KY-Sen 2022: Charles Booker in

[beesley]

Once again, Booker is a candidate trying to drive up support, raise money, get his name out, and ultimately win a race, which however unlikely, is why he's not going to say 'Kentucky is Safe R'. The people at fault are those who give him the airtime outside of the state.

[The Mikado]

Booker's delusional, no surprises here.
https://twitter.com/Booker4KY/status/1400804026497728521?s=20

Per electproject, 64.5% of eligible KY voters voted for President in 2020.

So in the old "If none of the above was a candidate" test we get:

Trump 40.02%
NOTA 35.50%
Biden 23.31%
Other 1.18%

Just food for thought.

[QAnonKelly]

Hopefully we’ve learned our lesson from last time.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Safe R, yeah Trump wasn't at 44%, in the Rassy polls he is where Biden is now between 48/50% and D's are gonna perform just where Biden is, D's want you to donate because if they say Sen you are more likely to donate to Send than House and they use alot of tips that give to DCCC, Act blue doesn't get money from donations, they make money off Tips

[Real Texan Politics]

This'll likely be one of the most expensive senate races in American history, yet Paul will still win by 20, showing that neither party will ever learn their lesson when it comes to trying to defeat controversial incumbents in safe states/districts.

[free my dawg]

Going to be interesting watching the same #Resistance bots who thought Charles Booker was a GOP Russian plant for running against the DSCC's Anointed One flooding his campaign.

[FisherF]

Does Ruth Gao have any chance at the nomination?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

D's do need more black Senators and Booker as well as Ras Smith in a blue wave can win, in 500 days

[Progressive Pessimist]

Safe R. Please, Democratic activists, learn from the Jaime Harrison campaign from last year and keep your expectations tempered. Donate to the Democratic candidates in North Carolina and Pennsylvania instead. It's nice to have hope, but that concept goes to die in states like Kentucky.

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Going to be interesting watching the same #Resistance bots who thought Charles Booker was a GOP Russian plant for running against the DSCC's Anointed One flooding his campaign.

They seemed to think that the best way to get a Democratic Senate was to defeat the Senate Majority leader. It's amazing how much more dollars than sense these people have.

[KYRockefeller]

D's do need more black Senators and Booker as well as Ras Smith in a blue wave can win, in 500 days

It would have to be one heck of a blue wave for them to win Kentucky (and that wave will collapse if inflation ends up being more than a temporary blip).  The state is not like Illinois or Pennsylvania where Dems can just boost turnout in the metro areas of Louisville and Lexington and win.  They have to breakthrough in rural areas of the state or in places that lean Republican in Northern KY and Warren County.  There's no way I see Booker's platform resonating well enough in those areas.

There are also those who were McGrath supporters in the last election who aren't happy with Booker because they argue he didn't do enough to support the ticket last fall.  McGrath had no chance of winning anyway, but I don't see a Booker candidacy holding onto any ancestral Democrats or getting enough of them on board to do significantly better.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

D's do need more black Senators and Booker as well as Ras Smith in a blue wave can win, in 500 days

It would have to be one heck of a blue wave for them to win Kentucky (and that wave will collapse if inflation ends up being more than a temporary blip).  The state is not like Illinois or Pennsylvania where Dems can just boost turnout in the metro areas of Louisville and Lexington and win.  They have to breakthrough in rural areas of the state or in places that lean Republican in Northern KY and Warren County.  There's no way I see Booker's platform resonating well enough in those areas.

There are also those who were McGrath supporters in the last election who aren't happy with Booker because they argue he didn't do enough to support the ticket last fall.  McGrath had no chance of winning anyway, but I don't see a Booker candidacy holding onto any ancestral Democrats or getting enough of them on board to do significantly better.

2021 CALI RECALL IF Newsom survives, will tell us about the blue blue wave, but UBI benefits are very popular, Biden and Manchin and Sinema are wasting a Golden opportunity to raise the D approvals to 60% once again by bypassing another round of 1K stimulus checks

It's a 304 map but a blue wave isn't out of the question

[KYRockefeller]

D's do need more black Senators and Booker as well as Ras Smith in a blue wave can win, in 500 days

It would have to be one heck of a blue wave for them to win Kentucky (and that wave will collapse if inflation ends up being more than a temporary blip).  The state is not like Illinois or Pennsylvania where Dems can just boost turnout in the metro areas of Louisville and Lexington and win.  They have to breakthrough in rural areas of the state or in places that lean Republican in Northern KY and Warren County.  There's no way I see Booker's platform resonating well enough in those areas.

There are also those who were McGrath supporters in the last election who aren't happy with Booker because they argue he didn't do enough to support the ticket last fall.  McGrath had no chance of winning anyway, but I don't see a Booker candidacy holding onto any ancestral Democrats or getting enough of them on board to do significantly better.

2021 CALI RECALL IF Newsom survives, will tell us about the blue blue wave, but UBI benefits are very popular, Biden and Manchin and Sinema are wasting a Golden opportunity to raise the D approvals to 60% once again by bypassing another round of 1K stimulus checks

It's a 304 map but a blue wave isn't out of the question

And add even more inflationary pressure to the economy?  Doesn't sound like a great idea.

