Map Shows 25 States Now Backing Greg Abbott in Border Feud
Source: Newsweek
Amap of U.S. states shows that nearly all of the Republican governors are now backing Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his ongoing dispute with the Biden administration over his attempts to stop illegal migrant crossings into the state from Mexico.
In a 5-4 vote on Monday, the Supreme Court surprised many by siding with the president, ruling that federal agents could—for now—resume cutting razor wire that Texas has been installing along a stretch of the southern border.
The installation of concertina wire along the Rio Grande was among several physical measures Abbott has taken at the border in his efforts to stem the number of migrants entering Texas. In the year to September 2023, nearly 1.4 million migrants entered the state illegally, according to figures compiled by the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agency, marginally lower than in the previous year.
In the days since the ruling, Abbott has said the fight is "not over" and praised the Texas National Guard for continuing to "hold the line."
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California, Arizona, New Mexico.
The northern red states should build a wall to keep out Canadians from New Hampshire, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska. 
Oh and of course "nobody wants to work anymore". 
Maine needs to stop splitting its Electoral Collge votes. Presenting the Maine nightmare of nightmares scenario:
Imagine Biden winning the national popular vote by 6, 7, 8 (or even more) million but then, due to Maine splitting EVs (which likely results in giving Trump one EV from ME-2) we end up at a 269 v 269 EC tie.
Due the RW state legislatures gerrymandering the US House districts, WI, FL, and (now again, starting in 2024 and beyond), NC, we cannot pull them under at least 26 State delegations in the US House, so they have enough to elect a Rethug POTUS if it's kicked to the US House. Each State delegation gets 1 vote, 26 needed to win.
So not only would Trump win despite being crushed in the popular vote, BUT he would win only due to an archane quirk from an 18th century apparatus (Electoral College) that also has been illegally gamed by the Rethugs (via gerrymandering), PLUS the utter stupidity of a Blue State (Maine) tossing him ONE EV.
Nigtmare of nightmares.
Here is the most likely EC map for this to happen.
Notice the only other State that splits EVs (Nebraska) is shown all Red, as in this map, Trump wins NE-2, the only one of their districts remotely in play. NE-2 is perhaps MASSIVE in 2024 (see below).
The map:
I do not think AZ (if only 5,229 votes had flipped from Biden to Trump, Trump would have won it) and GA (if only 5,890 votes had flipped from Biden to Trump, Trump would have won it) reverting to their Red norm is a huge stretch, NC is not likely (it is a tease at times but lately always ends up Red, as since 1976, the only Dem to win was Obama, barely, 2008, by 14,177 votes) to flip, AND I DO have Biden winning WI, MI, PA, NH, VA, NM, MN, and CO, plus all the deepest Blue states and DC.
Other than AZ and GA, the only 2 things Trump needs to do in terms of flipping to get to this map are the following 2:
NE-2 - which gave an electoral vote to Biden in the 2020 election, but if 11,046 votes had flipped from Biden to Trump, Trump would have won it. The new 2024 map makes the district redder by keeping Douglas County whole but pairing it with a Republican-leaning rural county. In the old map, the 2nd District had an even partisan lean; in the new map, its partisan lean is R+3.
Nevada - Biden won in 2020, but if only 16,799 votes had flipped from Biden to Trump, Trump would have won it, and in 2022 (POST Roe overturning) we lost the Governorship, Cortez Masto barely won reelection to the US Senate (if only 3,965 votes had flipped from Cortez Masto to Laxalt, Laxalt would have won), and all 3 of the Dem House races we won (we lost one of the 4 NV House seats) were pretty damn close. Since October 22, 2023, every poll I have seen has Trump over Biden, whether its 1 on 1, or when RFK Jr plus West and Stein are added in. Immigration is a huge issue in NV, and not in a good way for us.
Maine needs to stop splitting EVs.
That map absolutely could (NOT saying it will, tbc) happen, and it would be a pure nightmarish way to lose the POTUS and perhaps the nation, especially as we can block it ahead of time in Maine.
And it's also helpful knowing which governors and reps are on Murdoch's payroll too. 
