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Drumpf Imperils Swing-State Senators LOL
Trump Takes Away a Lifeline for Swing-State SenatorsTrump gives senators little space to carve out the sort of independent identity that might make ticket-splitting more realistic. As I’ve written before, his intolerance for apostates has been a pattern throughout his presidency; he won’t brook criticism from inside the party or out, even as handling of the pandemic and civil unrest has made his administration’s performance tougher to defend. Pushing a nominee through before Election Day poses perhaps the starkest test yet of Trump’s insistence on fidelity. He’s asking that senators cast one of the most polarizing votes imaginable, amid one of the most fraught races in modern history, on a timeline driven by a political clock.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-gop-senate-and-fierce-supreme-court-fight/616437/
Yes, ticket-splitting!
