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« on: June 22, 2021, 12:41:41 AM »

Kamala Harris was delighted. The 2018 midterms had been a resounding success, with Democrats easily capturing the House of Representatives, gaining several Governor's Mansions, and even picking up the Senate, something no one had thought they'd do when the year began.

Now she could focus on her bid for the White House. President Trump was already historically unpopular, and heavy underdog for reelection. Her nascent campaign team said that if she made it through the Democratic Primaries, she'd win in November. However, there would be a tough slog ahead to win those primaries. From her informal talks with other Senators, she already knew that Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker were running. She thought that Kirsten Gillibrand would run as well. Bernie Sanders might run too, or he might back Warren. And hovering above it all was Joe Biden, who was sending signals that he might make his third bid for the Presidency.



House of Representatives:
D+46 In addition to all IRL gains, Amnar Campa-Najar defeats Duncan Hunter in CA-50, Carolyn Bordeaux defeats Rob Woodall in GA-7, J.D Scholten defeats Steve King in IA-4 Paul Davis defeats Steve Watkins in KS-2, Kara Eastman defeats Don Bacon in NE-2 and Leslie Cockburn defeated Denver Riggleman in VA-5. In addition, owing to the ongoing scandal in NC-9, where the winner Mark Harris was implicated in a vote-rigging scheme, the House elected to seat the defeated loser in the Republican Primary, Robert Pittenger after a special bipartisan committee met to determine who should be seated, with Committee Chairman Trent Franks and Ranking Member Nita Lowey both stating that they believed absent the election fraud, that Pittenger would have won both the primary and general election.

Senate

Minnesota (Special) Tina Smith defeats Karin Housley (D Hold)

Mississippi: Cindy Hyde-Smith defeats Mike Espy (R Hold)

Arizona: Krysten Simena defeats Martha McSally (D Gain)

Florida: Bill Nelson defeats Rick Scott (D Hold)

Indiana: Joe Donnelly defeats Mike Braun (D Hold)

Missouri: Claire McCaskill defeats Josh Hawley (D Hold)

Nevada: Jacky Rosen defeats Dean Heller (D Gain)

North Dakota: Kevin Cramer defeats Heidi Heitkamp (R Gain)

Tennessee: Phil Bredesen defeats Marsha Blackburn (D Gain)

Texas: Beto O'Rourke defeats Ted Cruz (D Gain)

Gubernatorial

Alaska: Mark Begich defeats Mike Dunleavy (D Gain)

Florida: Gwen Graham defeats Adam Putnam (D Gain)

Georgia: Stacey Abrams defeats Brian Kemp (D Gain)

Illinois: Daniel Biss defeats Bruce Rauner (D Gain)

Kansas: Greg Orman defeats Laura Kelly and Kris Kobach (I Gain)

Terry Hayes defeats Janet Mills and Garrett Mason (I Gain)

Maryland: Benjamin Jealous defeats Larry Hogan (D Gain)

Nevada: Steve Sisolak defeats Adam Laxalt (D Gain)

New Hampshire: Molly Kelly defeats Chris Sunnunu (D Gain)

New Mexico: Michelle Lujan Grisham defeats Steve Pearce (D Gain)

Ohio: Richard Cordray defeats Mike DeWine (D Gain)

Wisconsin: Scott Walker defeats Tony Evers (R Hold)
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2021, 12:46:00 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2021, 12:54:53 AM »

Jeff Sessions had a problem. He could follow President Trump's latest demand, and fire Independent Counsel Robert Mueller. However, that would likely trigger an immediate impeachment of Trump, and possibly Vice President Pence as well, from incoming Democrats. Or he could resign. Sessions knew that if he refused to fire Mueller, he'd be fired by Trump anyways.

He made his decision. Turning to an intern, he told him to schedule a press conference or an interview for "as soon as possible, with any cable news network that wasn't FOX". He was going to wreak vengeance on Trump, he knew it.



The afternoon of November 8 was cloudy and wet in Washington D.C. Sessions was booked with Jake Tapper on The Lead with Jake Tapper.

Tapper So, let me get this straight, Trump has ordered you to fire Robert Mueller?

Sessions That's correct.

Tapper Are you going to fire him?

Sessions Well, since Trump likes firing people without talking to them so much, I thought I'd submit my resignation right now.

Tapper As a former U.S Attorney, and the outgoing Attorney General, do you believe President Trump's actions constitute an impeachable offense?

Sessions I believed that when President Clinton obstructed justice in the Whitewater investigation, that was an impeachable offense. Obviously, it would be quite hypocritical of me not to apply the same standard for the same crime here.



