Although far too premature to talk about elections, this article points out that much-overlooked independence movements in Balochistan, a culturally-distinct region that spans Pakistan and Iran, may lead to the birth of a new country in the Middle East. (Or at least a region with greater autonomy.) Other than this fresh article by Memri and the BBC article from last January, I haven’t seen this mentioned much by the usual news media.
Huh, interesting. That would bode very poorly for the stability of both Iran and Pakistan but one doubts that either has the state capacity to do much about it
Independence, let alone elections, are way premature to consider likely. Long-running insurgency. For what it's worth, I also wouldn't call that area part of the Middle East, but rather, Central Asia.
You’re right on both counts. Admittedly, my headline was an attention-grabbing rhetorical device.
PS. On another (and possibly inadmissible) note: I find it strange that there is focus solely on the nuclear program of Iran, which does not yet have the bomb. While Pakistan, which is increasingly Islamistic, currently has an estimated 170 nuclear warheads!
We need Ryan or someone with political skills. Ramaswamy is likely going to be incredibly weak in the general, assuming he doesn't quit at some point along the way.
Acton might be a better foil to Vivek, a trustworthy doctor against a sketchy, obnoxious, insufferable tech bro. Ryan would be less risky but his profile is just 'career politician'.
My concern about Acton is that the GOP might welcome the chance, with the support of the media, to turn the race into an endless relitigation of lockdowns and other COVID related measures (despite the fact that DeWine usually went along with Acton and was reelected anyway.) Though it’s quite possible that RFK Jr’s HHS makes her policies look much better by comparison.
One of our best assets in this race ironically may be the Trump administration and its performance, allowing Dems to paint Vivek (if nominated) as an Elon Musk wannabe whose goal is to wantonly and chaotically tear down government.
Yeah on top of just being tied to the Trump Administration as a Republican and suck up he was supposed to lead DOGE with Musk so easy to tie him to all of the DOGE fuckups that hit Ohio.
I think the reverse is more likely, three brutal races in four years is a lot to ask of Brown. Ryan is a lot younger and has been on the sidelines for the last two years so he'd hopefully have the energy to run nonstop for the next 42 months.
The English language Liberal Party Leadership Debate is tonight at 8 PM EST. You can watch it on Youtube here. The official decision on Trudeau's replacement will be made on 9 March. https://chefferie2025leadership.liberal.ca/debates/
This January, Europeans purchased 37% more electric cars than last January. However, Elon Musk is not reaping any benefit from this. Quite the contrary! European Tesla sales were down 45% compared to January of 2024.
I have long contended that with every dollar we spend, we "vote" for the kind of society we want. Confronted with Elon Musk’s increasingly-belligerent embrace of Fascism, Europeans are doing precisely that!
Tesla has a variety of problems beyond just their CEO - their models have not been regularly refreshed, and the build quality and feature selection that was fine 5-6 years ago has now fallen behind most competitors. That segment is dominated by Hyundai and Rivian stateside but there are even more competitors in Europe
Then or course, Elon being Elon exacerbated all this by a magnitude
Tesla's colossal market valuation never made much sense. Essentially the bet is that they will control the large majority of the car market at some future time. There's nothing in their tech or business practices to really think that's especially likely. And Musk disengaging from the company to focus on being right-wing despot isn't helping.
I work in finance and this has been my position for years.
At this point TSLA is no less a meme stonk than GameStop. Unless you think rampant government corruption should be factored into its share price (a defensible position!) its absurd.
As we speak it’s down 8% today, the lowest it’s been since the election
Also, since I hadn’t checked in months, but DJT (Trump Media) stock is down nearly 50% since the inauguration, not that that company actually produces anything of value
TBF I'd say even 5 years ago their cars were still fairly ahead of everyone else. But as you noted, that's no longer the case. As I've said, I think Musk simply doesn't care about Tesla anymore-he's running a government that's literally ripping out EV chargers from federal building parking lots!
His products there aren’t bad quality, granted. But Tesla is what pays for everything else so a dramatic reduction in its value quickly becomes a big problem for his ability to leverage his other endeavors
It's going to be a critical question for what the next dem admin does with respect to SpaceX. NASA doesn't own enough of its space programs anymore and that company is ahead in a lot of ways. But we cannot justify a dem run government providing more business to such a compromised, corrupt, authoritarian figure. We have four (and hopefully only four) years to figure out how to address that, among the multitude of other problems we'll need to deal with.
