KY-03: Yarmuth retiring

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Kentucky law says you have to draw a seat within Jefferson County. I'm not sure what the most-Republican version of that seat looks like, or whether it's even possible to draw a Trump-voting CD in JeffCo (I imagine not, though by sinking the black parts with rural areas you can probably get a much redder seat than the one that currently exists).

The seat can't be cracked unless they change state law, which Beshear won't let them do. (Had Bevin won, it probably would have been cracked). But they can certainly unpack it to some extent.

Can Beshear actually block it with only a majority needed for a veto override? It's probably not happening though since the support isn't there amongst legislative leaders regardless. I think the key issue is no Republican incumbents want a significant portion of Louisville in their district.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Charles Booker is an absolute idiot if he doesn't drop out of the Senate race and switch to this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Charles Booker is an absolute idiot if he doesn't drop out of the Senate race and switch to this.

He's not an idiot, he just knows that there's money to be made with raking in donations from resistance liberals while he doesn't have to worry about actually having to pass legislation. Grifting, yes, but not stupid.

This is an uncharacteristically bad take. Booker is the furthest thing from a grifter. To say he has no interest in actually passing legislation is ignorant, as he has run two issues-driven campaigns. He may just feel that he's already gone headfirst into the run for Senate, so it would be appear opportunistic to drop out now and run for Congress instead. This logic could be (and was) applied to Amy McGrath, but it's just simply not true for Booker.

If he had any interest in passing legislation then he would run for an office he can actually win.