If Democrats win back the Senate and the House, they may have Trump to thank

Why is President Trump stuck on a political message that is leading his party to lose control of Congress?

The answer is staring Republicans in the face. But they can’t find the heart of the daring boy in the fairytale who speaks up to say, “The Emperor has No Clothes.”

Well, if you held a congressional GOP seat, do you think you’d be willing to go to raise your hand and tell Trump that President Biden won the 2020 election fair and square?

Fear of getting that hand chopped off — figuratively speaking — has congressional Republicans refusing to speak up.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is the latest Republican leader to conclude it is better to play along with Trump’s refusal to admit defeat in 2020. 

Cornyn is suddenly abandoning his longstanding opposition to eliminating the Senate filibuster to allow a Trump-backed bill to pass on only Republican votes.

The new law imposes sweeping new restrictions on voting that will effectively end mail-in voting. Republicans nationwide warn that the new law will disenfranchise millions of senior citizens and women whose maiden names may differ from their married names. Rural voters will be hurt. Those constituencies that have historically voted for Republicans.

But no one will tell Trump.

Certainly not Cornyn. He still dreams of a Trump endorsement for his bid to win a GOP primary in Texas to be the party’s nominee for a U.S. Senate seat.

“Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on from relitigating Trump’s election grievances…,” Politico reported last week. “But the president won’t let it go, subpoenaing 2020 election records and putting pressure on lawmakers to pass legislation to overhaul registration laws.” 

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