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August 3rd is the deadline after which it's officially too late for a special election to replace him before the next regular election.
How does having a corpse representing Kentucky be better? Can the GOP keep control of his vote?
They're scared a real candidate will do their job competently, so they would rather have a dead man representing them. Ya know, just republicans trying to obstruct democracy as per usual (somehow, this is all been normalized in the USA)
I do want to clarify as a Kentuckian, we do not want a dead man representing us. The republican party officials don't want someone else. Most of Kentucky Dems and reps are getting pissed that he's basically been pulling a "Weekend at Bernie's" for 40+ days. It's likely even with a special election that another Republican would still get elected. But people are still pissed this farce is happening
Someone on Lemmy said that using his death to mislead the public, stymie democracy and play procedural shenanigans against the Democrats is definitely how he would have wanted to go.
Anyone a who knows anything about that asshole thought the same thing. Is probably in his end of life directives.
How much power does Kentucky have??
About one Kentucky's worth I think.
Doesn't seem like much.
More then one Puerto Rico.
Doesn't seem like much.
Well yes nothing is not much.
Thanks, and I assume the upcoming mid terms are not a "regular election" in this context - it's the voting round in 2 years ?
Or are they really that determined to hold the seat for an extra month or so ? Mid terms are Nov right ? And a special election would be at least a couple of months from death to the replacement poll ?
Yeah. The thing is that Thomas Massie would be amongst the favorites and they will stop at nothing to keep him away from any power.
Won't he just win in Nov then ? I mean I guess a month.or two is time to get some stuff voted through but is it really worth all this cover up ?
In their opinion, it clearly is.
I guess they have some really nefarious stuff they wish to force through before possibly losing the majority and don't think Massey would go for it.