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The Downballot will be taking a short break for the Fourth of July. We'll be back in your inboxes on Tuesday. Have a wonderful holiday!
I’m back. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to avoid engaging with anything that sets me off particularly emotionally. I’ll avoid, to the best of my ability, doing that. I hope posters here can forgive me for my more unhinged comments. I will also cease calling out specific posters - it is not civil and derails conversations. (For those here who noticed I was still liking posts, the break I went on was specifically from posting.)
Anyway, an interesting article I popped up in the New York Times that I wanted to share. Basically, they list the Dem incumbents most vulnerable to a primary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/democratic-incumbents-progressive-primary-challengers.html
They are as follows:
- Shri Thanedar, MI-13
- Wesley Bell, MO-01
- Ed Case, HI-01
- John Larson, CT-01
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, FL-20
- Stephen Lynch, MA-08
Thoughts? Are the NY Times accurate in their assessments? Any of these that posters here don’t think are particularly vulnerable? Any not listed that posters here think could be vulnerable themselves?