TX-06: Dems in Disarray!

[beesley]

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1367241604990464007?s=20

That is possibly the stupidest thing I've read today.

[beesley]

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1367241604990464007?s=20

That is possibly the stupidest thing I've read today.

I got one better for ya.
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1367613304118644738

Good grief, though the fact you have to file in Austin is also stupid.

[beesley]

Major, major development.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/542672-gop-candidate-in-texas-house-race-endorsed-by-fellow-korean-american-reps

California GOP Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel threw their support behind fellow Republican and Korean American Sery Kim in the race for Texas's sixth congressional district on Wednesday.

“I am proud to endorse Sery Kim for Congress and am confident she has the knowledge and experience needed to represent Texas’ 6th Congressional District," Young Kim said in a statement released exclusively to The Hill.

Steel highlighted Sery Kim's work in the Bush and Trump administrations, as well as her academic achievements in her endorsement.

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"Sery has proven that she is the best woman for the job," Steel said in the statement. "I look forward to serving with her in Congress."

Young Kim and Steel are among the first Korean American women to serve in Congress. The freshman congresswoman flipped Democratic seats in the onetime conservative stronghold of Orange County.

Sery Kim, a first-generation immigrant from Seoul, South Korea, said she was "honored" to receive endorsements from Steel and Young Kim.

The endorsements come after Sery Kim officially launched her campaign this week, pledging to take on the political establishment in Washington, D.C. She previously served as a as assistant administrator in the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the Small Business Administration under Trump.

Sery Kim highlighted her heritage in her campaign launch video.

"My parents immigrated here from Seoul, South Korea, when I was a child. They sometimes worked two jobs, three jobs, to put food on the table. And it’s here in Texas that I learned the value of sacrifice, hard work, resilience," she said.

The Texas Republican candidate joins a crowded field to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), who died of the coronavirus earlier this year. A total of 23 candidates -- 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats -- have filed to run in the special election on May 1. Wright's wife, Susan, is also among the Republicans running to replace him.

[beesley]

https://twitter.com/DanRodimer/status/1375203707852353537?s=19

Dear me.

[beesley]

What percentage of Texans actually fall for this cornball crap? I did see the video where Gov. Abbott celebrated March Madness by saying Texas is #1 in everything, so clearly he believes many of them do. But there must be plenty of normal, not ridiculous Republicans there.

Also, does the bull riding thing really help? Most of the district's voters live in Tarrant.

[beesley]

Not surprising. Madison Cawthorn will endorse Dan Rodimer.

Why would that particularly matter, both for the race and for you to post three times about it?

[beesley]

Wood is beating Rodimer, which we can all be happy about.

[beesley]

Wow a lot of the high profile candidates like Rodimer, Wood, and Kim had really awful showings.  

What's Rodimer's next move?  Alaska to primary Murkowski?  

More evidence that the media tends to focus on the sensational - the more interesting/controversial candidates, as much as if not more than the actual frontrunners.

It seems my $100 on Wood was wasted.

I would've given him money if I remembered, but it's probably better I didn't.

I suppose it's good to see Trump's chosen candidate Susan Wright get an embarrassingly low portion of the vote, right? As an anti-Trumper, should I should be rooting for this guy Ellzey as the slightly better option?

Trump doesn't always endorse the worst candidate. He endorsed the admittedly awful but not a sex predator Mo Brooks over Roy Moore in the AL-Senate special and also went with Madison Cawthorn's opponent.

He pays far less attention than you think and often endorses who his advisers or Kevin McCarthy tell him to. He also tends not to endorse candidates he doesn't think will win with his endorsement.

[beesley]

Nothing of value

[beesley]

Also any tea leaves from this SE are likely suspect until we see results from other places such as NM-01 and in November VA-GOV?

Been out of the game for awhile but this caught my eye so chose to check in on Atlas for the first time in a bit...

Welcome back. That's broadly correct - except for the fact that the NM-01 election has already happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_Mexico%27s_1st_congressional_district_special_election