Since I like Shapiro, I should be pleased, but, as a moderate, I do see a cloud in the silver lining. The cloud is that, given two moderate candidates, if purple state voters were looking for more moderate candidates, the race should be close. It is not.
Garrity is no right wing extremist. When she last ran statewide, for Treasurer in 2024, Shapiro refused to make an endorsement! While this was mostly due to the Democratic candidate being a Shapiro critic, if Garrity was a sufficiently fanatical Trumper – rather than a Republican candidate who abases themselves to the minimum degree acceptable in her party, and then competently works with Democrats after an election – Shapiro would have come out against her.
So with two moderates, this year’s race should be close. Instead, it looks like just as big of a runaway as if the GOP had nominated a true extremist like Doug Mastriano.
P.S. An alternative reading could be that Garrity lacks Shapiro’s name recognition and will gain on him as the race goes on. We’ll see.
It’s great that you removed the other untruth from your post, and now it’s time to apologize for this one.
Hong is not supporting “police and prison abolition.” Your putting those words in quotes makes it sound like you’re quoting her, but you’re not: you’re massively distorting what she actually said.
What she said (and I’m pulling this from a right-wing tabloid, so I’m not pulling punches)
“We must collectively work to end the violence and abolish the police state.” (emphasis added)
and
“I support defunding the police as a first step toward abolishing the police.”
Crucially, that last quote is from 2020. Can anyone think of anything that happened in 2020 that might have lifted tempers?
Your claim is that she is supporting “police and prison abolition,” not that she supported it in a tweet or two six years ago. Here is what she’s saying in 2026, from a full statement on X:
She appears to be calling toward a long-term shift to a society that doesn’t rely on police or prisons–but that’s a utopian future vision, not something she is including in her platform for her time in office.
Context is that she was walking backing wanting to cancel Thanksgiving five years ago. Oppo ads can use old quotes or new.
Is it really true that Thanksgiving is incredibly painful for some people? Yes. Same for Christmas. And it would be a bad reason to vote against someone because they said it. But it does give an impression of progressive extremism. In the past I would say she is unelectable in a purple state. Now, I don’t really know. Maybe the center no longer holds. This November will be a good test.
A good-to-me center-left (albeit more center than left) case against Francesca Hong is in the middle of this article:
Center-left? Really? Pure center, to me. Take this quote:
Francesca Hong demonstrates that anti-American ideas have become fully mainstreamed and accepted within the Democratic Party
I’m not a huge fan of Hong, but it isn’t “anti-American” to point out how Americans can do better. Quite the opposite. Especially during these times when every single Republican can’t go one minute without doing or saying something truly anti-American, it’s reckless and false to use that phrase to critique Democrats.
Furthermore, whatever the phrase you want to use about the Hong ideas that he notes, they have not become “fully mainstreamed and accepted within the Democratic Party.” So he’s wrong about that, too.
That’s an interesting article. Here’s a part that really stood out to me.
I didn’t recognize most of those names, but Tlaib I definitely recognize. The formatting is weird here: the quote attributed to her is the “America is a shithole” quote.
Which, as near as I can tell, is a total fabrication. All cites for it go back to a single rightwing source, and that one doesn’t have any cite. More in-depth articles about the controversies around Tlaib omit this entirely. For what little it’s worth, Google’s AI prefaced my search results by denying that Tlaib ever actually said that.
And that casts the entire article in a new light. On the one hand, we have the actual fascists trying to destroy America’s democratic institutions. On the same hand, we have those same actual fascists making up fake quotes to attribute to the left. And this Noah asshole is using those fake quotes to “both sides” the issue.
He even criticizes Mehdi Hasan for taking “both-siders” to task. But both sides ARE bad! he insists. Trump wants to end the right to vote as we know it, and Hong has reservations about the history of Thanksgiving! Republicans endorse masked thugs killing Americans in the street, and they also lie about what progressives say!
Equating her with the actual fascists, because she recognizes that the Thanksgiving story is problematic, is sloppy and ridiculous. That article is interesting, not because it is high-quality, but because it exemplifies the foolishness of moderates who are so willing to engage in sloppy thinking to justify their moderation.
There seems to be a chance that the Dems could unseat Abbott in Texas.
The Aug. 7 poll from Texas Pulse showed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa by 1 percentage point — 46% to 45%. That is a 5-point shift from Texas Pulse’s June poll, which showed Abbott at 49% and Hinojosa at 43%.
