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Anonymous's avatar

MI-Gov: Duggan's running as an independent. Huge headache in arguably the marquee gubernatorial race of the cycle.

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Akaash Kolluri's avatar

Crazy stuff! And tbh quite unnecessary in an R midterm

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Henrik's avatar

Why? His positions are bog-standard Democrat and тАЬI brought back Detroit after itтАЩs bankruptcyтАЭ is a powerful message in a primary

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Avedee Eikew's avatar

Yeah, this makes no sense he would have had and may still have if he reverses course quickly a strong shot at the nomination. Short of just wanting to sabotage Dems don't see the logic behind this.

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Kevin H.'s avatar

The brain worm strikes again.

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Anonymous's avatar

yeah I'm fucking perplexed and disappointed. His team didn't think he could beat Benson in the primary.

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Avedee Eikew's avatar

Yet they believe they can win a three-way race with her as the Dem nominee?

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Anonymous's avatar

idk man

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

They should negotiate with him about this. Plenty of time to defuse the bomb.

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Kevin H.'s avatar

What's to negotiate? We're not going to guarantee him the nomination.

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

That's for them to work out, but first they should try to reach out and start communicating very soon. He has a phone and aides, yes? He apparently wants to do a listening tour in the article I saw, presumably to get a reading of the state.

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DiesIrae's avatar

Wonder if the state party chooses to endorse him and not run a candidate?

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Kevin H.'s avatar

No, he'll finish third.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Mike Duggan may well finish third. The danger is that he may well help a Republican candidate finish first.

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CuriousReader4456's avatar

The state party can't stop people from running in the primary. With such a big price at least one person will collect enough signatures to run in the dem primary.

Not running a major party candidate only really works in deep blue/red states where there is no hope for one party. Or with an independent incumbent like Bernie Sanders.

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Tigercourse's avatar

What a weird, disappointing, and potentially hugely problematic decision.

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Kevin H.'s avatar

Why do i have a negative connotation with this guy? Did he endorse a republican?

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Henrik's avatar

Not that IтАЩm aware. And heтАЩs been an excellent Mayor

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TheDude415's avatar

He's been fairly inoffensive on that front as far as I know.

His policies seem to be really helping the city too.

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