The Digger

Here is the Republican 2020 congressional battle plan. There are 51 Democrats on this hit list that Republicans intend to vigorously contest.  The results for the Trump/Clinton election for each district are provided as an indication of the potential boost that a presidential ticket could provide. So the question is whether the Republicans could take back the House in 2020? Even if Trump gets a 3% boost over 2016, it is unlikely that Republicans will scrape up enough votes to have a solid majority. It is most likely that House of Representatives will be closely split such that a handful of moderates could hijack the agenda. Alternatively it could also end up stalemated unable to even pass a budget. The next Democrat House still appears to be a California driven House with Trump unlikely to be helpful to recover those lost neocon Orange County districts. Expect the remaining Democrats to be even more radical in leadership as moderate Democrats take most of the losses. Do wa...

"Every now and then attentive listeners and readers ask why we at Black Agenda Report don't spend nearly as much time denouncing racist, misogynist and downright evil Republicans like Romney and Ryan as we do detailing the betrayals and failures of Democrats like our black political class, and its current corporate mascots in city halls, state legislatures, the Congress and the White House." By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon We know who and what the Republican party is. Back in the mid 1960s, when Democratic president Lyndon Johnson, under relentless pressure from the Freedom Movement embraced enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in the South, Republicans opened their doors wide to welcome the exodus of white supremacist voters and politicians who'd been Democrats until that time. The modern Republican party re-made itself into the permanent white man's party not just in the South, but across the country, the party whose brands are rancid racism, pretenti...