"It’s become a nexus of consternation between him and Senate Republicans."

More from @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

It's an epiphany stemming from Democrats’ nationwide victories on Tuesday evening, when voters roundly rejected what’s been going on during the first nine months of Trump’s second term.

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Nonetheless, a few prominent MAGA voices suggested Wednesday that the party’s anti-trans vitriol and demonization of immigrants may not make for a winning campaign platform.

The shrug in Cuomo’s direction is representative of the MAGA movement and the far-right in general’s interest in casting Mamdani as a new MAGA boogeyman. Accordingly, Trump and his allies have been trying to paint Mamdani as a “communist.”

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Some see Mamdani’s rise as a potential blueprint for the Democratic Party moving forward, a reality that, unflatteringly, has chagrined and wrong-footed that party’s leaders.

He’s raised funds through small dollar donations and a sophisticated but simple social media presence, putting an unwavering focus on the city’s affordability crisis. He’s been aggressively opposed by wealthy interests in the city to no noticeable effect.

Ex-Gov Mitch Daniels is the only high-profile Republican I’ve seen, thus far, who is publicly offering support to Republican members of the state Senate who don’t want to participate in Trump’s efforts to rig the midterms by redrawing congressional boundaries in a way that predetermines the results:

This is, after all, the same Republican conference that rubber-stamped, without question, cuts from Elon Musk’s lawless DOGE rampage through the federal government earlier this year.

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the article itself actually gets into how NC GOP has been salivating for a chance to do this for some time!

So the fact that they have fully caved to Trump’s demands on gerrymandering is not terribly surprising. It was a question of when, not if.

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These are, of course, the same guys who, in the waning days of their supermajority in 2024, voted to strip power over election administration from the state’s then-newly elected Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

In 2023, NC GOP created a U.S. House map that took a sledgehammer to the seven-to-seven seat split between Democrats and Republicans in the state that had been in place in 2022. Their new map passed in 2023 resulted in Republicans winning 10 of North Carolina’s 14 seats in the U.S. House in 2024.