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New task? New medal!
"Hegseth Announces Establishment of Mexican Border Defense Medal"
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Pentagon unveils new medal for troops deployed in Trump’s southern border crackdown

The Pentagon has created a new Mexican Border Defense Medal for troops who are serving at southern border under Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Troops deployed to US-Mexico border will get a new medal

Troops serving along the southern border since Jan. 20 to support federal border agents can now receive the Mexican Border Defense Medal.
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taskandpurpose.com

Troops deployed to the US-Mexico border will get a new medal

Service members supporting federal agents along the U.S.-Mexico border will receive the medal instead of the Armed Forces Service Medal.
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Brad Sallows said:
How would that be achieved? Except for NE and ME, state EVs are winner-take-all. In which states would it make sense for either party to hand over EVs to the other party by apportioning the district EVs by district results?
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They are not gerrymandering to get more electoral college votes for the president, they are doing it to have more elected member of congress and thus a greater chance of retaining control of the house.
 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
They are not gerrymandering to get more electoral college votes for the president, they are doing it to have more elected member of congress and thus a greater chance of retaining control of the house.
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While also gerrymandering the districts heavily to increase the odds of winning in Senate and Congressional house seats. I don't think they are worried about SCOTUS at all anymore
 
The two senators from each state are not elected by district, but from the state as a whole. I don't think anyone has managed to figure out a way to gerrymander a whole state yet. ;)
 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
They are not gerrymandering to get more electoral college votes for the president, they are doing it to have more elected member of congress and thus a greater chance of retaining control of the house.
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Sure, but I was commenting on the notion "gerrymander the shit out of the electoral colleges".
 
Navy_Pete said:
While also gerrymandering the districts heavily to increase the odds of winning in Senate and Congressional house seats. I don't think they are worried about SCOTUS at all anymore
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Senate is unaffected - it's by state total vote. And rearranging district boundaries is what gerrymandering has always been.

The worry for people opposed to Republicans is more accurate census counting, irrespective of whether the rules for counting change to exclude non-citizens. (I doubt the attempts to eliminate non-citizens from the census count, which would also benefit Republicans, will go anywhere.)
 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
The two senators from each state are not elected by district, but from the state as a whole. I don't think anyone has managed to figure out a way to gerrymander a whole state yet. ;)
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The closest anyone has come to that are those proposing the entry of new states, which, except for recent jibes about AB gaining statehood, is wholly a Democratic party project.
 
I think there is an orange guy in the white house trying to get CA in as 51st who may disagree (of course, if he realized that you couldn't do that without, in fact, getting the 51st to 63rd states, probably 11 of which would vote in two Democrat senators, he might just change his tune).
 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
I think there is an orange guy in the white house trying to get CA in as 51st who may disagree (of course, if he realized that you couldn't do that without, in fact, getting the 51st to 63rd states, probably 11 of which would vote in two Democrat senators, he might just change his tune).
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But territories don’t get senators…
 
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