Posted on 10/10/2018 8:19:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic committee leaders are ready to roll out an ambitious legislative wish list if the House majority flips in next months midterm elections.
After eight years in the minority, Democrats have big plans, from shoring up ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank financial rules to protecting Dreamers and the integrity of elections.
They are also vowing to aggressively probe the actions of the Trump administration an oversight role Democrats contend was virtually abandoned by Republicans.
Basically, a lot of the committees have just been rubber stamps for this administration, said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee.
Because Democrats have long honored a system of seniority without term limits, the top Democrats on House panels are considered favorites to jump into chairmanships if control of the House changes hands.
The gavel-holders are poised to play an outsize role if the Democrats control the chamber: Given the growing clamor from rank-and-file lawmakers about consolidation of power at the top of the party, Democratic leaders across the board are vowing to lend more authority to the committees in the next Congress.
The Hill spoke with a dozen ranking members and the offices of several others. Heres what they said about their priorities if they seize the gavels in 2019.
Appropriations
For eight years, Republicans have sought to cut federal funding for a long list of social service programs. That trend would be reversed under Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), a 15-term veteran whos in line to become the first woman to hold the Appropriations gavel in the panels long history.
Lowey hailed the recent passage of a labor-health spending bill, which included a $1 billion increase over 2018 levels to boost initiatives such as medical research, maternity care, home-heating subsidies, nutrition and education programs, and funding to fight the opioid crisis. Anyone wondering what shed prioritize from atop the committee next year, Lowey said, can find a model in that package.
You have a whole variety of investments that really lift people up and help working people, she said. Look at that Labor/H bill, and Id like to do as well or even better.
Lowey said shed also aim to reinstate a system of passing the various spending bills separately, after years of lumping them together or resorting to temporary extensions to prevent government shutdowns largely due to partisan fights over contentious amendments.
I would hope on all of the 12 bills, that on the House side we could have bipartisan bills and do away with the poison pills and be more constructive, Lowey said.
We wont agree on everything, she continued, but hopefully at the end we can have regular order.
Armed Services
Few committees act with the bipartisan cooperation of Armed Services, where members are generally united on issues surrounding the Pentagon and national security. Still, Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the panels senior Democrat, has designs to rein in certain initiatives. The nuclear weapons program, he said, is pretty much at the top of the list.
The nuclear posture review calls for the building of too many nuclear weapons, he said, singling out short-range weapons for particular criticism.
Smith, in his 11th term, said he would also conduct a more general examination of the defense budget, which topped $700 billion in fiscal 2019. He suggested the growing figure may pose a threat to other nondefense programs, vowing to continue bipartisan efforts to reform the acquisition process in order to cut costs.
How much money are we realistically going to have for defense versus our other priorities? he asked.
On the oversight front, Smith said the special forces would be a primary interest, particularly operations in Africa and other hotspots around the globe, where he lamented a significant increase in civilian casualties.
Why are we there? How is that balanced against whats happening with the intelligence side? Where are we in the world bombing and attacking people? he said. I dont think theres enough transparency on that.
Smith said he also hopes to take the administration to task for its approach to the LGT community. Although President Trump had campaigned as a real friend of the gay community, he approved a ban on transgender people serving in the military earlier this year.
Weve done reasonably well on that with Republicans in Congress, Smith said of the inclusiveness issue. Its just where Trump has been at thats been the problem.
Budget
The House Budget Committee has typically played a limited (if significant) role on Capitol Hill, charged primarily with setting spending levels for the appropriators to work with. Rep. John Yarmuth (Ky.) wants to change all that.
The Kentucky Democrat, the committees ranking member, is eyeing a novel plan to expand the scope of the panel to include overarching assessments of how specific issues, in the broadest terms, impact the federal budget. Such a reimagining of the committees role, in Yarmuths description, would lend the panel new oversight responsibilities designed to guide legislative debates on leading issues like taxes, immigration, health care and climate change.
Those kind of 30,000-foot analyses are really never done in the Congress, Yarmuth said.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), of course, already scores specific legislation a neutral, accepted process that nonetheless has found its critics on both sides of the aisle. Yarmuth wants the committee to conduct its own analyses, taking into consideration elements of the policies that arent always reflected in the CBOs appraisals.
