It's pretty obvious why the right is so fixated on Arizona and Georgia voting "fraud",and to an extent Wisconsin, a year after multiple audits..Originally Posted by cajunrevenge
Kelly and Warnock are defending special election seats in 2022 they won by a few percentage points. The lawsuits in both states are designed as a get out to vote to the base. They're running for a full 6-year term. Both states are slowly trending purple, and the GOP wants to try and hold on to those seats as long as possible to keep power in the Senate before both of those states evolve like Colorado did in the span of a decade from red to purple to lean blue to solidly blue. I don't think either state will be solidly blue for another decade and a half or two, but the GOP is trying to hold on to those senate seats while they solidly have gained Ohio and West Virginia in the last decade. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin is another potential pickup for the Dems.
Burr is retiring in North Carolina, and NC has trended as purple as well. Obama won it once, and they had a Dem governor despite the entire legislature being red majority. But with Charlotte's continued growth and Asheville booming with a lot of transplants, the State is continuing to trend towards lean blue in the next decade. Dems likely will regain Toomey's seat in PA despite it being mid-terms. Georgia and Arizona both have GOP governors, so it makes perfect sense as to why they're still drumming up election fraud non-sense in these states.
They know they have to hold these seats because the Dems don't really have any other seats in the Senate they can lose in the 2022 class. Remember 2016 Senate elections were a Trump wave. He helped a lot of Republicans like Toomey hold or get elected in tossup states.
The 2024 Senate map looks more favorable to the GOP to not lose seats/pick up a seat depending on Biden's re-election. Rick Scott in FL and Ted Cruz in Texas both won in 2018 by slim margins. If the Republicans lose those seats for 6 years with demographics changing in Texas, it's going to hurt them.
Probably also why the Ted Cruz for SCOTUS thing keeps floating around. The Party knows he's either going to barely lose in 24 or likely lose in 2030 with Texas' demos shifting. Putting him on SCOTUS allows him to pander to the right more than ever and be even more right than someone like Alito or Thomas, and the GOP can run someone closer to the center to match Texas' demos.
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