The MN-02 House race will be DELAYED until FEB 9 because the 38-year-old candidate from the Legal Marijuana Now Party died, that's a "major party" in MN, and the law says, "If a major party nominee dies within 79 days of Election Day" you get a special on the 2nd Tues in Feb...
...that's a law enacted in the wake of Paul Wellstone's death, which happened shortly before the 2002 election.
"Once [Rep. Angie] Craig’s term ends on Jan. 3, there will likely be a month and a half where the seat is vacant..."
"[Adam Charles] Weeks had supported President Donald Trump in 2016 but was also concerned about the major parties, [his friend Joey] Hudson said. Hudson also said Weeks was wooed to run for office by 'hard-core Republican, borderline QAnon-type guys'..."
At first glance of this proposal @EWErickson said: “Any donor who thinks an organization needs $108 million for a three-state grassroots get-out-the-vote campaign is being taken advantage of. It sounds like a grift.” …
Funny thing about the swing state general election trial heats that test Trump & DeSantis: they are almost all from GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies, commissioned by Koch-network group Citizens Awareness Project citizenawarenessproject.com/research/
The @peterbakernyt int’vw of Ben Barnes nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/… absolutely strengthens the case that the Reagan ‘80 campaign (but not necessarily Reagan) illegally tried to undermine talks w/Iran to free the hostages
But it doesn’t answer the Q if that’s *why* Iran delayed…
…as noted by Baker, Barnes did talk previously (if not as extensively) with historian @hwbrands for Brands’ Reagan bio…
…but Brands still concluded the effort was “almost certainly superfluous”…
How Democrats should handle the current migrant influx, both rhetorically and substantively, is a vexing challenge. But one they need to meet or else they will turn on each other.
DeSantis' decisions are utterly baffling to me. I obviously have to acknowledge his noxious bets have all paid off to date. But what in the Sam Hill the is the upside of going all in on Covid vaccine skepticism?
Welp I guess DeSantis is going to run for prez as the anti-science candidate
(As a few others have wisely said to me, DeSantis can try to run to the right of Trump, who complained about Fauci but didn't fire him (which he didn't have the power to do))