Given that only 11 states seceded from the Union, it would be sort of astounding if they were currently represented by more than 22 Senators. How did you count 13?
Please, please tell me, @JohnJHarwood, that you don't think your native Kentucky was a Confederate state. https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1223694263432765442 …
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If you insist on keeping score of this nonsense at home, Bill Clinton (who was from a former Confederate state) got 8 Not Guilty votes on his impeachment from Senators representing former Confederate states. Nobody at the time argued that those votes were somehow tainted.
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It was still a bad point.https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1223789919065313280 …
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So, Harwood claimed 25 and now we're down to 19 actual GOP senators in the 'Old Confederacy' states.
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The Cherokee Nation aligned with the Confederacy, so Elizabeth Warren has to be counted with the Dems.
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We were two separate territories then...
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