“It is a recipe for disaster for McConnell and his flock of Senate Republicans up in 2020,” said Dan Eberhart, an oil industry executive and GOP donor who called the predicament a “no-win situation.” “Choose Trump and the emergency declaration and offend moderates, or upset Trump and risk being toppled in a Trump-fueled primary challenge.”
The interparty feud will come to a head in a matter of weeks, as House Democrats gear up to pass a resolution disapproving of Trump’s emergency declaration. Under congressional rules, that resolution would automatically come to the Senate for a vote in a matter of days, forcing Republicans to take a position.
That could pose a problem for senators such as Thom Tillis of North Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas — all Republicans up for reelection next year. Cornyn and Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) hail from border states, where their constituents could see the Trump administration attempting to seize property under eminent domain laws to build a border wall. Tillis represents a swing state where he needs both independents and Trump loyalists to win reelection."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-recipe-for-disaster-trumps-border-emergency-drags-the-gop-into-a-risky-fight-ahead-of-2020/2019/02/15/f0afdfb6-3148-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.2b0a5015fa52
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