"Vote with your wallet" applies not to people only, but to society at large. The government has an enormous amount of impact on any market that it involves itself in, by simple virtue of the amount of money at its disposal. That money should be used to further our goals.
I think the insane and unreasonable market valuation was from a huge number of shareholders expecting them to corner a future market beyond car sales. If the self-driving promises were ever deliverable on a real time frame, that could have made sense. After that hype caught on and the stock never went back down, too many people investors were too technically ignorant (not insulting them; their job doesn't involve being technically knowledgeable) and too hopeful of holding onto the next Apple or whatever stock that dominates the profitability of a market through a combined hardware/software ecosystem lock-in.
Of course, those promises were all 100% bullshit. Anyone with the appropriate technical backgrounds could realize that quickly. The hardware wasn't sufficient, and only gets *less* sufficient with each new release. Any software for a safety critical scenario like self-driving will inherently need a lot of time to go from "pretty much there" to "there" — a classic engineering case where the last 5% of the work is >=50% of the work. And they still are a long way from even reaching that "pretty much there" point.
The lack of proper government oversight into his consistent lies as endless stock market manipulation is honestly insane. White collar crime from the rich has been met with a shrug for way too long.
-Connecticut's 40th State House & 21st State Senate District
- Maine's 24th State House district
- Primaries for California's 36th State Senate & 32nd State Assembly District
In CT, the 21st is a flip opportunity (I recall reading somewhere that it's a Trump-Biden-Trump district, R+1 in 2024), but looking by past results it's ancestrally Republican. The 40th is very D leaning, should be a hold unless something goes very wrong.
Have you guys posted your pres by CD numbers for 2024? Looks like there are placeholder links for it under the "Ultimate Data Guide" tab, but I don't see the data for 2024.
Ron DeSantis's use of his wife to try to stay in power has a precedent. In 1967, George Wallace was term-limited as governor of Alabama, but he pushed his wife Lurleen into running for governor, despite the fact that she was dying of cancer. Lurleen Wallace won the election and died in office. I would not be surprised if Donald Trump tries a similar gambit in 2028 to skirt the 22nd Amendment - get one of his children to run for president and then rule behind the throne.
Reminiscent of Putin satisfying the limitations of Russian law by stepping aside, handing the Russian Presidency to Medvedev – with himself as Prime Minister. Naturally, Putin was still the real ruler.
"As was common at the time, the physician did not tell the news to Lurleen but to her husband, who insisted she remain unaware, and failed to seek appropriate care for her."
Does the U.S. constitution allow someone ineligible to be elected President to run for VP? I wouldn't have thought so. Then again, the 14th Amendment should have made it illegal for Trump to run last year.
I would think that the Constitution's requirements for eligibility for president apply to the vice president as well. Just as both the president and vice president must be at least 35 years of age, both must abide by the 22nd Amendment.
Thanks, but I think we'd really have to see specific evidence that the framers of the amendment limiting presidential terms didn't really fully mean it.
Acton's? Amy Action sounds like the name of a superhero--though any Dem who wins a major statewide race in Ohio nowadays should probably qualify as that.
We go through this song and dance every other cycle or so, an off-partisan governor gets hyped up as a senatorial candidate because they were popular. But a big part of why they were popular is that they were unable to push any of their party's agenda.
Barring a political disaster, Baker cannot win a senate race in Massachusetts. It's all hype with no substance, but people are going to talk about the possibility of it until at least the end of the 2030 cycle and probably through the 2032 cycle. Likewise, we're almost certainly not going to see a senator Beshear out of Kentucky.
Voters do not treat federal partisanship and local partisanship the same. They do not treat executive offices and legislative offices the same.
Electing Democrats helps only if they show up! Today, Democrats have a serious attendance problem in the House, which is unintentionally making things easier for Speaker Mike Johnson – although probably not easy enough.
– For the first vote today: Five Dems absent, two absent Republicans.
– For the Budget Rule Vote: Four Dems are absent, only one Republican.
NY-17 - based on the info in the digest, I'm not sure that someone associated with the MTA or someone from the very southern tip of the district is the best candidate. As they said, still very early.
If it looks like we're going to be heading into a typical midterm environment I could see him giving that a second thought and just trying to hold onto the position he has. Also, isn't it 6 years in the house where you start to be eligible for a retirement benefit?
Very unlikely at present, but it's always worth making a modest effort in case some late breaking events push it over the edge. I wouldn't have called AL-Sen all that likely in 2017 either, but with some extraordinary circumstances it worked out in our favor.