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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2021, 12:55:46 AM »

This is great.
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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2021, 01:14:36 AM »

Donald Trump was furious. Not only had Jeff Sessions stabbed him in the back, refused to fire Mueller, and resigned on National TV, but he'd gone further than that and flat out stated (on CNN no less), that Trump's conduct was an impeachable offense.

At a meeting on November 9 of his closest advisers, Johnny DeStefano offered a solution that Trump liked. Why not nominate Mueller as Attorney General? He'd either have to recuse himself from the investigation, or shut it down, and the Democrats who would be taking control of the Senate would likely confirm him, if they even were willing to confirm anyone.

And so, on the morning of November 10, Trump announced the nomination of Robert Mueller as Attorney General, replacing Jeff Sessions. He did not notify Mueller, nor anyone on Capitol Hill.

Kamala Harris responded by calling the nomination, textbook obstruction of justice.

Meanwhile, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and incoming House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler announced that the first item of business in the new Congress would be impeachment hearings against Trump.

Representative Karen Bass called on Vice President Mike Pence to resign, or she would file Articles of Impeachment against him as well, while Washington D.C Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton called for Pelosi and incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to refuse to seat all elected Republicans until Trump and Pence are removed from office. In response, Pelosi and  Kevin McCarthy had the House censure Holmes Norton.
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2021, 09:39:45 AM »

Eleanor Holmes Norton is big brain.
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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2021, 12:23:35 PM »

Consider me interested.
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« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2021, 04:20:22 PM »

Bernie Sanders was meeting with his Senate staff and key advisers in Burlington, Vermont about whether he should make a second bid for President in 2020.

While many on his Senate Team thought he should run, as did Jeff Weaver, who would be his campaign manager if he ran, one voice stood out to Sanders. His wife Jane, told him that he'd created a movement, and that he could do more by serving as kingmaker in the primary. Besides, she said, if you couldn't beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, what makes you think you can beat Joe Biden?

Sanders nodded, and instructed his team to prepare a press statement announcing that he would not run for President in 2020.

Meanwhile, five Democrats had already jumped into the field by Thanksgiving. They were, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Montana Governor Steve Bullock and former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

None of the candidates, except for maybe De Blasio, offered much in the way of excitement to progressives, and with Sanders out there was a huge hole in the race. Who would fill it?
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« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2021, 05:03:49 PM »

Brian Sandoval knew two things. Even if President Trump was impeached by the House, he wouldn't be removed from office, and that some Republican, any Republican had to attempt to primary, if only to prove that the party wasn't as hopelessly bankrupt as it appeared to be. He was in contact with John Kasich, Mark Sanford and William Weld, each of whom were considering their own primary challenges to Trump. Sandoval agreed to take the plunge, and announce one of the trio as his running mate.

November 24, Las Vegas, Nevada

Brian Sandoval

We need responsible, conservative leadership in the White House. Our President is none of those things, and that's why I'm going to run against him in the Republican Primaries! But I can't do it alone. I need your help, and I need a great partner. I'm proud to be joined on stage by the next Vice President of the United States of America, from the great state of Ohio, John Kasich!

John Kasich

Our President has failed in responsible conservative governance. Worse than that, he's a corrupt piece of garbage. Democrats are already trying to impeach him for the crimes that he truly has committed. However they don't have the votes to remove him. You, the American people do. But electing a Democrat is wrong move for America's position in the world. What you need to do, is elect us. We'll restore America's prestige, and America truly will be not only first again, but great again, because we'll be a shining beacon of ethics and morality to the rest of the world, something we haven't been for the past couple of years. We'll be a leader on conservative values, both at home and abroad.

Republican Presidential Primary National Poll- McLaughlin

Donald Trump 61%
Brian Sandoval 11%
Undecided 28%

3,000 Registered Republicans surveyed between December 5-8, 2018. Margin of Error +/- 3%.
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2021, 07:14:36 PM »

Does Shireen Gorbani win in UT-2?
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2021, 07:17:54 PM »


Chris Stewart was the winner in UT-2.
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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2021, 07:46:51 PM »

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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2021, 06:21:26 PM »

Tom Perez had a problem. Democrats were lining up to take on President Trump, and it was only the second week of December 2019.

In addition to the five declared candidates, three more Democrats had announced, in former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Businessman Andrew Yang and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro.

Perez's task now was to thin the field, and he felt the best way to do that was to begin scheduling debates as soon as possible.

As such, he announced that the first debate of the Democratic Primaries would be held on January 4, 2019 at the Fleet Farm Arena, in Sioux City, Iowa, with the network and moderators to be determined later. He also announced that the minimum threshold to be invited to the debate was to be a declared candidate, be polling at 1% nationally, or 3% in Iowa, where the debate was to be held in at least one poll between Election Day 2018, and January 1, 2019. There would be no "second tier debates", as he felt that was what had gone wrong with the Republican race in 2016.


