Posted on 07/13/2018 7:51:24 AM PDT by SMGFan
Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants everyone to know she could lose.
It’s an unusual message for any candidate, but the liberal Democrat from Wisconsin is sounding the alarm after Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer effectively declared the first-term senator a favorite to keep her seat in November by leaving her off their lists of top-tier Senate races. After their pronouncements, major outside groups in both parties skipped Wisconsin in their initial $120 million of spending planned for this fall — triggering fears among state Democrats that the party will take victory for granted.
But there’s palpable concern here among Democrats — and Baldwin especially — that Wisconsin is ripe for a repeat of 2016, when Donald Trump carried the state by less than a percentage point and GOP Sen. Ron Johnson surged to a surprise reelection behind a flood of late spending from conservative groups.
“My first reaction when somebody said Mitch McConnell said something about Wisconsin not being on the [list], I said tell that to the Koch brothers network. Please tell that to Richard Uihlein,” Baldwin said Thursday in an interview at a local diner after chatting with a few late-afternoon patrons. She was name checking top GOP donors who have already invested millions against her, despite the views of national party leaders.
Baldwin might have reason to worry. She’s the most liberal of the 10 Democrats up for reelection in states Trump won. She’s voted with the president just 22 percent of the time, the lowest among her 2018 colleagues, and is the only one to support Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan. A near-constant refrain from Republicans is that she’s out of touch with her state — they say she represents only the “isthmus of Madison.”
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She should lose. Come on Packer fans, boot her lame ass.
“Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants everyone to know she could lose.”..’’
Most of Wisconsin “thinking” voters HOPE she does lose, it’s justly deserved.
Isn’t Baldwin an admitted Lesbian?
Any opinions on who has the best chance of beating Baldwin? Lukmir or Nicholson
Precisely the reason why Baldwin claims to be running scared. Republicans seem to do better in non-presidential election years to begin with. We'll see how motivated the Wisconsin Democrats are this time around.
she knows HRC polls were wrong, biased , slanted.
How vulnerable to a Trump attack?
How popular is she in Wisconsin?
She squeaked in the first time with 51% of the vote. I suppose part of it will depend on how acrimonious the Republican primary is.
Non-presidential year races are about turnout, turnout, turnout.
Polls are miserable at assessing future turnout—even when they are not biased.
I’m a big Lukmir fan - “Remember the John Doe!”
They (those sown into the Frankfurt School Marxist Regressive Alinksy Soros Long March Media Centipede) are indeed the Stasi they’ve been waiting for.
Baldwin should lose - but the Republicans in Wisconsin are tearing each other apart during the Senate Primary. Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir are going to leave the GOP separated in November unless every anti Baldwin voter shows up at the polling places.
Sounding the “alarm” is code for get out the troops.
So she’s saying she wants a chance to skim money from the campaign trough.
I don’t trust Nicholsen.
What has she accomplished other than Being Senator While Gay?
She’s maybe a half step brighter than that idiot Mark Pocan who now says he’s going to vote against his own lamebrain “Abolish ICE” bill.
How about “Abolish Progressives” instead?
Even Wikipedia knows that:
“She was the first openly gay person elected to the House of Representatives, and the first open lesbian elected to Congress”
“Open Lesbian!’ heh heh
I think the R’s name is gonna work against him. It’s just not as easy off the tongue as “Baldwin.” Small things like that matter.
Where is the nearest mental eyewash station to erase that awful image?
If Jon Cryer underwent a “cutadickfromme” operation
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