we've gotta get both on our side

If Trump can manage a deal where we get everything secured in Goodlatte and giving the Dreamers residency, I think that's best case scenario.

I hope there's a way he can navigate this w/out giving a path to citizenship

**NO AMNESTY**

As for potential voters, after these midterms we should get rallies going for voter ID

Also

Trump's going after California with the Census

by adding a citizenship question

I've seen that, it's a good play.

should cost the state 2 electoral votes and 2 reps

I trust Trump as a negotiator, this play he's been making on the immigration deal has been masterful

He knows how to play the game

The Dems have no leverage, we have all of it

wait

its possible the Dems want the Dreamers deported so they can use pictures of them being rounded up to sway voters

Well that's why Trump passed DACA to the legislature and didn't cut up the program and sent them all back

Jesus I missed a lot apparently

Yeah, it's been pretty turbulent

Anyways, the GOP and Trump can make the excuse that the Dems fumbled the deal, that's why he passed it to them.

SWITCH PARTIES ALREADY

Oh yeah I was going to say that Manchin looks like he won't be running for Senate again this year

That'd be good for us

Who else can they even run

Ehh I'm ambivalent

It's now competing with Oklahoma for the reddest state in the union

a democrat in WV is pretty rare really

7 out of 10 voted for Trump there

Post-2000, yes

You've got to understand that it used to be a blue state

Manchin isn't progressive by any means and he might have not voted blue all the time, but he still leaned quite Democratic. The only reason Manchin won was because he ran on coal

so did every rural blue collar union area, but they're jumping ship

He's not progressive, but people too often conflate the "blue dogs" as right wing, which isn't the case

Manchin isn't voting for Trump's agenda any more than the worst Republican senators

Most probably because Schumer's holding the reins tight, but the effect is the same

Votes are what matter in legislature, that's it.

And to be honest, Manchin is probably the only WV Democrat who could beat WV Republican. IDK about the progressive alternative, Paula Swearengin

Most definitely, Manchin does well in the polls

And it doesn't look like Swearengin isn't running on coal, since it is quite anti-progressive

I think if someone like that ran in a state like WV they'd be completely finished

Anyways, back to DACA

Goodlatte or bust