The Houston Chronicle has a must read piece out right now about Texas: Texas remained the country’s largest red state in 2018. Republicans have won every statewide race in Texas since 1998, and a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976. But for 18 months, statewide polls showed 2020 Democratic presidential…
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NC, AZ, MI, GA & CO-Sen: Morning Consult Has Dem Senate Candidates Leading In These 5 Races
Following up with my diary about Morning Consult’s polling showing Sen. Hypocritical Two-Faced Coward (R. SC) tied with Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Morning Consult also tested the other U.S. Senate races and here’s the really good news: x #NCsen:Cunningham (D) 47% (+9)Tillis (R-inc) 38%.#AZsen:Kelly (D) 49% (+9)McSally (R-inc) 40%.#COsen:Hickenlooper (D) 49% (+7)Gardner (R-inc) 42%.#MIsen:Peters (D-inc)…
LA-Sen: Add Adrian Perkins (D) To List Of Senate Dem Candidates Who Want To Abolish The Filibuster
This was posted on The Huffington Post last week and a I just found it today. Apologies, but I wanted to bring it everyone’s attention: Louisiana Democratic Senate candidate Adrian Perkins is in favor of abolishing the filibuster, giving extra momentum to the growing call to remove the 60-vote threshold required to pass legislation. “The…
Joe Biden Vows Aggressive Campaign Schedule To Help Dem Senate Candidates In Battleground States
From CNN: Former Vice President Joe Biden reassured Senate Democrats he would mount a vigorous effort in the campaign's final stretch, barnstorming through key swing states and helping crucial Senate races in the process, according to Democratic senators on a conference call Thursday. Biden, speaking for roughly 25 minutes and taking a few questions, said repeatedly he…
LA, OK & TN-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Endorses 3 New Senate & 4 New House Candidates
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA): Election Day is exactly seven weeks from today. People are already mailing in their ballots right now. So it's time to pour everything we can into this fight. Today, I'm endorsing ten more Warren Democrats who are ready to fight for bold…
TX-Sen, 02 & 24: Vogue, “The Female Candidates Who May Turn Texas Blue This November”
Vogue has a great piece out profiling a few of our top notch Texas Democratic candidates that’s worth a read: It’s been 32 years since Texas elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. MJ Hegar is trying to break that streak. Hegar — with her cherry blossom tattoo, flashy Harley Davidson and combat scars —is…
Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidates Dragging Contest Down Rabbit Hole: China and Rioters Oh My!
No, I am NOT being Chuck “Bothsiderist” Todd, but I need to tell you all about the descent into the rabbit hole that the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky has taken. I’m pulling for Amy McGrath. I really am. But I’m not the only one who has noticed the blatant racism of Moscow MItch and…
If Trump Gets a Rose Garden Acceptance Speech, Shouldn't All 30+ Candidates Get the Same?
If Donald Trump is allowed to use the White House Rose Garden to accept the nomination of the Republican Party, should not Jo Jorgensen, candidate for the Libertarian Party, have that same opportunity? The White House is public property not just Trump’s prop. Howie Hawkins of the Green Party and Don Blankenship of the Constitution…
SC, MS & GA-Sen B: BET, “Black Senate Candidates Explain Why They Are Seizing The Moment”
U.S. Senate candidates Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Mike Espy (D. MS) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) have penned on op-ed for BET promoting their candidacies, promote their platforms addressing racial injustice and how they can be the faces a of a New South in the U.S. Senate: As Black fathers, brothers, sons and men…
Thank FSM that “…third party candidates are a little bit slower to come out of the woodwork”
The stakes are simply too high for purity this year. The NY Times does another flyover-country article showing that there are plenty of GOP defections this year who will vote for Biden. They are among an emerging group of voters who disliked both major-party presidential nominees in 2016, but who are now so disillusioned with…
ME, MT, IA, NC, AZ, CO & GA-Sen: Dem Senate Candidates Are Lining Up Against The Filibuster
From Huffington Post: Leading Democratic Senate candidates from around the country are open to at least reforming the filibuster, according to a HuffPost survey, with at least two supporting wholesale elimination of the Senate’s 60-vote hurdle. The candidates uniformly argue that the filibuster has empowered obstructionists and prevented the country from making needed progress on…
MS, SC, KY, GA & TX-Sen: Axios, “Black Senate candidates could make history in 2020”
From Axios: There are five black men running for U.S. Senate in the South as Democrats who could not only make history, but are using this unique moment to have difficult, intimate conversations about being black in America. Why it matters: There have only been 10 black senators in U.S. history, and it wasn't until 2013…
Republican strategist's advice to candidates: Don't defend Trump, attack China
Donald Trump screwed up our country’s coronavirus response so badly, it could very well prompt his own party to launch several more probes into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Of course, Republicans have been casting about for scapegoats for some time now, and they think they’ve found a pretty good one: China This strategy does make a certain amount…
$20.20 for candidates in your state. We can do this. Our lives are worth twenty bucks.
We all are a little short on money these days but we should try and pull $20.20 together for candidates in our state. Even if it is just one candidate in our state. Donate. I am going to start with a link here for my state. http://www.90for90.org/….They have your state here. They have your…
Help Us Flip The Senate With Great Progressive Candidates!
Help Us Flip The Senate With Great Progressive Candidates! Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Deb, Janis, Kimberly, Bryan, Dr. Bill, and Donna—Your PDA National Team Help Re-Elect Senator Ed Markey Help Elect Progressive Betsy Sweet Help Elect Progressive Andrew Romanoff Click Here to Join the PDA Phone Team Progressive…
Let’s Bring Home Wins For These Great Progressive Congressional Candidates.
Let’s Bring Home Wins For These Great Progressive Congressional Candidates. In solidarity, Mike Fox for Alan, Donna, Mike H., Deb, Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Kimberly, and Bryan—Your PDA National Team Pitch In Time And/Or Money To Help Us Win Since our first day of operations in 2004 we’ve been supporting the most progressive candidates…
DFA Calls On All Dem Candidates To Follow Elizabeth Warren's Lead & Boycott AIPAC Conference
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Are you familiar with AIPAC? The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a powerful right-wing lobbying group that has given a platform to antisemites like Pastor John Hagee, who suggested God sent Hitler to hunt Jews, Islamophobes like Steve Emerson, who has spent decades spreading anti-Muslim misinformation,…
Someone Forget To Tell John Kerry About How Bad Mouthing Democratic Candidates Is Not Helpful.
NBC News is probably just wanting to start divisions and pie fights among Democrats, but they are reporting that former Secretary of State John Kerry was bad mouthing Bernie Sanders on a phone call in a hotel lobby in Des Moines, IA. DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State John Kerry — one of Joe…
Michael Bloomberg and the media privilege for billionaire candidates
Here’s a quick news quiz: If you were editing The New York Times and advisers to Michael Bloomberg were telling your reporters that the billionaire might run for president, would you run that story on the front page? For how many days in a row? Considering he is the former mayor of New York, I could see the…
KY-Sen: VoteVets & Senate Dem Candidates Unite To Help Amy McGrath (D) Defeat Moscow Mitch
After yesterday’s big win in Kentucky, progressive groups like VoteVets and fellow Democratic U.S. Senate candidates are focused on helping Amy McGrath (D. KY) unseat Moscow Mitch. The first one is from VoteVets: There’s a lot to be excited about last night’s election results. But here’s something we place near the top of the list:…
