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Trump should better staff the White House Counsel’s office with more lawyers because the Democratic House is coming with an avalanche of subpoena’s

In Colorado, Jared Polis has become the first openly gay man to be elected governor

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) has now become the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress.
She’s only 29 years old.

Tammy Baldwin wins re-election in Wisconsin

The Democrats have flipped a house district that has been held by Republicans for 40 years.
Jennifer Wexton has defected Barbara Comstock in Virginia’s 10th District.

mojeer678:
hehehehe!!

Hmm..

I wonder which Democrat left a bitter taste in her mouth

Abbeybailey:
Ok, I thought you live in SD area.

I still live in the SD area. The county is part of two different Congressional districts - the 49th and 50th.
My area of the county falls under the 50th.

Abbeybailey:
I think that seat will go Democratic because Issa barely won that seat with all his personal wealth and congressional influence. Isn't that your congressional district in San Diego ?.

Nope.
Mine is the 50th.

Abbeybailey:
What about the seat of Darell Issa ?. He barely worn the last time by 1% and that's why he's retiring. I think the Democrat running there is up by 7 points.

Darell Issa’s seat is being contested by Mike Levin, who was polling 5% points ahead of the Repub candidate, Diane Harkey.

The seat will also be a nail-bitter, as it was two years ago.

Handanovic is selling his market o

Abbeybailey:
You guys in California is the last one to release your results because of the Pacific Time which is 3 hour behind Eastern Time. It will be very interesting evening. I told my Weight lifting buddies at the Gym that no workout today for me. Heading straight home after work. Get my pop corn and Spring water ready to celebrate the Blue wave. @ TEAM Blue. By the way, how many congressional seats do you think the Democrats will get from republicans in California ?. Just wondering because they will lose about 3 or 4 in Illinois.

Yes, we count slowly in California. In fact, the results may not be certified, in many CA races, till 3 weeks after Election Day.

In a vote-counting center in Santa Ana, Orange County, they’ve already proceed 700,000 mailed ballots. To put int into perspective, the same center processed around 1,000,000 mailed ballots 2 years ago. So, the excitement in this year’s midterms is super high!

There are four Congressional seats, here, being held by Republicans that could flip to Dems. In my district - the 50th - the incumbent Republican rep Duncan Hunter, is in a toss-up contest with the Dem challenger, Campar Najjar.

The district is usually a reliably Republican one, but Hunter’s multiple indictment’s by the federal DOJ for campaign-finance violations, and anti-Trump sentiment, has made this district surprisingly competitive.

It’s Election Day!

I mailed my ballot, and the voting line in a precinct close to where I live isn’t a long one.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a long day!

babeosisi:
Light skinned man ?
Mba nu
A.man is supposed to be chocolatey not banana pudding-like
I like my meat well done,thank you very much

Lol. Typical Igbo lady; you all have a special affinity for dark-skinned guys

If Brian Kemp pulls of a majority in Georgia, his win will, in no small part, be due to his voter suppression policies there. A 10k or more vote margin could put either candidate over the 50% threshold required to be declared the winner.

Unlimited22:
Raheem Sterling has just agreed a deal that would see him earn £300k per week, According to goal.com.
The dude is 23.
The average 23-year-old in Nigeria is either earning N19,800 in NYSC OR is looking for a 60k job, walking under the scorching sun with patched jeans and worn shoes.


And una say my pikin no go play ball...

Lmao
Your comparison is also applicable to some other professions.

For instance, a 22/23 year old nurse in Southern California earns up to $77,000/yr, and can afford a 2016 car, a decent apartment and a vacation to Southern Europe or Dubai on her salary. But a 24 year old nurse in Naija can barely afford transport fare and MTN data.

raumdeuter:
I have seen it I will comment on it later

Regarding the upcoming midterms I hope the Dems win some seats and take the Congress at least

Trump is taking over the Republican party, and squeezing out moderate like Paul Ryan, Flake, Bush, McCain and Romney types, I hope the trend is stemmed and we dont have more extremists in the house

Trump’s brand of conservatism won’t last long. Once voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio realize their manufacturing and coal-mining jobs ain’t coming back, and 83% of the tax-cut” gains are going to the top 0.5%, they’d turn on Trump/the GOP in 2020. Even
the GOP moderates would be swept up in the political hurricane.

Who knew one day, that Republicans would proudly run on protecting people with pre-existing conditions for health insurance? Of course, the polling consistently shows that Obamacare, despite its imperfections, is quite popular.

Well, let’s wait and see what Tuesday’s results would say about the 2020 prospects of both parties.

itchie:
The polls also showed Trump losing the 2016 polls. Even in this elections circle, they have been misfiring badly. Andrew Gillum will never have been the democratic party candidate in Florida if the polls were to be believed, they gave him no chance. In fact, they had him winning only 16% of the support in the primaries. Yet miraculously , he is the candidate of the party. Don't put too much hope on polls, they can be disappointing. The only polls that matter will be held on Tuesday and I assure you, it's gonna be very interesting

I really can’t wait for Tuesday!

babeosisi:
ROFL
Mine was actually here on NL when someone claimed they knew me and my name was Beatrice Osisi,a divorcee and posted pictures he claimed were of me and a supposed daughter.

People that i wounded with my posts were so happy ,started stalking me posting the pictures everywhere
Another trash talking loud mouthed ghetto chap claimed I had a lover in London and I dared him to swear to that falsehood and he did boldly and received accolades.
He was eventually found out to be a fraudster in the UK swindling girls of money and disgraced out of NL.
What's that his name sef.
Can't think of the last name he had
Sauron aka Jackal aka Xerxes aka ??
Somebody remind me

Lol
I will never forget that episode

Martinez19:
Lol. When there isn't anything reasonable to bring to the table, insults, condescending remarks, your credentials and the annoying "why do Nigerians care so much about American politics" becomes the anthem.

