# 2024 US Senate Elections **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149 "2022-11-18T15:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/61 "2023-05-24T22:10:41Z")
But…she is dressed as one. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/62 "2023-05-25T04:36:32Z")
Ah, Christine O’Donnell. Feels like a 100 years ago, but in many ways she was the canary in the coalmine for Republican Senate primaries. She was a nutjob who defeated the more moderate, establishment Republican who could have actually made the general election race competitive. Here’s to hoping Republican primary voters continue to cut off their nose to spite their face. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/63 "2023-05-25T18:42:42Z")
In the 2020 Delaware Republican primary, the voters rejected James DeMartino, a pretty Trumpy, but also standard Delaware Republican, in favor of Lauren Witzke, a Qanon, Putin loving, flat Earther. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/64 "2023-05-26T14:08:16Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > But…she is dressed as one. Gotta weigh her against a duck to be sure. That would be awesome if Cruz were to be unseated. Looks like they have a good candidate and I hope Beto has given up chasing after statewide seats. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/65 "2023-05-26T20:16:09Z")
She never turned anyone into a newt that _I_ heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/66 "2023-05-28T02:16:11Z")
You never heard what she did to poor Billy Gingrich? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/67 "2023-05-28T03:21:17Z")
Did he ever get better…? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/68 "2023-06-09T19:41:29Z")
Some good news for Dems here. > **[Wisconsin GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher won't run for Senate in major blow to...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/wisconsin-rep-mike-gallagher-senate-race/index.html)** > > Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, whom national Republicans had tried to recruit, announced Friday he will seek reelection in the House instead. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/69 "2023-06-13T14:59:47Z")
Love his reason — gotta keep us safe from commie infiltration. And fluoridated water. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/70 "2023-06-13T15:00:44Z")
Good to know he’s preserving his precious bodily fluids rather than squandering them in a Senate bid. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/71 "2023-06-28T02:59:01Z")
The NRSC gets their preferred candidate - former Navy SEAL and entrepreneur Tim Sheehy - to enter the Montana Senate race. He’s likely to face primary opposition, but with his biography and the possibility of self-funding he would be a strong challenger to Tester. > **[Former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy announces Montana Senate bid](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/former-navy-seal-sheehy-announces-montana-senate-bid-00103770)** > > A crowded primary could complicate the party’s chances of retaking the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/72 "2023-07-03T16:33:47Z")
The latest from _The Hill_: > **[Senate rankings: five seats most likely to flip](https://www.aol.com/senate-rankings-five-seats-most-100000201.html)** > > The 2024 battle for the Senate started with a bang earlier this year and has not let up, as candidates in top races continue to roll out their campaigns and incumbents scratch and claw to… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/73 "2023-07-07T15:30:21Z")
Could be a factor: > **[Insight: Swing state Republicans bleed donors and cash over Trump's false...](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/swing-state-republicans-bleed-donors-cash-over-trumps-false-election-claims-2023-07-05/)** > > Republicans in the battleground states of Michigan and Arizona are paying a high price for their full-throated support of former President Donald Trump and his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/74 "2023-07-08T01:42:07Z")
Wouldn’t it be great if there were consequences? I hope Ron Weiser sticks to his guns. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/75 "2023-07-08T15:46:45Z")
What a schadenfraudenly enjoyable article that was! > [@](#): > > Arizona’s Republican Party had less than $50,000 in cash reserves in its state and federal bank accounts as of March 31 to spend on overheads such as rent, payroll and political campaign operations, the filings show. At the same point four years ago, it had nearly $770,000. > [@](#): > > The Michigan party’s federal account had about $116,000 on March 31, a drop from nearly $867,000 two years ago. It has yet to disclose updated financial information for its state account this year. > [@](#): > > Jason Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, said the financial figures disclosed so far by the party underscore the difficult task of supporting operations without the financial backing of big donors. “They are effectively broke and I don’t see the clouds parting and the sun coming out on their fundraising abilities,” he said. > [@](#): > > Jonathan Lines, who preceded Ward as Arizona’s party chairman up to 2019, said he expected new donor money to mostly go to political action committees, and other groups who fund campaigns, rather than the state party. “But not having the state party well funded is detrimental to many Republican campaigns next year,” he added. And with those two being swing states - heartwarming news. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/76 "2023-07-08T15:54:34Z")
Here’s hoping, but these bid-dollar donor boycotts never seem to work. First, because MAGA world has done an excellent job of building up a legion of small-dollar donors who can be reliably goosed into making a contribution every couple months through some manufactured outrage. And secondly, because these big donors always seem to come home during the general election. Even if not contributing directly to the party, they funnel their money into PACs that have functionally the same effect of supporting the MAGA loons. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/77 "2023-07-08T20:21:25Z")
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, too. But we can always hope! ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/78 "2023-07-10T12:22:46Z")
Just spitballing here, but what we might be witnessing is a realignment that reduces the importance of traditional state GOP party apparatuses. As PACs continue to be the avenue for dollars and messaging, the party, as we used to understand it, is irrelevant? ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/79 "2023-07-10T16:29:53Z")
This has been the trend for decades, honestly. While not irrelevant, the power of the parties to enforce their preferences on who gets nominated and how they campaign and govern has withered. It’s true on both sides — Obama ran his presidential campaigns nearly completely separate from the DNC. And in other Senate news, State Senator Roland Gutierrez has announced he’s joining Colin Allred in running for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas. Gutierrez represents Uvalde, and he has made gun control the focus of his political identity. This is bad news. Knocking off Cruz was always going to be a struggle, and a contested Democratic primary means wasting limited resources battling each other while Cruz grows his stockpile. Oh well, never underestimate the ability of Texas Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149/80 "2023-07-11T20:42:37Z")
No pun intended. Meanwhile, in Michigan: > **[Hill Harper, an actor on 'CSI: NY' and 'The Good Doctor,' is running for the...](https://www.aol.com/news/hill-harper-actor-csi-ny-161313214.html)** > > Hill Harper, an actor known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor,” announced on Monday that he is running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and challenging U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination. Harper is the sixth... I remember him as an FBI agent on the TV series of _Unlimited_. A charismatic guy FWIW. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-us-senate-elections/975149.md?page=5)