MA-SEN Megathread: Senator Markey wins

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(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/

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(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)

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

Could very well happen.

And sorry, I misunderstood the article. It said Markey has yet to collect 3'000, I finally found out that the threshold is 10'000 (thanks Politico). So JPK III is almost definetely on the ballot while Markey could still make it (there are still at least at least three weeks to go), and Markey would yet have to win the primary (he has been behind, albeit mostly narrowly, in all polls so far).

Likely Kennedy, closer to Safe than Lean.

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I think we all need to accept if/when Kennedy wins this primary he'll be running for the Presidency in 4 years time

Hard to imagine that if Biden wins. If not, I could picture the 2024 primary being Kennedy v. AOC. That'd be lit.

Like it wouldn't even be out of the ordinary for him to run so sun,

He'll have more experience then both Obama and Carter.

He'll have more congressional experience then his Grandfather Bobby and a similar amount to his Uncle Jack.

He'll have the Kennedy name that gave his uncle Teddy a fighting chance against the incumbent President Carter.

Finally, he'll have the youth and vitality that is needed to turnout voters, he has a similar speaking style to both Bobby and JFK, he'll have the progressive policies after 3 years in the Senate and he'll have the establishment help because of his name.

I truly believe Joe Kennedy is going to have a solid chance at the Presidency come 2024

"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

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Dropping my support of Kennedy, I endorse Markey

because why?...

Because it's OC.