She did take that position by the end of her campaign, but criticisms of her went beyond any single issue. She was too cozy with defense contractors and tech companies. She also had no path to building seniority, securing earmarks, and delivering for her district after alienating the CBC, whereas Kiros has a long career ahead of her to do all of that.
AIPAC also clearly preferred her over an explicitly anti-Zionist candidate and spent millions on the race, which ended up polarizing it around Israel anyway.
Ryan has clearly made the calculation that he doesn't need to court the large pro-Israel vote in his district anymore, atleast for 2026, and is going all in on courting Mamdani for the 2028 Senate election.
TX-15: I couldn't read the full article since NBC paywalls now, but Democratic nominee Bobby Pulido apparently made racist and homophobic tweets in 2015.
If you want to argue about vetting, here's another example that isn't a left-wing populist.
given the social conservatism rampant in south texas, this is one of those occasions where maybe it doesn't hurt us as much, but jeez people need to learn to get off twitter if they are drunk and bigoted
Not good but not campaign ending and should definitely apologize and move on. I would venture to guess most voters in this district don't care about decade-old social media posts though.
Here's a poll about who Democratic voters want as the nominee in Maine. I don't know how reliable it is nor how good this pollster is, but it could be an interesting look at what Mainers are looking for
Looking at crosstabs, seems like Jackson is the preferred candidate of progressives and Shah the preferred candidate of moderates.
Given that the nominee will be selected by a convention polling might not be too useful, but if multiple polls show Jackson in the lead (especially by such a margin) those who are voting at the convention might feel more inclined/pressured to vote for Jackson. Not that I think it'd be needed... I think Jackson has a pretty easy path to the nomination. Both of his major opponents have some pretty big flaws.
Bellows has already run against Collins and lost resoundingly, and whether or not you think that's a fair criticism (I don't really think it is), it is something that convention voters might consider, as well as the fact she finished behind Jackson in the governor's primary and just doesn't seem to be a very inspiring candidate.
Shah doesn't really fit neatly into a political ideology which is probably a detriment given how Maine voters voted in the senate primary, and he's an outsider - as in, an out of stater, which probably wouldn't *hurt* too much in the general but I could see it being a point against him in the nominating convention. Plus his tenure as a health director in Illinois was bad enough for senator Duckworth to come out and call for him to not be nominated, and after the Platner mess the party is probably going to want to pick a candidate that'll generate as little bad press as possible.
Basically: If Bellows gets third, Jackson is guaranteed the nomination because of Shah being an out of stater without heavy ties to the state party. If Shah gets third, it's probably a bit closer but Jackson likely still pulls through relatively easily. It's funny, despite being a staunch progressive, Jackson is actually the candidate with the most ties to the "establishment," atleast in Maine, which will greatly help him here.
I agree, and I think he'd be a good Senator. As I've said a million times, at this point I'm looking for 1) electability and 2) grownups who are serious about legislating over just about anything else and he checks both of those boxes.
Well, Troy Jackson from 2002 to 2024 has served in State Government as a State House Rep and State Senator (with a gap of just over a year as he got elected in the 1st District vs. the previous 35th District). He also has been Minority Leader of the Senate and President of the Senate.
The fact that Jackson has been a leader in state government with this influence gives him serious credibility.
This is niche but I like Jackson because he was the driving force in passing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in Maine (and no thanks whatsoever to Gov. Mills for refusing to sign it).
I'm not sure this is a matter of spine, unless her decision was influenced by political calculus of lobbyists. Sometimes, people use their political spine for stances that please no one.
I agree it’s an unfair knock on Bellows. Shes still my second choice behind Jackson, who seems uniquely positioned to unite both factions behind him - yes he’s a staunch progressive but he didn’t become Senate President by accident, either, so it’s not like he’s an insurgent that Maine moderates hate or something
Hard to say. The only polling we have of the race is internal polling/sponsored by the Walz campaign, which does show a potentially close head-to-head race, but it's something to take with a grain of salt.
