I’ll kick this off. So my Rep, Sydney Kamagler-Dove, was one of the Dems with a paddle and I called her office and thanked her. I also said that I hope she didn’t get a scolding from Jeffries and leadership but I also expressed my frustration why Jeffries and leadership had to have a “a serious talk” about how they protested the speech. I didn’t watch the SOTU because I did not want to give Trump viewership. I even told her aide over the phone that. I did say though that I wish Jeffries and leadership would listen more to her colleagues like Kamagler-Dove instead of getting scolded. I asked the aide if there was a way for her constituents to help give her more momentum and apply pressure on leadership. He said that’s a good question and invited me to her town hall tomorrow. I have an event in Long Beach before it but I’m going to try to go. If not, he said there will be another one in March. I think it’s good to acknowledge people like Kamagler-Dove but also find ways to give Democrats like her more influence and momentum to get leadership to listen to them more.
Heads up, I did work on the digital team for the Harris-Walz campaign towards the end of the election on YouTube content. I haven’t talked a lot about it here yet because I’ve also been really busy with other projects but I am slowly but surely coming back to here and DK.
Great report, and welcome back! Is Kamagler-Dove Schiff's successor, or is that a different district? Also, I didn't watch the speech, so I don't know what the idea of the paddles was. What was the symbolism?
Adam Schiff's successor in CA-30 is Laura Friedman. She is definitely to Adam's left politically, and has the potential to be a great Representative. Laura previously served in the CA Assembly.
It’s interesting you say Laura Friedman is to the left of Adam Schiff.
Rep. Ted Lieu, more liberal than Schiff, is in the neighboring CA-36 Congressional District and represents Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and other super wealthy parts of LA County. Makes me wonder if Schiff was really being more moderate because of his own views, not necessarily those representative of CA-30 prior to him leaving the House.
Adam Schiff and his family moved from from Scottsdale, AZ to Alamo, CA. Schiff eventually graduated from high school in Danville, CA.
Not arguing that there are no liberals in Danville but it's known to being a more conservative part of the East Bay region of the Bay Area. However, those who are more conservative will still vote Democrat if the candidates are more moderate or middle ground on the issues.
In a follow-up to my comment a month ago on judicial vacancies (https://www.the-downballot.com/p/weekly-open-thread-92b/comment/91949578), judges' pace towards the exits continues to be mercifully slow. In the past month, we've learned of three upcoming vacancies, with Timothy Batten (ND GA), Eric Melgren (D KS), and Sean Cox (ED MI) making announcements. That makes for ten announced vacancies since the election: one via a coffin and the other nine all coming from a pretty small group: Dubya district court appointees who didn't have a chance to retire the last time Trump was in office. Only 36 other judges fit that description, plus ten Trump appointees who will have a chance to retire towards the end of this term. That also applies to 11 and 3 circuit judges, respectively, but we haven't heard from any of them yet. Democratic senators also (for now) hold veto power via blue slips on 4/10 of the post-election announced vacancies, as well as 17/46 of the aforementioned Dubya/Trump district appointees' seats. However, Mike Fragoso, who shepherded Trump's nominees through the judiciary committee from 2019-2021, is now calling on GOP nominees to boycott the ABA rating process (which gives us the well qualified/qualified/not qualified scale), so that may be another guardrail slipping away.
Inside Elections (Nathan Gonzales and Jacob Rubashkin) have completed their initial round of 2026 House ratings. 10 tossup seats, 7 of which are currently red.
At the bottom of the ratings it mentions Ohio's TBD map, I'm somewhat worried about that. Some marginal changes could screw over Kaptur and Sykes and they could try to play some games to make the 1st more swingy.
That is because They couldn’t carve up Cincin anymore, per 2018 Amendment. Unless they push through another amendment abolishing that.
For the same reason, no carving up of Cleveland or Akron or Toledo, hence the setting of current 11th and 13th, and the reason 9th wasn’t simply split and merged into two or three districts.
Any attempt to make OH-01 redder would need to look utterly ridiculous on a map and heighten awareness of how “fair” the new redistricting commission in that state really is.
One major point of contention in the last redistricting cycle was the GOP's obsession with attaching red Warren County to central city Cincinnati, when a much more compact--but bluer--district could have been drawn entirely within Hamilton County (Cincy and near suburbs).
That presumably stopped being an issue after 2022, when keeping Warren and Cincinnati together couldn't keep OH-01 red.
