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MPC's avatar

I highly disagree.

The handling of hurricane Helene is the fault of the GOP controlled state legislature, not former governor Cooper or current gov Josh Stein. Tillis has never showed up for his constituents, never held a public town hall since he unseated Kagan and only does events funded by his dark money donors (with prescreened questions).

And if Trump’s idiotic tariffs take effect March 1, angry voters are going to take their frustrations out on the incumbent party. And Tillis is the most vulnerable Senator up in 2026, apart from Collins and Ossoff.

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Jonathan's avatar

I don't think Ossoff is vulnerable

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MPC's avatar

Kemp or whomever is the R Senate challenger will be gunning for him— and a lot of money will be spent trying to unseat him. Ossoff should be thankful that he will benefit from the 2026 midterm backlash against FDJT.

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benamery21's avatar

Any Dem running in a swing state with a GOP trifecta and triplex is vulnerable to GOP shenanigans.

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Jonathan's avatar

I disagree; show me 1 election that wasn't actually won by the winner (don't give some bullshit before 2000); yes, I think Al Gore actually won here in Florida

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benamery21's avatar

Given my premise, most Dems “losing” close races in places run by Republicans. I’ll throw out Bill Nelson in 2018 as an example. Now I can certainly argue Bill should have managed to win anyway, but the margin is small enough it’s hard to argue GOP dirty tricks weren’t bigger than the margin. We just tend to see them as baked in.

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Jonathan's avatar

I get where you are coming from; I just don't think our side benefits from that without empirical proof; and let's be clear, just because the Republicans cry like teenage girls, doesn't mean our side should follow suit; we are the good guys, and we should always act like it

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michaelflutist's avatar

How sure are you that they'll blame the legislature, rather than the governor, who should be able to solve everything by himself, according to what loads of ignorant people think about Chief Executives

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