If Morning Consult's numbers are accurate, Pillen isn't exactly super popular. He has a net +6 approval rating but falls short of a majority which, in a state as red as Nebraska, is problematic.
Given that, as well as the fact that Dan Osborn will perform very strongly at the top of the ballot, plus Lindstrom's newly announced candidacy, it's not necessarily *impossible* for Walz to eke out a win. But I wouldn't really call the race anything less than "Likely Republican" until further, independent polling comes out. Lindstrom apparently ran as a more moderate Republican in 2022, so it's very unlikely he doesn't peel off any potential Walz voters as well as Pillen voters. Walz would also probably need to at least match the 41% Democrats scored in the 2018 governor's race and likely need to score a few points higher (around 43-44%) to win in a three way election
Edit: As Jaz said as well there's a Legal Marijuana NOW candidate that could also siphon voters from Walz, whom the Walz campaign seem to "conveniently" leave out in internal polling, which lowers the floor of votes she could receive a decent bit. Worth noting though that the only poll that includes the LMN candidate is also a Democratic pollster, albeit a relatively accurate one
I'd look at both Kansas and Nebraska as potential "chaos" states, if the wave builds and people are super change-motivated in November. Don't know how to show my maths on that, though.
Agreed. Osborn in Nebraska is the obvious harbinger of Chaos, but I think Kansas has the potential to surprise people, albeit moreso in the potential for a closer race and not a flip/Democratic pickup. Senator Marshall is the definition of a backbencher and has lukewarm approvals (net +6, 41% according to Morning Consult), and the Democratic bench is relatively strong (especially pastor Adam Hamilton) with all three major candidates polling about 10% behind Marshall (Hamilton by 9%). That was taken in late January, and since then Trump's disapproval rating has increased by 4 points. That, plus the concurrent governor's race which will probably be competitive because of outgoing Democratic gov Laura Kelly's popularity, creates an environment where the GOP might have to direct funding towards defending senator Marshall. Underlining this argument is the fact that Kansas has been shifting ever so slightly towards the left in recent elections, as well as moving rightward by a much smaller margin than many other states in 2024 (1.5% vs the national average of 6%)
Rev. Hamilton is a very interesting, out side of the box candidate (one of the only center-left mainline pastors of a true mega church, the largest church in the state). He has the potential to do well.
Nebraska is vulnerable to a Democratic wave (at least relative to the typical partisan lean of the state) due to Trump's tariffs and international trade policies harming the state's agriculture industry.
That's pretty much the ballgame in the MN-Gov race, even though I don't think DeMuth or Qualls have much more of a chance of defeating likely DFL nominee Klobuchar than Lindell, who has less than zero chance of winning a statewide general election in Minnesota.
Lindell would've been lucky to get 40% against Tim Walz even in a Republican environment. In this environment against Klobuchar, he'll be lucky if he gets more than 35%
SC-Sen: Outgoing Rep. Ralph Norman all but announced a Senate run on Fox, saying he was "interested", and that he supported the passage of the SAVE Act and abolishing the filibuster.
Norman was supposed to make an announcement on a run yesterday, but I guess he thought maybe he should give time for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's allies to grieve and not look like an opportunist.
SC-7: And if Norman's house colleague Russell Fry also jumps in to the race (which is likely since Trump has publicly praised such a bid), state Rep. Case Brittain will run to succeed Fry. Fry won't run if Lt. Gov. Pam Evette does, but Politico reported yesterday he is looking at a run anyway.
PA Quinnipiac poll: Shapiro up 53-40. Generic 49-43 Dem. Trump job approval: 39/58. And
Republicans (77 - 12 percent) approve of the way Fetterman is handling his job, while Democrats (69 - 19 percent) disapprove. Among independents, 48 percent disapprove of the way Fetterman is handling his job and 44 percent approve.
A Republican PAC in Wisconsin is planning on running ads attacking Francesca Hong as "Too liberal for Wisconsin." Some could say the ads are meant to boost her standing in the primary.
