I find this fascinating, and figure it's as good of a time as any to separate the congressional races from the White House.
Iowan Rep. Steve King has reported a whopping $18,000 in his campaign fund as of the beginning of August. His leading primary challenger has almost $340,000. No corporate donors, nor PACS are sending any cash King's way, and yet he is still running for re-election. That is an amazing amount of hard-headedness. I'm totally curious to see where they spend that $18K, and how fast/slow. That barely puts gas in a campaign bus.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-kin...085611394.html
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
He won 2016 by about 80K votes and 2018 by about 10K votes. He's said plenty of things throughout his time in Iowa State Senate and Congress that would normally be considered extreme right wing or off on their own spectrum altogether. So, this ain't new and until the good people of Iowa's 4th decide they would prefer alternative representation, my guess is he's going to keep running. Giving the district's demographics, he'll be a tough out no matter what he says or how much money is sent his way from the establishment.
Wow, here's some big news...add a Georgia Senate seat to the mix. Johnny Isakson retiring:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...aaa?li=BBnb7Kz
Any of our resident Georgians want to weigh in on this?
I believe it is at the same time, for a two year term. I assume that since both GA Senate seats will be contested, the candidates have to declare which seat they are running for? There is a lot of potential game theory going on here - if the Dems were well-organized (which is a huge if), they would determine which of the two seats is most vulnerable and put their best candidate there - I'm sure they would love to take them both but I think they would be smartest to just focus on one.
2020 race...that is going to be a very interesting state.Isakson wasn't up for reelection again until 2022. And had he run again, he would have been tough to beat given his long service to the state. But now, his seat will be on the ballot in 2020, not 2022. And whoever Gov. Brian Kemp (R) appoints to fill the immediate vacancy will have -- at best -- a year to convince voters that he or she deserves to serve out the final two years remaining on Isakson's term. (Also worth noting: The electoral record of appointed senators is not so good.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/polit...020/index.html
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Problem is, the Dems won't know who the Rep candidate is for Johnny's seat until after their primary too. So kind of a blind draw there.
I am not aware of any real animosity towards the holder of the other seat (David Perdue) who just came on in 2015 when Saxby Chambliss retired. He seems to have kept a relatively low profile while in DC.
While Ilhan Omar is a visible and broad target for most of the American GOP, she is obviously popular enough in her own district to have been elected.
Her re-election chances may have just taken a big hit, however. This goes beyond rumors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ilhan-oma...153918990.htmlA medical official in Washington, D.C., says she split up with her husband, a political consultant, after he told her “he was romantically involved with and in love with” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), according to divorce papers filed Tuesday.
Beth Mynett, the medical director and health services administrator for D.C.’s Department of Corrections, said she and Tim Mynett, a partner at progressive political consulting firm E Street Group, separated in April, after he made a “devastating and shocking declaration of love” for Omar.
With a representative up for re-election every two years, they are basically on a non stop campaign. This isn't a stop that one would want to take.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Using campaign funds to pay for them* would still count as a big deal, I think.
*Big IF TRUE on this one. A conservative think tank/policy center has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission** alleging that Omar campaign funds were used to reimburse E Street for Mynett's travel - which, by itself, is not a problem since he's an advisor to the campaign, but would be a problem if the travel was for personal rather than professional reasons.
**Of course, the FEC very soon will lack a quorum to act because a certain senator has refused to appoint any commissioner for four years.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
With someone under the microscope as any of the four in "The Squad", just the affair alone is likely to be political career death knell. I won't touch any other accusations, because, as you say, they are a big IF.
However, someone doesn't file for divorce just because they think it's a great way to get rid of a congresswoman.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Won't the Republicans likely tip their hand on the second seat based on who is named to fill the seat? One would assume that is likely the person who will run for the position.
I am far from an expert on Perdue, but I am fairly sure that like most Republican senators, he has generally voted party line for Trump. That is enough to create animosity for many Democrats and never-Trump Republicans.