While most of us here would have loved to see Aftyn win, forcing the Rs to heavily fight for a R +22 district is crazy. Both the Speaker and the President did campaigning for a random, deep-red seat, gerrymandered to be a safe Republican district. That’s saying a lot.
This also tracks similarly to the special elections in FL earlier, where while the Democratic candidates didn’t win, they over-performed by roughly the same margin (13 - 15 points).
That’s what I was thinking - they don’t have a majority in the House (currently). And even if they did manage to drag some Rs with them on the vote, he wouldn’t be convicted in the Senate, as there’s nowhere close to the 2/3rds vote needed to remove him from his post.
It was always that. Worked in the food retail sector earlier in my career and the Campbell’s Soup reps would joke that their two main ingredients were salt and hot water.
Maybe he’s busy writing a new book about it? /s
Nashville was carved up, in order to dilute the democratic voters in the city. It was split between three different congressional districts.
The democrats were gerrymandered out of the safe Dem seat that the Nashville area should have.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/tennessee-redistricting-map/