Both parties do this and I’m stating to wonder if it actually works anymore. It was novel when CMC ambushed Todd Akin with it but at this point does anybody still fall for it?
On one hand, the vast majority of voters will have no awareness of the history or usage of these attempts at meddling in primaries. Even primary voters. Which would argue that it does still have an impact.
On the other hand, usually these are small spends relying on coverage of the ads themselves to boost the message out there. The people that decide what gets covered are fully aware of the history and will be bored by these ads. Which would argue most impact has been lost.
My initial instinct was to lean towards the former aspect, but thinking it through I think the latter is more likely and that you're correct.
"Ouch. Brad Lander's 32-point rout of Dan Goldman marks the worst defeat for an incumbent in a Democratic congressional primary in more than 26 years – since Hilda Solis defeated Matthew Martínez 69%–31% in California's March 2000 Democratic primary."
That got me curious -- what were some of the other biggest primary defeats in Congressional primaries in the past 20-30-40 years? Dem or GOP? Curious to see which ones posters here remember.
Yes although in Cantor’s case, I don’t remember him being considered a vulnerable incumbent for a primary challenge. I think Brat unseated Cantor because of his campaign.
Mike Castle was not a Senator when he lost to Not a Witch Christine O'Donnell. He was a House member trying to get promoted to Senator. I still think that Chris Coons, who defeated O'Donnell in the general election, is one of the luckiest people in DC.
Not sure if you meant big margin wise or notability wise. I'm sure some of these fit both categories.
John Tierney, Mike Capuano, Steve Solarz, Joe Crowley, Jamaal Bowman/Eliot Engel/Mario Biaggi (all same seat, back to back), Steve Rothman, Chaka Fattah, Al Wynn, Alan Mollohan (my representative when I was born), David McKinley (also my rep), Renee Ellmers, Robert Pittenger, Madison Cawthorn, Mark Sanford, Cynthia McKinney (being primaried twice by different people is kind of funny), Corrine Brown, Parker Griffith (the same Republican Party that convinced him to switch ousted him from Congress at the same time), Dennis Kucinich, Guy Vander Jagt, Dan Lipinski, Cori Bush/Lacy Clay/Russ Carnahan (also back to back), Bill Alexander, Clyde Holloway (major segregationist, glad he lost), Ralph Hall, Al Green/Chris Bell (again, same seat back to back), Silver Reyes, Mike Synar, Tim Huelskamp, Steve Watkins (thank God), Diana DeGette, Jaime Herrera Beutler/Kurt Schrader (handed the seats to the other parties even though it shouldn't have), counting Pete Stark, Mike Honda, Howard Berman, etc. as primary defeats as they lost to same-party challengers.
That's just the ones I could name off the top of my head. I'm sure there's plenty more.
Can't believe I forgot Cheney and Tipton. Of course the districts border each other too.
Also, as a former McKinley constituent who has discussed this with local politicos and adjacent people, his loss was not unexpected but the margin was.
One of the Democratic nobodies running in the Georgia 13th special election has been disqualified. This probably increases the chance of Marcye Scott avoiding a runoff against someone, probably Everton Blair.
Obituaries: Denise "Dee" Oliver-Velez, a 1960s civil rights activist and Daily Kos contributor (where this site used to be), has died at 78.
Oliver-Velez was suspended from Howard, a DC HBCU, for refusing to "behave like a nice Howard lady". At Howard, she was a member of SNCC. After college, she worked as a DC radio host before shifting to blogging.
Also, to quote Bradley Nowell, she practiced Santeria.
She was also an avid World of Warcraft player, and was happy to connect with anyone that was willing to reach out to her, about almost anything. Rest in Peace.
A few surprises I guess but all in all to be expected. Reminds me of the Senate vote a few months ago.
Colorado's AIPAC Dems panicked due to Hickenlooper and DeGette.
