Has anyone realized that Martha McSally, who is likely losing the election to Mark Kelly, will be evicted on November 30th? That means, regardless of if Trump wins or lose, a seat will likely be filled by the Democrats.
That means if they had started the nominee process after the election, they would have less than a month to confirm a seat. Whereas with right now, they have over a month, which may buy enough time to ram Barrett or Lagoa through. I'm not sure that with the inevitable DNC stalling that they could do that after the election.
Even if Republicans only lose one seat, come November 30th, Republicans would have a 52-48 advantage, not 53-47. That means not only would they need to get Grassley to agree (I've heard he's a RINO, may I ask why?), but also get Collins, Murkowski, and Romney to grow some balls and vote "Yes". I know there are rumors that Ted Cruz is saying he's got enough Republicans to slam a nominee through, but there is zero evidence Rooster knows anything.
I asked this multiple times and got nothing. Even if this is true, stalling could change all that as McConnell would have to sell the nominee to one more RINO.
Trump is making the wise play here, regardless of how it affects his election chances. Holding off the nomination is a trap the Democrats are setting and he will not fall for that. Now he has to get McConnell to force an expedited process. Announcement tomorrow please.
See my above comment. Also, Blacks as a population aren't increasing. Hispanics are. There are much better inroads with Hispanics anyway. A critical issue is to slow the rate of immigration to increase assimilation and have the ones who come actually have a stake in the success of the club they've been let in to. If America's policies indicate it's a free-for-all, people will treat it like one.
I see this a lot on this forum, but it needs to be said.
The black population is increasing and has been since the 1940 census. As of last year,
13.4% of the population is black (
archive). That's larger than the 2010 census. Furthermore, they're by far the most politically active non-white voting block.
Even with their massive downturn in 2016 (
archive), they still outpaced Hispanics and Asians by double digit. Even with Hispanics being the most populous minority, blacks still vote at a higher percentage than them.
I agree that Republicans have far more in-road to make with Hispanics than blacks, but they are not fading from relevance as a voting block anytime soon which is why the Democrats are doing everything they can to get out the black vote.
