Trump tweeted this morning to senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others: Get tough! Or you will lose the Republican Party. We won big in the presidential election! We’re going to fight and not let the Democrats steal the election.
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By implication, Mr Trump is encouraging Republican bosses not to recognise Mr Biden’s victory and to fight for Mr Trump to overturn it.
But after this week’s Electoral College vote, Mr. McConnell said publicly on Tuesday: “I want to congratulate President-elect Biden. While many of us wish the presidential election was a different outcome, our system of government operates to determine who is sworn in on January 20. The Electoral College has shown the results.” Soon after, Mr. Biden said he had a friendly 10-minute phone call with Mr. McConnell.
Fourteen hours later, Trump began blasting McConnell on Twitter: Mitch McConnell, 75 million votes (caps), a record for a sitting U.S. president! Don’t give up too soon. Republicans must finally learn to fight. People are angry!
But McConnell did something even more irritating to Trump, telling other senators privately not to get involved in Trump’s attempt to overturn the Electoral College and not to make a fuss when Congress certifies the electoral College vote on January 6.
As the leader of the Republican party in the Senate, Mr. McConnell’s remarks were significant, even marking a watershed moment in the party’s shift toward the election results. Several big names who had supported Mr. Trump in his challenge refused to take sides, like Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was reluctant to criticize Mr. McConnell for abandoning Mr. Trump. They’re big boys, and they can solve their own problems, said Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who was to defend Mr. Trump in his Supreme Court case.
The public confrontation between Mr Trump and Mr McConnell marks the first rift between Mr Trump and the highest echelons of the Republican party since the election. It also highlights how the interests of both sides are beginning to diverge.
They hate each other, and they need each other
McConnell, 78, has been a senator for 36 years and has a reputation as Washington’s most crafty politician. For the past four years, Mr Trump’s platform would have stalled without Mr McConnell’s support. As senior members of the Republican establishment, Mr McConnell and Mr Trump, a New York real estate mogul, were at loggerheads four years ago.
Plastic brotherhood
As one former ADMINISTRATION official put it, Mr McConnell thinks more, talks less and writes less than Mr Trump, who writes everything on Twitter. Trump is always thinking about winning today! This is the hour to win! McConnell plays the long game. He is so sensitive to political realities that his only goal is to be majority leader. Mr McConnell is a patient, sly and secretive man. If Mr Trump is a populist, anti-elitist and anti-institutional; Mr McConnell is one of the biggest establishment figures Mr Trump has opposed.
And Mr McConnell’s relationship with Mr Trump reflects today’s deeply divided Republican party: the global corporate elite versus the white underclass conservative. The political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson describe in their new book, ‘Let Them Eat Tweets,’ as the ‘pact of convenience’ that is the core of today’s Republican Party. The tax reform pushed by Republicans in 2017, for example, is a prime example. It rewarded the Republican Party’s biggest donors by lowering corporate taxes. The legislation is unpopular with centrist Democratic and Republican voters, but in order to win the election, the two sides of the Republican party have formed an alliance that is much like Mr. Trump’s relationship with Mr. McConnell: they hate each other, but they need each other.
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Mr McConnell has defended Mr Trump for the past four years. In particular, with trump’s impeachment investigation under way, McConnell said the Senate would quickly dismiss the case before it even reached the Senate floor, without the need to call additional witnesses.
If in public Mr McConnell and Mr Trump have backed each other, how about Mr McConnell in private? In a report in The New Yorker, McConnell’s inner circle revealed that privately McConnell called Trump “nuts! He said he was so much smarter than Trump that he couldn’t stand Trump. (Of course, a McConnell spokesman denied the report.)
Mr. McConnell’s political loyalty to Mr. Trump also took a toll. Mr. McConnell has lost the respect of some longtime supporters. For example, David Jones, a major donor who has supported McConnell since 1984, donated $4.6 million to McConnell. John David Dyche, a Louisville lawyer who has written a biography of Mr. McConnell, said: ‘McConnell knows Trump is an ugly man and totally unfit to be president. McConnell’s endorsement shows that he has no ideology he stands for, only his political rights.’
In addition to losing political Allies, Mr. McConnell has lost the support of his three daughters. Mr. McConnell’s youngest daughter, Potter, is an activist and former communications director for Take On Wall Street, a coalition of labor unions and nonprofit groups. Porter publicly criticized the nomination after McConnell helped Trump appoint Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. McConnell’s second daughter Claire also criticized the appointment.
