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Three U.S. House Republicans declare support for impeaching Trump | Reuters - 0 views

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  • President Donald Trump’s iron grip on his party showed further signs of weakening on Tuesday as at least three Republicans, including a member of the House leadership, said they would vote to impeach him after his supporters stormed the Capitol.
  • Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, said: “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,”
  • no trial could begin until the chamber returns from its recess on Jan. 19.
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  • McConnell believes the impeachment effort will make it easier to purge Trump from the party, the Times said.
  • “What I said was totally appropriate,” Trump told reporters as he left for a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border wall near Alamo, Texas, his first public foray since the assault on the Capitol. “I want no violence.”
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Georgia Senate runoffs: How Democrats may make history - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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shared by yehbru on 03 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • In the race for the full six-year term, Democrat Jon Ossoff is at 49% to Republican Sen. David Perdue's 48%.
  • In the special Senate election, Democrat Raphael Warnock is at 50% to Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's 48%.
  • If Democrats win both runoffs in Georgia, they get 50 seats overall and a majority on January 20 with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris breaking a 50-50 tie. If Republicans win either seat, they will hold the Senate majority.
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  • Indeed, this election isn't just about Georgia and the Senate majority. It's about Trump's legacy. If Republicans lose in Georgia, Trump will be to blame
  • It's hard not to assign Perdue and Loeffler's troubles at least partially to Trump. He was the weak link for Republicans running statewide in Georgia this past year. He lost by 0.2 points and his margin was more than a point worse than the Republican candidates in both Senate races.
  • He has attacked Georgia's November election as fraudulent without any proof and gone after the Republican governor and secretary of state. He elevated the issue of $2,000 stimulus checks and has allowed Ossoff and Warnock to point out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it hard for such a stimulus to pass through the Senate. (The stimulus is popular.)
  • As it turns out, the turnout level for these runoffs (over 3 million voters) has already exceeded that of any statewide Georgia runoff by about a million voters. Keep in mind, this has occurred with voting on the day of the election still to occur.
  • But so far, the turnout swing seems to be favoring Democrats. Black voters have consistently been making up 3 to 4 points more of voters through the early voting period than they did at the equivalent points in the general election.
  • Meanwhile, turnout in the more White rural areas of the state has been lagging
  • If Republicans hold onto even one of their Senate seats in Georgia, Trump perhaps isn't as toxic to Republicans as some might assume. No doubt, you'd hear Trump trumpet a Republican win in Georgia for months to come.
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U.S. House intelligence panel subpoenas top Homeland official over whistleblower compla... - 0 views

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  • a whistleblower complaint made by former DHS intelligence chief Brian Murphy, who has alleged that top DHS officials and a White House official sought to skew official intelligence reports.
  • DHS efforts to stall the committee’s investigation into Murphy’s allegations.
  • Murphy said he was pressured to stop providing assessments of the threat of Russian interference in the Nov. 3 U.S. election and to play down white supremacist activity. In addition, he said acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf told him in May to report instead on political interference threats posed by China and Iran and to highlight the involvement of left-wing groups in domestic disorder.
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  • DHS has moved slowly to grant them security clearances
  • denied Murphy pre-deposition access to all but unclassified materials he worked on
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Clyburn blames slogans like "defund the police" for Dem House losses | Axios - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 10 Nov 20 - No Cached
  • House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn isn't happy with his Democratic caucus for allowing slogans to dominate the narrative about their party
  • that phrases like "defund the police" cost them crucial seats in the House and Senate.
  • Democrats might have won the White House, but their party underperformed expectations in the congressional elections, and some members are publicly and privately blaming their more liberal colleagues.
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  • Democrats were bullish about expanding their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of the election, but ended up losing at least seven seats
  • We keep making that mistake. This foolishness about, 'You got to be this progressive or that progressive
  • we were not able to discipline ourselves
  • That phrase — 'defund the police' — cost Jaime Harrison tremendously,
  • Stop sloganeering
  • Sloganeering kills people. Sloganeering destroys movements
  • let's go about the business of representing people and building hopes and aspirations for people.
  • Rep. Marc Veasey of Texas said these slogans gave Republicans ammunition to use in “commercial after commercial” against their candidates.
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