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DunleavyforAlaska https://www.dailykos.com/news/DunleavyforAlaska News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:17:00 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:17:00 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Morning Digest: Georgia GOP nominates Trump-endorsed xenophobe for governor https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/7/25/1783224/-Morning-Digest-Georgia-GOP-nominates-Trump-endorsed-xenophobe-for-governor The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. <a href="#1" name="1">●</a> Primaries: We had more runoffs in Georgia on Tuesday. We'll cover the outcomes the next Digest, but in the meantime, you can <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/us/elections/results-georgia-primary-runoff-elections.html">find the raw results here</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/us/elections/results-georgia-primary-runoff-elections.html">.</a> <h4>Leading Off</h4> • GA-Gov: On Tuesday, Secretary of State Brian Kemp <a href="https://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-republicans-give-nod-kemp-governor-race/dtybERqCFb9osCrjaT6xuL/">defeated Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle</a> in the GOP primary runoff for governor of Georgia in a 69-31 landslide. In November, Kemp will face former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, who decisively won the Democratic nomination in May, in what is shaping up to be a hotly contested election. <a href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" class="dk-action-link" data-action="form" data-slug="get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email?format=js&source=widget&can_widget_id=can-form-area-get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email-962789" data-href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email">Campaign Action</a> Cagle, who had spent much of the race as the frontrunner, had led Kemp 39-26 the May primary and should have favorite in the runoff. But things quickly went wrong for him after one of his former opponents <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/10/1779199/-Morning-Digest-Georgia-GOP-candidate-says-his-own-primary-was-a-race-to-be-the-craziest">released damaging audio</a> from a conversation with Cagle he'd secretly taped. The recordings made Cagle look like the worst sort of venal, calculating politician, and as his campaign struggled to respond, Kemp picked up Donald Trump's support in a surprise. In today's cult-of-personality GOP, that was enough to seal Cagle's doom. Democrats had been watching the Republican firefight with glee, but they haven't held the governor's mansion since Roy Barnes lost re-election in 2002. However, Team Blue hopes that Abrams will break their losing streak. Abrams, who would be the first black woman to serve as governor of any U.S. state, is a strong fundraiser, and she's counting on turning out black voters (especially black women), young people, and other voters of color who traditionally have made up a smaller share of midterm electorates compared to presidential elections. Kemp also gives Abrams an opponent who could not only inspire Democrats to head to the voting booths but also cost Team Red moderate voters. While Cagle was a fairly bland establishment figure (albeit one close to the NRA), Kemp has run Trumpesque-ads pitching himself as a "politically incorrect conservative." In one <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/10/1763202/-Morning-Digest-Inside-GOP-Rep-Robert-Pittenger-s-upset-primary-loss-in-North-Carolina#8">particularly infamous spot</a>, Kemp declared, "I got a big truck, just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take 'em home myself." However, the Republican nominee still has a bit more room for error than Abrams in a state that backed Trump 50-45, and Daily Kos Elections rates the general as <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/4/1769407/-Daily-Kos-Elections-2018-race-ratings">Lean Republican</a>. Georgia also has an unusual law that could complicate the race. If no one takes a majority of the vote on Nov. 6, the top-two candidates will <a href="http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/2018_elections_and_voter_registration_calendar">face off in a Dec. 10 runoff</a>, and with Libertarian Ted Metz and independent Larry Odom <a href="https://www.mdjonline.com/news/third-party-candidates-qualify-for-upcoming-election/article_ec5951ee-256f-11e8-b968-87faf1f96cec.html">on the ballot</a>, there's a real chance this could happen. (Confusingly, any runoff for federal races wouldn't be until January.) It's hard to say how a December runoff might impact turnout, which adds some extra unpredictability to this contest. rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos Elections) AbdulEl-Sayed AK-Gov AndrewGillum AnnWagner AssociatedIndustriesofFlorida BillSchuette BillWalker BrianCalley BrianKemp BruceRauner BrunoBarreiro CarlosCurbelo CaseyCagle CharlieBaker ChrisKing CO-06 CO-Gov CommonwealthFuture ConorLamb CortVanOstran DavidRichardson DavidShapiro DKEMorningDigest DonnaShalala DunleavyforAlaska Elections FL-06 FL-16 FL-27 FL-Gov FL-Sen FraternalOrderofPolice GA-Gov GlobalStrategyGroup GregOrman GwenGraham IL-Gov IN-Sen JaredPolis JasonCrow JeffColyer JeffGreene JoeDonnelly JohnUpchurch JonTester JoshGottheimer KeithRothfus KevinNicholson