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The coming midterm elections are not looking good for Democrats. Short of some miracle, Democrats are going to get smacked with a Red Wave in November.
After former President Trump endorsed an array of candidates in the Republican primaries, the results showed what U.S. News calls trump’s “enduring power.”
The winners included newcomers to politics, including a constructions executive in Wisconsin and a relative unknown in Connecticut.
Within the Republican Party, those who fully support the former president and his claims of election fraud are consistently winning over those Republicans who are taking a more middle-of-the-road approach.
Democrats are not showing a force of united strength against this, instead they seem to be jumping ship.
Over 30 Democrat incumbents announced their retirements, which is usually a clear sign of coming doom.
A Punchbowl News poll taken among senior House staffers found that 60% believe that Pelosi will retire after the midterm elections.
“The poll also sampled general House staffers.
Among the typical House staffers, 54 percent said Pelosi will retire.
Congressional staffers are personnel that assists members of Congress and committees, answer constituent mail, write questions for committee hearings, conduct communication duties, and plot legislative maneuvers,” Breitbart reported.
This means trouble for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“That more senior staffers believe Pelosi will retire likely comes from more experience and therefore carries more weight. Senior staffers told Punchbowl News Pelosi would not announce her retirement in the middle of a congressional session.
But they do acknowledge Pelosi has previously said this would be her last term as speaker,” the outlet added.
The survey comes as the GOP is poised to take back the House next November and could even regain control of the Senate.
Thirty-seven percent cited as their top priority “D.C. corruption/dysfunction,” followed by 18% who said immigration, 10% who said healthcare, and 10% who said jobs and the economy.
Republicans only need a net gain of 5 seats to regain the House majority in the midterms next November.
National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer is very confident that Republicans will take back the U.S. House of Representatives.
And more trouble is looming for Pelosi.
In a bold statement last week, Republicans have taken their most decisive move against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and want her removed from her position immediately.
It is a longshot, but the House Freedom Caucus sent the letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging an end to the “authoritarian reign” of Pelosi.
“House Freedom Caucus is calling on GOP leader to file and bring up a privileged motion to vacate the chair and end Speaker Pelosi’s authoritarian reign,” the caucus said.
“We, the House Freedom Caucus, respectfully request that you pursue the authorization of the House Republican Conference, pursuant to Conference rules, to file and bring up a privileged motion to vacate the chair and end Nancy Pelosi’s authoritarian reign as Speaker of the House,” the caucus said.
“Rule IX, Clause 3 of the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress requires that ‘A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of Speaker shall not be privileged except if offered by direction of a party caucus or conference,’” it said.
“Speaker Pelosi’s tenure is destroying the House of Representatives and our ability to faithfully represent the people we are here to serve. Speaker Pelosi has championed unconstitutional changes like allowing proxy voting and insulting security measures like metal detectors for Members coming to the floor to vote,” it said.
Pelosi is in the cross fires, and now a woman who is charged with taking the speaker’s laptop is getting a break.
The incident is alleged to have happened on January 6, 2020 during the event at the Capitol when Riley Williams, 25, was said to have taken the Speaker’s laptop, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
“I STOLE S–T FROM NANCY POLESI [sic],” Williams allegedly said in one message on Discord, the federal prosecutors said in a complaint.
“I DOMT [sic] CAREI TOOK NANCY POLESIS [sic] HARD DRIVES I DON’T CARE KILL ME,” the complaint said.
Williams was recently denied her request to move her trial to a Pennsylvania court, but is allowed to leave her house to attend work, court proceedings, or approved outings.
Now the woman who allegedly stole House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s laptop has been granted a temporary reprieve.
Wlliams, 25, has been detained on house arrest for the past year and a half but, this weekend, was allowed to attend a Renaissance Fair in Lancaster County.
“She is confined to her home 24/7 with exceptions.
Every once in a while, if there is an activity that interests her, we ask if she can attend,” her attorney, Lori Ulrich, said to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
So this weekend Williams will be able to “dress in medieval cosplay in the eight hours she’s been given to attend the fair,” New York Post reported.
As Pelosi’s world tightens around her, Williams’ world is opening up.
Source: The Republic Brief