Mike Dunleavy-- does he also have a thing for drag queens?Last week I went to two Ted Lieu fundraising events for California candidates. And he mentioned Alaska with times, asserting that Independent Alyse Galvin was starting to close the gap between herself and forever Congressman Don Young. 538 gives her a 29.3% chance to win (2 in 7) and there are no polls showing her ahead.
Dana Balter, the progressive woman running against Trump enabler John Katko in NY-24 (Syracuse), called yesterday.
We planned to spend this $15,000 on an independent project to help one of the Blue America candidates. But then we thought that the candidates could probably spend it more effectively than we could at this point in the game. They all need the money for their Get-Out-The-Vote field operations. So we're going to give $5,000 each to 3 candidates. Which 3? That's up to you.
One of us, not one of them-- so Pelosi will try to destroy him without blinkingToday is the first day of early voting for Utah and Saturday is the start of early voting for the rest of the Florida counties that didn't start yesterday-- albeit not all that early. But most of the rest of the country is in the throes of it now-- at least in those states that allow it.
For the past decade, the DCCC has been wrong about one of their most basic tenets-- to win in red districts candidates have to go-- or be-- GOP-lite. This has proven a disastrous, failed policy but one the DCCC has dug in on. This cycle, for example, nearly every single candidate they recruited and nearly every single candidate they are supporting with money is a New Dem or Blue Dog from the Republican wing of the party.
I know... it's too soon for this kind of speculation-- but Gabby Orr and Dan Lippman started it... so how couldI resist? And the preliminary fingerprinting began weeks, if not months ago. Orr and Lippman reported at Politico that at his rallies, Señor Trumpanzee argues that "the midterms are about one person-- Donald Trump.
It's kind of last minute to endorse a new candidate. But last week, Ted Lieu, the West Coast regional vice chair for the DCCC, told me about a candidate way up in the northeast wildness of California (CA-01) where the state meets Oregon and Nevada-- Audrey Denney. She's running against right-wing backbencher and Trump enabler Doug LaMalfa.
Janet Hook reported for the Wall Street Journal that "Voter interest in the midterm elections has surged to record highs within both parties... findings point to an energized electorate, buffeted by dynamics that bring great uncertainty to the outcome just two weeks away.
Jamie Raskin (D-MD), was one of the candidates elected to Congress in 2016. He has a very blue district Maryland district, where Jamie beat Republican Dan Cox 220,657) 60.6%) to 124,651 (34.2%. on the same day that Hillary eviscerated Trump 65.0% to 30.6%. The PVI is D+14 and this year the Republicans are represented by a vanity candidate, John Walsh, who hasn't raised the $5,000 that would trigger an FEC report.
In the last few days Randy Bryce debated Paul Ryan's cutout candidate to replace himself, corporate lawyer and job outsourcer Bryan Steil. Randy kicked his ass so badly that Steil, teary-eyed, ran from the building without even consoling his small contingent of deflated supporters. A day or two earlier, Kara Eastman shamed incumbent Donald Bacon in a debate.