Mr. McConnell’s eldest daughter, Eleanor, is a registered Democrat. (Here, not only laments the Republican bosses of how the net out of children? Trump private lawyer Mr Giuliani’s daughter, the daughter of a former adviser to trump conway, not a let a person worry reference historical article ? [attack] trump’s most senior adviser to resign, bear children how to beat the President of the United States?
Al Cross, a journalism professor at the University of Kentucky, described Mr. McConnell’s partnership with Mr. Trump as the most important political relationship in the United States. Cross had hoped to see McConnell criticize Trump on issues of right and wrong. After all, Republicans have defended national democracy across party lines, from denouncing McCarthy to Nixon. But Mr McConnell knows that if his relationship with Mr Trump breaks down, it would be a disaster for republican control of the Senate. So for the past four years, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Trump have had a common goal: win!
A big game for McConnell
The moment McConnell congratulated Biden on his election, it was clear that his and Trump’s political interests began to diverged. Mr Trump is seeking a second term; Mr. McConnell is seeking to retain control of the Senate. The senate will now be decided in Georgia’s election on January 5th. That is why, after the election, most Republicans aligned themselves with Mr Trump, who represents 74 million voters.
But 2020 is not just the U.S. presidential election, but also state and local elections, and the Republicans did very well this year, not only not losing any seats in the House of Representatives, but taking back nine seats from the Democrats. The Democrats now have 222 seats in the House and the Republicans 211. On this trend, Us pollster 538 predicts that Republicans will take back control of the House of Representatives in 2022. Since the second world war, the president’s party has lost an average of 28 seats in the House of Representatives in midterm elections.
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In addition to Congress, the Democrats also suffered heavy losses at the state level. All 50 states have a state Senate and house of Representatives, republicans control 59 of the 100 national parliaments, Democrats 39, and Alaska is a power-sharing state. In 2020, 86 legislatures were up for election, and Republicans expanded their advantage to win both houses of New Hampshire. This means that most redistricting will be in the hands of Republican-controlled state legislatures by the time America begins its once-a-decade census in 2021.
Back in 2010, Republicans fought a good fight with their “Red Map” plan. Republicans won a record 700 statehouse seats, and 20 legislatures went from blue to red. Republicans took control of both houses of congress in 25 states, creating a 10-year advantage all at once.
The Republicans are firmly in charge for another decade
There is a term in American politics called a Gerrymander, which refers to the way districts are drawn for the electoral benefit of one party. The point of gerrymandering is that powerful state legislators can choose their own voters. The term originally came from the name of Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry and a combination of gerrymandered maps that looked like sala-mander.
There are two main ways to boost party power through a Jelly-axe: by Packing and by splitting the vote.
Centralizing votes: Centralizing votes means that the opposing camp’s supporters can be grouped into its own voting area, so as to consume and reduce the power of these votes in other areas. Let’s say you have a state with a million voters and 10 districts with 550,000 Democrats and 450,000 Republicans. If The Republicans had the right to draw districts, they could draw the Democrats’ 200,000 voters in two districts. In the remaining eight districts, the Democrats would each lose the state by 35, 000 to 45, 000 republicans in a 2-8 loss.
Split the vote: Split the vote is divided into as few votes as possible in order to dilute the vote. Let’s say it’s a million voters and it’s a state with 10 districts, 450,000 Democrats and 550,000 Republicans, and if republicans were to draw the districts, divide them evenly, 45,000 Democrats versus 55,000 Republicans in each district, the Republicans would sweep the state with a 10-0 victory.
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If redistricting means little in traditional red or blue states, it does not. But in some key states, the impact could be profound. In North Carolina, for example, 13 seats were up for grabs in the 2018 midterm elections, and voters were evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. In the end, Democrats picked up only three seats and Republicans picked up 10.
After the 2011 census, redrawing the district, north Carolina border interconnected ?
One of the most exotic flower shape is the long and narrow house 12th ?
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The district was drawn in such a strange shape because the Republicans had divided three black cities into one district, thus pooling the Democratic vote as “invalid”.
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The darker the color, the more democratic
But, the plan finally because “racial discrimination” was found guilty of violating the constitution of the United States, so republicans came up with a new recruit, and in accordance with the party district, the purpose is to dilute ? democratic voters
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Dilute a democratic constituency into a Republican one
In state elections in 2020, Republicans continue to control both the House and the Senate, which means they will have the power to control redistricting in 2021. North Carolina’s gerrymandering, which can be replicated in every Republican-controlled state, has been subject to legal challenges, but the effects of Gerrymandering remain profound.
Mr Trump’s first term is almost over, but Mr McConnell’s Republican party is only just beginning its next decade.
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