Congressional Special Election (last call! unstickied after NY-27 final results)

[Sestak]

Has McCready said if he’s running or not?

[lfromnj]

Has McCready said if he’s running or not?

I mean its basically certain considering he is actively fundraising off it.

[lfromnj]

I thought Cooper could do it after 90 days? Why wouldn't he do that considering that Mcready would have a name rec advantage?

[Sestak]

Has McCready said if he’s running or not?

I mean its basically certain considering he is actively fundraising off it.

I figured, but has he not officially announced yet?

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Has McCready said if he’s running or not?

I mean its basically certain considering he is actively fundraising off it.

I figured, but has he not officially announced yet?

Yes Sestak

[Sestak]

Has McCready said if he’s running or not?

I mean its basically certain considering he is actively fundraising off it.

I figured, but has he not officially announced yet?

Yes Sestak

Ah, ok. Thanks. Missed that.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1100841727500394496

This seems like an absurdly long campaign for one year of a congressional term.  Ten weeks between the primary and the run-off is just dumb.  France holds their general election run-off for president two weeks after the first round...why not at least do that?

[libertpaulian]

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1100841727500394496

This seems like an absurdly long campaign for one year of a congressional term.  Ten weeks between the primary and the run-off is just dumb.  France holds their general election run-off for president two weeks after the first round...why not at least do that?

At least it isn't the Balderson vs. O'Connor special this past August...for an election that would be held a mere three months later!

[jimrtex]

I love how Jimrtex considers the tweet that highlights how Harris nearly committed perjury and had to backtrack at the hearing for whether election fraud was committed as something he classifies to be about "other issues" somehow less important to the case than his long-winded rants about minutiae surrounding other people involved.

The tweet that Brittain quoted had nothing to do with what I wrote.

And I remembered a couple of things I had forgot.

Did you find it off-putting when I responded to your post with information on a completely different aspect of the thread’s subject, just because I thought it was more important and relevant and what I wanted to talk about?

Not at all - what you wrote was irrelevant, and I was just noting that I was not responding to what you had written.

[jimrtex]

I thought Cooper could do it after 90 days? Why wouldn't he do that considering that Mcready would have a name rec advantage?

The NCSBOE voided the election. There is not a vacancy, just an unfinished election.'

Cooper likely issued writs for the general election and the NCSBOE takes over from there.

McCready's lawyer (and Clinton bagman) Marc Elias has suggested the possibility of challenging the law that says there will be a primary. McCready won't make a decision until Elias and Pelosi tell him what to think.

[jimrtex]

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1100841727500394496

This seems like an absurdly long campaign for one year of a congressional term.  Ten weeks between the primary and the run-off is just dumb.  France holds their general election run-off for president two weeks after the first round...why not at least do that?

Because state officials have to send ballots overseas 45 days before an election.

So an April 30 primary. A couple of weeks to count and canvass the vote, a couple of weeks to prepare ballots, and 6-1/2 weeks for ballots to be sent overseas and returned. That is 10 weeks.

It is 9 weeks between the runoff and the general. Perhaps the runoff was delayed a week so that it would not be two days before July 4th.

Alternatively, candidates can hit up donors for $2800 per election. 10 weeks gives them more time. Also media consultants want more assured employment.  If elections were over quickly they would be unemployed most of the time.

[lfromnj]

DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

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DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

Mccready beating Generic R already would be proof this is already Lean D, but DCCC is most certainly biased.

[Storr]

DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

I want to believe.

[ON Progressive]

DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

I want to believe.

[Politician]

DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

I want to believe.

[OneJ]

DCCC poll
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001


50 46 Mcready vs Generic R.

I want to believe.

[IceSpear]

I think whether or not McCready wins is dependent on if Dems can keep their special election overperformances going. I mean, keep in mind that Harris, who was a tainted and weak candidate in his own right even before the scandal, probably won even without the fraud during a D+9 Democratic wave.

[lfromnj]

LMAO JUST REALIZED. Is the poll literally fake?

Look at the date

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001

[Tender Branson]

Have the primary, runoff and GE dates already been set for NC-9, as the thread title shows ?

I think only the date for the other special election has been set, right ?

[Brittain33]

Have the primary, runoff and GE dates already been set for NC-9, as the thread title shows ?

I think only the date for the other special election has been set, right ?

Yes, I don’t have it handy but all the dates for NC9 have been set.

[jimrtex]

LMAO JUST REALIZED. Is the poll literally fake?

Look at the date

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-38b8-dce6-ad69-3fff83b50001

It would be if it were March 32nd.

[jimrtex]

Have the primary, runoff and GE dates already been set for NC-9, as the thread title shows ?

I think only the date for the other special election has been set, right ?

That is correct.

In the case of an actual vacancy, such as has occurred in NC-3, the governor calls the special election.

In the case of NC-9, and two other local elections, the November elections were voided. At some time, Cooper would have issued writs for the general election (that he has no discretion as to the dates of that election is immaterial). The NCSBOE has oversight over an election, once the governor has ordered an election.

In cases of extreme misfeasance or malfeasance, they can call a do-over as they have done in these three elections (and possibly two others). The NCSBOE can only take official action in open meetings, and they have a meeting scheduled for Monday, March 4.

An interesting twist is that in December, the legislature added a requirement that a congressional do-over include a primary. This was included in the bill that reconstituted the NCSBOE. Without that change, there would be a rematch of the general election between Harris, McCready, and Scott.

Mark Elias has suggested that McCready might challenge that change. I suspect that the Democrats on the NCSBOE won't want to appear to be political hacks and vote to skip the primary (and they will get sued if they do, which will delay the election even further). McCready could then sue, but that would make him look like a political hack.

So I assume that the NCSBOE might adopt the same schedule as for NC-3. But the filing period for that election is March 4 through March 8. You can't have a retroactive filing period, and it is unlikely that you can have a filing period without due notice.

Absentee ballots for a federal election have to be sent to overseas and military voters, 45 days before an election. There are 53 days between March 8 and April 30. That leaves only 8 days to print ballots and send them out before that deadline.

So that says the NCSBOE will have to set a different date for the NC-9 primary.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Politico:

North Carolina Republicans will select a new nominee in May for the election do-over in a now-vacant congressional district after the state's board of elections on Monday ordered a new primary.

The primary in North Carolina's 9th District, which will be open to new candidates, will be held on May 14. The general election is scheduled for Sept. 10 — but if no candidate in a party primary earns greater than 30 percent of the vote, a primary runoff will take place on Sept. 10, and the general will be moved to Nov. 5.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Have the primary, runoff and GE dates already been set for NC-9, as the thread title shows ?

I think only the date for the other special election has been set, right ?

Yes, I don’t have it handy but all the dates for NC9 have been set.

Well, apparently they weren't, but are now.  According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-sets-new-primaries-general-election-in-scandal-plagued-9th-congressional-district/2019/03/04/ccfec0a8-3ea1-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html, primaries will be May 14.  If no runoffs are needed, the special general election will be Sep. 10.  If a runoff is needed (no candidate gets >30%) then that would take place on Sep. 10, and the GE would be pushed back to November.