The aim, he said, is to provide the committees overseeing those issues another store of data when forging legislation.
They give you a version of impact on the budget thats just related to their score. But as we know, CBO scores based on a model which doesnt always include all the implications of certain policy changes on the budget, Yarmuth said.
So the way I look at it, its the way to have that kind of discussion and analysis that then serves as a resource for the committees of jurisdiction when theyre actually moving on a particular policy, he said.
Energy and Commerce
Few committees oversee a broader swath of issues or wield more power than the Energy and Commerce Committee, which presides over policies as diverse as telecommunications, environmental quality and food safety.
But Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking member who was chairman of the health subcommittee during passage of ObamaCare, has a clear focus if he holds the gavel next year: shoring up that landmark health-care law after eight years of persistent Republican attacks.
The most important thing is stabilizing the Affordable Care Act, he said last month.
Hell have his work cut out for him.
While Republicans were unsuccessful in their effort to repeal ObamaCare in full, their tax reform package enacted in December eliminated the mandate for individuals to obtain health insurance. And GOP leaders more recently have set their sights on eliminating prohibitions on insurance companies charging more, or denying coverage altogether, for patients with pre-existing conditions.
Within the health-care realm, Pallone is focused on reducing drug costs. Hes championed legislation to eliminate income caps on eligibility for premium tax credits, while expanding cost-sharing subsidies for lower income patients. Hes also behind a bill to prevent prescription prices in Medicares drug benefit program from jumping for high-cost patients, as theyre scheduled to do in 2020.
The Energy and Commerce Committee will follow through on Democrats commitment to lower health care and prescription drug costs for consumers, he said.
Pallone also has his sights on efforts to bolster the nations energy infrastructure, while vowing vigorous oversight of the administration for what he calls a culture of corruption that seriously undermines critical health care, environmental and consumer protections.
Financial Services
Democrats on the Financial Services Committee have fought for months to use the panels subpoena power to access some of Trumps financial records. That process would likely launch quickly if the gavel falls to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the committees ranking member and one of Trumps sharpest critics.
If there is information that is going to be unveiled about what has been going on in the White House or Donald Trump or the Treasury, it will come out, Waters told MSNBC last month.
Trump wont be alone.
Other Financial Services Democrats are looking forward to the opportunity to haul members of the presidents Cabinet before the panel. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) singled out Ben Carson, Trumps housing chief, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for particular scrutiny.
We need to look at ways where they have undermined the mission of some of the programs, by not providing the budget, by not filling vacancies, she said.
Democrats are also keen to bolster the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, a landmark Obama-era initiative thats been under Republican attack for years. They have particular eyes on propping up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency thats headed by Trumps budget director Mick Mulvaney, who has fought to eliminate the bureau altogether.
Waters introduced legislation last week to protect the CFPB from administrative rollbacks. She declined to comment on her priorities next year Its premature to talk about whats going to happen, she told The Hill but others were more vocal.
CFPB has been undermined by Mulvaney, said Velázquez, and we have to revisit the budget situation of CFPB and make sure it has the tools to execute its mission.
Velázquez, a Puerto Rican, also wants to boost the federal flood insurance program a pressing issue following a series of devastating hurricanes.
Homeland Security
Thompson doesnt hesitate when asked what hed like to do with the Homeland Security gavel.
Weve not had rigorous oversight, weve not had witnesses to present the facts, were just left to executive orders, he said.
Thompson, the panels senior Democrat, is vowing a different tack. He wants the committee to conduct deep dives into election security; Trumps travel ban; the administrations uneven response to Hurricane Maria; and the screening methods adopted by the Transportation Security Administration.
The vulnerabilities that we know of weve not completely addressed, he said.
The Homeland Security panel also plays a key role overseeing the U.S.-Mexico border, which has become a flashpoint in the partisan culture war over illegal immigration, family separations and Trumps promised wall. Thompson, like most Democrats, favors the employment of new technologies, not an expensive physical barrier, to stem illegal crossings.
