What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

All good points, but to return to our earlier discussion about the GOP breaking away from Trump … doesn’t what is happening in the House kind of undermine that possibility in a very real way? I appreciate that I might not be taking into full consideration the differences in how the two chambers approach institutional legacy, but I guess I had anticipated more of a rebuke — red districts or not — given what we just saw in the Senate.

Well, Sarah, some of the differences are: 1) All the House members face reelection in two years; 2) They mostly come from some VERY red districts; 3) They generally haven’t been in office as long; 4) The House is supposed to be “the people’s chamber,” i.e. more populist and less concerned about its institutional legacy; 5) The Senate is run by McConnell, who can quash Republican dissent, while the House is run by Pelosi, who can’t.

There are still a number of House members who haven’t voted, but our colleague Ben Siegel at ABC notes that so far 98 Republicans or (46 percent of the conference) support the Arizona objection. The media hasn’t been paying as much attention to the whip count in the House because it’s a bigger chamber, but is it somewhat staggering that the percentage is that high, considering the tenor of the Senate vote? Or am I missing some important dynamics here?