Rachel Maddow shares a new report that Donald Trump is considering offering Senator Joe Manchin the job of Secretary of Energy, which would allow the newly re-Republican governor of West Virginia to appoint his replacement, presumably a Republican who …
This could really turn out to be a pretty big deal. Remember about a week ago Trump held a rally in West Virginia and the Governor, who was elected as a Democrat, turned Republican. Now this is really no big deal other than if Manchin decides to take the job than the Governor now gets to pick his replacement and guess what, it will definitely be a Republican which would most likely give the Senate enough votes to do whatever the hell they please.
53 GOP with even 3 voting against could still meet the 50 vote threshold to do some real damage here and there with Pence breaking ties.
As if we didn’t have enough to keep us up at night.