We need to really conduct detailed hearings to see how irrational a wall is in this day and time, given where we are as a country technologically, he said. We havent addressed it.
Thompson also wants to redirect law enforcement under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to focus on criminals a prioritization of former President Obama that was scrapped by Trump.
Its about legislation encouraging them to go after the bad guys first, the MS-13 guys everybody wants them out of there, Thompson said. But we spend a lot of time looking at people who are not nearly as violent.
Intelligence
As ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) has become the Democratic face of the House probe into Russias election meddling a position that launched his star on the national stage as the panel devolved into a bitter well of partisan bickering.
Despite Republican claims that theyve reached their verdict, Schiff says the panels investigation remains very much open. If he becomes chairman, hes vowing to launch a new round of hearings, while seeking new documents and compelling testimony from new witnesses he says were ignored by the Republicans.
It is ongoing, and it will continue if we are in the majority with power of subpoena, Schiff told The Hill last month.
One area in particular that the GOP has neglected, according to Schiff, has been an examination of Russias potential financial ties to Trumps sprawling global business empire.
There was one issue we were not allowed to look at and the Senate hasnt been either that concerns me a great deal and that is the issue of whether Russians were laundering money through the Trump Organization and [if] that is the leverage they have over the president, he said.
Someone needs to determine whether those allegations are true or they are not. That certainly would be a priority for me, he said.
Schiff also wants to dive further into the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russian operatives and the presidents campaign team. Hes wary of claims that Trump didnt know of the meeting and suspects he may have even called into it.
Those investigations would reignite simmering tensions between the members of the committee. Still, Schiff says his top priority as chairman would be to return a semblance of bipartisan comity to the panel.
Judiciary
Immigration, guns, voting rights, impeachment. Name a hot-button issue and its likely to fall under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee, where Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the ranking member and among the most vocal critics of the president, would find little time for sleep if he wields the gavel.
The issues may vary, but the common theme is this: Nadler, a constitutional lawyer, thinks the administration is consistently abusing its power with the tacit blessing of a Republican majority that refuses to investigate. That would change quickly under his watch.
The abuses and ethical lapses we have seen in the Trump administration, in the Trump campaign and in Congress clearly show the need to address the culture of corruption that has developed in the absence of appropriate checks on power, Nadler said over the weekend, delivering the Democrats weekly radio address.
Nadler has also lashed out at the administration for refusing to defend certain ObamaCare insurance protections from outside lawsuits; for separating immigrant families at the southern border; for backing the National Rifle Association in opposition to tougher gun laws; and for defending states that have adopted tougher voting restrictions.
All of these areas have been completely ignored by a Republican Congress unwilling to do its job for the people, he said.
Nadler has been fighting for legislation to protect the Department of Justice probe, being led by special counsel Robert Mueller, into potential collusion between Russia and Trumps campaign during the 2016 elections a bill Democrats would almost certainly push early if they control the House next year.
Nadler will also come under intense pressure from the Democrats liberal base to launch the process to impeach the president. Thus far, he has resisted those entreaties, joining leadership in urging a conclusion to the Mueller investigation.
Natural Resources
The Democrats exasperation with Trumps approach to the environment is no secret. From the presidents expansion of offshore drilling, to his decision to yank the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate accord, to the shrinking of national monuments to free up mineral reserves, Democrats have accused the administration of coddling the extractive industries at the expense of public health.
If the House flips, Democrats would have one of their most liberal voices pushing back on all fronts. And Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), an eight-term veteran who heads the Progressive Caucus, says his No. 1 aim will be getting disclosure on a host of decisions emanating from the office of Ryan Zinke, the Interior secretary who Grijalva deems nonresponsive to congressional concerns.
If theres no change of behavior, willingly, then [we will] have a robust, legal and investigative arm that does what it needs to do in order to get the answers that we need, Grijalva said. Whether that is through subpoena, or through cooperation, it has to [happen].
Zinke, a former House member representing Montana, has been the subject of more than 10 formal investigations seven of them ongoing into issues ranging from a land deal involving Halliburtons chairman to his travel on private jets.
On the legislative front, Grijalva named a short list of issues hed like to tackle quickly. The common theme, he said, will be a focus on strengthening environmental statutes including the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act after eight years of attacks from the committees Republican majority.
