What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

Perry and Sarah, your points about how new (relatively speaking) the six Republicans who voted for the objection to the Arizona results are to the Senate, and how many are from Southern states, I think are really important. There’s not a lot else that ties them together. If you look at the partisan lean of each GOP senator’s state, there isn’t really a pattern in there. For example, the 15 Republicans from the most red-leaning states all voted no. There’s not even a pattern in the senators’ Trump scores (how often each member votes along with Trump’s position).

And now the House is voting.

One other thing I’d add to what Perry said about the GOP senators who objected — as it stands in such stark contrast to the historic results in Georgia — many of these senators are from very southern states (Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana), speaking to Trump’s continued dominance in other parts of the Sunbelt. Given what happened in Georgia, though, I wonder how a state like Texas fares moving forward. It didn’t flip blue in the 2020 presidential election, but it wasn’t that long ago that O’Rourke came close to unseating Cruz, and as you can see from our analysis of the 2020 margin, it is trending left overall.