FL-06 would be a better target at least Volusia and Flagler counties voted for Obama in 2008 while FL-01 willingly voted for Gatez despite everything we know about him. Stefanik's seat would probably be a better target then both though her seat would also be a long long long shot.
GA-01: Far-right Christian Nationalist and Stew Peters acolyte Kandiss Taylor, who hosts Jesus, Guns, and Babies on The Stew Peters Network, will be running for Congress in 2026 in Georgia on the GOP ticket. Taylor’s announcement came on the Stephen Bannon-hosted War Room this morning.
I'm not surprised at all. Republicans typically fall in line eventually and this is their honeymoon period where they haven't devolved into as much infighting yet.
Why is Politico continuing to kiss RDS’ feet? They did two glowing puff pieces on him prior to the 2024 primaries. He and his wife need to GTFO of FL politics after 2026.
Will there be enough white Rs who will swallow their racism and vote for Uncle Byron?
Elections in Balochistan?
Although far too premature to talk about elections, this article points out that much-overlooked independence movements in Balochistan, a culturally-distinct region that spans Pakistan and Iran, may lead to the birth of a new country in the Middle East. (Or at least a region with greater autonomy.) Other than this fresh article by Memri and the BBC article from last January, I haven’t seen this mentioned much by the usual news media.
https://www.memri.org/reports/balochistan-two-steps-away-independence-pakistan-once-it-achieved-pakistan-will-collapse
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68035478
This highlights more of what is happening, and why.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/pakistan-gwadar-airport-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Huh, interesting. That would bode very poorly for the stability of both Iran and Pakistan but one doubts that either has the state capacity to do much about it
Independence, let alone elections, are way premature to consider likely. Long-running insurgency. For what it's worth, I also wouldn't call that area part of the Middle East, but rather, Central Asia.
You’re right on both counts. Admittedly, my headline was an attention-grabbing rhetorical device.
PS. On another (and possibly inadmissible) note: I find it strange that there is focus solely on the nuclear program of Iran, which does not yet have the bomb. While Pakistan, which is increasingly Islamistic, currently has an estimated 170 nuclear warheads!
Especially since Pakistan has been to war in living memory with India, also a nuclear power.
Of course, part of that is the shadow of 1979 forever looming over Iran-US relations
Perhaps even more so, the shadow of 1953: the CIA-instigated coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran.
I hope Ryan runs. Or at least someone stronger than Acton, who has no political experience.
We need Ryan or someone with political skills. Ramaswamy is likely going to be incredibly weak in the general, assuming he doesn't quit at some point along the way.
Acton might be a better foil to Vivek, a trustworthy doctor against a sketchy, obnoxious, insufferable tech bro. Ryan would be less risky but his profile is just 'career politician'.
My concern about Acton is that the GOP might welcome the chance, with the support of the media, to turn the race into an endless relitigation of lockdowns and other COVID related measures (despite the fact that DeWine usually went along with Acton and was reelected anyway.) Though it’s quite possible that RFK Jr’s HHS makes her policies look much better by comparison.
One of our best assets in this race ironically may be the Trump administration and its performance, allowing Dems to paint Vivek (if nominated) as an Elon Musk wannabe whose goal is to wantonly and chaotically tear down government.
Yeah on top of just being tied to the Trump Administration as a Republican and suck up he was supposed to lead DOGE with Musk so easy to tie him to all of the DOGE fuckups that hit Ohio.
I would go further and say every election in 2025 and 2026 is about the Trump administration
Ryan is better known
I'd love to see Ryan run for Gov and Brown run along side for Senate.
I think the reverse is more likely, three brutal races in four years is a lot to ask of Brown. Ryan is a lot younger and has been on the sidelines for the last two years so he'd hopefully have the energy to run nonstop for the next 42 months.
I disagree; I bet Brown is chomping at the bit; dude's track record of winning is impressive to say the least
Absolutely; Brown also on the same ticket up ballot
Ryan lost in a pretty good year for Ds. Probably better to give Acton a shot as a fresh face.
The English language Liberal Party Leadership Debate is tonight at 8 PM EST. You can watch it on Youtube here. The official decision on Trudeau's replacement will be made on 9 March. https://chefferie2025leadership.liberal.ca/debates/
EUROPEANS ARE VOTING with their wallet
This January, Europeans purchased 37% more electric cars than last January. However, Elon Musk is not reaping any benefit from this. Quite the contrary! European Tesla sales were down 45% compared to January of 2024.