I believe that this is the GOP's attempt to make this district somewhat competitive. They really can't make the district any redder without cracking Cincinnati, which the state constitution forbids.
CA-40: Disagree. Should be Likely Republican for now but could go back down to Lean Republican. Young Kim won re-election by roughly 10+% points, a few % points lower than back in 2022 when she won re-election by 13.6% points.
Kim performed much better than Trump in her own district. Reason being is that she's not a divisive Republican and has a more moderate image in her own district that seems to fit with what her constituents need.
CA-41: I agree with the rating for now although it should be noted that Calvert's re-election margin last year dropped by roughly 1.4% points vs. 2022. That's not a good sign of his ability to hold on to his seat, especially considering the same 2022 Democratic Challenger Will Rollins ran again.
PRESERVE or OBLITERATE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWERS?
With great concern, I am watching the race/battle between those who seek to PRESERVE the Constitutional separation of powers and those who strive to OBLITERATE it. Alarmingly-strong forces are seeking to concentrate all power in the hands of Trump and the Executive Branch.
It’s bizarre to see so few (essentially none) Republican representatives or senators standing up to preserve Congress’ legislative power, power of the purse, and power to create and mandate federal agencies.
Robert Kuttner has an excellent article about the impending Government Shutdown Battle. Kuttner asks the essential question: "Will the Democrats have the savvy and unity to outplay Trump?"
Also worthwhile at The American Prospect is their Weekly Roundup. Harold Meyerson and Adam Serwer of The Atlantic analyze the early days of the second Trump term.
Trump is blatantly impounding funds that have been allocated by Congress – a power he does not have. (Presidential impoundment authority was eliminated during Nixon’s reign.) Likewise Trump & Musk are essentially neutering or even eradicating agencies created by Congress and past administrations. (Again, a power they do not have.)
But this matters only if the Supreme Court orders Trump to cease and desist, or if Congress resists. The ongoing Budget / Shutdown battle is probably Democrats’ best shot at extracting meaningful concessions. Imho, these concessions must include:
1) That funds allocated by Congress shall be spent as specified.
2) That the eradication/neutering/mass firing at agencies Trump & Musk don’t like be halted and reversed.
The move was the latest step by President Trump’s administration to undermine labor protections for federal workers, and prompted an outraged response from the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents some 47,000 at the T.S.A., along with hundreds of thousands of other federal workers. The union vowed to fight the action, saying that it had little do with safety and appeared to be illegal.
It's also very chilling that 4 Supreme Court justices want to make Trump King. That means that if any of the other 5 justices retires or dies during his term, an absolute dictatorship is likely - not guaranteed, because he guessed wrong on Barrett, but certainly likely. Which is ironic because judges have no real power in a dictatorship. But genuine ideological fanatics don't care and are happy to just continue getting corrupt payoffs.
It's more that there's 4 votes for slow-walking action against such behavior, which is just either more cowardly or a misread of the situation. Alito seems to want the king scenario though (I dunno about Thomas right now).
And the courts are not helpless. The US Marshall system established by President Washington enforces the judiciary, but they are unfortunately under the DOJ.
Barrett definitely supports a dicatorship/theocracy, I think she just doesn't support Trump (I suspect that she probably would have voted for DeSantis if he was on the ballot in her jurisdiction).
I wouldn't read too much into that single decision. It was just whether or not the judge could order the money to be paid pre-trial. The dissent was basically "that's too much to decide before hearing arguments".
Perhaps although since 2022 any Republican US Senate candidate has not been able to get a margin of victory exactly on par with Trump winning OH at the presidential level.
On the other hand, back in 2016 Senator Rob Portman got a 20.8% margin of victory in being re-elected back in that year, substantially larger than what Trump or any subsequent GOP Senate Candidates have been able to achieve. Of course, it didn't help that Ted Strickland was chosen as a Democratic Senate Candidate as he lost re-election as Governor back in 2010.
I would like to see Democrats at least aim for a similar turnout as they did in the 2018 Senate Election where Sherrod Brown won re-election by 6.8% points (not going to though count on a similar margin of victory as Brown got back then).
On the day the Liberal Party in Canada chooses its candidate, the seat aggregate based on the latest polling shows the Conservatives 14 seats short of a majority.
That seems pretty weak for Buttegieg. I take it, they didn't poll other candidates? I sure hope they weren't working for Buttegieg, because if this was an internal poll for him, it's pretty bad.
