2018 Elections Thread

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Get on it @squistion

[krista4 23,694]

1 hour ago, joffer said:

last African American Republican in the house, Will Hurd, retiring.  That’s surprising.

It is surprising and sad.  I like him.

Down to one African-American Republican in all of the House, Senate, and governorships.  Out of 277 people.

[SoBeDad 2,237]

1 hour ago, joffer said:

last African American Republican in the house, Will Hurd, retiring.  That’s surprising.

A vet, Gina Ortiz Jones, could make that district blue. She lost to Hurd by 0.5% in 2018 and is running again. She checks a lot of boxes: Philippina, LGBTQ, Iraq war, defense intelligence, trade. Hillary won the district by 3.6% in 2016.

[squistion 12,451]

5 hours ago, SoBeDad said:

It's time for a 2020 elections thread.

Both Democrats (Shalala & Murcacel-Powell) who narrowly flipped the Curbelo and retiring Ros-Lehtinen seats in the Miami area will face tough challengers.

But Shalala's challenger, former Spanish-language broadcast journalist Maria Elvira Salazar, got off to a rough start by (1) rolling out a mis-spelled version of her web-site ("elvria" instead of "elvira"), which was hijacked by a local democratic strategist who noticed the error, registered the domain and redirected it to Shalala's web-site and (2) initially registered  to run in the Muracel-Powell district instead of the Shalala district.   

Salazar: “We made a mistake. Mistakes happen and now we’re fixing it."

There is one if you had bothered to use the search function:

https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/773246-2020-elections-thread-senate-house-state-local-races/