She did take that position by the end of her campaign, but criticisms of her went beyond any single issue. She was too cozy with defense contractors and tech companies. She also had no path to building seniority, securing earmarks, and delivering for her district after alienating the CBC, whereas Kiros has a long career ahead of her to do all of that.
AIPAC also clearly preferred her over an explicitly anti-Zionist candidate and spent millions on the race, which ended up polarizing it around Israel anyway.
Ryan has clearly made the calculation that he doesn't need to court the large pro-Israel vote in his district anymore, atleast for 2026, and is going all in on courting Mamdani for the 2028 Senate election.
Who were the 21? Democratic Nays not endorsed by AIPAC/DMFI?
Please do not discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the topic is banned here.
Blackburn polling at 51%? Yuck.
Not sure about Rose but she'd probably be better than Fritts, unfortunately
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democratic-candidate-bobby-pulido-tweets-homophobic-racist-slurs-rcna587358
TX-15: I couldn't read the full article since NBC paywalls now, but Democratic nominee Bobby Pulido apparently made racist and homophobic tweets in 2015.
If you want to argue about vetting, here's another example that isn't a left-wing populist.
given the social conservatism rampant in south texas, this is one of those occasions where maybe it doesn't hurt us as much, but jeez people need to learn to get off twitter if they are drunk and bigoted
I doubt this impacts the race much at all. They’re mildly bad comments from over a decade ago. All he has to do is apologize.
If anything, it might help him because clearly he’s not “woke.”
Not good but not campaign ending and should definitely apologize and move on. I would venture to guess most voters in this district don't care about decade-old social media posts though.
The reddit posts were always the most tame of Platner’s scandals. I didn’t care about Bob Brooks’ old posts either.
That link is subscription-walled. What did he tweet?
Who knows. NBC seems to be the only one with the story.
Never figured NBC would be paywalling their stories since they have a different business model than print publications.
Almost all news media (including TV networks) are hemorrhaging money
It is easy to fall in love with a charismatic outsider, regardless of ideology
Off topic:
Here's a poll about who Democratic voters want as the nominee in Maine. I don't know how reliable it is nor how good this pollster is, but it could be an interesting look at what Mainers are looking for
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6931cd6da26b553260b5e813/6a53c8a575614ee83699ba49_bluepnt005%20Weighted%20Report%20(1).pdf
Looking at crosstabs, seems like Jackson is the preferred candidate of progressives and Shah the preferred candidate of moderates.
Given that the nominee will be selected by a convention polling might not be too useful, but if multiple polls show Jackson in the lead (especially by such a margin) those who are voting at the convention might feel more inclined/pressured to vote for Jackson. Not that I think it'd be needed... I think Jackson has a pretty easy path to the nomination. Both of his major opponents have some pretty big flaws.
Bellows has already run against Collins and lost resoundingly, and whether or not you think that's a fair criticism (I don't really think it is), it is something that convention voters might consider, as well as the fact she finished behind Jackson in the governor's primary and just doesn't seem to be a very inspiring candidate.
Shah doesn't really fit neatly into a political ideology which is probably a detriment given how Maine voters voted in the senate primary, and he's an outsider - as in, an out of stater, which probably wouldn't *hurt* too much in the general but I could see it being a point against him in the nominating convention. Plus his tenure as a health director in Illinois was bad enough for senator Duckworth to come out and call for him to not be nominated, and after the Platner mess the party is probably going to want to pick a candidate that'll generate as little bad press as possible.
Basically: If Bellows gets third, Jackson is guaranteed the nomination because of Shah being an out of stater without heavy ties to the state party. If Shah gets third, it's probably a bit closer but Jackson likely still pulls through relatively easily. It's funny, despite being a staunch progressive, Jackson is actually the candidate with the most ties to the "establishment," atleast in Maine, which will greatly help him here.
Jackson’s the obvious choice.
So long as he doesn't have (multiple) bodies hidden in his crawlspace, I tend to agree.