KrisKobach KristenRosenGonzalez KS-03 KS-Gov laurakelly LeahVukmir MA-Gov MariaElviraSalazar MarkBegich MarkOsmack MattHaggman MattRosendale MeadTreadwell MI-Gov MikeCoffman MikeDunleavy MN-Sen-B MO-02 Monmouth MT-Sen NancySoderberg NJ-05 OH-Gov onenation PA-17 PhilipLevine RemingtonResearch RGA RichardCordray RichardPainter RickScott RonDeSantis st.petepolls StephenSevigny TomNiermann U.S.ChamberofCommerce VernBuchanan WI-Sen WillieWilson _1783224 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:00:02 +0000 Morning Digest: Mark Sanford's political career reaches the end of the trail https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/6/13/1771385/-Morning-Digest-Mark-Sanford-s-political-career-reaches-the-end-of-the-trail The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. <h4>Leading Off</h4> <a href="#1" name="1">●</a> Primaries: Tuesday brought us primaries in five states—Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Virginia—and we'll cover the outcomes the next Digest, but in the meantime, you can <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/12/us/elections/results-maine-primary-elections.html">find the raw results here</a>. Note that Maine's secretary of state says that<a href="https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?e=21ebd3d925&u=a629a44de37af801f63b7384a&id=fae452717d"> final results might not be available until next week</a> for their primary, which was conducted using instant-runoff voting. <a href="#2" name="2">●</a> SC-01: Rep. Mark Sanford got more time to explore the Appalachian Trail on Tuesday night when state Rep. Katie Arrington defeated him in the Republican primary for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. <a href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" class="dk-action-link" data-action="form" data-slug="get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email?format=js&source=widget&can_widget_id=can-form-area-get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email-184835" data-href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email">Campaign Action</a> Sanford, who <a href="https://twitter.com/alanblinder/status/1006727921468411904" title="">conceded defeat hours after the polls closed</a>, trailed Arrington 50.6-46.5 with 99 percent of precincts reporting when we put the Digest to bed. Until Tuesday, Sanford had shown a knack for <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635027/-Morning-Digest-Another-political-abyss-beckons-to-Mark-Sanford-and-he-doesn-t-seem-to-care" title="">surviving self-inflicted political disaster</a>. However, the former governor only defeated an underfunded state representative 56-44 in the 2016 primary, a sign that he didn't exactly have a solid base of support behind him in this seat that runs along South Carolina's southern coast, even years after his <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/15/1764314/-Morning-Digest-Connecticut-GOP-convention-whittles-down-crowded-primary-field-for-governor#27" title="">2009 sex scandal</a> and 2013 comeback. Yet despite his poor showing, Sanford continued to take risks by criticizing Trump numerous times despite usually voting with him. The congressman didn't seem to really care, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635027/-Morning-Digest-Another-political-abyss-beckons-to-Mark-Sanford-and-he-doesn-t-seem-to-care">musing to Politico</a> as far back as February of last year that he was "a dead man walking. If you've already been dead, you don't fear it as much. I've been dead politically." Sanford <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/mark-sanford-primary-trump-south-carolina-635357">kept digging his grave</a> over the ensuing months, opining that Trump had done "some weird stuff" in office (though he was hardly one to talk) and calling Trump's tariffs "an experiment with stupidity." All of that suited Arrington just fine: She ran ad after ad arguing that the district needed a pro-Trump loyalist like herself. Arrington also didn't shy away from hitting the congressman over his old scandals as she implored voters to turn the page on the Mark Sanford era. Trump himself <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/us/politics/mark-sanford-trump.html">tweeted out his support for Arrington</a> three hours before the polls closed, declaring that Sanford was "nothing but trouble" and "better off in Argentina." His endorsement came too late to move the needle in any material way, but Sanford's downfall is going to make congressional Republicans even more unwilling to part with Trump on anything for fear of becoming the next Mark Sanford (minus all that Appalachian Trail stuff, of course). Sanford also became just the second House member to lose renomination this cycle, following Republican Robert Pittenger in North Carolina, who <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/10/1763202/-Morning-Digest-Inside-GOP-Rep-Robert-Pittenger-s-upset-primary-loss-in-North-Carolina">narrowly went down under rather different circumstances</a> last month. While South Carolina's 1st Congressional District narrowed somewhat at the presidential level in 2016, going from 58-40 Romney to 53-40 Trump, it's very likely to stay red. However, Democrat Joe Cunningham <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00650507/1235706/">had raised some $527,000</a> as of the last week of May, not far behind the $583,000 