I have long contended that with every dollar we spend, we "vote" for the kind of society we want. Confronted with Elon Musk’s increasingly-belligerent embrace of Fascism, Europeans are doing precisely that!
Bear in mind this is largely pre-salute.
Tesla has a variety of problems beyond just their CEO - their models have not been regularly refreshed, and the build quality and feature selection that was fine 5-6 years ago has now fallen behind most competitors. That segment is dominated by Hyundai and Rivian stateside but there are even more competitors in Europe
Then or course, Elon being Elon exacerbated all this by a magnitude
Tesla's colossal market valuation never made much sense. Essentially the bet is that they will control the large majority of the car market at some future time. There's nothing in their tech or business practices to really think that's especially likely. And Musk disengaging from the company to focus on being right-wing despot isn't helping.
I work in finance and this has been my position for years.
At this point TSLA is no less a meme stonk than GameStop. Unless you think rampant government corruption should be factored into its share price (a defensible position!) its absurd.
As we speak it’s down 8% today, the lowest it’s been since the election
And market cap now under $1T....
Now down 9% as of me writing, and close to breaking the $300 support level
Also, since I hadn’t checked in months, but DJT (Trump Media) stock is down nearly 50% since the inauguration, not that that company actually produces anything of value
The S & P 500 is down 2.6% over last 5 days; TSLA is down 14.4% over the same period
Exactly. It’s dramatically underperforming the market since 1/20
TBF I'd say even 5 years ago their cars were still fairly ahead of everyone else. But as you noted, that's no longer the case. As I've said, I think Musk simply doesn't care about Tesla anymore-he's running a government that's literally ripping out EV chargers from federal building parking lots!
He's all in on SpaceX, AI and Starlink now.
His products there aren’t bad quality, granted. But Tesla is what pays for everything else so a dramatic reduction in its value quickly becomes a big problem for his ability to leverage his other endeavors
It's going to be a critical question for what the next dem admin does with respect to SpaceX. NASA doesn't own enough of its space programs anymore and that company is ahead in a lot of ways. But we cannot justify a dem run government providing more business to such a compromised, corrupt, authoritarian figure. We have four (and hopefully only four) years to figure out how to address that, among the multitude of other problems we'll need to deal with.
imo this is simplistic; the NASA decisions should be based solely on science (after Trump leaves office)
"Vote with your wallet" applies not to people only, but to society at large. The government has an enormous amount of impact on any market that it involves itself in, by simple virtue of the amount of money at its disposal. That money should be used to further our goals.
I think the insane and unreasonable market valuation was from a huge number of shareholders expecting them to corner a future market beyond car sales. If the self-driving promises were ever deliverable on a real time frame, that could have made sense. After that hype caught on and the stock never went back down, too many people investors were too technically ignorant (not insulting them; their job doesn't involve being technically knowledgeable) and too hopeful of holding onto the next Apple or whatever stock that dominates the profitability of a market through a combined hardware/software ecosystem lock-in.
Of course, those promises were all 100% bullshit. Anyone with the appropriate technical backgrounds could realize that quickly. The hardware wasn't sufficient, and only gets *less* sufficient with each new release. Any software for a safety critical scenario like self-driving will inherently need a lot of time to go from "pretty much there" to "there" — a classic engineering case where the last 5% of the work is >=50% of the work. And they still are a long way from even reaching that "pretty much there" point.
The lack of proper government oversight into his consistent lies as endless stock market manipulation is honestly insane. White collar crime from the rich has been met with a shrug for way too long.
So, special elections today!
-Connecticut's 40th State House & 21st State Senate District
- Maine's 24th State House district
- Primaries for California's 36th State Senate & 32nd State Assembly District
In CT, the 21st is a flip opportunity (I recall reading somewhere that it's a Trump-Biden-Trump district, R+1 in 2024), but looking by past results it's ancestrally Republican. The 40th is very D leaning, should be a hold unless something goes very wrong.
Maine's 24th also should be a D hold.
I know nothing about the CA primaries.
Don't forget the special election tonight in the 2nd District of the Nassau County Legislature. Olena Nicks is the Democratic candidate.
how's it look for us?..any idea?
Yeah, per DRA, it was Trump +8, then Biden +4. Per us, it was Trump+0.5 last year.
