THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is to take back the senate!!!

[LAS14]

Right?

[samnsara]

1. right!!

[Polybius]

2. No

If I can only have one, I'd pick the presidency.

[onenote]

18. Agreed.

While winning the Senate but not the presidency would allow us to slow the confirmation of more Trumpian judges, it won't allow us to do much else since Trump could veto most of our legislative agenda.

[Demsrule86]

38. Not slow the confirmation...don't confirm period...I want it all but Trump must go. that is my

priority. The Senate is a real long shot too.

[Nasruddin]

21. Mitching

Have we learned nothing? The Senate majority leader has the president by the ... you fill in here. He turns the HoR into a useless talking shop. She controls who gets appointed to cabinet offices and the judiciary. No bill makes its way to the president unless the majority leader has allowed it to come to a vote.

A charismatic, publicity-seeking Senate majority leader would now be very dangerous. We need to fix this broken system but that's what's developed.

The majority leader lacks military and prosecutorial power, but those are (supposedly) limited in the president's hands anyway.

I'd kinda like to see Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren as majority leader. Could be fun.

[Polybius]

23. But that's not who it will be

If we win the Senate, it will most certainly be Majority Leader Schumer. Sure, he'll stall Trump judges, and pass some good bills with Pelosi, but Trump would veto them. Plus even if you have (let's say) President Biden and Mitch, no more awful executive orders and being the world's embarrassment.

So if I can have one and only one, I'd prefer the presidency.

[Andy823]

39. I agree. nt.

[Buckeyeblue]

3. Yes. As important as the presidency.

We must be able to govern.

[zipplewrath]

4. Unfortunately

30% of the population elects more than 50% of the senate. I'm not sure how achievable this is. Worse, by 2040 70% of the population is predicted to live in just 15 states. Which means that 70% of the senate will be elected by 30% of the population. That doesn't bode well for the "people" to take control of the senate.

[sharedvalues]

10. Yes! That's why 2020 Senate so important.

Win the Senate in 2020
Make DC and PR states (if they want it); that helps a lot.

[zipplewrath]

13. A little

30% of the senate isn't going to change much by adding 2 states to the Union. It is the fatal flaw of the constitution. It is our doom.

[sharedvalues]

31. DC makes a big big difference.

What I really want is to merge all the red states with few people admitted in the 1880s to pack the Senate. N and S Dakota were admitted as two states to pack the Senate.

On second thought, maybe we should do that with DC. Two states?!

[standingtall]

41. There is more than States that could be added

There is the Virgin Islands,Guam,American Somoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Add all of those territories in addition to Puerto Rico and it will make a huge difference in the Senate.

[Falcata]

29. DC will never be a state

cuz that's the way it was set up. They didn't want the capital to be controlled by any state. As for PR they can't get enough turnout to decide one way or another.

[sharedvalues]

30. This is a rightwing talking point.

You’re telling Democrats that it’s not possible to make DC a state and PR a state. That’s not only false, it’s what the right says because they’re afraid of making DC a state.

DC’s govt has answered your question.
And PR could do it now if they wanted.

[Falcata]

42. Get back to me when either happens...

[TomSlick]

5. I will agree that it is very important that we take the Senate

It is almost as important as winning the presidency. If the Democrats control the House and Senate but not the presidency, the result is gridlock but with Trump continuing to alienate the world AND Trump will continue to appoint federal judges - and may be a SCOTUS justice. If a Democrat is President but the Repubs hold the Senate, the result is gridlock but we can rebuild respect in the world. While I suspect Moscow Mitch would refuse to confirm federal judges for four years, at least there would be no more Trump appointees.

Fortunately, we do not have to choose. We need to win both.

[world wide wally]

6. We need the country!

[dchill]

7. The country needs us, too.

[randr]

8. I came to that very conclusion

this past weekend.
We hold both houses and Trump, if by some miracle, wins, we broil him on a spot for 4 years.
When I saw that he has lost the Sturgis crowd, truckers, farmers, educated white guys, and women across demographics I realized we have him down. When you have em down it is time to start kicking.

[sharedvalues]

9. Yes! Then abolish the filibuster.

Then pass real change:
Make DC a state
Confirm many judges
Reshape the courts
Wealth tax
Legislative fix for Cit U
Fix Fox and Limbaugh and rightwing propaganda

[BigmanPigman]

15. Write a new amendment to abolish the Electoral College.

It is outdated and not appropriate for today's America. It can be done (prohibition is one example).

[onenote]

19. It will never get the necessary approval from the states.

[onenote]

17. None of those things will happen if we don't also win the white house.

Merely winning the Senate won't give us the votes needed to override Trump's vetoes of that legislation.

And how do you propose to constitutionally "fix" Fox or fix CU legislatively?

[El Supremo]

11. If we have all of Congress we can do the same as what they did to...

Obama.

But think positive. We can have the Executive too.

[Demsrule86]

36. He can use EO's with a friendly SCOTUS...no Trump must go.

[abqtommy]

12. No. Holding the House and taking the Senate are two important things

but providing election security and a fair election is THE important thing!

[elocs]

14. You can't gerrymander a statewide senate race, so there's that.

This election is going to be about turnout and if the Left is not motivated to turn out and vote with no excuses in 2020, they never will.
Republicans tend to vote like it's their duty.
We need to get out and vote like the future of the country is at stake because it is.

[sharedvalues]

24. But Wyoming and the Dakotas were made states to pack the Senate

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/9/18300749/senate-problem-electoral-college

[bitterross]

16. Yes! Removing Moscow Mitch

That's as important, more so, than removing Trump.

[Demsrule86]

35. Trump has a veto pen and the nuclear codes...there is nothing more important than getting him out.

[KentuckyWoman]

20. I disagree.

Equally important are the state and local races.

[sharedvalues]

25. Yes and yes. Both

Senate is important and state and local races are too.

[Demovictory9]

22. presidency, senate, keep the house, take back state houses

we have work to do

[catbyte]

26. No. SCOTUS is more important.

[Demsrule86]

34. We can stop the GOP SCOTUS picks with the presidency but without the Senate, we get no picks of our

own confirmed. McConnell has made it so no party that does not hold both the presidency and the senate will get a justice.

[catbyte]

37. True, but if a Democrat is not president, there may be enough spineless Democrats in the Senate to

confirm the nominee. They're both vital. It's difficult to choose. Both arguments are compelling.

[FBaggins]

27. More important than the White House?

Can't agree.

[jcgoldie]

28. I disagree

I feel the presidency is most important provided we hold the House. But this is just an academic question. The Senate seems to be such a further reach at this point with Trump's perpetually low polling and the number of traditionally pink red states you'd have to win to take control of the senate... if we do get the senate that means we got a big blue wave election and Trump is toast anyway. I don't think the opposite is necessarily true... we can beat Trump just with a few thousand votes more in the upper midwest.

[FoxNewsSucks]

32. My problem is

with so many "most important things", all being crucial, deciding which is truly the most important "most important thing".

It changes every day. Or every hour.

[Demsrule86]

33. No, you have to win the white house and take the Senate... it is mathematically impossible to

get veto proof Senate or even house.

[lark]

40. Yes, this is extremely important, but the presidency is for our basic survival.

We perish if we don't take back the presidency from russia.