Probably the Democrats best chance of winning, but Missouri is a lot redder/more polarized then it was in 2012, so there is a pretty strong possibility of Grietens winning.
Oh I agree. But there would be no functional difference between having Grietens or any of the other Trump-worshippers running for the nomination in that seat. And this at least gives Dems a shot, even if still a long one.
And miracles do happen — who’d have thought Alabama would (under admittedly unique circumstances) elect a Democratic Senator in 2017?
Mitch McConnell sidestepped a question about whether he thought Greitens should drop out of the Senate race – because he knows that him calling on Greitens to drop out would probably help Greitens with Republican primary voters. Greitens best hope really is for the Republican establishment to unanimously come out against him. Trump’s appeal to Republican base voters in 2016 was at least as much about giving the middle finger to Republican elites as it was about sticking it to Democrats.
Meanwhile, in the Buckeye State…
Embarassing.
Embarrassing?
These people slavishly competing to see who can get their nose farthest up Agent Orange’s ass … it’s not a good look.
In Pennsylvania, a super PAC supporting Conor Lamb’s Senate candidacy is urging Lamb to paint fellow Democrat John Fetterman, currently leading in the polls, as too liberal to win election in November.
I like Fetterman and hope that his form of grass roots populism ultimately wins him the seat. With Georgia at risk, Dems really need a win here to have a hope of breaking even.
Boom goes the dynamite:
out of the three top dems in the race, fetterman would have the best chance. he will pull votes from the areas out of the 2 main cities. rural and coal country pa see him as one of them. fetterman not being the party’s pick is a plus for them.
Fetterman has appeared to be doing a great job at working the rural interior of the state. Lamb has to have some cred along those lines, too, winning what I think is a pretty blue collar district.
Trump has endorsed Dr. Oz in the Pennsylvania Republican primary.
My initial reaction was to think this could only be a good thing for Democrats. The more I think about it though, it could be that Oz will perform well with suburban women. He could be a tough challenger to whoever the Democrats nominate.
Yeah, I’m not willing to write off a celebrity charlatan who pumped his ego into millions of homes via television. Once bitten, etc.
Speaking of celebrity Trump endorsement, early polling shows Herschel Walker leading Raphael Warnock in Georgia by four points. (The same poll also showed Stacey Abrams trailing both her potential Republican opponents for governor). Walker is refusing to participate in primary debates, and why would he? Never underestimate the willingness of the American people to elect a zero-qualifications candidate to political office based off of, “Hey, I know that guy from TV!”
And in Ohio, the GOP candidates vie to be Trumpier than thou.
Oh there is little doubt that Dr. Oz is the most likely to succeed in the general, if Trump can convince GOP voters to come out for him.
But if you hang out on any of the far-right blogs and boards they are vehemently opposed. He still has Turkish citizenship, has talked about his Muslim father, made vaguely supportive statements in the past re: transgender issues, and basically trips all of their “red flags warnings” on culture-war issues.
It seems to me that Trump just endorsed him because he is “well known”, and doesn’t really give a crap what his (Trump’s) base thinks about it. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. There is a small chance that some of them stay home if Oz is the nominee, or leave their ballots blank.
Ugh. What a deep pile of doo-doo. I used to live in Ohio and still have many friends there, and there’s a whole lot of ::smh:: going on amongst them.
It’s possible this decision may be overturned on appeal.
Since the former Congresswoman lost in a district which was more liberal than Iowa as a whole, it’s hard to see how she could have won against Grassley anyway.
But it takes a substantial amount of incompetence to not get enough signatures for someone as well known as she is.
She collected enough signatures. Three of them didn’t have dates next to them.
More precisely:
One signature had an incorrect date. Another had no date. And for one, the signer wrote their ZIP code.
Source: Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer to appeal Iowa judge's ballot ruling