Those mother********ers are dropping like flies.....They must know something we dont know Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) will not seek reelection, adding to a wave of retirements in the GOP ranks, Politico reports. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) is the latest House Republican to announce his retirement from Congress, the Deseret News reports.
For those that complained about the Dem in Illinois that didn’t announce his retirement until after his Chief of Staff registered and the registration deadline passed, Montana’s registration deadline was 7pm and the sole Republican candidate registered at 5pm. Daines and Trump endorsed him right after the deadline passed.
Nazi tattoos and a little anti-Semitism may be tolerated in the Democratic party, but calling people the N word if you are not black, that may be too much. "A northern Virginia Democratic nominee is facing growing bipartisan calls to withdraw from an upcoming special election after resurfaced tweets containing racist and antisemitic language." A northern Virginia Democratic nominee is facing growing bipartisan calls to withdraw from an upcoming special election after resurfaced tweets containing racist and antisemitic language.READ MORE: https://t.co/zKi6mkMWvF— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) March 4, 2026 To be fair, according to grok his "anti-Semitism" was saying that America gives money to Israel so they can commit genocide. That is not antisemitic in my opinion, anti-Israel, sure, but even Newsom is calling Israel actions a genocide. Edit: Newsom said apartheid not Genocide (in the context of annexing the West Bank)
Osoff is in good shape and his campaign has a ton of $$$$. A new Emerson College poll of the 2026 U.S. Senate race in Georgia finds Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) with an edge over potential Republican opponents. Ossoff leads Rep. Buddy Carter 47% to 44%, with 9% undecided. Ossoff’s lead extends to five points against Rep. Mike Collins, 48% to 43% with 9% undecided. Ossoff leads Derek Dooley by eight points, 49% to 41%, with 10% undecided. Said pollster Spencer Kimball: “Senator Jon Ossoff enters the 2026 election cycle just under 50% support, anchored by a strong base among independent voters, leading potential Republican opponents by an average of 16 points, along with voters under 50, leading by an average of 12 points, and women, leading by an average of 8 points.”
I guess that fvcking over your own party is easier than fvcking over the other party. " BACKSTORY: in interview Sen. Steve Daines says he closely worked with White House to coalesce behind Kurt Alme, avoid a primary and withdraw from race at last minute to block Democrats Tester, Bullock or Schweitzer from running. Alme didn’t even know White House was vetting him “Out of an abundance of caution, I wanted to try to make sure we didn’t have a very expensive Senate race with one of those three possibly in it,” Daines said Tester responds: “I don’t believe that, as none of us were running. He f–ked his own party”" BACKSTORY: in interview Sen. Steve Daines says he closely worked with White House to coalesce behind Kurt Alme, avoid a primary and withdraw from race at last minute to block Democrats Tester, Bullock or Schweitzer from running. Alme didn’t even know White House was vetting him…— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 5, 2026
Gonzalez is out of the election, now Democrats have to beat a gun YouTuber to flip this seat. pic.twitter.com/3FyKF6V3cb— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) March 6, 2026
Dude lost. "Jeannie LaCroix (R) defeats Muhammad "Sef" Casim (D) in Prince William County's Woodbridge District special election for Board of Supervisors. DEM to FLIP" Republicans pick up a Northern Virginia board seat in solid blue county because of Democratic nominee that had record of racist and antisemitic social media posts: https://t.co/ZHxB7jI9Vs— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) March 11, 2026
Democrats flipped a +9 state house seat in New Hampshire. The Democrat won by 4, meaning a 13 point swing. If gas prices are high in November, any Republican whose district didn’t go for Trump by 20 points will be nervous. Any district that wasn’t Trump +12 will be hopeless for Republicans.
