Kennedy is wasting tons of money that could be used against Mr. Trump and his enablers instead. And I still haven't figured out why he wants Markey to go other than for self-promotion. MA has 2 senators unlikely to stay in for many more decades and he has the time to wait a few more years or run 4 gov once Charlie Baker decides to retire.
No that's literally it. No ideological differences, no demographic differences, no tactical differences. Literally pure ego and it's a drain on resources and a waste of Markey's time. I really hope JKIII loses so he can get out of politics
This is such BS. This race is not taking any resources away from the fight against Trumpism. ZERO. It’s a Safe Dem seat in a Safe Dem state in a region where virtually all races are Safe or at worst Likely Dem.
In recent years you’ve had many Dems who have been in Washington for years being primaried by much younger candidates who have been reasonably in lock step with them on policy issues (Yes slightly more left). The challengers in those races have proclaimed “We need younger people to represent us, we need a new generation”.
AOC, Bowman and Pressley to name a few. But for some reason when Joe Kennedy primaries someone his point about a new generation stepping up is discredited because he comes from a family with many relatively who have sacrafised so much for this country.
With that being said, those thinking JK will win this race don’t know what they’re talking about & are being overly simplistic. Unfortunately the Bernie Bro Pitch Fork brigade has been effective in bruising the image of a young man who would be PHENOMENAL in the Senate. Sadly my state isn’t what it used to be in this regard
Ah yes, I remember when notable progressive firebrand and democratic socialist Crowley got primaried out by AOC. Good times.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding the successful primaries that have occurred so far. Neither AOC, Bowman, nor Pressley won by saying "new blood", they all had very good pitches to the changing demographics in their seat.
- AOC was a Hispanic running in a seat that had become plurality/majority Hispanic. She also stood as a contrast to the moderate Crowley, and was able to use Crowley's lack of attention to the seat to argue that he was out of touch.
- Bowman appealed to the African Americans in the seat, who were a plurality, through the recent events that came from George Floyd's murder. He also was able to use the fact that Engel stepped in a ton of s*** to argue that Engel was out of touch with his seat.
- Pressley's primary was the most racially based of the successful primaries.She argued that a majority-minority seat needed a minority to represent it. She also argued that Capuano had grown out of touch with his seat, especially with his connections to police unions.
None of the three have used "we need new blood" as their main sales pitch for their primary. Kennedy
is because there fundamentally is very little else to run on. The two are ideologically similar, hell, he may be the more moderate of the two. They're both white and its Massachusetts. The
only issue Kennedy can run on is the fact that Markey is old and he is young.
Any primary candidate just arguing for new blood would be blown out of the water, but Kennedy appears to be a special case for reasons that are not very appealing outside the state. It makes him look entitled. He has no real appeal to voters except the fact that his family are famed in politics. Nobody likes the guy who gets the job based on family connections.
