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

[jdk]

Turner's congressional campaign is really starting to look more and more like Andrew Yang's mayoral run: early huge lead in a crowded field based on name recognition (in Yang's case from the 2020 election run, in Turner's case she bought the lead with an early ad blitz), only for the campaign to fall apart once they get to the home stretch and people start paying attention and learn more about the candidates and discover just how awful they really are.

[jdk]

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.

[jdk]

Very funny to see the Centrists trumpet a very clear Republican push poll.

Maybe I wasn't so far off when I called these people Blue MAGA.

Blue MAGA would be refusing to accept that your candidate lost and pushing deranged, unhinged conspiracy theories about the election being rigged.  You know, how Nina and the rest of the Cult of Bernie did when she pushed the original Big Lie in 2016 about the Democratic primaries, normalizing and paving the way for Trump people do the same exact thing in 2020 .

Blue MAGA would be supporting Nina Turner who claims to be a Democrat but actively campaigned against Hillary in 2016 during the general election in 2016 and against Biden and the entire Democratic party throughout the general election in 2020, working her hardest to help Trump and the GOP win.

[jdk]

Address the situation. Why is it okay for Shontel Brown to promote a conservative organization that's trying to boost her campaign?

She's not "promoting a conservative organization trying to boost her campaign".  It's an unbiased poll from a pollster with no vested interest in the race (if anything, anyone who supports the GOP would want Turner to win because her serving in congress while posing as a Democrat would be a huge asset for Republican candidates across the country, not to mention it would be one less Democrat in congress)

Be honest, you're just salty that Turner's campaign is in trouble because  the voters are becoming more informed and finding out the truth about how awful Turner truly is.

[jdk]

So this is yet another example of corporate/establishment Democrats rushing to stack the deck in favor of their preferred candidate.

I mean, Turner had a significant amount more money backing her campaign, far more favorable media coverage, all the name recognition, a lot more prominent endorsements (including having more endorsements from establishment Democrats than Brown), and a strong head start against a fractured field.

The deck was heavily stacked, but it was in her favor. Thankfully enough voters were informed about what a deranged, despicable piece of trash Turner is for decency and integrity to win out over

[jdk]

This primary is a sad indictment of the democratic party. "You criticize us, we'll use whatever dirty tactics to make sure you never get into power". Biden was a bowl of sh**t.

All they did make the public more informed by providing an accurate picture of who she is with direct quotes of things they actually said.  The fact that was enough to sink her campaign when she had every single possible systematic advantage working in her favor shows how awful she truly is.