The last minute write-in candidacy by his primary opponent split the Dem vote. LaCroix won with 43% of the vote. Casim got around 37% and Pam Montgomery--the write-in--got around 19%. Because I used to be an officer in the local Democratic party and am still somewhat active, I get a lot of emails from party leaders and whatnot. I was fine with the party largely pulling all support for Casim just because we have to hold our own to account, even though I understood that he is almost certainly a better and wiser person than he was when he posted all that crap as a young man a decade-plus ago. I was originally signed up to help set up campaign signs and volunteer station at the early voting location (something I always do--I work locally so I'm able to get up early, help set up every morning until the first shift of volunteers show up, then run home to get ready for work without being late), but after the news came out I decided to sit the election out.* I wasn't exactly happy about that, but I could live with it. It's a special election, in a year and a half we'll be doing it again, and the Democrats would still have a narrow lead in the County government even if we lost this one. What I was much less happy about was the tone that supporters of the write-in candidate took. I got an email from a member of my own local district committee--a former elected official in the County--who did two things I thought were troubling in the context of the race but also emblematic of what ails the Democratic Party. This former elected official and local party insider went scorched-earth on the candidate. I don't blame her at all for rejecting his (not terribly convincing, tbh) apologies for the racist language of his past, but her wording strongly implied that he had not changed and that being a racist is who he is now. That was her prerogative (she's Black and I'm white, so not my place to tell her how to process anti-Black racism coming from our own candidate) but I thought it was a bit disingenuous given the circumstance. More troubling--in more than one email (this all unfolded in a single week, mind you), she attacked him for only recently joining his district Democratic committee, while the write-in candidate had been a member for over 30 years and had a long track record. Nothing wrong, in the abstract, with pointing out that a candidate has been a steadfast party member who's spent decades doing organizing and fundraising for the local party. But the wording and tone had more than a whiff of entitlement and prioritizing seniority over other qualifications. FWIW, the chair of the County party seemed to feel the same way I did, and sent an email of his own denouncing the write-in candidacy and its supporters without naming names (no need to do so--if you're at all involved in the local party you knew exactly who he was talking about). He is also Black, and went on at some length sharing his own disgust with the language used but he stressed the need for forgiveness and giving people space to grow and change and learn from their mistakes. Again--not my place to tell either of them how to feel about anti-Black racism coming from our own candidate (neither of these officials lives in the district where the election was held, just for further context). (And just to reiterate--I was, and remain, at peace with knowing pulling support for Casim likely meant handing a normally safe Democratic district to the local GOP for 18 months. Nothing about the guy says to me he was worth sacrificing basic standards we should expect from elected officials). BUT, he then went on to address the sense of entitlement and the problematic implied message that newcomers and young people have no business running for office until they've worked their way up the ladder, and wait their turn until their elders step aside.** I suspect this problem at the local & state level is an important part of what ails the Democratic party nationally. This is how we get out of touch senior citizen leaders who are chosen because they a) took the 'right' stances on a handful of issues a generation ago; and b) patiently waited their turn in the hierarchy. I hesitate to share this here because it feels just a tiny bit like a betrayal of insider discussion, but I suspect I'm not the only longtime Democrat who has seen how the sausage gets made and has become very disillusioned at the whole thing. *Context: The setup was easier than it usually is because there were just a few signs it being a special election, there was only one week of early voting, and the election was not in my district so I wasn't voting anyway. I wasn't leaving much slack for other volunteers to pick up. **Further context: the former elected official who took it upon herself to support the write-in although it isn't her district served for several terms until she was in her late 70's; she then stepped down so her husband--now in his early 80s--could run for her seat because she needed a break. I was an officer during that race, and while I knew her husband and liked him just fine, there was another Democrat who wanted to run who was a young Hispanic single mom. (The office, I should point out, was for School board--in a county where a plurality of students are Hispanic). The committee ultimately chose to endorse him not her, so she withdrew as a candidate before the primary was even held. My vote would not have been decisive but I've regretted not advocating for her ever since; one of those small moments of "I'm not entirely comfortable with this" which led me to step aside as an officer within the party.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Thank-You-For-Putting-Work-On-Hold-And-Providing-Useful-Info" rep. Or thank you for procrastinating, whatever is involved.
A little from Column A, and little from Column B. It was a sordid episode, and IMHO neither Democratic candidate was worth it. Casim had some shady residency-related issues prior to the racist social media past catching up with him, and Montgomery seemed to be more of the same from a party leadership that thinks the voters should reward them solely for not being Republicans.* Not saying I'm glad it happened, but now that it has I am a tiny bit hopeful that this could trigger a bit of reflection and rethinking among party officials and candidates. I may start getting a bit more involved in between elections so I could be a part of that change. *"Not being Republican" is plenty good reason to VOTE for the Democratic candidate, don't get me wrong. But that doesn't make tired old centrist homilies and unquestioning support for anachronistic policies any better.
Not sure if this is the right thread, but the “this job sucks” prosecutor is challenging Ilhan Omar in the primary.
