Special Election megathread (4/30: NY-26)

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none of them should resign their seat until after January 20th, although Richmond's position doesnt need senate confirmation

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Nina Turner's podcast is sponsored by Goldman Sachs. That's really progressive.

If that's true then her followers are giant idiots

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How will redistricting affect this district in 2022? I assume Ohio will lose 2 EVs and I think they might split up Cleveland

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How do we Fudge is getting confirmed for sure, shouldnt we wait until the hearings and the confirmation vote?

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https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1405193935526506499

El Oh El

Interesting

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I don't know why people are talking about Hillary endorsing people who lost primaries like it's some kind of own.  Usually non-competitive primary candidates don't need endorsements, so naturally you're going to endorse candidates in competitive races who have a good chance of losing.

At least Hillary endorsed normal candidates who ended up losing.  Bernie Sanders endorsed the likes of Cenk Uygur, Tim Canova, and Sarah Iannarone, that's way more embarrassing than endorsing Eliot Engel.

I doubt this will move the needle, the only hope I have is that it finally gets people to think "why is Hillary endorsing Shontel Brown?"  Nine has been running one of the most duplicitous campaigns I've ever seen -- she's literally presenting herself as the opposite of her actual self and running against herself -- and it's working because she has absolutely titanic amounts of money coming in through the Bernie machine, so she's drowning OH-11 in ads and intimidating all the local officials into getting behind her inevitable candidacy.  Maybe a Hillary endorsement of her opponent will shake that inevitability.

Someone is scared of the strong Black woman who dares to speak out against the neolib "consensus."

Why is everything always about race? Address the points

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So here's something that understandably went unnoticed: Mike Carey won OH-15 by just under 17 points, while Trump had won it by 14.

This result was definitely not consistent with what we saw in NJ or VA. Why was the swing in this district so much smaller?

It seems like congressional districts don't have large swings. Remember  the NM special election from earlier on