A month ago we took a quick look at a GOP super-star in the making, Madison Cawthorn, the 25 year old right-wing, certifiably insane person who beat Trump's candidate for the deep red seat Mark Meadows gave up to become Trump's 20th Chief of Staff.
If you contribute to the DCCC, all of the money will go towards defeating exactly what you think you are supportingYesterday, Roll Call listed the 10 most likely Members of Congress to be defeated in November... in order.
Some of the Trump base is waking up-- drawing by Nancy OhanianA new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies shows that Trump’s support among Republicans and other conservative voters in California has finally begun eroding, largely due yo his mishandling of the pandemic and to the economic downturn he has presided over.
You've probably been reading about how a Mitch McConnell to cling onto power in the Senate has been telling his colleagues to run as fast and as far as they can from Trump and his collapsing reelection campaign to save their seats.
In their most recent polling, Change Research found that "preference for Democratic leadership on COVID-19 is clear when you see voters’ reactions to the way their governors are handling COVID-19.
One of the things that always attracted Blue America to J.D. Scholten has been his independent spirit. I don't see him in Congress as just another Democrat-- not even as just another progressive Democrat. I see him as a guy standing up for working families regardless of whatever some shifting party priorities happen to be at the moment. And he was always a lot more than just a way to replace racist Republican Steve King. In fact, King lost his primary to far right state legislator Randy Feenstra who actually attacked King from the right-- someone who couldn't deliver for Trump!
Damn! I wish the Lincoln Project would do some ads like this Susan Collins hit piece above targeting Trump enablers in the House like Michael McCaul and Roger Williams in Texas, and Ken Calvert and Doug LaMalfa in California (Fox News and the Corona, CA Police Department practically did all the work to set up the Calvert one already).There's so much material to work with-- even beyond the whole enabler thing.
Yesterday, the Cook Report's Amy Walter wrote that Florida has moved from "Toss Up" to "Leans Democrat." She doesn't really believe it; it isn't part of the Cook ideology. Florida can't be leaning Democrat-- even if their own metrics show that it is.
A few days ago, the NY Times published an essay by Andrew Sorkin, A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t.
