Republicans May Have Devised Plan To Pick-Up Another House Seat

Democrats Suffer Another Monumental Loss, Speaker Of The House Concedes Defeat As Republicans Gain Control Of The House Of Delegates In Virginia

Republicans keep on winning.

Conservative Brief

By  Carmine Sabia

Democrats have a new reason to be concerned as the 2022 midterm elections approach and Republicans strengthen their position to take back the House of Representatives and take the Speaker’s gavel from Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Tennessee Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper has been in the House for two decades.

But that is now in jeopardy, CNN reported.

But Republicans are now considering breaking up Cooper’s district, which could help them gain another crucial seat in the House, where Democrats hold only a four-seat margin.

With complete control of the state legislature, Tennessee Republicans could change the state’s House delegation from seven Republicans and two Democrats to eight Republicans and one Democrat based in Memphis.

In an interview, Cooper acknowledged that Republicans could effectively decide his political fate and warned that they may weaken Nashville’s influence in Washington.

“They couldn’t beat me fairly,” he said to CNN. “So, now they’re trying to beat me by gerrymandering.”

We do find it humorous when a Democrat accuses someone else of not winning fairly.

But even if the district gets broken the people still vote and still have their voice heard.

Republican Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexto said that the reason for the potential breaking of the districts is because of middle Tennessee’s booming growth could. Davidson County in Nashville increased by around 70,000 people from 2010 – 2019, according to the US Census, which was more than any other region in the state.

“There is the potential of Davidson County being split to two, to three, I doubt to four (districts),” he said. “We’re just going to make sure that we create districts that can hold up in a court challenge and at the same time, not to try to gerrymander certain seats.”

And he acknowledged the political ramifications if they do split the district.

The fact that Republicans control the legislatures in Texas, North Carolina, and Florida is expected to crush the advantage that Democrats have in states like California and New York

Republicans should gain three to four seats in the House due to redistricting, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report predicted.

But that is only part of the plan to take back the House, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Michael McAdams said.

“Redistricting alone will not deliver House Republicans a majority, which is why we are focused on running competitive campaigns all across the country and making sure voters understand how dangerous Democrats’ socialist agenda is to American families,” he said.

But some Republicans are concerned that if they go too far in redistricting it could be a mistake.

“What we don’t want to do is get greedy,” Tennessee GOP Rep. Mark Green. “And then four years from now as Nashville continues to turn blue, wind up worse off than we are.”

“You have to be very careful about trying to play very partisan politics because it could hurt you long term if you’re trying to move enough people to create seats for your party,” the representative said.

What is worse for Democrats is that three-quarters of House aides believe Republicans will take the House in 2022.

Punchbowl News surveyed several senior Capitol Hill aides and reported that a whopping 73 percent think Republicans will take the speaker’s gavel from Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi next November.

Republicans need a net gain of 5 seats to regain the House majority in the midterms next November.

Breitbart reported:

The loss of the House stalled much of then-President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, and the loss of the House majority might do the same for Biden.

Seventy-five percent of Hill staffers believe Democrats will retain the Senate majority.

This is up five percent from the last survey. Democrats currently have a 50-50 split with Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber.

The slight majority in the Senate has forced Biden to negotiate with Republicans to either negotiate on issues such as infrastructure or pressure moderate Senate Democrats such as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) or Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to back more partisan proposals.

Fifty-eight percent of Hill staffers also believe that enhanced unemployment benefits are hurting the labor market, while only 24 percent think it is helping Americans obtain employment.

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