'Here Are The 6 Crucial Races That Will Flip The Senate,' R. Reich
'Here are the 6 crucial races that will flip the senate -- and end the GOP's death grip on America.' By Robert Reich, Sept. 26, 2020, Alternet.
This November, we have an opportunity to harness your energy and momentum into political power and not just defeat Trump, but also flip the Senate. Here are six key races you should be paying attention to.
1. The first is North Carolina Republican senator Thom Tillis, notable for his "olympic gold" flip-flops. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, then offered a loophole-filled replacement that excluded many with preexisting conditions. In 2014 Tillis took the position that climate change was "not a fact" and later urged Trump to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, before begrudgingly acknowledging the realities of climate change in 2018. And in 2019, although briefly opposing Trump's emergency border wall declaration, he almost immediately caved to pressure.
But Tillis' real legacy is the restrictive 2013 voter suppression law he helped pass as Speaker of the North Carolina House. The federal judge who struck down the egregious law said its provisions "targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision."
Enter Democrat Cal Cunningham, who unlike his opponent, is taking no money from corporate PACs. Cunningham is a veteran who supports overturning the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision, restoring the Voting Rights Act, and advancing other policies that would expand access to the ballot box.
2. Maine Senator Susan Collins, a self-proclaimed moderate whose unpopularity has made her especially vulnerable, once said that Trump was unworthy of the presidency. Unfortunately, she spent the last four years enabling his worst behavior. Collins voted to confirm Trump's judges, including Brett Kavanaugh, and voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial, saying he had "learned his lesson" through the process alone. Rubbish...
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- Six crucial races that will flip the senate. Sept. 22, 2020.