Heather Cox Richardson - October 15, 2020 (Mitch is going to do it again!!!)

[applegrove]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

"SNIP.....

Today the administration rejected a request from California Governor Gavin Newsom for a disaster declaration to free up money to help the state after six wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres across the state. California is a reliably Democratic state that will likely give its electoral votes to Biden.

Meanwhile, in the absence of a coronavirus relief bill, poverty is growing. Depending on the scale they use, researchers say 6 to 8 million Americans have slipped below the poverty line. Republican strategists appear to be willing to deepen the recession if it means crippling an incoming Biden administration. According to a report in Bloomberg, Republicans are setting the stage to kill future federal spending. If Biden is elected but the Republicans hold the Senate, they will refuse any aid to address the coronavirus crisis, thus hoping to cripple a Democratic presidency from Day One.

......SNIP"

[Celerity]

1. If this happens, all the giver Blue states need to stop sending monies to the federal government

[duforsure]

2. That's why McConnell , Graham , and Cornyn and other republicans in Congress need to be voted out,

Or they'll continue obstructing anything getting done to hurt Biden and the Democrats. That also means no Supreme Court justices appointed under republican Senate control even with Biden in as President.

[Statistical]

3. Which is also why the filibuster needs to go.

With the filibuster rule Mitch can block everything with 41 votes. If Democrats pick up every single coin flip race the Senate will be 54-46. That is unlikely to happen the median consensus is Democrats end up with between 50 and 52 seats. Still even best case scenario that means passing legislation will require 6 Republicans. If Mitch can hold the rank breaking to 5 or less he can effectively prevent any legislation and try to win back the Senate in 2022.

[applegrove]

4. Dems should make an ad that is just the above information with Mitch

laughing in the background.

[still_one]

5. Only if we win the Senate