Special Election megathread (6/11: OH-6, 6/25: CO-4)

[JM1295]

Turner is more known nationally as being tied to Bernie's 2020 campaign and being an outspoken surrogate who was critical of the national Democratic party, but she has plenty of ties to the state Ohio Democratic party. She was a state senator in the same area she's now running for a congressional house seat. She isn't carpetbagging or a stranger to OH-11, but a well-known figure. Hell, pretty sure she was a surrogate for Obama during his 2012 reelection in Ohio. I'm surprised more national and mainstream Democrats haven't tried to coalesce against Turner, but idk how much of an impact that would have had with her ties and roots in OH-11.

[JM1295]

Nina Turner will probably fall in line way more often than not, y'all are being dramatic and need to seriously touch some grass

Yeah, I mean has the left/progressives held up any legislation thus far to make us think differently? They couldn't even get together to block giving the capitol police more funding, which barely passed with 218 votes lol. The Squad, Jayapal, Pocan, etc. have all shown that they will fall in line and idk why people expect anything different from Turner. It has almost always been moderates who have held up the Biden agenda thus far.

[JM1295]

Turner will still likely win, but I figured Brown would gain some momentum based off of recent endorsements and PACs. Still though, Turner looks to be the favorite and even more so with this being a Brown internal poll.

[JM1295]

Yikes, looks like that Free Beacon poll may be true if they’re bringing in the big guns like this!
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1415731970672365579?s=21

Great news for the Shontel Brown campaign- Having someone as toxic as AOC go and campaign for Turner will only increase Shontel's chances of winning.

What do you mean? AOC is popular with Democrats and this is a D+30 district lol. Approval rating polls have shown AOC is very popular with Democrats and even has a non-negative (an even rating) with Republicans included. Despite what Twitter may indicate or show, most Democrats like AOC, Biden, Sanders, Kamala Harris, etc.