[Crogers]

https://mobile.twitter.com/WorkingFamilies/status/1410683145108787208
What a joke.

A socialist or a libertarian?

Easiest choice ever. Especially for KY.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Safe R

[Utah Neolib]

Safe R

Pretty much everyone agrees with you on that

[Real Texan Politics]

Can't wait for the twitter #resist libs to blame Booker's loss on "muh voter fraud" because of "muh voter registration" like they don't know that ancestral dems exist in Kentucky.

Trust me, I've seen it on twitter with McConnell's victory over McGrath.

[Suburbia]

How many counties do Booker carry?

McGrath 2020 carried 3 counties, Gray 2016 carried 7 counties, Grimes 2014 carried 10 counties.....

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How many counties do Booker carry?

McGrath 2020 carried 3 counties, Gray 2016 carried 7 counties, Grimes 2014 carried 10 counties.....

2 counties, but he won't waste $90 million there.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Safe R

Pretty much everyone agrees with you on that

No one knows what 2022/ but we know that Biden has a Hunter Biden problem and D's are wasting a Golden opportunity to pass 15 minimum wage, extend Unemployment benefits without 300 and 1400 checks for 35k

Just imagine if D's put all of that in their Reconciliation bill, Blue tsunami, D's are poor not rich like Rs, but then they want you to donate to them, I donate 6.00 a mnth that's it


Warnock and Ossoff ran on 2K but that was when cases were going down and we're supposed to out of Pandemic, it didn't call me to pass

If we knew what 2022 we would be magicians, a blue wave can still happen

That's why I still have Tim Ryan in my signature he will be running against Josh Mandel not Portman whom did poorly in 2012

Guess what Brown, Ryan or Manchin have never lost a GE before

[Utah Neolib]

Safe R

Pretty much everyone agrees with you on that

No one knows what 2022/ but we know that Biden has a Hunter Biden problem and D's are wasting a Golden opportunity to pass 15 minimum wage, extend Unemployment benefits without 300 and 1400 checks for 35k

Just imagine if D's put all of that in their Reconciliation bill, Blue tsunami, D's are poor not rich like Rs, but then they want you to donate to them, I donate 6.00 a mnth that's it


Warnock and Ossoff ran on 2K but that was when cases were going down and we're supposed to out of Pandemic, it didn't call me to pass

If we knew what 2022 we would be magicians, a blue wave can still happen

That's why I still have Tim Ryan in my signature he will be running against Josh Mandel not Portman whom did poorly in 2012

Guess what Brown, Ryan or Manchin have never lost a GE before

Nice fact, but this is Kentucky

[Oregon Eagle Politics]

Likely D Obviously

[Dipper Josh]

Like... what do you all want him to say?

He probably should run for congress after Yarmuth retires, fine. Congressional races are every two years, he could still easily do that.

This forum loves to rip on every candidate running against incumbents in safe seats, like seriously what do you want him to say? Of course he's going to say sh**t like "Kentucky can be flipped!", he's trying to do his best! I guess he could try to tap dance around it but eventually some snot nosed reporter is going to be like "but really bro, you think you can win?" and he's gonna have to lie and say yes.

I'm seeing tons of posts about how resist libs are going to pour money into this race and how it could be one of the most expensive senate races ever. First of all, Paul isn't going to get nearly as much resist lib vitriol as Mitch McConnell in a presidential year. Secondly, he's not a milquetoast white woman, I doubt resist libs are going to be falling all over themselves here. Especially because the Ds in Florida and Iowa are going to be soaking up ungodly amounts of money.

[NewYorkExpress]

Rand Paul failed to disclose for a year that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus but before the public was largely aware of its danger.


The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on Feb. 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Under a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which was enacted to stop lawmakers from trading on insider information, any such sale should have been reported within 45 days.

...

The disclosure, made 16 months late, adds Paul to a growing list of lawmakers from both parties who have drawn scrutiny for their stock trading during the outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020.

In a statement, a Paul spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said Kelley Paul used her own earnings to make the investment, which she lost money on. She said the failure by the senator, who is an eye surgeon, to disclose the trade was an oversight.

I'm tempted to move this from Safe R back to Likely R after this revelation.

[President Johnson]

Rand Paul failed to disclose for a year that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus but before the public was largely aware of its danger.


The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on Feb. 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Under a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which was enacted to stop lawmakers from trading on insider information, any such sale should have been reported within 45 days.

...

The disclosure, made 16 months late, adds Paul to a growing list of lawmakers from both parties who have drawn scrutiny for their stock trading during the outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020.

In a statement, a Paul spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said Kelley Paul used her own earnings to make the investment, which she lost money on. She said the failure by the senator, who is an eye surgeon, to disclose the trade was an oversight.

I'm tempted to move this from Safe R back to Likely R after this revelation.

Seriously? This is Safe Republican. Nobody will care in November 2022. It's a national race and it's Kentucky.