I agree, and I think he'd be a good Senator. As I've said a million times, at this point I'm looking for 1) electability and 2) grownups who are serious about legislating over just about anything else and he checks both of those boxes.
Well, Troy Jackson from 2002 to 2024 has served in State Government as a State House Rep and State Senator (with a gap of just over a year as he got elected in the 1st District vs. the previous 35th District). He also has been Minority Leader of the Senate and President of the Senate.
The fact that Jackson has been a leader in state government with this influence gives him serious credibility.
This is niche but I like Jackson because he was the driving force in passing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in Maine (and no thanks whatsoever to Gov. Mills for refusing to sign it).
Which shows Jackson has spine and Mills doesn't.
I'm not sure this is a matter of spine, unless her decision was influenced by political calculus of lobbyists. Sometimes, people use their political spine for stances that please no one.
It’s consistently an issue with Governor Mills where she is unwilling to do the right thing when most Democrats are pushing these days to do more.
I don't disagree, but I'm just arguing that doing the right thing isn't necessarily the same thing as spine.
I agree it’s an unfair knock on Bellows. Shes still my second choice behind Jackson, who seems uniquely positioned to unite both factions behind him - yes he’s a staunch progressive but he didn’t become Senate President by accident, either, so it’s not like he’s an insurgent that Maine moderates hate or something
Assuming Lindstrom pulls more votes from Pillen, does Lynne Walz have a chance now to eke out a win?
There's also another third party candidate polling high single digits that seems to be on the left
Hard to say. The only polling we have of the race is internal polling/sponsored by the Walz campaign, which does show a potentially close head-to-head race, but it's something to take with a grain of salt.
If Morning Consult's numbers are accurate, Pillen isn't exactly super popular. He has a net +6 approval rating but falls short of a majority which, in a state as red as Nebraska, is problematic.
Given that, as well as the fact that Dan Osborn will perform very strongly at the top of the ballot, plus Lindstrom's newly announced candidacy, it's not necessarily *impossible* for Walz to eke out a win. But I wouldn't really call the race anything less than "Likely Republican" until further, independent polling comes out. Lindstrom apparently ran as a more moderate Republican in 2022, so it's very unlikely he doesn't peel off any potential Walz voters as well as Pillen voters. Walz would also probably need to at least match the 41% Democrats scored in the 2018 governor's race and likely need to score a few points higher (around 43-44%) to win in a three way election
Edit: As Jaz said as well there's a Legal Marijuana NOW candidate that could also siphon voters from Walz, whom the Walz campaign seem to "conveniently" leave out in internal polling, which lowers the floor of votes she could receive a decent bit. Worth noting though that the only poll that includes the LMN candidate is also a Democratic pollster, albeit a relatively accurate one
I'd look at both Kansas and Nebraska as potential "chaos" states, if the wave builds and people are super change-motivated in November. Don't know how to show my maths on that, though.
Agreed. Osborn in Nebraska is the obvious harbinger of Chaos, but I think Kansas has the potential to surprise people, albeit moreso in the potential for a closer race and not a flip/Democratic pickup. Senator Marshall is the definition of a backbencher and has lukewarm approvals (net +6, 41% according to Morning Consult), and the Democratic bench is relatively strong (especially pastor Adam Hamilton) with all three major candidates polling about 10% behind Marshall (Hamilton by 9%). That was taken in late January, and since then Trump's disapproval rating has increased by 4 points. That, plus the concurrent governor's race which will probably be competitive because of outgoing Democratic gov Laura Kelly's popularity, creates an environment where the GOP might have to direct funding towards defending senator Marshall. Underlining this argument is the fact that Kansas has been shifting ever so slightly towards the left in recent elections, as well as moving rightward by a much smaller margin than many other states in 2024 (1.5% vs the national average of 6%)
Rev. Hamilton is a very interesting, out side of the box candidate (one of the only center-left mainline pastors of a true mega church, the largest church in the state). He has the potential to do well.
