The Warnock race is vital, but not for the reason most pundits say, which relates to keeping Manchin in check. The fact is there won’t be much progress in Congress the next 2 years. But in 2024, we have a good chance to take back the House. If the Republicans overplay their hand as badly as they usually do, we could have a majority of 25 or more seats in the House come 2025.
But the Senate is a huge problem. We only really have two good chances to pick up Senate seats in 2024, and they are in Arizona and California with Sinema and Feinstein. OK, you are saying “B-b-b-but these are already Democrats”. Sinema most certainly isn’t a Democrat and replacing her with Ruben Gallego would be a clear pick-up for Democrats, and must be one of our highest priorities, no matter how well that woman behaves herself the next 2 years. She must go.
And DiFi is half the delegation of the very most important progressive state, yet she has been totally worthless for decades. She is worse than worthless. She oozes corruption, making her a net liability. She has not resorted to holding the party hostage as Manchin has done time after time, but we need our California Senators to be lions for progress. So let’s get to work replacing those two. Hopefully they will take themselves out gracefully, but they must go no matter what.
And then we still have to defend 21 of 22 of the remaining Dem/Independent seats just to retain control of the Senate in 2025, and that assumes Sen. Warnock is in office and Biden wins a second term. Our chances for overturning any of the 10 GOP incumbents are very slim. We should try, of course, but it isn’t bloody likely, and that is why we must get Warnock seated and then replace both Sinema and DiFi. That will be a substantial step forward.
Read them and weep. Here are the GOP incumbents:
- Barrasso, John (WY)
- Blackburn, Marsha (TN)
- Braun, Mike (IN)
- Cramer, Kevin (ND)
- Cruz, Ted (TX)
- Fischer, Deb (NE)
- Hawley, Josh (MO)
- Romney, Mitt (UT)
- Scott, Rick (FL)
- Wicker, Roger F. (MS)