President Trump said that a mass shooting that took place a day earlier in Texas “really hasn’t changed anything” about how lawmakers are approaching gun control legislation, NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “We are in the process of dealing with Democrats and Republicans, and there’s a big package of things that’s going to be put before them by a lot of different people I’ve been speaking to a lot of senators, a lot of house members, Republicans, Democrats — this really hasn’t changed anything, we’re doing a package and we’ll see how it comes about. That’s irrespective of what happened yesterday in Texas.”
He added: “Over the last five, six, or seven years, no matter how strong you need the background checks, it wouldn’t have stopped any of it.”
Another somewhat related story from NBC. The path for democratic control of the senate may be getting a bit easier”
NBC News: “This week the 2020 Senate landscape grew a bit more interesting as Georgia’s Johnny Isakson announced he was resigning at the end of the year. That put another Republican-held seat on the battleground list — the second one in Georgia — and added more evidence that control for the upper chamber of Congress is very much in play.”
“The Senate campaign map that is coming into view is looking more and more like a “good news,” but not “great news” situation for Democrats. The party needs to net only four seats to get to a 51-49 majority in the Senate and the list of seats that Republicans need to defend is growing — but there are not a lot of easy marks.”
“In essence, the Democrats’ path to recapturing the Senate seems to be growing clearer, but it’s not necessarily growing easier.”
Here is my addition to this story.
I guess Moscow Mitch just cannot change.
Maybe voters can send Moscow Mitch and his allies in the White House out of power so they can retire at some dacha of their choosing.