President Donald Trump threatened to veto every piece of legislation put forward during the second half of his administration if Democrats flip control of the House or Senate during next month’s midterm elections.
“Well, I think the Republicans are going to win. But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything,” Trump told reporters Friday morning while speaking on the South Lawn. “And then the Democrats come and they want to make a deal. So we’ll work it out.”
Historical precedent and polling data suggest Democrats are on the cusp of flipping at least the House next month and possibly the Senate, due to public frustration over the Iran war and high costs of living.
So, they will override his veto
democrats would have to win 20 seats currently held by Republicans as well as hold all their current seats. mathematically, this is possible, there are currently 22 Republican seats contested this election. current polling, however, shows the likely outcome is democrats get +3 seats.
sweep the senate races–all of them, including ones that are basically ‘gimmies’ for magats…
and then you’d also need to have the flaky ones with a (d) by their names on your side, and that is not even remotely a ‘sure thing’.
that’s just for the senate super-majority…
with projections saying a very slim majority being possible–perhaps even ‘probable’… democrats would have to over-perform in the house races like never before seen to get up to that two-thirds advantage there.
and all that has to be accomplished despite all the shit magats are doing to undermine the vote.