Nebraska is vulnerable to a Democratic wave (at least relative to the typical partisan lean of the state) due to Trump's tariffs and international trade policies harming the state's agriculture industry.
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hoo hah Trump endorses Lindell in MN GOV race. MN Rs commit hara-kiri. https://x.com/ChazNuttycombe/status/2077412267344138438?s=20
Didn't he already back in like November?
Republican voters respond: Yes master.
Let's hope. Kendall Qualls is definitely the big loser here.
God bless him.
Klobuchar is going to steamroll Lindell.
And more importantly, possibly help pull downballot candidates to victory.
Which is what we want to happen.
That's pretty much the ballgame in the MN-Gov race, even though I don't think DeMuth or Qualls have much more of a chance of defeating likely DFL nominee Klobuchar than Lindell, who has less than zero chance of winning a statewide general election in Minnesota.
Trump endorsed Evette in SC before he had to endorse "both are great." So he's had some Ls for state races.
Lindell would've been lucky to get 40% against Tim Walz even in a Republican environment. In this environment against Klobuchar, he'll be lucky if he gets more than 35%
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/rep-ralph-norman-says-hes-interested-grahams-senate-seat-lays-out-priorities-before-deciding-run
SC-Sen: Outgoing Rep. Ralph Norman all but announced a Senate run on Fox, saying he was "interested", and that he supported the passage of the SAVE Act and abolishing the filibuster.
Norman was supposed to make an announcement on a run yesterday, but I guess he thought maybe he should give time for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's allies to grieve and not look like an opportunist.
https://www.myhorrynews.com/news/rep-fry-gets-shoutout-from-president-trump-to-run-for-senate-brittain-reportedly-eyes-frys/article_6285c453-10b2-417d-a602-51246c419f2a.html
SC-7: And if Norman's house colleague Russell Fry also jumps in to the race (which is likely since Trump has publicly praised such a bid), state Rep. Case Brittain will run to succeed Fry. Fry won't run if Lt. Gov. Pam Evette does, but Politico reported yesterday he is looking at a run anyway.
Case Brittain would be an upgrade over Russell Fry.
But Fry won't be too much of an upgrade, if an upgrade at all, over Graham
Fry is a massive downgrade from Graham. For all Graham's sucking up to Trump he still supported Ukraine and Fry has no spine at all.
PA Quinnipiac poll: Shapiro up 53-40. Generic 49-43 Dem. Trump job approval: 39/58. And
Republicans (77 - 12 percent) approve of the way Fetterman is handling his job, while Democrats (69 - 19 percent) disapprove. Among independents, 48 percent disapprove of the way Fetterman is handling his job and 44 percent approve.
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3962
Hoping that Shapiro and Klobuchar break the 60% mark, and hopefully with the kind of coattails that eluded my Governor (Stein).
Hopefully they win by enough to get majorities in the legislature.
https://x.com/mattsmith_news/status/2077500688662217048?s=20
A Republican PAC in Wisconsin is planning on running ads attacking Francesca Hong as "Too liberal for Wisconsin." Some could say the ads are meant to boost her standing in the primary.
Both parties do this and I’m stating to wonder if it actually works anymore. It was novel when CMC ambushed Todd Akin with it but at this point does anybody still fall for it?
On one hand, the vast majority of voters will have no awareness of the history or usage of these attempts at meddling in primaries. Even primary voters. Which would argue that it does still have an impact.
On the other hand, usually these are small spends relying on coverage of the ads themselves to boost the message out there. The people that decide what gets covered are fully aware of the history and will be bored by these ads. Which would argue most impact has been lost.
My initial instinct was to lean towards the former aspect, but thinking it through I think the latter is more likely and that you're correct.
"Ouch. Brad Lander's 32-point rout of Dan Goldman marks the worst defeat for an incumbent in a Democratic congressional primary in more than 26 years – since Hilda Solis defeated Matthew Martínez 69%–31% in California's March 2000 Democratic primary."
https://x.com/MichaelLangeNYC/status/2077444399974248588
That got me curious -- what were some of the other biggest primary defeats in Congressional primaries in the past 20-30-40 years? Dem or GOP? Curious to see which ones posters here remember.
