Biden’s ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan – Roll Call

Although it is foolhardy to admit this on cable TV, the answers to most of these questions are unknowable right now. Even if you correctly anticipate the event, it is hard to predict the reaction. 

Most insiders knew that Roe v. Wade was in jeopardy, but few would have forecast the fierce and unequivocal reaction after the leaking of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion. According to a new NBC News poll, a record 60 percent of the electorate now believes that abortion should remain legal.

Almost every day, external events change the political calculus. 

Kathy Barnette — a fire-eating Trump true believer who has been belittled by the former president — has suddenly emerged as the favorite to win Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania. With NBC News verifying photographs of Barnette marching with the extremist Proud Boys on the way to the Capitol on Jan. 6, she appears unelectable by all standards of traditional politics. 

New congressional district maps in New York, released Monday, suggest that Republicans might gain a House seat in the state rather than lose four seats, as was anticipated under a Democratic gerrymander rejected by the state’s courts. New York state alone may prevent the Democrats from holding on to their narrow House majority.