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Hey the ding bat lost the Arizona Secretary State race

 

It was, and it was better for the Democrat than most recent returns from Trumpist locales. So while her deficit grew, it's under control.

 

Agreed. Hoping the Fox klan's abandonment of their lord and savior has some staying power this time.

 

I know we all like to retry Hillary vs. Bernie vs. Trump here. I get that. Even when we do it over and over again.

I will say, obviously everything would've been better with Hillary as president. But Covid still probably would've changed everything in 2020, perhaps the other way. Even though we all know Hillary would've handled it better, it still would've been terribly rough, and imagine the narratives as she came to re-election.

She already wasn't likeable. 2020 would've been really, really tough to hold in that scenario.

 

And nobody would have listened to her about Covid anyway.

 

Maybe I’m naive, but regardless of what happens in Nevada (and lookin’ good for Dems now) I would hope Dems would turn out in force to elect Warnock in Georgia.

It’s a six-year seat in what was recently a very red state. And I disagree with a previous post. I think Abrams will help a lot. She’s still a force in the party. Just can’t beat Kemp.

And if the Dems already have 50, I would think GOP turnout would be down, because Walker is a shitty candidate.

 

Also, beating Walker would repudiate another Trump pick, with Oz and Masters. Damn, damn, damn on JD Vance.

 

Cortez Masto trails by 821

 

If Cortez Masto and Warnock are reelected then Manchin is marginalized.

I also think that Kelly's win will embolden Arizona Democrats to primary Kyrsten Sinema. The argument that a Democrat has to be a conservative to win in Arizona goes out the window.

 

Sinema was absolutely going to be primaried regardless of the result in this election. Ruben Gallego is going to run against her and probably kick her ass in the primary. In a poll earlier this year she had the remarkable distinction of having an "unfavorable" rating above 50% in literally every single demo.

(And to be clear: Sinema was in no way a conservative candidate. She was a bisexual atheist known for wearing pink tutus to anti-war protests. Then she got elected and discovered she could get rich by voting against everything she claimed to support.)

 

Said The Fabulous Sports Babe circa., mid-1990s.

 

Hillary Clinton wasn't an election denier in the sense of truly refusing to accept the results, as Trump has done.

She just took a while conceding to Trump because she simply couldn't believe the results -- so stunned was she that she just could not wrap her head around them. It wasn't that she was refusing to; she just, honestly, couldn't do it. Because she was honestly and fully invested in the race. To put it in emotional terms, she cared.

That's something else Trump hasn't done.