MO-SEN 2022 megathread: ERIC

[Left Wing]

Keep in mind that people decline bids and then run all the time. Not saying he will, but good to keep in mind.

[Left Wing]

Honestly it may be a good thing for Dems that Kander is not running, since that means it should be a lot less likely that Democrats will be fooled into thinking that Missouri is winnable, and consequently they are less likely to waste tens of millions of dollars there on ineffective television ads. The bad news is that they will waste tens of millions of dollars in Kentucky in order to lose to Rand Paul (albeit probably quite a bit less than was wasted this year against Mitch McConnell).

I actually wonder which race could be the TX/KY/SC of 2022 - an ultimately unwinnable race that liberals still donate a s**t ton to. It's hard to think of any incumbent Senators in this class who are boogeymen in the same way that Cruz, Mitch and Lindsey are. Maybe Ron Johnson?

NY will almost certainly be this in reverse for Republicans, doubly so if one of the Trumps run.

[Left Wing]

I wonder how Kander would be doing right now if he had run ahead of Hillary just a little bit more and won. He’d easily be the most vulnerable senator in 2022 but I’m not sure if he would have been declared DOA or not.

[Left Wing]

If Jay Nixon didn’t run in 2016, it would be very odd of him to run now. He also has too much baggage over Ferguson in 2014.

[Left Wing]

We demand BILLY LONG

The people want an auctioneer in the senate!

[Left Wing]

We shouldn't even be having this megathread. Megathreads are for competitive races.

Not everyone only finds who wins between the Republican and the Democrat to be the only interesting part of an election.