2020 Congressional Elections

HISTORY! Congress Poised to Get Its First QAnon Believer

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-green-a-georgia-republican-is-poised-to-become-congress-first-qanon-believing-member

Thanks, Nigel!

Georgia noooo!

Time to remove the Atlanta Hawks avi from your profile Turtle. Unless you believe in Q.

I think we need to seriously consider letting a couple states cede from the nation. Maybe the land mass of Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana? Maybe Missouri too.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

America is a stupid country.

I guess this is what happens when a state rigs their elections by openly suppressing African Americans vote.

These people are the perfect candidates for a new Nazi party. Dumb and loyal and cruel and bigoted.

I’m shocked!

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She seems to reflect her constituency pretty well. She’ll probably win in a landslide.

Is this Nigel's district? Nigel keeps disappearing. Stop running off, Nigel.

In the Bronx, incumbent Eliot Engle (D) NY 16, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a pro Israel moderate is trailing progressive Jamaal Bowman 36% to 69% with 92% of votes counted.

Jake from State Farm wrote:Some news for Bob:

Ocasio-Cortez breezes to reelection as progressives, including Jamaal Bowman, dominate N.Y. congressional primaries



The left-leaning congresswoman breezed to victory in her first primary as an incumbent on Tuesday, setting the tone for an election night dominated by progressive momentum and centrist setbacks.

With all precincts reporting in her Queens-Bronx district, Ocasio-Cortez trounced her middle-of-the-road challenger, former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, by an astonishing 70%-19% margin, according to official State Board of Elections tallies.

Ok. I laughed a little.

In most developed countries her views are left leaning, but pretty centrist. It’s just in the United States of skew the power toward lower population more conservative white folks so that she’s considered a leftist. The “center” in this country is so far right that people more right than that are just authoritarian fascists. Often with no qualms about admitting it.

Rocinante wrote:In most developed countries her views are left leaning, but pretty centrist. It’s just in the United States of skew the power toward lower population more conservative white folks so that she’s considered a leftist. The “center” in this country is so far right that people more right than that are just authoritarian fascists. Often with no qualms about admitting it.

Seconded. And for the people that prefer fancy pictures

Floyd, it's right here. Please get it together or you’re banned.

Pretty good piece.

Elissa Slotkin Is Sounding the Alarm. Will Democrats Listen?

Things are getting too close for comfort for some formerly GOP districts considered locks are heating up before primaries.

For example Fred Upton who has been in Congress since 1993, winning the 1992 election is sweating. in 2018 he only won 50% of the vote while the Democratic opponent got 46%. Prior to that Upton had won by margins never lower than 56% and often winning 65% or more of votes cast.

A friend in Kalamazoo is being inundated by emails, voice mails and texts by Upton and his November opponent who is running unopposed in the Aug 5 primary.

Thanks Floyd.

I live in MI-10 where Rep. Paul Mitchell has decided after two terms he wants to "spend more time with family". Personally I think it means he's decided that he can't support Trump any longer and is getting out. Meanwhile, the leading two Republican challengers, Lisa McClain and Shane Hernandez, are having a real knock down drag out on TV over who is more Trump Republican than the other. It's pretty disgusting.

Dems don't stand a chance, but one of the challengers, Kimberly Bizon is a Spartan. It's a weird district geographically, Macomb county and all of the thumb.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:I live in MI-10 where Rep. Paul Mitchell has decided after two terms he wants to "spend more time with family". Personally I think it means he's decided that he can't support Trump any longer and is getting out. Meanwhile, the leading two Republican challengers, Lisa McClain and Shane Hernandez, are having a real knock down drag out on TV over who is more Trump Republican than the other. It's pretty disgusting.

Dems don't stand a chance, but one of the challengers, Kimberly Bizon is a Spartan. It's a weird district geographically, Macomb county and all of the thumb.

not sure if Elissa Slotkin can get re-elected in our district. It's so gerrymandered that it was pretty amazing she won in 2018.

So we'll see.

Keep fighting the good fight, my dude.

It’s sad too because she’s pretty awesome.

She’ll win but I’m not so sure how awesome I think she is other than better than the alternative for a 50/50 district

She’s a reasonable fucking human being.

And that’s awesome in Washington

Rocinante wrote:She’s a reasonable fucking human being.

I would love to see a politician run on this platform

Jan Doe for Congress
I'm a reasonable fucking human being.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
she is. And her qualifications are insane.

proudly served in Baghdad during the war in Iraq, a former analyst and intelligence briefer in the CIA, a senior advisor on Iraq policy at the U.S. State Department,  Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs..

ya know, the kinds of things big, tough America-lovin, flag-wavin' republicans get all misty-eyed about when they're not busy dodging the draft.

So she's obviously smarter than Trump, that must be why he doesn't like her.

That, and she's a woman.

Rocinante wrote:And that’s awesome in Washington

It’s fine. I’m voting for her. But I don’t know if I’d call her awesome I’m sorry roc

Robert J Sakimano wrote:John James - a dude who absolutely loves the racist, bigoted christian sexual predator - is running against Sen. Peters in Michigan - he has an ad accusing Peters and Democrats of (seriously) downplaying the virus.

I've seen the ad a few times, it capitalizes on a sound bite from like the 1st week of January.

That said, John James is hardly trustworthy.

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Robert J Sakimano wrote:John James - a dude who absolutely loves the racist, bigoted christian sexual predator - is running against Sen. Peters in Michigan - he has an ad accusing Peters and Democrats of (seriously) downplaying the virus.

Playbook for fascism create an alternate reality and control history. A strategy the GOP is embracing.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:John James - a dude who absolutely loves the racist, bigoted christian sexual predator - is running against Sen. Peters in Michigan - he has an ad accusing Peters and Democrats of (seriously) downplaying the virus.

I've seen the ad a few times, it capitalizes on a sound bite from like the 1st week of January.

That said, John James is hardly trustworthy.

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The way that they play around with the timelines in order to create a narrative about Trump's response is comical. "Trump shut down travel from China and from Europe". Yeah, 6 weeks apart, and did absolutely nothing in between to build up our supplies or anything. And, of course, let's remember that he didn't shut down China because he thought the virus was coming, he used that as an excuse to shut it down because he was in trade negotiations with them. In one of the early task force "briefings" he even accidentally let it slip that he was fortunate that he shit it down. But, if course, this is all preaching to the choir.