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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen a president cheats to win, downballot races are helped too. Senate GOP majority is illegitimate
The top of the ticket helps downballot races.
So when the top of the ticket cheats, that also helps downballot races, like Senate races.
Many GOP senators won by a small amount in 2016:
Toomey (PA)
Blunt (MO)
Johnson(WI) (yes, Feingold should be in the Senate right now)
These Senators are illegitimate because the president cheated to win and got them elected too.
The GOP senate majority is illegitimate.
walkingman
(7,667 posts)California has almost 40 million people, while the 20 smallest states have a combined population totaling less than that. Yet because of an 18th-century political deal, those 20 states have 40 senators, while California has just two. These sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people. Thats just plain crazy.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)which is why they won't do anything about The "Esteemed" Mr. Trump.
D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)I'm hoping they are hit with RICO charges as a result of one of the ongoing investigations. The republican party is obviously a criminal organization that coordinated the commission of many felonies in order to gain control of the US government, including treason. They need to be prosecuted out of existence. The leaders should be doing life sentences or be executed for treason.
The "conservatives" (scumbags) can form a new party, or join the libertarians. In the mean time Democrats should do their best to enact structural changes that will make sure they never have much power (i.e. abolish the electoral college and add DC and Puerto Rico as states). They should also remove dump's judges and justices on the grounds that he never had the authority to appoint any.