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Steve Bullock 6%
John Hickenlooper 6%
Tom Vilsack 5%
Julian Castro 4%
Howard Dean 4%
Jay Inslee 3%
Andrew Yang 2%
Bill De Blasio 0%
Undecided 70%

3,000 registered Democrats surveyed between December 14-17 2018. Margin of Error +/- 2%

Iowa Democratic Primary Poll-Des Moines Register

Tom Vilsack 23%
Andrew Yang 9%
Jay Inslee 5%
Howard Dean 5%
Bill De Blasio 3%
Julian Castro 2%
Steve Bullock 2%
John Hickenlooper 1%
Undecided 55%

555 Registered Iowa Democrats surveyed between December 15-18, 2018. Margin of Error +/- 3.5%.
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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2021, 07:06:08 PM »

In no world would the debates ever start that early, the earliest that primary debates have ever begun was in April of 2007, and even then people thought that was insanely early. Perez would def catch some flak from a lot of people for this decision.
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« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2021, 07:16:38 PM »

In no world would the debates ever start that early, the earliest that primary debates have ever begun was in April of 2007, and even then people thought that was insanely early. Perez would def catch some flak from a lot of people for this decision.

The people giving Perez flack are candidates who have yet to enter the race like Harris, Gillibrand and Warren.

The candidates who have already announced all support this, with the exception of Dean, as they see this as a chance to establish some name recognition with the primary electorate.
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« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2021, 11:45:34 PM »

The fact that the first Democratic Debates were now at the beginning of January meant that the percieved front-runners had a dramatically shorter window to make a decision.

Kamala Harris was meeting with her team on the morning of January 5. Her husband, Doug. Her campaign manager in waiting, Jim Messina, and her Senate team about when to launch a campaign for President.

All favored the window between the first debate, and Martin Luther King Day, and they thought an announcement in South Carolina would be the most symbolic, and might force other strong African-American contenders like Cory Booker out of the race (the latest word from the Biden camp was that Biden was leaning against running, but that a decision likely wouldn't come any time soon). Harris had watched the first debate the previous evening. None of the contenders looked particularly good answering questions from Elaine Quijano and Weijia Jang. Bullock and Hickenlooper had been questioned about whether they were risking the Democrat's narrow Senate majority by not running for the Senate seats in Montana and Colorado, held by Steve Daines and Cory Gardner, and had failed to offer satisfactory responses. De Blasio had been pilloried over New York's response to multiple snowstorms as Mayor, Dean failed to stand out at all, Castro was criticized for similar reasons as Bullock and Hickenlooper, as Senate Democrats perceived John Cornyn as vulnerable in 2020, Yang failed to explain how his UBI program would be paid for, and Inslee was a complete non-entity.

Harris would be going in with one prominent endorsement already. Though both she was loath to reveal it openly, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had promised Harris her endorsement should she need.

Kamala set the date of her announcement for January 10, in Columbia, South Carolina.
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2021, 12:05:36 AM »

Democrats and Republicans elected their new Leadership to the House and Senate as the new members were sworn in. In the House, things were straightforward, as Nancy Pelosi had the votes to become Speaker, and Kevin McCarthy had the votes to become Minority Leader.

Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

House Majority Leader

Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

House Minority Leader

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)

House Majority Whip

Jim Clyburn (D-SC)

House Minority Whip

Steve Scalise (R-LA)

Chair, DCCC

Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)

Chair, NRCC

Jim Jordan (R-OH)

In the Senate, Chuck Schumer, despite being the presumed Majority Leader, did not actually have the votes among Democrats to become Majority Leader. Neither did his closest rival Dick Durbin. The votes of Democrats in the Senate who were expected to be campaigning for President, such as Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren were expected to be decisive, especially after Durbin was also challenged for his position as Majority Whip. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell chose to step down as Minority Leader, deciding not to lead the Senate through what would likely be an impeachment trial (Pelosi, with the consent of Kevin McCarthy, who knew full well the Senate wouldn't convict Trump had scheduled the vote on impeaching Trump for the end of February). Senate Republicans were divided about who to name as Minority Leader, but ultimately the point was moot, as only one person put their name forward.

Senate Majority Leader

Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Senate Minority Leader

Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Senate Majority Whip

Tim Kaine (D-VA)

Senate Minority Whip

Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Chair, DSCC

Ed Markey (D-MA)

Chair, NRSCC

Rob Portman (R-OH)

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