Have you guys posted your pres by CD numbers for 2024? Looks like there are placeholder links for it under the "Ultimate Data Guide" tab, but I don't see the data for 2024.
Working on it! Trust me, you'll know when we do. :)
Haha! Awesome. Appreciate you and the team for all your work!
Good to know I’ve got something to watch besides the Bachelor with the wife tonight haha
Ron DeSantis's use of his wife to try to stay in power has a precedent. In 1967, George Wallace was term-limited as governor of Alabama, but he pushed his wife Lurleen into running for governor, despite the fact that she was dying of cancer. Lurleen Wallace won the election and died in office. I would not be surprised if Donald Trump tries a similar gambit in 2028 to skirt the 22nd Amendment - get one of his children to run for president and then rule behind the throne.
What a horrible but all-too-realistic prospect!
Reminiscent of Putin satisfying the limitations of Russian law by stepping aside, handing the Russian Presidency to Medvedev – with himself as Prime Minister. Naturally, Putin was still the real ruler.
No doubt he’d love to anoint Don Jr his heir
I don't think he can countenance anyone as his heir, only his sock puppet.
The Lurleen Wallace story is chilling:
"As was common at the time, the physician did not tell the news to Lurleen but to her husband, who insisted she remain unaware, and failed to seek appropriate care for her."
And apparently the campaign staff knew.
Why did they want to hasten her death?
From what I have read, they were less concerned about Lurleen's health than about clinging to power.
I could think of a number of (despicable) reasons! (-:
For some reason this brings to mind Newt Gingrich betraying and abandoning his wife as she was dying of cancer.
what a guy..
Does the U.S. constitution allow someone ineligible to be elected President to run for VP? I wouldn't have thought so. Then again, the 14th Amendment should have made it illegal for Trump to run last year.
I would think that the Constitution's requirements for eligibility for president apply to the vice president as well. Just as both the president and vice president must be at least 35 years of age, both must abide by the 22nd Amendment.
Here is a somewhat complicated answer to your question: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/
Thanks, but I think we'd really have to see specific evidence that the framers of the amendment limiting presidential terms didn't really fully mean it.
Does Trump not trust Vance as his heir?
No. Two weeks ago, Brett Baier asked him whether he considered Vance his "natural successor," and he replied: "No, but he's very capable,"
Virginia Gov
Spanberger 39%
Sears 24%
Trump Approval
59% Disapprove
37% Approve
Roanoke #C - 690 RV - 2/20
New York Gov
Hochul (inc): 46%
Lawler: 38%
Other: 10%
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Undecided: 6%
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NY Governor Dem Primary
Hochul: 52%
Delgado: 15%
Torres: 12%
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Citizen Data for Unite NY | RVs | Feb. 10
Massachusetts Senate
Markey 35%
Baker 33%
YouGov #B - 700 A - 2/20
Ohio Gov
Acton 45%
Rammaswamy 44%
V. Ramaswamy: 48%
Tim Ryan: 42%
Public policy #B - 642 RV - 2/20 (Fpr Action)
The Action v Ryan numbers are actually somewhat surprising to me
Not sure what questions they asked but it was polled for Actions campaign.
Ahhhhh
Acton's? Amy Action sounds like the name of a superhero--though any Dem who wins a major statewide race in Ohio nowadays should probably qualify as that.
The poll was for 314 Action, which hasn't endorsed her (yet) but did say kind things about her when she launched.
Oh JHC that Vivek-Ryan number os so depressing. How did Ohio turn into Missouri . . .
How did Missouri turn into Missouri?
Massachusetts Gov
Healey (D): 44% - Shortsleeve (R): 12%
Healey (D): 44% - Evangelidis (R): 14%
Healey (D): 41% - Durant (R): 14%
Healey (D): 40% - Kennealy (R): 15%
Healey (D): 45% - Deaton (R): 25%
U. Mass/YouGov / Feb 20, 2025 / n=700
Baker ain't leaving the presidency of the NCAA to be a senator.
Baker wouldn't be able to win anyway.
We go through this song and dance every other cycle or so, an off-partisan governor gets hyped up as a senatorial candidate because they were popular. But a big part of why they were popular is that they were unable to push any of their party's agenda.
Barring a political disaster, Baker cannot win a senate race in Massachusetts. It's all hype with no substance, but people are going to talk about the possibility of it until at least the end of the 2030 cycle and probably through the 2032 cycle. Likewise, we're almost certainly not going to see a senator Beshear out of Kentucky.
