Between her, Eric Swalwell, and Eric Garcetti - California has an interesting debate for Diane Fienstein's replacement in 2024. She'll have to survive a midterm election with a Dem in the White House in 2022 however, while being a congresswoman in traditionally Republican OC. EDIT Plus a handful others, such as Libby Schaaf (Oakland Mayor) and London Breed (SF Mayor). All of this while Newsom preps for a White House run for either 24 or 28.
I know this is a pretty long shot but good to make Lindsey sweat... A new Civiqs poll in South Carolina finds Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) and Jaime Harrison (D) locked in a tie for the U.S. Senate, 42% to 42%.
I just chipped in a few bucks to Jaime Harrison's campaign. I want to see Lindsey Graham lose. I also tossed a few bucks towards Amy McGrath's attempt to send Mitch McConnell packing. That would be the most satisfying result possible. McConnell has done more damage to democracy than any other American in my lifetime, including Nixon and Newt Gingrich.
I am jumping on actBlue and will send somke bucks to Jaime as well. Will also send to Bullocks, Gideon and Cunningham (Kelly and Hick are a done deal). Will send to Joe as well.
Why not send money to the Maine, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, Montana, and Iowa races? They are the actual races.
Because it makes the RNC spend money on races that should be secure. That way they have less money to spend on the races that are competitive.
Bullocks is Montana, Gideon is Maine and Cunningham is NC. As mentioned I sent them some bucks. Colorado and Arizona are done deals at this point.
Bye Felicia... A new Keating-Onsight-Melanson poll of likely voters in Colorado finds former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) is ahead of Sen. Cory Gardner (R) by 18 percentage points in the U.S. Senate race, 54% to 36% with 9% undecided. The poll also found Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by a 19 percentage point margin in the presidential race, 55% to 36%.
Nope. Trump has tried to damage democracy by being an authoritarian asshole. McConnell has succeeded.
Sorry didn't catch those. My bad! No that's fair too. And if we get lucky in one of the SC/KY/KS/AL races...and donating for SC senate helps the SC Cunningham.
I was going to post this but thought you already had. Yea Hick is who I have to vote for here. He’s not my favorite. I met his D-opposition in Denver and he seemed like a really sincere guy. I just knew he didn’t have the deep pockets that Hick has. Disappointing, but this is the year of removing red incumbents in the most effective way possible
I caucused for Romanoff this year and I think that he’s genuinely the best guy for the job, and I can tell you that his campaign is gonna have a hard time in the primary next month for two reasons: 1. Money 2. At the end of the day, Colorado Dems statewide — especially ones in deeply red parts — aren’t as blue as those of us on the Front Range. If only the area from Denver to Boulder to FoCo were a state, Romanoff would cruising to the nomination. But the rest of the state’s Dems are gonna give us Hick. And he’s fine.
I’ve never seen a governor more in love with a TV camera or a mic than John Hickenlooper. I’ve seen Jared Polis on TV less in the first 16 months that he’s been in office — even with daily COVID-19 briefings — than I saw Hick in the first month. And it was the same when he was Mayor of Denver!
I would just like to brag that I'm buddies with Hickenlooper's cousin. You can send me my money via inbox.
And to be frank, Romanoff’s environmental stances aren’t gonna be that popular — even among Dems — with folks on the eastern plains, where there’s a lot of oil and gas, or in the northwestern part of the state, where there’s a lot of coal.
I used to work with Sen. Dick Durbin's daughter. She bartended at a restaurant where I waited tables while she was going to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was the nicest, sweetest, most down-to-earth person. This was 20+ years ago and I wasn't all that politically-minded, but I always voted for Dick Durbin under the assumption that he must be a good dude to raise a nice daughter like that.
I can't imagine Romanoff winning anyone outside 16th Street or Washington Park or the Pearl Street Mall, tbh. Even my pinko-commie dad is going Hickenlooper because he wants Gardner out.
Romanoff won pretty big in the preference poll at the state convention, so he's got statewide support... among folks like me who will give up their Saturday to be a delegate at the state Democratic convention. His problem is the same one that he had when he won the preference polls at the state convention when he was running against Michael Bennet in 2010: State convention delegates may not represent the sentiments of rank-and-file Colorado Democrats. (The other caveat here is that Hick got onto the primary ballot through the petition route, so his surrogates haven't exactly been campaigning hard in caucuses, county conventions, and the state convention.)
I've know some good people from bad families, but that's a hard handicap to overcome. At any rate, if Durbin is a baddie, he's a quiet baddie, because I barely ever hear of him. He doesn't seem to be the sort of politician that feels that he must be constantly heard.