It’s usually risky to make predictions about candidates months before an election, especially ones running in swing states, but I’m not going out on a limb by saying Kari Lake will lose her Senate race in Arizona. Lake has never held public office. She didn’t work her way up throug[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Elections’
August 7th, 2024 - 5:22 pm § in Politics
Who did voters fire in this year’s primaries?
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) became the second member of “The Squad” (explained here) bounced from Congress in this year’s primaries (see story here). Earlier, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) lost his primary in New York. Both were victims of backlash against their criticism of Israel. In Kansa[...]
Nope, Tiffany Smiley can’t beat Dan Newhouse
Tiffany Smiley (photo, left) tried to unseat Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) in the August 2024 primary, but she came in third, meaning she’s eliminated. Newhouse will face Jerrod Sessler in November. Trump endorsed Sessler and Smiley. He has a grudge against Newhouse, who voted to impeach him for th[...]
Can Tiffany Smiley beat Dan Newhouse?
Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is a 5-term congressman who represents the swath of eastern Washington just east of the Cascade mountains, from the Canadian border to the Columbia River (see map here). The district is so red it will go Republican in November. In every election there, the Democratic candidate st[...]
This woman won’t be a senator, but she’s running anyway
John Curtis (bio here) is the 2024 GOP nominee for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney. Curtis is a boring man. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a management degree, worked in business, got tired of losing as a Democrat in a deep-red state so became a Republican, and was[...]
Who’s lying about abortion in WA governor’s race?
Polls show Bob Ferguson (D) and Dave Reichert (R) will face off for Washington governor after next week’s primary. They’re already calling each other liars. Ferguson ran an ad saying Reichert, while in Congress, “voted for a nationwide abortion ban, with criminal penalties for doct[...]
Palestinians are people, too
If you listen to Netanyahu, Israeli settlers and militants, and U.S. Republican politicians, sympathizing with Palestinians makes you “pro-Hamas.” That’s bullshit. Like most people, I think the Oct. 7 attacks were a reprehensible act of terrorism. I’m no fan of anti-Israel pr[...]
July 28th, 2024 - 6:04 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How polio could make a comeback (20-second video)
Polio is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by a virus. The 1950s saw a major U.S. outbreak among schoolchildren. It was brought to a halt by a polio vaccine whose inventor, Jonas Salk, spent his later life campaigning for mandatory vaccination. Where does the 2024 GOP presidential nomine[...]
July 19th, 2024 - 6:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOPers hijack ballot statement on Florida abortion rights
Florida Republicans tried but failed to keep an abortion rights initiative off the November 2024 ballot, losing by 4-3 in the state supreme court (read the court’s opinion here). It would amend the state constitution as follows: “SECTION __. Limiting government interference with abortio[...]
Democratic senator convicted of corruption
A jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), 70, of “bribery, acting as a foreign agent and a slew of other charges,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (read story here). The charges involved, among other things, undisclosed gifts from a donor. Menendez (photo, left) brushed asi[...]