I think we have a responsibility to shore them back up, he said.
Oversight and Government Reform Theres so much, Cummings said, trailing off.
The indecision is fleeting, however, as Cummings quickly rattled off a host of issues hes hoping to examine early next year.
Voting rights is near the top of the list a response to the Supreme Courts 2013 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. Since then, a number of states have adopted tougher voting rules, to the howls of Democrats who consider them discriminatory.
Cummings, in his 11th term, said hed also delve into the Republican efforts to eliminate pre-existing condition protections under ObamaCare, as well as strategies for lowering the cost of prescription drugs. More broadly, he said hell take Trump to task for attacks on the FBI, the media and other institutions a campaign, Cummings said, thats tearing apart the foundations of our democracy.
I havent figured out exactly how Im going to do it, but were going to definitely look at that, he said.
As a forecast of what might come, Cummings and Oversight Democrats have submitted more than 50 subpoena requests for administrative documents on topics ranging from Trumps efforts to dismantle ObamaCare and officials use of chartered flights to the presidents travel ban and the use of private email in the White House. Republicans have denied every request.
Cummings is no stranger to the fight. In 2010, he hopped over a more senior member, former Rep. Edolphus Towns (N.Y.), to become the committees senior Democrat a move blessed by the partys leaders, who wanted a figure with Cummingss pugnacity to go toe-to-toe with former Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Transportation and Infrastructure
On the campaign trail, Trump promised an enormous infrastructure package to boost the economy and mend the brittle bones of the nations aging roads and bridges. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who has a $500 billion plan in hand, is ready to work with Trump as chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee next year. But thats just a start.
The 16-term DeFazio, senior Democrat on the panel, is furious that GOP leaders have repeatedly quashed his bill to ensure that billions of dollars in revenues collected for harbor maintenance be spent for that purpose. The proposal passed through the committee this year with bipartisan support, but never reached the floor.
Thats easy, hopefully, DeFazio said. And that would be at the top of the list.
DeFazio is also eyeing legislation empowering airports to hike certain passenger fees to underwrite construction of new terminals.
The airline industry goes berserk over that, yet they allowed the Republicans to increase the passenger security fee and divert the money to something other than passenger security, and they didnt scream about that, he said. So Im not very receptive to their arguments.
DeFazio is also up in arms about the Trump Organizations lease with the federal government to operate the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Democrats have long accused the president of profiting illegally from the arrangement, and DeFazio has accused the General Services Administration of ignoring his requests for information.
They refused to give me documents because Im a Democrat. Unprecedented, he said. They will be giving me documents.
DeFazio is eying much broader oversight of the administration but says he hasnt nailed down all his plans just yet.
Its a pretty good start for the first day, he said. Second day Ill think of something else.
Ways and Means
Last December, as Republicans celebrated the passage of their tax-code overhaul, Democrats roared about the rushed timeline and a general lack of transparency accompanying the process.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), whos in line to take the gavel of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, is ready to revisit the issue.
On his short list of priorities, conducting hearings on the tax law something they never did, he charged rises somewhere near the top.
Democrats arent opposed to the tax package on the whole but are eyeing changes that would shift the benefits from corporations and the wealthy to middle-class workers. They also want to reinstall a state and local tax deduction, known as SALT, that was scaled back in the GOP tax law.
Although revisiting the tax debate would confront the White House head on, Neal is also seeking to prioritize issues where he sees Trump as a potential ally. He named three specifically: shoring up retirement savings, protecting multi-employer pension plans and infrastructure.
Were gonna fix the [Affordable Care Act], but clearly, the administration might be able to move to do some infrastructure work with us, he said. I think its going to be harder to get some work on the ACA.
Some senior Ways and Means Democrats notably Rep. Bill Pascrell (N.J.) are also vowing to examine Trumps tax returns, which the president has refused to release. As chairman of the Ways and Means panel, Neal can access anyones tax returns including the presidents and share the findings with the full committee behind closed doors. The panel could then vote to release all, or parts, of the returns to the public.
