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...

Link:  Bernie Sanders says his team saw Russian election meddling in 2016 Excerpt: " Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment detailing the Russian social media campaign to aid Donald Trump, undermine Hillary Clinton and sow distrust in American politics describes behavior that aides to Bernie Sanders witnessed firsthand in the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, the senator said Tuesday. In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Sanders described how an aide handling his social media accounts noticed an uptick in “horrific and ugly things” directed at Clinton beginning around September 2016 — long after the Democratic nomination had been decided, and while Sanders himself was traveling the country campaigning on her behalf. “In many respects, what Mueller’s report tells us is not new to us,” Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said. “We knew that they were trying to sow division within the American people. In my case, it was to tell Bernie supporters tha...