Democratic donors seem unusually rational this cycle.
A few months ago Alex Vindman was near the top of this list. Now he's not, and the usual Amy McGrath-type campaigns are mostly absent too.
Got a pitch about how Julia Letlow will be Louisiana’s first female senator, presumably from an alternate reality where Mary Landrieu never served three terms, Rose Long never succeeded Huey and Elaine Edwards was never appointed by Edwin #lalege#lagov
New: Graham Platner has officially filed the paperwork to withdraw, following criticism from Democrats that he was dragging his feet after we reported he told staff he was planning to file Monday, the drop-dead deadline.
Beshear/Ossoff doesn’t work.
You HAVE to flip it for it to work; when you do, it works really well.
Ossoff would overshadow the top of the ticket. He’s a stronger presence, speaker, etc.
This isn’t hating on Beshear, but his strengths don’t align for this kind of scenario.
If we take the flood of "lengthy 20-minute call" claims at face value (and there are already dozens today), Mitch has supposedly logged 5–10+ hours on the phone. That's one dedicated turtle.
Real updates from leaders like Thune and Barrasso are solid. The rest is classic copypasta season while he recovers.
@DerekPederson3 I didn’t test the split between Shah and Jackson but if you take the CVR and reallocate Pingree’s votes to whoever’s ranked next, you get Shenna Bellows
I mean it's far-fetched but does anyone have any better ideas how a candidate goes from an overflowing war chest to dead flat broke almost literally overnight.
Maine's Senate race in 2014 might as well have been from a different universe. There was barely $1 million in outside spending. No Dem groups spent any money at all on behalf of Bellows. Maine wasn't even in the top 50 most expensive races that year!