It has been so long since I’ve been on DK, I had trouble figuring out how to post a diary. (Or are they even still called diaries?) And then I had to make a new password; “Cancel Password Renewal” didn’t work. That said: It seems like now is a good time to make some donations to Senate candidates. I went for Amy McGrath (KY) & Mark Kelly (AZ) already. Obvious enough. I usually donate mostly in my own state (Deb Haaland, Xochitl Torres-Small & Maggie Toulouse Oliver in 2018), but I don’t think my $$ are needed in the 2020 Senate race in NM. I have several races listed below, with info gleaned from Ballotpedia. It’s possible it’s not entirely up-to-date.
Looking at the list of other senate races, there’s quite a few that pretty much safe, except I might want to donate against Lindsay Graham in SC anyhow:
- Safe Dems: Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Markey (MA), Booker (NJ), OPEN (NM), Merkely (OR), Reed (RI), Warner (VA)
- Safe GOP: Sullivan (AK), Cotton (AR), Risch (ID), Cassidy (LA), Hyde-Smith (MS), Sasse (NE), Inhofe (OK), Graham (SC), Rounds (SD), OPEN (TN), Capito (WV), Enzi (WY)
So, here’s the races I’m considering:
- AL-Sen: Doug Jones. Won’t be easy to keep. Worth donating? Republican challengers include Roy Moore, pedophile, & Jeff Sessions, former Sen. discarded by Trump & 5 others. Primary March 3, Super Tuesday. Filing deadline passed.
- AZ-Sen: Martha McSally: Prime target. Already donated to Kelly. Primary not till August. 3 additional Dems & 3 additional Republicans in the primary.
- CO-Sen Cory Gardner: There’s a lot of primary candidates & I’m not fond of Hickenlooper. Filing deadline 3/17, primary 6/30. No primary challengers for Gardner.
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GA-Sen: Kelly Loeffler. Incumbent, not elected (appointed 2019.) 1 Dem challenger, no other GOP primary candidates. Filing deadline March 6, primary May 19.
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GA-Sen: David Perdue. Incumbent. 9 in Dem primary. Filing dealine March 6, primary March 19. Perdue has 3 challengers in the Republican primary:
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IA-Sen: Joni Ernst. 5 in Dem primary. Filing deadline: March 13. Primary: June 2. Pig castrater has 1 primary challenger.
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KS-Sen: OPEN. 4 Dems, 7 GOP. (So far.) Filing deadline: June 1. Primary: August 4
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KY-Sen: Mitch McConnell. Already donated to McGrath. Filing deadline is passed. Primary: May 19. Moscow Mitch has 7 GOP challengers in the primary.
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ME-Sen: Susan Collins. 5 Dems in the primary. Filing deadline, March 16. Primary June 9. Collins has no challengers in the GOP primary
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MT-Sen: Steve Daines. 4 Dems in the primary. Filing deadline, March 16. Primary June 2. No primary challengers in the GOP.
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NC-Sen: Thom Tillis. 5 Dems in primary. Filing deadline passed. Primary March 3, Super Tuesday. Tillis has 3 Republican challengers for the primary.
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TX-Sen: John Cornyn. 12 Dems in primary, Filing deadline passed. Primary: Tuesday Mar 3, Super Tuesday. Between voter registration efforts in the Rio Grande Valley, plus landowners POed at the eminent domain incursions for the stupid wall, one has hopes for Texas. But there’s 12 candidates to choose from. Cornyn has 4 Republican challengers for the primary.
As a general guideline, I’m a bigger fan of AOC than I am of Joe Manchin or Rahm Emanuel. I’m probably supporting Valerie Plame, who is running for the open House seat in my district. Plame says “If you don’t get climate change & nuclear proliferation right, nothing else matters.” And she understands about Iran better than most of us, which would be helpful in the Congress at this time. Another time, I might go for a different candidate, but this is now. My favorite Digby post of late is about fiddling while Australia burns.
This request is entirely about donating to Senate candidates. That last paragraph is an indicator of the kinds of candidates I’m more or less likely to want to support.