Arrington's taken in during her campaign. rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos Elections) AdamPutnam AK-Gov BenJealous BrianKemp BuildaBetterMichigan CaseyCagle ChangingGeorgiasFuture CherryCommunications CO-Gov DanaBalter DannyOConnor DittmanResearch DKEMorningDigest DonnaLynne DunleavyforAlaska Elections EMILYsList FL-Gov FloridaChamberOfCommerce GA-Gov GeorgeFranklin GonzalesResearch gradyjudd GretchenWhitmer HeidiHeitkamp JaredPolis JasonRittereiser JonTester JuanitaPerezWilliams KaraEastman KateBrowning KatieArrington KevinCramer LA-Gov LarryHogan LoriSwanson MarkSanford MarylandTogetherWeRise MattRosendale MD-Gov MeadTreadwell MI-06 MI-Gov MikeDunleavy MN-Gov MT-Sen ND-Sen NE-02 NY-01 NY-24 OH-12 OH-Sen RichardMadaleno RickNolan RonDeSantis RushernBaker SC-01 ScottHawkins SherrodBrown SteveScalise WA-08 _1771385 Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:00:34 +0000 Morning Digest: GOP Rep. Ryan Costello to GOP: 'Screw you, I'm outta here!' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/28/1752626/-Morning-Digest-GOP-Rep-Ryan-Costello-to-GOP-Screw-you-I-m-outta-here The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. <h4>Leading Off</h4> <a href="#1" name="1">●</a> PA-06: In one final bid to make life as painful for his party as possible, retiring Rep. Ryan Costello announced on Tuesday that he was <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/ryan-costello-congress-primary-gerrymandering-withdraw-20180327.html">yanking his name from the May 15 GOP primary ballot</a> for Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District. A few hours later, Costello <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/374964471/Ryan-Costello-paperwork-withdrawing-from-May-PA-06-primary-ballot">officially notified the state</a> that he had withdrawn from the race. <a href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" class="dk-action-link" data-action="form" data-slug="get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email?format=js&source=widget&can_widget_id=can-form-area-get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email-82045" data-href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email">Campaign Action</a> The only Republican who is running for this now-open suburban Philadelphia seat is attorney Greg McCauley, a veritable Some Dude with no known support network and very uncertain finances. As such, he's far from the ideal GOP nominee for a seat that got significantly more Democratic due to court-ordered redistricting: While Costello's old seat (also numbered the 6th) support Mitt Romney 51-48 and Hillary Clinton by just half a point, the new version of the 6th backed Barack Obama 51-47 and Clinton 53-43. However, Team Red may just have to suck it up. Costello frustrated Republicans when he filed to run for re-election, only to announce days later <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/26/1751622/-Morning-Digest-Republican-Ryan-Costello-bails-from-at-risk-Pennsylvania-seat-after-filing-deadline">that he wouldn't seek a third term</a>. If Costello had stayed in the ballot just long enough to officially win the GOP nomination, local Republicans would have been able to choose a new nominee after he dropped out. But now, their options are fewer, and none are good. Republicans could consolidate behind McCauley and hope he can run a good campaign with their help; they could instead attempt to convince him to drop out after he wins the GOP primary so that they could still belatedly pick another candidate; or, perhaps toughest of all, they could run a write-in candidate against McCauley in May. For what it's worth, it seems like <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/ryan-costello-congress-primary-gerrymandering-withdraw-20180327.html">they're going with door number one</a>. Val DiGiorgio, who chairs both the state and Chester County GOP, said Tuesday, "We've got a candidate in the race, Greg McCauley, I think we've got to get to know him a little bit better and [put] a team around him," adding, "We've got some hard work ahead of us." He's not kidding about that last part: No matter what, businesswoman and Air Force veteran Chrissy Houlahan is now a heavy favorite to turn this seat blue in November. rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos Elections) AdamLaxalt AFT AK-Gov AlanHowe AmandaRenteria AndrewGillum AntonioVillaraigosa AZ-08 BillWalker CA-45 CA-Gov CarolMiller CaryKennedy ChrisKing chrispeters ChristinaHartman CO-06 CO-Gov CongressionalLeadershipFund DannyTarkanian DaveMin DavidBinderResearch DebbieLesko DelaineEastin DittmanResearch DKEMorningDigest DonnaLynne DunleavyforAlaska EdPerlmutter Elections EllenLipton EMILYsList FL-Gov GavinNewsom GeorgeScott GinnyCaligiuri GregMcCauley GwenGraham IA-02 IA-Gov IN-Sen JamesSmith JaredPolis JasonCrow JasonMetsa JimClyburn JoeMorelle JohnChiang JohnCox JohnScott JonTester KimReynolds LukeMesser M.J.Hegar MagellanStrategies MargueriteWillis MD-Gov MI-09 MI-11 MikeBraun MikeDunleavy MikeJohnson MN-08 MT-Sen NRCC NV-03 NY-25 PA-01 PA-06 PA-10 PhilipLevine Polls PublicPolicyPolling RandyBryce RonCorbett RushernBaker RyanCostello SarahClark SC-Gov ScottWallace ShavonniaCorbin-Johnson StenyHoyer TammyBaldwin TimGreimel ToddRokita TravisAllen TroyDowning TX-31 UnitedSteelworkers VanWhite VoteVets WI-01 WI-Sen WV-03 _1752626 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:00:35 +0000