The rambling, confused, self-contradictory word vomit from Hong that you posted is exactly what “supporting police abolition” is - shouting radical slogans to one group while crying to imaginary referees that it’s unfair for your opponents to quote the things you said to other groups, redefining words such as “police” and “abolish” and “defund” to mean things they have never meant in English, claiming that “saying something in 2020” doesn’t count as “saying it,” explaining that your political platform’s “utopian future visions” have nothing to do with what you “support” or want to do if elected governor, etc. This is what everyone involved in that silly bumper sticker of an idea always does and the fact that Hong is still doing it in August 2026 is just more proof that she is, indeed, part of the movement that she keeps saying she is part of.
Claiming to want “mental health care and addiction treatment” while the signature public decay policy that makes voters hate Democrats more than anything else they do is an absolute refusal to provide mental health care or addiction treatment to anyone is the cherry on top, and of course Hong is going to keep getting hammered on this until she inevitably concludes her three-month quest to do everything possibly to lose badly running as Democrat in a swing state in a heavily anti-Trump election year.
I’ll just leave this irony here–that you’re having to redefine what “supporting” means in the very same sentence in which you accuse her of “redefining words.”
Abbott/Hinojosa is my threshold of wave vs tsunami. That would almost certainly correspond to a D+15 election. (And somewhere around 54-56 D senate seats with a real chance at a supermajority in 2028)
In Wisconsin, Hong (more leftist, though not quite as much as some have portrayed her) is neck-and-neck with the more establishment/moderate choice, Crowley. We might not know the result for several hours. Hong might pull out a victory because of absentee ballots still to be counted, many of those ballots filled out weeks ago, when the field of candidates was more crowded.
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet. New Mexico with Lujan Grisham term limited out and the race is between the Democrat (and former 1st congressional district rep and interior secretary) Deb Haaland and the Republican (and former mayor of Rio Rancho) Gregg Hull. Generally I’d say Haaland is likely to win, though New Mexico has kept flipping governors after two terms going back decades. I don’t particularly like Haaland but I think demographics and sheer dislike of everything going on federally will make it an easy win for her.
As of this point (around midnight Central), Crowley has a lead of about 3,200 votes, with 93% counted. He’s carrying the Milwaukee area, while Hong is leading in Madison (not surprising) and Green Bay.
In Wisconsin, Crowley is half a point ahead of Hong at this moment, with 93% of expected votes counted. That’s impressive for Crowley, who had dropped out of the race a month ago and then re-entered it just two weeks ago. Especially if he ekes out the win (but even if he doesn’t), this is a victory for practical, moderate “electability,” over Democratic Socialist-hued progressivism. At least, it will be construed as such.
(ETA: what kenobi_65 said).
Hong will surely end up within the 1% allowed for a recount. I hope she doesn’t call for one – I’m exhausted from my poll work all day today! (I doubt she would bother paying for a recount – she’s already spoken tonight of unity and support whatever happens).
Electable Democrat and normal person David Crowley has defeated socialist lunatic Francesca Hong for the Democratic nomination in the Wisconsin governor’s race.
This is good news for people who want Democrats to win the general election and people who are done with catering to the needs-to-be-chased-with-a-giant-butterfly-net wing of the party.
It’s bad news for Francesca Hong’s biracial son, who will get to spend more time hearing his mother lament that being near him puts her in “proximity to whiteness.”
It’s also bad news for the pollsters, who have missed big for the second time in a week. After overpredicting El-Sayed’s performance in Michigan by 15% but avoiding too much scrutiny as he squeaked out a 1% win, this time they had Hong with a 20% lead and she lost outright.
There is clearly something going on causing the far-left to massively overpoll their performances at the ballot box. Possibly some of it is that mainstream Democrats are better at identifying who is actually going to vote and a lot of the poll response is noise from people who are not eligible or can’t be bothered. Possibly some of it is people coming to their senses and realizing that a vote for Abdul El-Sayed or Francesca Hong is a vote for a Republican win in November. There are likely other, undiscovered factors at work as well.
Unless he mounts a write-in campaign (which I would not put past him), Mike “My Pillow” Lindell will not not be the next Governor of Minnesota. Lisa Demuth wins the GOP primary with 179,546 (43.44%) with possibly not legally eligible* Lindell with 134,198 (32.47%).
Guess this proves a Trump endorsement is not a guarantee.
Amy Klobuchar got 614,354 (89.68%) of the DFL vote.
Brian
* He is not registered to vote in MN – there is some question on whether he met the one year residency requirement
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