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Gerrymander wars: Advantage GOP, Dems AWOL on Fauci reveal and other commentary

Gerrymander wars: Advantage GOP — But

The court’s reversal of Virginia’s gerrymander infuriated Democrats, notes Henry Olsen at The Washington Post. But they’ll be “even angrier” if — “as now appears possible — they win the national popular vote by a large margin but don’t capture the House.” The RealClearPolitics “generic congressional ballot had Democrats ahead by 6.6 percentage points.” But redistricting wars could give Republicans 14 more seats; to win the House, Dems “would need to carry every seat that Kamala Harris won plus just about every seat that Trump won by 5.5 points or less.” Yes, that’s a tall order. And it “raises a frightening possibility: Democrats could win the popular vote by about four percentage points but nonetheless lose the House.” The donkeys “want to make history, but not like that.”

From the right: Dems AWOL on Fauci Reveal

At an “explosive” Senate hearing Wednesday, “high-ranking” CIA whistleblower James Erdman charged that Anthony Fauci significantly helped suppress the COVID lab-leak theory, reports David Marcus at Fox News. Erdman described how Fauci empowered scientists who backed his wet-market theory and in some cases were arguably complicit in the creation of COVID and the subsequent coverup. Why? Per Sen. Josh Hawley, Fauci “helped fund the Wuhan lab,”........

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