Yeah, I don't think Buttigeg being the Democratic Senate Nominee would be great if these poll numbers are indicative of where the race could be headed.
This is why I think Rep. Haley Stevens would be a better bet. Like Senator Elissa Slotkin, she was battle tested in winning her House election back in 2018 in a district that was not exactly blue.
Eh, I think Buttigeig probably would win if he was our Senate nominee in Michigan. It's very easy to imagine the Republican nominee being to the right of Rogers and thus unelectable statewide.
I'm not doubting the possibility that Buttigeg would win. However, he's got two problems going for him amid the fact that Trump won MI by 1.6% last year vs. 0.3% points back in 2016.
-He's a transplant to MI
-He's served in Biden's presidential cabinet as Transportation Secretary
Weighing those two together isn't exactly an ideal receipe for Buttigeg to be able to maximize the % of votes if he wants to win. This is especially important to take into account considering the other GOP Senate Candidate who made his 2018 and 2020 Senate runs closer for Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, Rep. John James. He's to the right of Mike Rogers although in all honesty, the GOP could have worse nominees than him and Mike Rogers.
That said, there's less risk when getting someone like Rep. Haley Stevens, who besides winning a House election like Senator Elissa Slotkin did back in 2018, also happens to be a native Michigander like her.
What fascinates me is how much the Liberal Party has been rising in the polls due to two factors: 1) Justin Trudeau stepping down, and 2) The incredibly aggressive policies and threats of Donald Trump.
As an American - albeit one who used to live roughly a two hours drive from Montreal (in Vermont) - I have no say in the choice. I don't favour any candidate in particular. I hope the winner tonight wins the election though.
Gould is the most progressive. But doesn’t have much of a chance. Carney should walk away with it because he is perceived as the strongest GE candidate
BREAKING NEWS: with 85 per cent of the vote, Mark Carney has been elected the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is Canada's new Prime Minister!
I guess the first order of business for Prime Minister Carney will be too choose a new cabinet, and to chart a course that distinguishes him from Justin Trudeau.
It’ll be really interesting to see what the Canadian polls say in a week or two.
For the first time in SIUE history, the Cougars will head to the Big Dance. The Cougars became a D-I basketball team in 2008, and this is their first trip to the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Come Sunday, we'll find out who they'll face and what seed and what region they will reside in.
I’ll kick this off. So my Rep, Sydney Kamagler-Dove, was one of the Dems with a paddle and I called her office and thanked her. I also said that I hope she didn’t get a scolding from Jeffries and leadership but I also expressed my frustration why Jeffries and leadership had to have a “a serious talk” about how they protested the speech. I didn’t watch the SOTU because I did not want to give Trump viewership. I even told her aide over the phone that. I did say though that I wish Jeffries and leadership would listen more to her colleagues like Kamagler-Dove instead of getting scolded. I asked the aide if there was a way for her constituents to help give her more momentum and apply pressure on leadership. He said that’s a good question and invited me to her town hall tomorrow. I have an event in Long Beach before it but I’m going to try to go. If not, he said there will be another one in March. I think it’s good to acknowledge people like Kamagler-Dove but also find ways to give Democrats like her more influence and momentum to get leadership to listen to them more.
Now I’m going to focus more on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and get back to election diaries. It’s been a slow return for me. By the way, Schimel caught on tape admitting he would be a support network for Trump and bringing up 2020 election conspiracy theories: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/03/06/schimel-tells-canvassers-hell-be-support-network-for-trump-and-rehashes-election-conspiracies/
Heads up, I did work on the digital team for the Harris-Walz campaign towards the end of the election on YouTube content. I haven’t talked a lot about it here yet because I’ve also been really busy with other projects but I am slowly but surely coming back to here and DK.
I'll be calling Brad Sherman's office and instead express my disdain with his and leadership's reaction to the "disruptors."
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/trump-speech-congress-democrats-disrupt
Great report, and welcome back! Is Kamagler-Dove Schiff's successor, or is that a different district? Also, I didn't watch the speech, so I don't know what the idea of the paddles was. What was the symbolism?
She took over Mayor Bass's old district, SW of downtown LA. Schiff was Burbank/SFV.
Adam Schiff's successor in CA-30 is Laura Friedman. She is definitely to Adam's left politically, and has the potential to be a great Representative. Laura previously served in the CA Assembly.
It’s interesting you say Laura Friedman is to the left of Adam Schiff.
