{"id":7093,"date":"2022-01-24T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:45:45","slug":"how-a-simple-twist-of-fate-could-end-democrats-control-of-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7093","title":{"rendered":"How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats\u2019 Control of the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;States have a range of laws about replacing a departed senator, but the large majority \u2014 37 \u2014 call on the governor to pick a successor. Of those, only seven require the governor to pick someone in the same party. So there are 30 states where the governor can pick whatever new senator he or she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What that adds up to, in practical terms, is that in nine states (as of Jan. 15), a Republican governor has the authority to replace either one or two Democratic senators. If a single Democratic senator in any of those states had to leave office, the Republican governor of that state could appoint a GOP replacement that would immediately give the party a 51-49 Senate majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/01\/09\/democrats-slim-control-senate-manchin-526755\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/01\/09\/democrats-slim-control-senate-manchin-526755<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;States have a range of laws about replacing a departed senator, but the large majority \u2014 37 \u2014 call on the governor to pick a successor. Of those, only seven require the governor to pick someone in the same party. So there are 30 states where the governor can pick whatever new senator he or she wants.<\/p>\n<p>What that adds up to, in practical terms, is that in nine states (as of Jan. 15), a Republican governor has the authority to replace either one or two Democratic senators. If a single Democratic senator in any of those states had to leave office, the Republican governor of that state could appoint a GOP replacement that would immediately give the party a 51-49 Senate majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[653,509,865],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-governors","tag-politics","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7094,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}