A very local race. Republicans over performance in Texas. "Grand Prairie, TX City Council Place 8 At-Large Runoff (Harris +21) Final election night report: Rodney Anderson ✅ – 2,009 (51.1%) Ana Coca – 1,925 (48.9%) This is a 23.2 point overperformance for Republicans vs. 2024." Grand Prairie, TX City Council Place 8 At-Large Runoff (Harris +21)Final election night report:🔴 Rodney Anderson ✅ – 2,009 (51.1%)🔵 Ana Coca – 1,925 (48.9%)This is a 23.2 point overperformance for Republicans vs. 2024.— VoteHub (@VoteHub) March 15, 2026
Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters G. Elliot Morris: “In our data, this group recalled voting for Trump by 22 points in 2024. But these voters now give him a net approval of -4 — or a 26-point swing against him.” “The working-class whites who powered Trump’s rise are, for the first time, opposed to how he’s handling his job as president.”
From Tuesday, 2 pro Democrat swings (both+18), 1 pro Republican swing (+10). "Special legislative election results for tonight (2024-2026 shift) — Pennsylvania House of Representatives 79 (Trump +33) GOP hold: Dem swing +18 —— Pennsylvania House of Representatives 193 (Trump +38) GOP hold: Dem swing +18 —— Virginia House of Delegates 98 (Trump +15) GOP hold: GOP swing +10" Special legislative election results for tonight (2024-2026 shift)—Pennsylvania House of Representatives 79 (Trump +33)🟥GOP hold: Dem swing +18——Pennsylvania House of Representatives 193 (Trump +38)🟥GOP hold: Dem swing +18——Virginia House of Delegates 98 (Trump +15)…— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) March 18, 2026
Good move at both ends! I am team MMM, she is a talented politician. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren is wading into Michigan’s closely contested Democratic Senate primary, backing state Sen. Mallory McMorrow over two rivals,” Politicoreports. “It’s a somewhat counterintuitive endorsement for the progressive U.S. senator who has made her backing of Medicare for All a core part of her political identity. McMorrow opposes Medicare for All, while Abdul El-Sayed, one of McMorrow’s opponents, supports it.”
Is Illinois a sign of things to come? The article focuses on the Democratic races, but crypto, AI, and AIPAC spent tens of millions of dollars trying to influence the Democratic primaries. In many cases, they obfuscated their spending behind pop-up PACs with innocuous names to make them seem like local grassroots organizations and also featured outright lies about the candidates. In AIPAC's case they lionized pro-Israel candidates as anti-Trump warriors and anti-Israel candidates as secret right wing shills or corporate lackeys. It failed miserably as in almost every case the anti-Israel candidate got elected. In some cases it backfired spectacularly as their candidate was "The Favorite", but ended up losing. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/...wcase-the-rise-of-the-bizarro-world-super-pac As far as how the IL primaries went: * Lt. Gov Julianna Stratton won the Dem Senate primary to replace retiring Durbin over crypto and AIPAC backed Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi. * AIPAC back candidate Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller was able to defeat unpopular Jesse Jackson Jr. for IL-02. Jackson got a slight bump from his father's death, but was still unable to overcome a 2013 campaign finance conviction * State Rep LaShawn Ford defeated AIPAC backed Melissa Conyears-Ervin for IL-07. Ford was able to use AIPAC's support for Conyears-Ervin against her and won an extremely close 23.9% to 20.5% race. * AIPAC backed candidate Melissa Bean overcame 2 leftist candidates to win the primary to replace Krishnamoorthi for IL-08 * Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won the Dem primary for IL-09. This is one of the races that AIPAC's support backfired. AIPAC backed state Senator Laura Fine, but this backfired as Biss was able to use AIPAC's support against Fine. Fine ended up placing third behind Biss and Far Left influencer Kat Abughazaleh. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-illinois-midterm-primary-elections https://www.semafor.com/article/03/...democratic-pacs-see-mixed-results-in-illinois
This, in my view, has less to do with AIPAC and more to do with just how bad of a politician Krishnamoorthi is. All of his ads (that I saw, anyway), prominently featured the weasely "Abolish Trump's ICE," which means...what, exactly? That was peppered with the message of "I understand your plight, I'm an immigrant too" which landed with a total thud. Meanwhile, Stratton's campaign platform was simple. Abolish ICE outright, $25 minimum wage, won't vote for Schumer as leader. Having the very public backing of the popular soon-to-be-three-term governor didn't hurt. I didn't think any of the candidates in this race were particularly inspiring, but Raja truly came across as the phoniest mother-********er I've ever seen in politics, and there's a lot of competition for that. He was front-and-center of every ad, and like a criminal defendent who is definitely guilty, he probably shouldn't have been on the stand at all.
I went to the Dem caucus last night. The regular attendants said they had NEVER seen so much participation in precinct. There was no real vote, other than who will be precinct chair and an alternative delegate. It was the biggest statewide Dem turnout since the one where we actually voted for either Bernie or HRC for the party nom.