Rep. Ted Lieu, more liberal than Schiff, is in the neighboring CA-36 Congressional District and represents Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and other super wealthy parts of LA County. Makes me wonder if Schiff was really being more moderate because of his own views, not necessarily those representative of CA-30 prior to him leaving the House.
I just found out more information:
Adam Schiff and his family moved from from Scottsdale, AZ to Alamo, CA. Schiff eventually graduated from high school in Danville, CA.
Not arguing that there are no liberals in Danville but it's known to being a more conservative part of the East Bay region of the Bay Area. However, those who are more conservative will still vote Democrat if the candidates are more moderate or middle ground on the issues.
In a follow-up to my comment a month ago on judicial vacancies (https://www.the-downballot.com/p/weekly-open-thread-92b/comment/91949578), judges' pace towards the exits continues to be mercifully slow. In the past month, we've learned of three upcoming vacancies, with Timothy Batten (ND GA), Eric Melgren (D KS), and Sean Cox (ED MI) making announcements. That makes for ten announced vacancies since the election: one via a coffin and the other nine all coming from a pretty small group: Dubya district court appointees who didn't have a chance to retire the last time Trump was in office. Only 36 other judges fit that description, plus ten Trump appointees who will have a chance to retire towards the end of this term. That also applies to 11 and 3 circuit judges, respectively, but we haven't heard from any of them yet. Democratic senators also (for now) hold veto power via blue slips on 4/10 of the post-election announced vacancies, as well as 17/46 of the aforementioned Dubya/Trump district appointees' seats. However, Mike Fragoso, who shepherded Trump's nominees through the judiciary committee from 2019-2021, is now calling on GOP nominees to boycott the ABA rating process (which gives us the well qualified/qualified/not qualified scale), so that may be another guardrail slipping away.
Theoretically the GA and MI seats shouldn't get filled, although I'm super skeptical the blue slip process for DC nominees survives this Congress.
Inside Elections (Nathan Gonzales and Jacob Rubashkin) have completed their initial round of 2026 House ratings. 10 tossup seats, 7 of which are currently red.
https://nitter.poast.org/JacobRubashkin/status/1898129182271717736#m
At the bottom of the ratings it mentions Ohio's TBD map, I'm somewhat worried about that. Some marginal changes could screw over Kaptur and Sykes and they could try to play some games to make the 1st more swingy.
I never understood why the GOP gave up on OH-1 and made it a blue seat when they could have made it redder.
Probably because cracking Cincinnati isn't actually as easy as it looks. (Either that or they genuinely valued trying to knock off Kaptur more.).
You can crack any city with Cincinnati being one of the easiest. Look what happened to Nashville.
The state constitution prohibits Cincinnati from being split.
The current laws as set up by 2018 constitutional amendment, forbid splitting Cincinnati.
Any city has more than 100000 residents but less than a congressional district cannot split.
I think there was a challenge to the previous map that limited how much they could carve up Cincinnati. Part of why Chabot lost in 2022.
That is because They couldn’t carve up Cincin anymore, per 2018 Amendment. Unless they push through another amendment abolishing that.
For the same reason, no carving up of Cleveland or Akron or Toledo, hence the setting of current 11th and 13th, and the reason 9th wasn’t simply split and merged into two or three districts.
Forgot what the circumstance was but you're right.
Any attempt to make OH-01 redder would need to look utterly ridiculous on a map and heighten awareness of how “fair” the new redistricting commission in that state really is.
One major point of contention in the last redistricting cycle was the GOP's obsession with attaching red Warren County to central city Cincinnati, when a much more compact--but bluer--district could have been drawn entirely within Hamilton County (Cincy and near suburbs).
That presumably stopped being an issue after 2022, when keeping Warren and Cincinnati together couldn't keep OH-01 red.
I believe that this is the GOP's attempt to make this district somewhat competitive. They really can't make the district any redder without cracking Cincinnati, which the state constitution forbids.
CA-40: Disagree. Should be Likely Republican for now but could go back down to Lean Republican. Young Kim won re-election by roughly 10+% points, a few % points lower than back in 2022 when she won re-election by 13.6% points.
Kim performed much better than Trump in her own district. Reason being is that she's not a divisive Republican and has a more moderate image in her own district that seems to fit with what her constituents need.
CA-41: I agree with the rating for now although it should be noted that Calvert's re-election margin last year dropped by roughly 1.4% points vs. 2022. That's not a good sign of his ability to hold on to his seat, especially considering the same 2022 Democratic Challenger Will Rollins ran again.