Flipping the script: There are more Democrat seats in danger than media letting on
Flipping the script: There are more Democrat seats in danger than media letting on
By Kevin Collins
In late July a typically leftist Chicago reporter went to the reopening of a steel mill in Illinois then wrote, I left the hall thinking: Donald Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020. The Democrats dont have anyone who can touch him. Bank on it. Dont hate me for being the one to tell you.
Of course its true that Democrats dont have anyone who can touch [Trump] in 2020; but the Democrats dont have anyone who can touch him in 2018 either.
Even a casual observer of this years mid-terms must conclude Donald Trump has successfully made them a referendum on him and his record thus far.
The totally one sided media will not tell you this but, because of the Trump effect and a shift in Latino support toward Republicans, there are more Democrat House seats in danger of flipping to Republican than they will admit.
You havent heard of these Democrat House seats being in danger; but they are in danger.
In Minnesota, where Donald Trump lost by just 1 ½ points, there are three virtual gimmes for the Republicans.
In Minnesota CD 1 Trump won by 14 points.
In Minnesota CD 7 Trump won by 30 points.
In Minnesota CD 8 Trump won by 16 points.
It makes no difference who the Democrat is in these races; the seat is lost.
In Iowa where Trump won by 8 there is another one.
In Iowa CD 2 Trump won 4.
Two of Iowa CD 2s counties were pivot counties.
A pivot county is one that was won by Barrack Obama twice then won by Donald Trump.
The leftist Cook Report designated Iowa CD 2 as the 191st most Democrat CD out of the Democrats 197 districts.
In Illinois CD 17 is trending Republican.
Yes of course Hillary Clinton rolled up big numbers in Illinois; but there were 11 pivot counties in Illinois where Obama won by 21 points and 16 points.
TEN of the 11 Illinois pivot counties are in the 17th Congressional District.
In 2016 Donald Trump won the district ½ point.
The Democrat incumbent won by 20 points.
Note: In Florida CD 26 Hillary Clinton won by 20 points and the race is now leans Democrat.
In Wisconsin CD3 Trump won + 4 ½ points.
In spite of the Democrat running unopposed in 2016 Cook makes Wisconsin CD 3 EVEN.
Ten of Wisconsins 23 pivot counties were in Wisconsin 3.
Trump flipped those ten counties by an average of 11 points.
Connecticut CD 5 Trump lost by 4.
It is Cook rated +2 Democrat.
Connecticut CD 5 is 18% Hispanic.
Connecticut registered Republicans are just 21% so Trumps 41 % is a 20 point over performance.
Connecticut Republican enthusiasm is high.
In Connecticut which has been a blue wasteland for years, this primary season saw Republicans out vote Democrats by 30%/25% and nearly double their turnout for their governors race primary from 2014.
Connecticut CD 5 is trending away from Democrats.
In 2008 Barrack Obama won by 12; in 2012 by 9 and in 2016 Trump lost by 4 points.
New Hampshire CD 1: Trump won by 1 ½ points.
Since 2008 this district has trended away from the Democrats.
In 2008 Obama won by 6 points then by 1 point in 2012 and Trump won the district by 1 ½ points while losing the state by 1/2pt.
The district has changed hands five times in the last 5 elections.
New Hampshire CD2
New Hampshire CD2 is designated as the 186Th most Democrat district of the 197 seats held by the Democrats.
New Hampshire CD 2 has been trending Republican.
Obama won the district by 13 points in 2008 and 10 points by 2012. Trump lost the district by 1 ½ points.
New Jersey CD 5
The Democrat won by 4 points in 2016.
Cook makes it +3 Republican.
Obama lost NJ CD 5 by 2 and 3 points while Trump won by just 1 point.
New Jersey is a place that it is not easy to be a Republican; just 20% of voters are registered Republicans which means Trump over-performed by 20 points. There is a huge 47 % independent voter prize to be fought over.
Do not believe Crooked Bob Menendez is close and in a tight reelection race. He is not.
Republican Senate candidate Bob Hugin is killing him.
Menendez has not run a single TV spot in months.
It is very possible that the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee has abandoned Menendez.
Bob Menendez, condemned Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
This from a man who was accused of flying to Dominican Republican brothels with his crooked doctor friend now doing 17 years in federal prison.
