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House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that Republicans think they can retake the House majority in 2020 by turning out millions of voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 but stayed home in the 2018 midterm elections.In fact, in his latest exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, McCarthy explained that Republicans would currently be in the House majority had these voters turned out in 2018—and that the GOP would have held at least 28 more seats than the party currently has. “There were 8.5 million Trump voters who voted in 2016 who did not turn out in 2018,” McCarthy said. They’re identified. If they turned out in 2018, and we know exactly where they live, we’d still be in the majority. We would have won 28 seats that we currently don’t have.” Having the president atop the ticket in 2020, McCarthy said, will help the GOP turn those nearly nine million voters out who … [Read more...] about Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy: GOP Aims to Retake House After Impeachment by Turning Out 8.5 Million Trump Voters who Stayed Home in 2018

Where once the GOP was an inhospitable place for black and other people of color because it supported racially disastrous policies but gave lip service to caring about “black issues,” it has since ceased bothering to pretend it cares about inclusion. There was already a decades-high pile of evidence proving Republicans oppose democracy before the House took up the Voting Rights Advancement Act last week. The partisan vote on the bill—which saw nearly every Republican refuse to restore anti-discriminatory protections to the 1965 Voting Rights Act—nonetheless reaffirmed GOP investment in a compromised democratic facsimile that excludes black voters.  Conventional contemporary punditry holds that Republican voter suppression tactics that target black and brown Americans—closures of polling sites, purges of voter rolls, and strict voter ID laws—are due not to racial resentments but those groups’ Democratic reliability. Racist GOP voter … [Read more...] about The GOP Stops Pretending It Wants Black Votes — or for Black Folks to Vote at All

Speaker Paul Ryan must be the most relieved politician in America as House passes “Trumpcare” on the second try. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images House Republicans managed to pass a revised version of the American Health Care Act today by the narrowest of margins: 217–213, with two members absent (and three vacancies). Twenty Republicans voted against the bill. All Democrats did so as well. As Republicans celebrated getting this monkey off their backs and over to the Senate for an uncertain fate, Democrats regaled them with a lusty rendition of “Nah Nah Nah Nah, Hey Hey Hey, Good-bye!” reflecting their belief that some GOP members will lose next year thanks to this vote. The drive to enact this bill — an earlier version was pulled from a scheduled floor vote in March with defeat certain — looked to have stalled earlier this week. But then one announced “no” voter, Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, … [Read more...] about House Passes Controversial GOP Health-Care Bill by an Eyelash

Representative Kevin Yoder of Kansas was reelected by a margin of nearly 12 percent last year. That may not be enough of a cushion for 2018. Photo: Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The good news for House Republicans, according to a detailed analysis of the midterm landscape from Kyle Kondik of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, is that 226 of the 241 GOP winners last year won by a double-digit margin, typically the definition of a “landslide.” The bad news is that in the last three midterm elections (2006, 2010, and 2014), the average House incumbent representing the party that controlled the White House suffered a negative swing of 12 points. So even “landslide” winners in the previous cycle got quickly into hot water when the midterms rolled around. Indeed, fully 21 House Republican incumbents won by 12 points or less in 2016. Ten of them also represent districts won by Hillary Clinton. Alert observers will note that even if all 21 seats fell to the Democrats … [Read more...] about Some 2016 House GOP Landslide Winners May Not Be Safe in 2018

This week one House Republican (Tim Murphy) has resigned and one House Democrat (Carol Shea-Porter) has announced her retirement. It’s something to watch as we approach the midterms. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Democrats are hoping for a wave election next year that regains them control of the U.S. House of Representatives (the Senate, with its massively pro-GOP 2018 landscape, is probably out of reach). Though the number of House seats they need to flip (24) is relatively high, it’s a benchmark that that each party has achieved in the recent past (Democrats in 2006, Republicans in 1994 and 2010). And they have some of the raw materials for big gains at hand: an unpopular Republican president; 23 GOP-held House districts that were carried by Hillary Clinton last year; and a big lead in the congressional generic ballot (the RealClearPolitics average shows Democrats up by 7.8 percent at present — close to the 8 percent … [Read more...] about GOP Retirements May Determine Whether the Democrats Take Back The House