From: Ryan Grim
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2019 11:09 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Trump flipped the bird
Since 2016, there has been a slew of special elections and three general
elections - 2017, 2018, and 2019. All have gone terribly for Republicans.
Tuesday night was a mess for them. The deeply unpopular Kentucky Gov. Matt
Bevin -- who Trump rallied for, begging voters not to humiliate him by
letting him lose -- lost to Attorney General Andy Beshear, whose father, as
a former governor, expanded Medicaid.
Trump flipped the bird
Nov 6
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Since 2016, there has been a slew of special elections and three general
elections - 2017, 2018, and 2019. All have gone terribly for Republicans.
Tuesday night was a mess for them. The deeply unpopular Kentucky Gov. Matt
Bevin -- who Trump rallied for, begging voters not to humiliate him by
letting him lose -- lost to Attorney General Andy Beshear, whose father, as
a former governor, expanded Medicaid.
Bevin went after the health care law, trying to roll it back, and also tried
to strip teachers of their pensions. And people fought back.
If that wasn't humiliating enough, remember Juli Briskman? She was the
Virginia lady on the bike who famously flipped Trump's motorcade the bird in
2017 and lost her job for it. Now
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Fs1rfYH8wPnyb> she's an elected official.
She was one of scores of wins in Virginia, as Democrats flipped the Senate
and will now fully control the state government. Ralph Northam, who never
resigned, now has a window to push through sweeping progressive change in
the state.
In both Kentucky and Virginia, Republicans ran heavily on this "infanticide"
nonsense, accusing Democrats of being literal baby killers. It is notable -
and Democrats should take notice, but they probably won't - that the
anti-abortion messaging, despite how hard Republicans pounded on it, did not
work for them. Abortion is now a losing issue for Republicans.
In Scranton, Pennsylvania - Joe Biden's birthplace - an
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355iS> insurgent who refused to run as a Democrat, saying she didn't trust
the corrupt local party (a wise move in Scranton) beat the Democrat in the
mayoral race.
In Philadelphia, the Working Families Party went all in, backing two
candidates who ran third-party bids. Typically, WFP allies with Democrats,
but this time they ran on their own, aiming for two spots the city charter
reserves for minority party councilmembers. Since the '50s, those seats have
been held by Republicans. It
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least one of those, Kendra Brooks, is going to win, knocking out a
Republican and shifting the balance of power left in the city council.
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xXQcqj7_JIeW3vssSW9_U9cCyoAk5W68WMAX7A7asiWk> Here's Akela Lacy on that
race.
The Kentucky race has implications for Mitch McConnell, as one of the
potential candidates who'd be most formidable against him, sports radio host
Matt Jones, said he was watching Bevin's race before deciding whether to get
in. Amy McGrath, who's already in, has more than $10 million but virtually
no chance to win. Charles Booker, a a progressive Louisville state
legislator, is also looking at the race. He told me tonight to "stay tuned!"
when I asked if he was jumping in.
Joe Biden, meanwhile,
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gjPJtlqj6tmkUy4Yu5Dy9mawrsj_IloR8> spent the evening with a small group of
ultra-wealthy donors, at a fundraiser hosted by a fracking developer and a
health care industry executive. He used his time there
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_H6ZjBRVgzw6IIH3Mk1rf1LVkpdDGgjaoWdsz9geQjYhz> to go after Warren for being
"elitist."
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) is out with its first
endorsements of the 2020 cycle: Kara Eastman (NE-2), JD Scholten (IA-4),
Dana Balter (NY-24), Jessica Cisneros (TX-28), Arati Kreivich (NJ-5; running
against Josh Gottheimer), Morgan Harper (OH-3), Marie Newman (IL-3), Rep.
Katie Porter (CA-45), and Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49).
They also endorsed Stephen Smith, running a very interesting populist
campaign for governor in West Virginia.
There are more results still coming in, including a key San Francisco
district attorney race and a special election in a Trump district in
Missouri that Democrats might steal. But that's enough for tonight. If you
want more tomorrow,
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