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  • finitebanjo@piefed.worldto196@lemmy.worldRioters and Looters rule
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    13 hours ago

    See that would have been a good response like 4 comments up the chain instead of throwing random insults and an illogical tantrum. But with that in mind, Harris was trying to represent the entire US and not Liberals with those statements, polls places Immigration as a top concern for 61% of Americans, but with a large gap between Republicans and Democrats in the poll and with the months prior sparking discussion of potential civil war over Texas’ national guard’s interference with federal immigration processing and deployment of razorwire in rivers where crossings were common.





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    2 days ago

    Incorrect, the last 7 congresses had the following party divisions:

    113th 2013-2015 : 53 D - 45 R - 2 I
    114th 2015-2017 : 44 D - 54 R - 2 I
    115th 2017-2019 : 46/47 D - 50/52 R - 2 I
    116th 2019-2021 : 45/46 D - 53/52 R - 2 I
    117th 2021-2023 : 46/48 D - 51/50 R - 2/3 I
    118th 2023-2025 : 47/48 D - 49 R - 3/4 I
    119th 2025-2027 : 45 D - 53/52 R - 2 I - 1 Vacancy

    We literally have not had more than 48 D since 2015. The most independents we’ve ever had since the 1940s was also coincidentally in just before Republicans swept the 2024 election. Every DNC “majority” we’ve had in the last decade was only with caucusing independents and also VP tiebreaker.

    We ALSO never had a DNC supermajority, which is why we had to water down the Public Option healthcare in 2011-2012 due to Independent Joe Lieberman holding out and Republican filibuster, the most we’ve had since 1979 was only 58.