Hugin has all the momentum to crush Menendez and as Menendez crumbles Democrat enthusiasm in New Jersey will crumble as well.
On to California yes California.
The following Democrat seats are vulnerable because of the Hispanic shift, which is being ignored by Democrats and their pollsters.
If you are not able to see this shift, dont believe it, or reject it out of hand just go straight to the comment section and tell me you feel differently.
The relatively high approval ratings from Hispanics for President Trump now stand at 40%.
This is 12 points above what he got from Latino voters in 2016.
There is ample evidence that this high approval rating is transferring to Republican candidates in general.
Last month in Texas a special election was won by 6 points by a Republican who lost in the same district in 2016 by 15 points.
Why the 21 point shift in a district not won by a Republican in 139 years?
The district is 68% Latino.
In Florida a St Pete Times poll found the Republican candidate for governor ahead 53/42 among Hispanics.
Florida is 27% Latino.
In Texas and Florida the Hispanic Shift is on and it is real.
The Hispanic Shift explains some of why Gallup found a 7 point jump in approval for Republicans in the last year that now puts the GOP ahead of the Democrats in favorability for only the second time in a decade.
Gallups poll, taken before the ugly display Democrats put on during the last two weeks, also shows a 5 point edge in Republican enthusiasm.
Here are a group of Democrat seats in California which for various reasons, combined with the Hispanic Shift, are in danger of flipping to Republican.
Heres the Hispanic Shift in California.
The latest Probolsky Poll shows Democrat Gavin Newsom getting just 35.5% of the Hispanic vote and John Cox the Republican getting 34.5% of the Hispanic vote with an eye popping 30% of Latinos reporting they are undecided.
This was a statewide survey.
If these numbers hold, and since Probolsky found Newsom up 55/34 in July there is little reason to doubt them, almost every Democrat in a district with a substantial Latino population is in danger.
Undecided is a classic answer from voters who are not going to vote the way they are supposed to vote but dont want to say so out loud.
California CD 26 is another pickup in the making.
In California CD 26 actor Antonio Sabato junior is the Republican candidate.
He brings star power and a Latino look to the race.
At 45% Hispanic, California CD 26 has one of the highest percentages of Latino voters in the state; its even higher than Californias statewide 39%.
California CD 3 is 30% Latino.
In 2016 the Democrat incumbent won by 19 points.
In 2018 the Democrat won the open primary by 11, Trump lost district 53/40 which way over performed the 29% registered Republicans.
The 2018 Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district is D+5, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district’s results were 5 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made California’s 3rd Congressional District the 171st-most Democratic district [of the 197 seats held by Democrats] nationally.
FiveThirtyEight’s elasticity score for states and Congressional districts measures “how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment.” Heading into the election, this district’s elasticity score is 1.00. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moves towards a party, the district is expected to move 1.00 points towards that party.
This is a perfect district to find the Hispanic Shift and the Trump effect.
California CD 16 is 61% Latino.
In 2016 Trump lost by 22 points.
In 2016 in the open primary the Democrat won by 16 points and got 97,000 votes.
In 2018s open primary the Democrat won by 5 points and got 57,000 votes which was just 56% of the votes he got in 2016.
The Republican is a young accomplished Cambodian woman who is closely aligned with President Trump.
California CD 31 is 53% Latino.
The Democrat incumbent won the 2016 open primary by 21 points; won the general by 13 points and won the 2018 open primary by less than 1 point.
Trump lost by 21 points.
The Hispanic Shift can easily happen in a 53% Latino district even where the Democrat is Hispanic himself.
Now add California CD 51 which is 70% Latino - 70%!!
Yes the incumbent Democrat is a Latino but so is the Republican VERY VERY conservative retired Marine Corps Sgt. Major.
He speaks to the Latino heart
Donks-esp. those who clowns who call themselves “independents”- will realize what “I have a pen and a phone” means.
I can tell you now, if we lose the house it will be a freak show in the House for 2 years until Trump can win it back in a Presidential year noting just how radical the dems are.
All this energy for nothing. Do you think Trump would sign any of these bills? Nooooo.
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