Today’s notice: Trump & Co. are the Loosiers in Indiana. Twenty House Republicans vote to overturn a Trump E.O. A confusing and bad day for FEMA. What an audit of the NRA reveals. And: The immigration gold card is live, to the surprise of Congress.
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Republicans enter their drama era: Predictions of an endless Donald Trump reign fueled by unbending party unity behind his every whim may have been a bit premature.
“It’s time to say no to outsiders who are trying to run our state,” Indiana state Sen. Spencer Deery, one of the Republicans who joined with Democrats yesterday to vote down Trump’s demand for new congressional district lines, told NOTUS’ Christa Dutton. The Republican-controlled upper chamber ended up voting “no” on new maps 31-19.
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Time for another episode of “if the shoe was on the other foot”: If another president had dispatched their VP to cajole state leaders into voting for a new map; if their top political guru had hinted all his dark arts would be summoned to make it happen; if top national party leaders like the speaker of the House had agreed to stick their necks out, and the state’s governor, too; if the president had promised to primary anyone who refused to back the plan — and they then lost? It would be one of the biggest political scandals of their term.