PDPguy is a qualified US attorney, so? How is that relevant to the discussion? A US attorney that doesn't know the 14th amendment. The Republicans and Democrats can't be right at the same time concerning Trump, one wrong and yet the wrong party lives in America. So, of what relevance is the fact that they America is to the argument at hand? Remember, there are attorneys and other sort of professionals on both sides, so what relevance is credentials on this issue?

What's wrong with the left? They can't logical and critically construct an arguments and conclusion.

Did all you say about PDPguy and Paul Ryan change this fact? :

You are misreading the Senator's statement.

It is true, according to the rules of statutory interpretation, that the intent of framer of a law should be considered when interpreting the said law. The 1800's statement made by the Senator, to the effect that, "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons." is what is in contention here.

But the bolded part shows that the amendment was intended to exclude ONLY children of accredited diplomats of other sovereign nations. The statement also does not explicitly mention illegal aliens as well. If there was an 'or' between 'aliens' and 'who..' in the Senator's statement, then one could reasonably assume that children born in the US to foreigners do not possess U.S. birthright citizenship.

Moreover, the term “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” covers all persons in the US, except diplomats of sovereign countries

Kophschmerzen:
This is the funniest thing on cyberspace, when Nigeria folks start talking down actual Americans about America. Pdpguy is a qualified US attorney, Paul Ryan is the leader of the house, my humble self have been following American politics and law for over two decades, ditto for brother Lucas. But y'all third worlders are all walking encyclopedia on American politics and law. The joke is on y'all, keep having headache about merica while y'all are the world poverty capital plus the new spate of killing in your corner.

Still on my way to becoming an attorney though

Despite what Trump fans may want to believe, the 14th amendment applies to anyone who is subject to the jurisdiction of the US. Some individuals such as diplomats, aren’t subject to the jurisdiction of the US, hence their kids born in the US aren’t automatically US citizens.

However, children born here, to undocumented immigrants, are US citizens because their parents are also subject to the jurisdiction of the US. The parents could apply for some amnesty or asylum or could be deported from the US.

raumdeuter
We have a new US politics thread

Latest polls

The polls show a Dem takeover of the House, and 5-6 tight races for Governor

armyofone:
This is getting better Trump to end birth right citizenship with executive orders. Soon there will be no more Nigerians or foreigners coming to born here oh. MAGA

Lucas and PDPGuy, warn your friends to have their babies in naija

Trump is the most entertaining president ever, believe me
As lucasbalo pointed out, it takes Congress and 38 states to ratify an amendment to the constitution. No executive order can upturn any word, let alone a clause, in the constitution.

A civil society group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising, accepting or listing President Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming 2019 election.

The KHRFI, in a suit, which it filed on Monday, alleged that by virtue of section 91(9) of the Electoral Act, Buhari’s nomination as APC’s candidate is illegal, null and void for accepting a donation of N45m worth of APC’s nomination and expression of interest forms from a group named Nigerian Consolidation Ambassadors Network.

The plaintiff contended in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1228/2018, that by virtue of section 91(9) of the Electoral Act, no individual or other entity can donate more than N1m to any candidate.

It added, however, that in violation of the said provision of the Electoral Act, Buhari on September 12, 2018 “submitted the illegally purchased presidential nomination form to the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress”.

The plaintiff, through its lawyer, Mr. Okere Nnamdi, sued Buhari, the Office of the President, the Attorney-General of the Federation, the APC and INEC as the 1st to the 5th defendants respectively.

An affidavit filed in support stated that the APC, relying on the “illegally purchased nomination form” the APC on October 6 and 7, 2018 held a National Convention in Abuja where Buhari emerged a consensus presidential candidate of the party.

It added, “That by virtue of section 91 (9) of the Electoral Act no individual or other entity shall donate more than one million naira (N1,000,000) to any candidate.

“That the Supreme Court of Nigeria has defined election in many cases as a process that begins with nomination and selection of a candidate for election by political parties.

https://punchng.com/n45m-donation-group-asks-court-to-stop-inec-from-recognising-buhari-as-apc-candidate/

olapluto:
The coach is typical European. He's going for agility and speed. I can bet Nnadozie will be 1st choice. More likely uchechi Sunday will start as our 9 ahead of oparanozie. His final 23 will be speedy players.

I’m not sure Uchechi Sunday is faster than Oparanozie

I'm curious as to why our female goalkeepers are rarely signed by foreign clubs?

If the WWC draws were to be held today, the seeded teams would be France, USA, Germany, England, Canada, and Australia.

BascoVanVeli:
Me and u both. I still get hot about that moment till this day.

VAR would have shown that the player touched the ball AFTER it had crossed the line.
That incident is a major reason why I want VAR and AARs at next year’s World Cup.

olapluto:
Who's going to be 1st choice?

I’m betting that Onyinyechi, because of her height (6ft), will get coach Dennerby’s nod as the starting GK.
These European coaches have a thing for tall players, particularly in defensive positions. We all remember how former SE coach, Berti Vogts, preferred Austin Ejide to Enyeama due to the fotmer’s height (Ejide is around 6’3”, Enyeama is barely taller than 5’11”)

To be fair, the coaches of the US, and Australia are calling for the use of VAR

BascoVanVeli:
Why would they use it? How then will they cheat our ladies?. I still get angry when I think about how they cheated us in 2014.

That disallowed goal at the U-20 WC still irks me, because Nigeria would have won that tournament if that goal wasn’t wrongly ruled offside in the 86th minute