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Chris Riess's avatar

I am just curious, wouldn't it be possible for the House Democrats to nominate Adam Kinzinger and just pile on with voting for him. At the end of the day, you would only need five Republicans to join and its over before anyone knows what happened. Adam would shut down the Biden sham inquiries and secure funding for Ukraine and Israel and keep the government open past mid November. There isn't anything that he would do, that the Democrats couldn't live with and he would be a heck of a lot better that anyone being considered.

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Leo Peterson's avatar

Great idea. Not sure Adam would even want the speakership though. He left Congress for a reason.

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Chris Riess's avatar

He left because the Democrats gerrymander him and Illinois into oblivion and he no longer had a chance at winning a seat. Coupled with the Republican threats, it is hard to imagine what he has had to deal with these last few years. He is a boy scout through and through, if they elected him, he would serve, even if it was only to get through the next year. Look for the articles about how toxic Illinois politics has gotten, since the Democrats created a small but significant number of safe Republican districts, those seats are now so safe, that they have gone MAGA. Draw the lines more fairly, spread the public out more evenly and you would have real contests, with the candidate that could appeal to both sides being the winner, but that is a risk that neither party is willing to take, when given a chance to re-draw the lines.

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