Out walking my own neighborhood in the pouring rain in a freshly gerrymandered district to kick Kevin Kiley out of Congress - my heart is full. #WhoDrewTheMaps
Evan McLaughlin
@CapitolEVAN
Political Director @CAFirefighters. Prev: MCSA, CA Assembly, @udrawthelines. Mr. @jdudikoff. Smooth waters never made a skilled sailor. #FisherOut
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Happy E-Day, team. It feels more like the end of OT in a Thursday night game in Cleveland than it does the Super Bowl.
I try hard not to follow recency bias, but this has been one crazy ass midterm. Consider, in no particular order: (P.S. I didn’t start the fire, it was always burning)View quoted post on X
REDISTRICTING WARS: Referendums pass in CA and VA, courts rescind VA, scramble primaries; Still not clear is MO Cong. Winners can be seated
ME SEN: Graham Platner drops out; speed firehouse/convention primary held for replacement (don’t forget Janet Mills dropping but not dropping?)
WI GOV: David Crowley drops out to stop socialist candidate then gets back in and pulls stunning primary upset over F. Hong.
AK SEN: The two Dan Sullivans
CA GOV: Rotating frontrunners leads to multiple dropouts, Swawell may need a criminal defense atty; somehow Becerra is GOV-in-Waiting
TX SEN: Trump lets Ken Paxton happen
NC SEN: Trump chases out Tillis
FL SEN: DSA candidate upsets estab pick spending no conventional TV money
SC SEN: Lindsey Graham dies; special primary/runoff is held coronating his sister
NYC Cong. Races: Mamdani-led DSA sweeps
KS SEN: Senator goes rogue on his campaign, makes his own disastrous response TV ad
MI SEN: Where to begin: fake poll drives one candidate to drop; Dem primary is a nailbiter; losing candidate endorses other party’s nominee with 72 hours to go.
MI O8: Trump endorsed candidate (Amir Hassan) loses primary to candidate who dropped out (Tom Smith).
TRUMP: Becomes even odder on the trail, from “powerful bottoms” to dismissing voter concerns. 80yo behaves like a less than healthy 80yo
And CA will net 5 seats the other way
Big House theme: gerrymandering not yielding the gains GOP hoped. At this point, Rs would be very lucky to net 2/5 seats they targeted in TX & 2/4 in FL.View quoted post on X
Their biggest OH target, #OH09 Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D), will probably hold on. And Rs could actually *lose* seats in NC & OH.
Incredible run hosting the best show on television. We’ll miss you, Ern.
It’s time.
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I’m so thrilled with the efficiency @SouthwestAir believes they are achieving by denying bags 43 minutes before *scheduled* takeoff even though the flight is 20 min late, making my attempted bag check 63 minutes early but still not early enough to avoid the bump to a later flight