AZ-SEN 2024: Away we Gallego (3/5 - Sinema OUT)

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Random thought: any chance Schumer talks Manchin into dismantling the filibuster now that Manchin's career is functionally over?

Manchin's career isn't remotely over.

If you believe that is so, can you identify which elected office (excluding local-level elected offices) he can win after his current term ends?

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When was the last time a candidate who lost a statewide general election made a successful statewide run immediately the following cycle? Particularly failed gubernatorial candidates?

The only one in recent memory I can think of off the top of my head was Claire McCaskill, who lost a gubernatorial election in 2004 before winning a US Senate election in 2006.

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When was the last time a candidate who lost a statewide general election made a successful statewide run immediately the following cycle? Particularly failed gubernatorial candidates?

Rosendale lost his senate race against Tester in 2018 but won MT-AL in the next cycle.

This reminds me...Greg Gianforte lost the 2016 gubernatorial election before winning a special US House election the following year.

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/23/sinema-trashes-dems-gop-00088461

That woman does seem to have a loose screw or two. The word that comes to mind is narcissist, a condition that I have been told is incurable.

I am not sure how effective she will be as a lobbyist however, when she is no longer needed. So one wonders what her plan will be to maintain her lavish lifestyle. That seems to be job one. Her sartorial choices remind me of what I see from time to time what I see when Dan watches fashion shows. The outfits are not what one typically sees on the street or anywhere else for that matter, other than the runways on which the models strut.

I look forward to the day we won't hear from her and Manchin ever again after both were defeated in a landslide in the next election.

I'd far prefer Manchin to the Republican who will replace him.

While it is objectively true that Manchin would be better than nearly any Republican replacement for him, I don't think I would shed any tears for him in the event he loses either renomination or reelection, due to the amount of corruption that emanates from him (in fact, if I were a WV resident, I would definitely refrain from promoting him among people I know, even if I do vote for him in the general election).

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Is it legal to serve as Governor and Senator at the same time?

It's clearly not legal to serve as both simultaneously, but Lake is only governor in her own imagination. (BTW, Arizona only allows governors to retain their governorship while running for US Senate if said governor is running during the final year of the gubernatorial term.)

On another note, in the event a sitting governor gets elected to the US Senate but the expiration of the gubernatorial term is later than the date of the senatorial inauguration, the governor must officially relinquish the governorship before being seated as Senator.

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Another politician whose departure I won't shed any tears for, even if she may be ideologically aligned with me on certain issues.