PRESERVE or OBLITERATE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWERS?
With great concern, I am watching the race/battle between those who seek to PRESERVE the Constitutional separation of powers and those who strive to OBLITERATE it. Alarmingly-strong forces are seeking to concentrate all power in the hands of Trump and the Executive Branch.
It’s bizarre to see so few (essentially none) Republican representatives or senators standing up to preserve Congress’ legislative power, power of the purse, and power to create and mandate federal agencies.
Robert Kuttner has an excellent article about the impending Government Shutdown Battle. Kuttner asks the essential question: "Will the Democrats have the savvy and unity to outplay Trump?"
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-07-impending-government-shutdown/
Also worthwhile at The American Prospect is their Weekly Roundup. Harold Meyerson and Adam Serwer of The Atlantic analyze the early days of the second Trump term.
https://prospect.org/videos/2025-03-07-prospect-weekly-roundup/
DEMOCRATS MUST EXTRACT CONCESSIONS
Trump is blatantly impounding funds that have been allocated by Congress – a power he does not have. (Presidential impoundment authority was eliminated during Nixon’s reign.) Likewise Trump & Musk are essentially neutering or even eradicating agencies created by Congress and past administrations. (Again, a power they do not have.)
But this matters only if the Supreme Court orders Trump to cease and desist, or if Congress resists. The ongoing Budget / Shutdown battle is probably Democrats’ best shot at extracting meaningful concessions. Imho, these concessions must include:
1) That funds allocated by Congress shall be spent as specified.
2) That the eradication/neutering/mass firing at agencies Trump & Musk don’t like be halted and reversed.
And breaking contracts and trying to bust unions
The move was the latest step by President Trump’s administration to undermine labor protections for federal workers, and prompted an outraged response from the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents some 47,000 at the T.S.A., along with hundreds of thousands of other federal workers. The union vowed to fight the action, saying that it had little do with safety and appeared to be illegal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/homeland-security-tsa-union-contract.html
Paywalled. We’re no longer subscribers to the Times. Any chance you could share a gift link to this article?
Try this
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/homeland-security-tsa-union-contract.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.nykq.QTTZvylNaxq8&smid=url-share
That works. Many thanks!
Whether the House GOP can pass a CR on their own will be telling; I'm increasingly worried the usual hardliners will cave in and ra-ra for the team.
Even then, it's vital we make them - and ONLY them - wear the hair shirt.
It's also very chilling that 4 Supreme Court justices want to make Trump King. That means that if any of the other 5 justices retires or dies during his term, an absolute dictatorship is likely - not guaranteed, because he guessed wrong on Barrett, but certainly likely. Which is ironic because judges have no real power in a dictatorship. But genuine ideological fanatics don't care and are happy to just continue getting corrupt payoffs.
It's more that there's 4 votes for slow-walking action against such behavior, which is just either more cowardly or a misread of the situation. Alito seems to want the king scenario though (I dunno about Thomas right now).
And the courts are not helpless. The US Marshall system established by President Washington enforces the judiciary, but they are unfortunately under the DOJ.
Barrett definitely supports a dicatorship/theocracy, I think she just doesn't support Trump (I suspect that she probably would have voted for DeSantis if he was on the ballot in her jurisdiction).
Explain how you have reached the conclusion that she supports a dictatorship.
Her political party alone-at this point dictatorship is literally in the Republican platform.
Her decisions on the court are much more relevant. She is a forced-birther but seems to care about the power of the courts.
I wouldn't read too much into that single decision. It was just whether or not the judge could order the money to be paid pre-trial. The dissent was basically "that's too much to decide before hearing arguments".
OH Senate. Bowling Green-You Gov:
Husted 47 Brown 41
Husted 45 Ryan 38
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=depo
Not surprising. I could see those margins holding up. It's Ohio.
Sigh.
A lot can change in 20 months.
Yup, just not a great place to start from.
Fair enough, but counting on freakin Ohio is foolhardy for Democrats.
Perhaps although since 2022 any Republican US Senate candidate has not been able to get a margin of victory exactly on par with Trump winning OH at the presidential level.
On the other hand, back in 2016 Senator Rob Portman got a 20.8% margin of victory in being re-elected back in that year, substantially larger than what Trump or any subsequent GOP Senate Candidates have been able to achieve. Of course, it didn't help that Ted Strickland was chosen as a Democratic Senate Candidate as he lost re-election as Governor back in 2010.