Eric Cantor for sure.
Yes although in Cantor’s case, I don’t remember him being considered a vulnerable incumbent for a primary challenge. I think Brat unseated Cantor because of his campaign.
Unless there’s something I’m missing.
Mike Castle might be the biggest.
Mike Castle was not a Senator when he lost to Not a Witch Christine O'Donnell. He was a House member trying to get promoted to Senator. I still think that Chris Coons, who defeated O'Donnell in the general election, is one of the luckiest people in DC.
Not sure if you meant big margin wise or notability wise. I'm sure some of these fit both categories.
John Tierney, Mike Capuano, Steve Solarz, Joe Crowley, Jamaal Bowman/Eliot Engel/Mario Biaggi (all same seat, back to back), Steve Rothman, Chaka Fattah, Al Wynn, Alan Mollohan (my representative when I was born), David McKinley (also my rep), Renee Ellmers, Robert Pittenger, Madison Cawthorn, Mark Sanford, Cynthia McKinney (being primaried twice by different people is kind of funny), Corrine Brown, Parker Griffith (the same Republican Party that convinced him to switch ousted him from Congress at the same time), Dennis Kucinich, Guy Vander Jagt, Dan Lipinski, Cori Bush/Lacy Clay/Russ Carnahan (also back to back), Bill Alexander, Clyde Holloway (major segregationist, glad he lost), Ralph Hall, Al Green/Chris Bell (again, same seat back to back), Silver Reyes, Mike Synar, Tim Huelskamp, Steve Watkins (thank God), Diana DeGette, Jaime Herrera Beutler/Kurt Schrader (handed the seats to the other parties even though it shouldn't have), counting Pete Stark, Mike Honda, Howard Berman, etc. as primary defeats as they lost to same-party challengers.
That's just the ones I could name off the top of my head. I'm sure there's plenty more.
Can't believe I forgot Cheney and Tipton. Of course the districts border each other too.
Also, as a former McKinley constituent who has discussed this with local politicos and adjacent people, his loss was not unexpected but the margin was.
https://ocgnews.com/bounced-check-tony-brown-disqualified-from-special-election-for-georgias-13th-congressional-district/
One of the Democratic nobodies running in the Georgia 13th special election has been disqualified. This probably increases the chance of Marcye Scott avoiding a runoff against someone, probably Everton Blair.
Fl-14 Poll. Kathy castor with a sizable lead https://x.com/polltracker2024/status/2077528984779190354?s=61&t=5copDbz1aPl7ASsRCUclLg
When I say dummy, you say mander
In this environment I think Castor and Moskowitz hold on, and we have the potential to hold FL-22. Soto has the most difficult task.
For all the complaining here, Moskowitz is the perfect candidate for his district. I'l take him over any GOP representative.
I'd take him over any GOP representative in *any* district, save for maybe the reincarnation of Lowell Weicker.
Where does VoteVets get all these millions? Is there a billionaire behind them?
Lis Smith and Auchincloss' The Bench has transferred large sums to it according to FEC filings to support their candidates
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/15/800070342/community/our-beloved-denise-is-now-with-the-ancestors/
Obituaries: Denise "Dee" Oliver-Velez, a 1960s civil rights activist and Daily Kos contributor (where this site used to be), has died at 78.
Oliver-Velez was suspended from Howard, a DC HBCU, for refusing to "behave like a nice Howard lady". At Howard, she was a member of SNCC. After college, she worked as a DC radio host before shifting to blogging.
Also, to quote Bradley Nowell, she practiced Santeria.
I'm very sorry to hear that. She was a brilliant, nice person.
She was also an avid World of Warcraft player, and was happy to connect with anyone that was willing to reach out to her, about almost anything. Rest in Peace.