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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6077816" data-attributes="member: 48469">Will be entertaining if Canada eventually calls Trump&#039;s bluff on the state thing. It&#039;d be like bringing in a second California.Here’s how annexing Canada would change American politics[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/canada-new-state-electoral-college-001966[/URL]&quot;Canada would get two senators, and given its overall liberal politics there’s little question they’d be Democrats. That would shrink Republicans’ margin from the current Congress slightly: There would be 53 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the Senate. Republicans would be able to afford two defections, with Vice President-elect JD Vance breaking a 51-51 tie.&quot;-------&quot;Keeping the chamber at 435 members, reapportionment would give Canada 45 seats. That’d be just one fewer than California, which would have 46 seats.&quot;&quot;The migration of House seats to Canada would also mean a significant shift in the Electoral College, reshaping presidential elections.&quot;[ATTACH=full]513557[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6077816, member: 48469"] Will be entertaining if Canada eventually calls Trump's bluff on the state thing. It'd be like bringing in a second California. [SIZE=5][B]Here’s how annexing Canada would change American politics[/B][/SIZE] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/canada-new-state-electoral-college-001966[/URL] "Canada would get two senators, and given its overall liberal politics there’s little question they’d be Democrats. That would shrink Republicans’ margin from the current Congress slightly: There would be 53 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the Senate. Republicans would be able to afford two defections, with Vice President-elect JD Vance breaking a 51-51 tie." ------- "Keeping the chamber at 435 members, reapportionment would give Canada 45 seats. That’d be just one fewer than California, which would have 46 seats." "The migration of House seats to Canada would also mean a significant shift in the Electoral College, reshaping presidential elections." [ATTACH type="full" width="831px"]513557[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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