MA-SEN Megathread: Senator Markey wins

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

(as this is the MA Megathread, I decided to add this here)

Covid-19 changes the dynamics of this race completely. He has not collected the required number of signatures so far to be on the ballot and his campaign was planning to gain momentum by winning the state party convention endorsement - And this convention was cancelled. The deadline for collecting signatures is somewhen in May (unfortunately, it is neither said how much signatures are needed nor how many Markey already collected). Quite underwhelming for an incumbent tho.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/08/ed-markey-vs-joe-kennedy-in-coronavirus-era-no-contest/

By he you presumably mean JPK III?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

(as this is the MA Megathread, I decided to add this here)

Covid-19 changes the dynamics of this race completely. He has not collected the required number of signatures so far to be on the ballot and his campaign was planning to gain momentum by winning the state party convention endorsement - And this convention was cancelled. The deadline for collecting signatures is somewhen in May (unfortunately, it is neither said how much signatures are needed nor how many Markey already collected). Quite underwhelming for an incumbent tho.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/08/ed-markey-vs-joe-kennedy-in-coronavirus-era-no-contest/

By he you presumably mean JPK III?

Ooops, thanks, forgot to point out who I meant, but nope. I spoke of Ed Markey.

Another source provided some more information: 3'000 signatures are to be collected and JPK III has collected 15'000 so far, they didn't say how many Markey has by now.

(https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-restrictions-make-it-harder-for-candidates-to-qualify-for-ballot)

Is it possible Markey fails to even be on the primary ballot?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It looks as though if Markey does get re-nominated at the end of the day, it would be the thinnest of tightropes.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I could see this being an attack line if Markey does get on the ballot. 'you barely got 10,000 signatures to become eligible to even compete - what does that say about your ability to rally people to your side' or something like that.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I could see this being an attack line if Markey does get on the ballot. 'you barely got 10,000 signatures to become eligible to even compete - what does that say about your ability to rally people to your side' or something like that.

That'd be a sh*tty line of attack considering interacting with people isn't really an option right now.

He had time to collect signatures beforehand, though? Before the lockdown stuff went down.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Debates for this one ar fun to just have on in the background. Just casually making some Kennedy fillet. Kennedy probably wins because of his surname but Markey is running a very effective campaign against him.

It’s actually embarrassing to both this state and the Kennedy campaign but if I were to bet I would say Markey pulls the upset. Which is frankly ridiculous

More like ridiculously amazing! 😎😎

Glad you see it that way

The Kennedy’s have done a lot for this country and for our state. And Joe is young, smart, empathetic and seems to give a damn beyond his campaign. And as you’ve heard before - Markey is hardly ever here. Voting Markey over Kennedy will say a lot about my state and not in a good way

We get it, you wanna marry JK3 & have an unreasonable hate boner for Ed Markey. That's been established. Just stop repeating falsehoods that you've proven wrong on time & time again.

One man's falsehood is another man's truism.