *decent* legislation goodbye. McConnell will let every bill passed by the House continue to gather dust.
You can also kiss ANY federal judicial confirmations goodbye, much less expanding the courts. McConnell will let the benches sit empty for 4-8 more years if he needs to. He has 200+ young right wing zealots in place already.
So for the moment, take all your finger-pointing energy and focus it on helping Jon Ossoff and Rev. Warnock win in Groth on January 5th:

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Charles Ghoul-ba Profile picture
8 Nov
Meanwhile @CookPolitical says 422 House races have been decided:
Dems: 220
GOP: 202
Uncalled: 13
Uncalled races: CA-21, CA-25, CA-39, CA-48, IL-14, IA-02, NY-01, NY-02, NY-03, NY-11, NY-22, NY-24, TX-24, UT-04 (that's 14...not sure where the extra is)

cookpolitical.com/2020-house-vot…
OK, it looks like CA-25 (Mike Garcia/Christy Smith) is listed as GOP but also is labelled as not called yet.
Here's where Cook Report has those 14 at the moment. Dems leading in 3, GOP leading in 11. Image
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8 Nov
To everyone posting that "Buffalo Chronicle" story claiming that Biden has picked Mitt Romney for HHS, did you bother checking some of their other stories? Image
I mean for God's sake...I'd love to see every house get a solar roof in the next decade, but I'm pretty sure nothing this extensive (or expensive) is part of Biden's green energy plan: Image
There's no byline on any of these stories, by the way. Just slapping high-profile names into cabinet positions. ImageImage
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8 Nov
I don’t agree with everything in this thread but most of it is on target. Dems turned out in record numbers...but GOP voters did as well. The GOP voters who flipped for Biden didn’t down ballot, and it sure as hell wasn’t because those red district Dems didn’t support M4A or GND.
The thing about “waves” is they tend to recede. Candidates in some of those gerrymandered districts weren’t expected to flip them in the first place; it was only due to high Dem turnout AND relatively low GOP turnout in 2018 that they did. In 2020 they had high turnout of both.
Biden will end up with ~77 million votes or so; Trump with ~72 million. That’s 11 & 9 million more respectively. We were hoping Trump had hit his ceiling in 2016. If he had, then ~9 million fewer Republicans would’ve voted down ballot this year...mostly in those red districts.
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8 Nov
Last night we heard the compassionate, soothing, kind Joe Biden. Given how ugly battling Mitch McConnell is gonna get (whether we flip the Senate seats in GA or not), I’m praying that THIS Joe Biden is still somewhere inside there as well.
cc: @RonaldKlain
The U.S. does need healing, and the temperature does need to be lowered, but that can’t be a one-way street even if Dems were willing to do so. There’s too much damage to fix and too little time to do it to fuck around with Mitch blocking everything.
And yes, I said this in my best “Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide” voice:

(In the movie he was later proven wrong but in real life the situation really is that dire.)
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7 Nov
In addition to other structural changes like eliminating the Electoral College and the filibuster, making DC & PR states, and expanding the courts, we should also really move Inauguration Day up by another couple of weeks.
It used to be in March, back when it could take weeks fore the mew President to even travel to DC. It was moved to January 20th in 1933, but travel and communication could still take days or weeks. These days, there’s no reason not to move it up to, say, January 6th.
I know some state officials take office as soon as December, but Congress has to formally vote POTUS in I think and the new session starts on January 3rd, correct?
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7 Nov
📣👏🎉 Mazel Tov! We saved America and democracy from falling into an authoritarian dictatorship!

But we aren't done yet. For #POTUSElectBiden & #VPOTUSElectHarris to get ANY legislation through, the 2 runoff elections in Georgia are CRITICAL. 1/
For starters, the outcome of those two races could determine fate of the #ACA: 2/
acasignups.net/20/11/06/two-r…
IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN GEORGIA, send them this graphic. These are projected estimates of how many Georgians would lose healthcare coverage if the #ACA is struck down. Electing Jon @Ossoff & @ReverendWarnock is the key to saving healthcare coverage for up to 554,000 Georgians. 3/
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