Voters do not treat federal partisanship and local partisanship the same. They do not treat executive offices and legislative offices the same.
probably but Trump is losing popularity daily
He'd lose anyway
lots of pissed off Federal government employees
Yup! I would not want to be in Earle-Sears' shoes at this point.
Apparently the GOP is trying to find somebody to run in the primary (Dave LaRock has mooted it) because her campaign so far sucks
Earle-Sears isn’t anything other than a Trump stooge and she’s not even showing any kind of real independence on this.
The VA-GOV race looks like Likely Democrat this point with the numbers as wide as they are here.
Like those job approval numbers
BUDGET VOTE
Electing Democrats helps only if they show up! Today, Democrats have a serious attendance problem in the House, which is unintentionally making things easier for Speaker Mike Johnson – although probably not easy enough.
– For the first vote today: Five Dems absent, two absent Republicans.
– For the Budget Rule Vote: Four Dems are absent, only one Republican.
(I don’t have the names of who is missing.)
Inexcusable
EDIT: Apparently the missing Democrats include Kevin Mullin (CA-15, medical), Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07, medical), Brittany Pettersen (CO-07, maternity), Frederica Wilson (FL-24, unknown reaon).
Maybe Hakeem Jeffries is making another book tour appearance.
Credit where credit is due: Rep. Brittany Pettersen is now there for the budget vote just a month after having a baby.
Why did Governor Lamont nominate a Republican for a judgeship?
opens up a winnable seat(not directly answering your question)
No, not at all. I don't think he needs more turnover in the Legislature.
NY-17 - based on the info in the digest, I'm not sure that someone associated with the MTA or someone from the very southern tip of the district is the best candidate. As they said, still very early.
Odds are Lawler will run for governor so it should be an open seat.
If it looks like we're going to be heading into a typical midterm environment I could see him giving that a second thought and just trying to hold onto the position he has. Also, isn't it 6 years in the house where you start to be eligible for a retirement benefit?
Is there any realistic chance Dems can flip gaetz' seat given all the tumul in DC?
Very unlikely at present, but it's always worth making a modest effort in case some late breaking events push it over the edge. I wouldn't have called AL-Sen all that likely in 2017 either, but with some extraordinary circumstances it worked out in our favor.
No.
FL-06 would be a better target at least Volusia and Flagler counties voted for Obama in 2008 while FL-01 willingly voted for Gatez despite everything we know about him. Stefanik's seat would probably be a better target then both though her seat would also be a long long long shot.
R+19 district in Florida with a nearly 70% white population.
That about sums it up!
Barring any surprises Rs should hold all the house specials easily. Only one with a slight chance at an upset is Stefanik’s.
Makes sense.
Stefanik’s district in NY is a much different kind of district and has a R+9 rating last I checked.
So, to win her seat, "all" we have to do is achieve German-level turnout of Democrats in Stefanik’s district: 83.5%.
Surely we can’t be any worse than the Germans, right? /s
GA-01: Far-right Christian Nationalist and Stew Peters acolyte Kandiss Taylor, who hosts Jesus, Guns, and Babies on The Stew Peters Network, will be running for Congress in 2026 in Georgia on the GOP ticket. Taylor’s announcement came on the Stephen Bannon-hosted War Room this morning.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-conspiracy-theorist-kandiss-taylor-running-congress
I bet Buddy Carter is just jazzed with this news after how much he’s brown-nosed the Trump admin this last month
I don’t believe it! The budget has just passed the House, 217–215. Speaker Mike Johnson flipped every No vote except Massie. Burchett abstained.
https://nitter.poast.org/JakeSherman/status/1894558496688951792#m
I'm not surprised at all. Republicans typically fall in line eventually and this is their honeymoon period where they haven't devolved into as much infighting yet.
For those of you who wish to see the results from the special elections tight! https://www.270towin.com/news/2025/02/25/overview-live-results-february-25-legislative-special-elections_1701.html
Sean Faircloth (D-ME) has won the ME-24 House Election with more than 71 per cent of the vote!
Why is Politico continuing to kiss RDS’ feet? They did two glowing puff pieces on him prior to the 2024 primaries. He and his wife need to GTFO of FL politics after 2026.
Will there be enough white Rs who will swallow their racism and vote for Uncle Byron?
Isn't Politico generally more right-wing than not?
Yeah they are. They used to be pretty good about coverage until they were purchased by that German RW billionaire.
So I think that answers your question above.