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The 2020 election cycle was favorable for the Democratic Party they held onto their majority in the House of Representatives, broke even in the Senate with two victories in Georgia and, of course, won the presidency. While Missouri is not a strong state for Democrats, the party has its share of supporters there, including the Mizzou College Democrats. The organization campaigns and lobbies for Democratic causes in Missouri and nationwide, and junior Emily Lower is their president. Lower is a political science, economics and statistics triple major who has involved herself in political activities since she started at MU. During her freshman year, she was a deputy field organizer for former Sen. Claire McCaskill’s re-election campaign and joined Mizzou College Democrats later that year. During her time at MU, Lower has served on the executive board for the Women’s Leadership Conference and currently works as a residential advisor for the Kinder Institute on Constituti ....
After former president Donald Trump incited a riot at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, continued to object to election results from several states and could face serious consequences. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, and MU School of Law professor Frank Bowman says Hawley’s claims are legally unfounded. “The substantive problem with his objection to the Pennsylvania results, which is particularly ironic for a guy who claims to be both a constitutional lawyer and a constitutional conservative of the Federalist variety, is that somehow or other, [Hawley claims] it is the province of the United States Senate to decide whether or not the governmental institutions of the state of Pennsylvania made the correct interpretations of their own law about how to run a Pennsylvania election,” Bowman said. ....
Coming from Quincy, a small conservative town in Illinois, Aspen Gengenbacher did not fit in with the Republican crowd. Now, she’s found her place as president of MU Democratic Socialists. Gengenbacher said she hopes to create a safe space and community for all leftists, especially those like herself who come from places where there’s an intense stigma surrounding their political ideology. Her vice president, Adam Mertens, shares her sentiment. “A lot of people, especially in Missouri, are unable to air their grievances with capitalism,” Mertens said. “I want a space to do that.” The MU Democratic Socialists club serves as an umbrella group for anyone at MU who feels like their ideals fall further left than a traditional Democrat’s. Gengenbacher and her newly elected team have three goals for this year: growing the club’s size, building a safe space for leftist discussion and engaging in conversation with the Columbia community. ....
Now that the 2020 election season has drawn to a close, Mizzou College Democrats have started creating their plans for the rest of the school year in response to losses experienced at the state level. Despite Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden winning the presidential election, most state-level elections did not turn out how Mizzou College Democrats had hoped. Mizzou College Republicans declined to comment for a story on the outcome of the election. Junior Jeffrey Bittle, vice president of Mizzou College Democrats, said the organization knew they would face challenges this election season. “We understood that a lot of things that we were going for in Missouri were an uphill battle,” Bittle said. ....