NY-11: Mike Grimm was always a delusional nut, so this isn't as shocking as it ought to be. Despite the fact that he had to resign from congress after getting pleading guilty to tax fraud three years ago, and despite the fact that he served seven months in prison as a result, and despite the fact that the House seat he left behind is now held by a fellow Republican, Dan Donovan, Grimm is reportedly planning to run for Congress again—and he's not disputing the story.
Grimm, stoking the chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that his home borough of Staten Island is known for, always maintained that prosecutors were engaging in some sort of baseless political persecution—an outlandish claim that appealed to his constituents and allowed him to handily win re-election in 2014 while under indictment. In the end, though, reality reared its head, and what had been a long-running investigation into Grimm's dodgy campaign finance practices resulted instead in the tax charges, which ended the congressman's career just a couple of months after his final victory.
Donovan, who earned notoriety as the Staten Island district attorney who declined to bring charges in the Eric Garner case, was easily elected in Grimm's place in a special election in mid-2015 and won a full term without trouble last fall. However, he's never run in a single GOP primary in his entire political career, so perhaps the angry Grimm, with his penchant for violent rhetoric, could light a fire under agitated Trump voters that Donovan wouldn't be able to douse. Hell, we've almost managed to convince ourselves that Grimm could pull this off, so maybe the joke's gonna be on all of us.