(#4745) Somewhat worried about our current senate majority

      After what happened to Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, I have the same anxiety about two of our democratic senators who are really getting up in age. The less critical of the two is Dianne Feinstein. She is from a blue state that if something happened to her unexpectedly, she would be replaced with a democratic senator by the democratic governor of California Gavin Newsome. Which leads me to my main concern. If something were to happen to Patrick Leahy of Vermont, where The republican governor Phil Scott said in 2020 that if he replaced Bernie Sanders, who could have gotten a role in Biden's cabinet, he would put a left leaning independent in the senate seat.
     Now we all know that what someone says a while back under different circumstances should never be held as more likely since republicans often go back on their word. So my concern is that if something dreadful happened to Pat Leahy the republican governor of Vermont would likely advance an independent who would choose to caucus with republicans so that they would have a majority and take back the senate for the rest of this term. That would be disastrous with a supreme court seat being decided and ending all hope of a human infrastructure bill and a voting rights protections bill. Pat Leahy needs to find a way to keep his seat through the coming election and then the pressure will be off concerning an ill timed abrupt senate transfer of power.
     We democrats are already feeling the pressure of keeping the majority after the coming election and even now are feeling the pressure of keeping the majority before the election. Times are rather precarious and getting as much done as quickly as possible should be our agenda. The republican party will do nothing to help America further our agenda so going alone as quickly as possible should be our only priority. In the meantime we need to find a way to pass some voting rights protections that will get beyond manchin and sinema or the prospect of keeping that Georgia senate seat of Raphael Warnock will become a difficult if not impossible task.