I would like to see Democrats at least aim for a similar turnout as they did in the 2018 Senate Election where Sherrod Brown won re-election by 6.8% points (not going to though count on a similar margin of victory as Brown got back then).
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:
https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/states/ohio
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/ohio
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/ohio/?r=0
SENATE ELECTIONS:
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/ohio-senate-portman-strickland
https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/ohio
https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/ohio/senate/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/ohio-senate-results
Tbf, it’s not like there’s anywhere better we can count on to get us to 50 in the next 4 years.
Right. Whereupon we see how uphill an effort it is.
On the day the Liberal Party in Canada chooses its candidate, the seat aggregate based on the latest polling shows the Conservatives 14 seats short of a majority.
https://bsky.app/profile/canadianpolling.bsky.social/post/3ljxo3x4z2s2e
Michigan Senate
Buttigieg 46% (+2)
Rogers 44%
Target Insyght - 600 RV - 3/6
That seems pretty weak for Buttegieg. I take it, they didn't poll other candidates? I sure hope they weren't working for Buttegieg, because if this was an internal poll for him, it's pretty bad.
Yeah, I don't think Buttigeg being the Democratic Senate Nominee would be great if these poll numbers are indicative of where the race could be headed.
This is why I think Rep. Haley Stevens would be a better bet. Like Senator Elissa Slotkin, she was battle tested in winning her House election back in 2018 in a district that was not exactly blue.
https://ballotpedia.org/Haley_Stevens
https://ballotpedia.org/Elissa_Slotkin
Eh, I think Buttigeig probably would win if he was our Senate nominee in Michigan. It's very easy to imagine the Republican nominee being to the right of Rogers and thus unelectable statewide.
I'm not doubting the possibility that Buttigeg would win. However, he's got two problems going for him amid the fact that Trump won MI by 1.6% last year vs. 0.3% points back in 2016.
-He's a transplant to MI
-He's served in Biden's presidential cabinet as Transportation Secretary
Weighing those two together isn't exactly an ideal receipe for Buttigeg to be able to maximize the % of votes if he wants to win. This is especially important to take into account considering the other GOP Senate Candidate who made his 2018 and 2020 Senate runs closer for Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, Rep. John James. He's to the right of Mike Rogers although in all honesty, the GOP could have worse nominees than him and Mike Rogers.
That said, there's less risk when getting someone like Rep. Haley Stevens, who besides winning a House election like Senator Elissa Slotkin did back in 2018, also happens to be a native Michigander like her.
For those of you who want to watch the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada Convention Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmR_xymBBE
Do you favor any candidate in particular?
What fascinates me is how much the Liberal Party has been rising in the polls due to two factors: 1) Justin Trudeau stepping down, and 2) The incredibly aggressive policies and threats of Donald Trump.
As an American - albeit one who used to live roughly a two hours drive from Montreal (in Vermont) - I have no say in the choice. I don't favour any candidate in particular. I hope the winner tonight wins the election though.
Gould is the most progressive. But doesn’t have much of a chance. Carney should walk away with it because he is perceived as the strongest GE candidate
the speech of Jean Chrétien is excellent, especially for a 91 year old speaking in two languages - recommend
Former PM Jean Chretien really going after Trump and reminding folks of how he stood up to Bush.
Oh yes. Big time.
Carney wins with about 85% of the vote
BREAKING NEWS: with 85 per cent of the vote, Mark Carney has been elected the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is Canada's new Prime Minister!
Wow that’s a Stalinesque result lol
Wonder when he decides to pull the trigger and call elections
The next election cannot legally be held later than 20 October this year.
My hunch is right away. Set for late April or early May
Believe it or not, it is actually HIGHER than Trudeau's total in the 2013 Liberal Party Leadership Election (80 per cent).
He's the strongest Libs got, right? It also really helps that Trump is dragging down the Cons in the polls.
I guess the first order of business for Prime Minister Carney will be too choose a new cabinet, and to chart a course that distinguishes him from Justin Trudeau.
It’ll be really interesting to see what the Canadian polls say in a week or two.
Far-right pro-Russia candidate Călin Georgescu got blocked from running in the upcoming May Romanian election re-do.
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-far-right-suffers-significant
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d8n140mpjo
For the first time in SIUE history, the Cougars will head to the Big Dance. The Cougars became a D-I basketball team in 2008, and this is their first trip to the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Come Sunday, we'll find out who they'll face and what seed and what region they will reside in.