GOP Senator Bill Hagerty on Trump-Putin Summit and Census Count Debate

Trump-Putin Summit Expectations

• 🤝 Senator Bill Hagerty observed mutual respect between President Trump and Vladimir Putin during previous meetings.
• ⚠️ Hagerty believes Putin is under pressure due to Trump's potential implementation of secondary sanctions on Russian energy sales, which could destabilize Putin's economy.
• 🕊️ Hagerty stated that President Trump is focused on achieving a ceasefire and ending the bloodshed in Ukraine.

Putin's Negotiation Tactics

• 🎭 Hagerty suggested that Putin's actions, such as launching drones into Ukraine, are attempts to negotiate and set a stage to appear stronger in negotiations.
• 🗣️ He believes these tactics, while perceived as strength by Putin, actually hurt his negotiating position.
• 🛑 Hagerty emphasized that President Trump will likely steer the conversation back to the need for a ceasefire, regardless of other topics like the New START treaty.

Census Count and Electoral College

• 🗳️ Senator Hagerty is leading efforts to prohibit illegal migrants from being counted in the US census for the apportionment of congressional districts and allocation of electoral votes.
• ⚖️ He argues that counting non-citizens for these purposes is a power grab by Democrats, especially in blue states losing citizens and backfilling with illegal immigrants.
• 📜 Hagerty contends that the current interpretation of the Constitution, which allows for counting non-citizens, is a misapplication harkening back to slavery-era apportionment and not the intent of the founding fathers.
• 🇺🇸 He advocates for counting only citizens for the purpose of allocating voting power in America.