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2022 races (and 2021 for weird commonwealths like Virginia)

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is running for governor.
 
Melanie Stansbury (D) won the New Mexico special election for the vacancy created by appointment of Deb Haaland to be Secretary of Interior.
 
Lara Trump not running for senate from NC. Donald Trump is endorsing Ted Budd.
 
A Democratic Report sponsored by the moderate/centrist Third Way and 2 PACs that advocate for minority Democratic candidates - the Latino Victory Fund and Collective PAC (which promotes black candidates for office) have released a detailed report on the Democratic Party's performance in the 2020 elections. Their conclusion is that Trump made significant inroads into minority voting, which threatens the ability of Democrats to retain (or if necessary regain) control of Congress in future elections.

"In part, the study found, Democrats fell short of their aspirations because many House and Senate candidates failed to match Joe Biden’s support with voters of color who loathed Trump but distrusted the Democratic Party as a whole. Those constituencies included Hispanic voters in Florida and Texas, Vietnamese American and Filipino American voters in California, and Black voters in North Carolina.

Overall, the report warns, Democrats in 2020 lacked a core argument about the economy and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic — one that might have helped candidates repel Republican claims that they wanted to “keep the economy shut down” or worse. The party “leaned too heavily on ‘anti-Trump’ rhetoric,” the report concludes.

“Win or lose, self-described progressive or moderate, Democrats consistently raised a lack of strong Democratic Party brand as a significant concern in 2020,” the report states. “In the absence of strong party branding, the opposition latched on to GOP talking points, suggesting our candidates would ‘burn down your house and take away the police.’”

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-report-raises-2022-alarms-153751948.html
 
Where’s cville to give the VA primary recap?

Board favorite socialist Lee Carter lost his primary.
 
Where’s cville to give the VA primary recap?

Board favorite socialist Lee Carter lost his primary.

Three candidates (plus Fairfax, but his role in this whole thing was weird) ran to the left of McAuliffe, none of who gained much on each other, let alone close the gap on the frontrunner. The media seemed to mostly play up the possibility of the first Black woman governor (which still split the hypothetical insurgent candidacy between two people). One thing I'm worried about is that the Republican (Youngkin) is a bit of a blank slate that, if he runs a competent campaign, that Republican voters of all extremes can project whatever they want on him. Hopefully VA is too blue for that to matter.
 
That’s a very well done introduction video for a very impressive person.
 
Basically. It’s a shame that such talent is wasted in a state that has condemned themselves to politics based on willful ignorance.
 
Yeah, he certainly looks impressive in the ad, but it's Arkansas. He'll be very lucky if he gets within single digits in the election.
 
Sure. But the racism in that election is going to be delectable. A Morehouse/MIT educated physicist/minister 8th generation Arkansas native slave descendant vs a former governor’s daughter known for her blatant lying. All in the backdrop of the new Civil Rights era.
 
Sure. But the racism in that election is going to be delectable. A Morehouse/MIT educated physicist/minister 8th generation Arkansas native slave descendant vs a former governor’s daughter known for her blatant lying. All in the backdrop of the new Civil Rights era.
Obviously, she deserves it.
 
More information about Dr. Chris Jones and his family here:

[h=1]Chris Jones' Arkansas campaign ad shows how extraordinary Black politicians must be[/h]He's a nuclear physicist and priest — and wants to be Arkansas' first Black governor.




https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/dr-ch...ign-ad-shows-how-extraordinary-black-n1271788

But as I sat with the video some more, it really dawned on me how incredible Jones’ resume is — and what it says about Black candidates for statewide office.

Consider that just five years after earning dual master's degrees in nuclear engineering and technology and policy from MIT, he was named the school’s assistant dean for graduate students. He got his doctorate from MIT while managing a multimillion-dollar budget as executive director of Boston’s Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. He was leading a nonprofit, the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, which as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette put it in a profile of Jones “promotes and encourages innovative ideas among, and creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, students and other makers” in the state until he resigned to run for governor.
He also checks all the boxes that we don’t say a Black man running for office needs to have — but they absolutely do. Jones is overly educated, far beyond the average white candidate. His wife, Dr. Jerrilyn Jones, and their daughters are featured prominently in the ad — no single, promiscuous African Americans here, just a wholesome upper middle-class family. His last role was all about jobs and businesses and other respectable capitalist ventures, not something confusing like “community organizer.” And the issues he focuses on — education, infrastructure, and “living out our values” — are solidly middle of the road, not too progressive — or too , well, Black — for Arkansas voters.
(Jerrilyn, I must add, is almost as freakishly well-credentialed as her husband is — she’s an Air Force veteran and graduate of Harvard Medical School who’s currently an ER doctor and serves as preparedness medical director at the Arkansas Department of Health. Together, their careers sound like what an eager kindergartner would say when asked what she wants to be when she grows up.)

But here’s one more twist that makes Arkansas’ election one to watch over the next few months: Jones isn’t the only member of his family seeking high-profile statewide office. His brother, Leon Jones Jr., is running for attorney general in 2022 — as a Republican.
Leon was, up until recently, the head of the state’s Fair Housing Commission, having been named to the spot by Hutchinson. Before that, he was the first Black leader of the Arkansas Department of Labor, his campaign noted soon after he announced his run. He’s running for the slot on the general ballot against Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin.
So, to sum up: A nuclear physicist/priest is competing in a race where there’s a nonzero chance that Arkansas voters not only elect the first Black men to hold those positions in the state, but that they also disagree on policy. I, for one, am going to be keeping a very close eye on this race.
 
A few days old now, but the polar opposite, in almost every conceivable way, of Jones announced a gubernatorial run as well.

 
A few days old now, but the polar opposite, in almost every conceivable way, of Jones announced a gubernatorial run as well.


If he wins I'm sure he'll be a major supporter of Idaho's attempts to annex most of eastern Oregon and Washington and become Imperial Idaho. Maybe he'll proclaim himself the Spud Emperor or something similar.
 
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