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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones to form an exploratory committee on Senate bid

https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...e-for-mitch-mcconnell-senate-2020/2149026001/


Could be an interesting primary between him and McGrath. He's got a huge edge on McGrath and the other candidates due to his media presence in the state. A Duke grad who can become a trusted source on Kentucky basketball has the talent to be a Democrat who can gain a foothold in a red state.
 
I would love it if she ran, but it's not going to happen. She said so again yesterday.
 
It's looooong time until she would have to file the papers. Things can change.

Again, I think she may be on the very, very, very short list for Biden.
 
Abrams is doing important voter registration and voter rights work and she'd be an awful running mate choice.

Sally Yates should run for senate.
 
States are big and there's more than one person who could be a good candidate as long as they have support.
 
Tulsi Gabbard's primary challenger:

 
 
Former rep Scott Taylor, who is now running for Senate in VA:

 
OHIO PROGRESSIVE MORGAN HARPER RAISED $323,000 IN FIRST QUARTER OF HOUSE RACE

Harper’s fundraising news comes on the heels of a successful quarter for Jessica Cisneros, a progressive challenger running against Rep. Henry Cuellar in Texas’s 28th District. In the last quarter, Cisnersos raised $310,000 — a significant boost, likely aided in part by Sen. Elizabeth Warren throwing her weight behind the candidate in September. Marie Newman, a progressive running against incumbent Democrat Dan Lipinski in Ilinois’s 3rd Congressional District likewise saw a successful quarter. Campaign manager Ben Hardin told The Intercept that Newman raised $350,000 in the most recent fundraising period. Newman, who came close to defeating Lipinski in a primary challenge last year, has been endorsed by Warren and Ocasio-Cortez.

At this point in her race, AOC had raised $21,000. (I imagine her success has helped other candidates raise money by showing what was possible.)
 
I've read that a few weeks ago Collins gave a talk on Capitol Hill at a private fundraiser for Chuck Grassley in which she bragged about getting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. Not only is she a coward, she's also a liar, like most of the rest of them. She ought to be one of the top Democratic targets to lose her Senate seat next year, imo.
 
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She also said she would never vote to take away coverage for pre-existing conditions and then voted to kill ACA. She and Moscow Mitch deserve to lose more than any else running for re-election.

If the Dems had any brains or cajones, they could beat Moscow Mitch. The GOP regularly targets Dems and would go balls to the walls to destroy them using lies if they had to. The truth would destroy Moscow Mitch. In spite of being a red state, KY has one of the most vibrant ACA plans in the nation. One of the few things MM has allowed to come to a vote is to kill ACA. He's done it 70+ times. Then, the Dems should bring up the tens of millions his wife's family has made from China and so much more.

If MM was a Dem, the GOP would beat him easily.
 
Not if Moscow Mitch was in New York or Massachusetts. This is Kentucky.
 
KY elected a Dem gov before the current one and loves their Kentucky Cares insurance that Mitch wants to kill.
 
Republicans have won every KY senate race since 2000. 6 for 6. Only one of those races was close, Jim Bunning beat Daniel Mongiardo by 2 points in 2004. In the two most recent races, Rand Paul won by 15 points in 2016 and McConnell won by 14 points in 2014. Would love to see the Turtle lose, but just don't KY changing enough for McConnell lose his seat next November.
 
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