In 2020, the Senate could move even farther in the favor of the Republicans, thanks to the votes already taken and the votes yet to come. The wall is popular among the majority of Americans.
It would be even more popular if the people taking the poll would explain to their subjects, how much their taxes will have to be raised to pay for unlimited immigration.
Currently, there are three Senators in particular that are at risk because of the wall. Alabama, New Hampshire, and Michigan with Senators Jones, Sheehan and Peters. Jones is probably a goner no matter what. The false accusations of Judge Roy Moore and the false flag Russia campaign delivered the win to him, but he won’t have that in 2020.
Sheehan has won election twice, both times by razor-thin margins. Other Senators could also be vulnerable but is not obvious at this time.
With a vote on the budget resolution now up for consideration, it remains unclear if the Senate will act. and if it does act, how it will act, prior to the anticipated shutdown of all non-essential government services when the clock hits midnight Friday night, December 21.
President Trump’s 2016 electoral college victories in Alabama and Michigan, and his close call in New Hampshire, were powered by voter approval for his agenda, at the top of which was the number one priority to “Build the Wall.”
All three Democrats will now find themselves on the same ballot in 2020 as the president, whose position on that key issue was so popular with voters in 2016, an issue which they are now on the record opposing.
Republicans in all three states–who were already chomping at the bit to take on these vulnerable senators–now have explosive campaign material with which to launch withering attacks on two of the incumbents, and before the shutdown drama ends may have material to use against the third, Jones of Alabama.
Though Democrats took back the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections with a net gain of 40 seats, Republicans strengthened their hold on the Senate.
The Senate is the bigger prize because they are the ones who approve presidential nominations for the cabinet and the courts.