A DSAer knocked off a15-term House incumbent Dem in Colorado primaries yesterday, and the centrists are in a panic. And Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser won the Democratic primary race for governor over Michael Bennet, a three-term incumbent U.S. senator. WaPo:
Bennet is the first sitting senator to lose a gubernatorial primary in 15 years, a loss underwritten by a nearly $1 million personal loan to his campaign and almost twice as much spending on TV ads compared to Weiser.
Weiser tweaked Bennet for voting to confirm eight of Trump’s Cabinet members. Bennet stood by his votes, except for the one to confirm Energy Secretary Chris Wright. He argued his support was necessary to help the state secure federal resources.
Colorado primary voters ultimately decided to leave Bennet in D.C., where he has another two years in his Senate term.
I take it the natives are restless.
Bennet spent twice as much as Weiser on television ads, and still lost. Keep that in mind as we face a flood of money going to Republican midterm candidates, thanks to yesterday’s campaign finance rules decision. The candidate with the most money can lose. It happens a lot. So I question whether the campaign finance decision will save the GOP’s ass in the midterms.
But it does appear a large part of Democratic voters are kind of done with Dem candidates who can’t think beyond the old status quo.
The fallout from the birthright citizenship decision continues. Stephen Miller and other MAGAts are calling for the U.S. to ban pregnant women from entering the country. I’m serious. Are they going to make women take pregnancy tests before they can enter?
"I don't see any reason that we should protect foreigners from the burden of American citizenship these days, since we're damning our own population!"
Was this the primary reason for the primary loss"
"DeGette is a longtime member of the Democratic establishment and was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. But even with her progressive status, her support from dark money corporate super PACs and pro-Israel PACs, as well as her staunch support for Israel, made her particularly vulnerable to an attack from a candidate like Kiros—who was fired from her job over a social media post criticizing law firms’ support for Israel. Yet establishment Democrats still seem to be stunned by DeGette’s loss."
Probably. The young folks especially have had it with Israel and see absolutely no reason why the U.S. continues to give them money. .
I only qualify as "young" in geological terms; I've been worried about AIPAC since the Holocene (Reagan era). Glad to see that the Cro-Magnons are figuring it out.
If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes
https://bsky.app/profile/kylec.bsky.social/post/3mpmmqr66qs23
All the ads seem alike. All bad guesses as to how the candidate thinks they can con you out of your vote.
My reaction to the ads is mostly instant rejection. They spent money on that ad. What a waste. They have no idea how to spend. Ergo, no clue on how to spend our tax dollars.
Like the guy now at the top.
The guy super glueing all the gold do-das everywhere.
If voters are rejecting that sort of politician, I'm all with them.
"But it does appear a large part of Democratic voters are kind of done with Dem candidates who can’t think beyond the old status quo"
So we end up with two candidates running against each other who are on the far left and right sides of their party. That is a recipe for low voter turnout and we know who wants low voter turnout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_G-ey6_go&list=RDH9_G-ey6_go&start_radio=1
"But it does appear a large part of Democratic voters are kind of done with Dem candidates who can’t think beyond the old status quo"
So we end up with two candidates running against each other who are on the far left and right sides of their party. That is a recipe for low voter turnout and we know who wants low voter turnout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQncxrf1fWY&list=RDcQncxrf1fWY&start_radio=1
The "far right" in the U.S. is genuinely far right, but most of the so-called "far left" here would be considered "centrists" or “center-left” in just about any other industrialized democracy. What we've had in the U.S. for the past few decades is not right vs. left but crazy off the charts right vs. moderately center-right. And I think voters are finally catching on to that and are demanding real choices.
One of the progressive candidates (far left) supports genocide with US cash and weapons in exchange for international campaign support (AIPAC)
This is a moral failure (mass murder) and an ethical failure. Selling out the clear will of the US voters in exchange for cash campaign support.
It you can't see the difference, I pity you.
Who?