Posted on 02/13/2018 5:22:20 PM PST by SMGFan
Rep. Kevin Cramer has signaled to confidants that he will reverse course and run against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., in what promises to be one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate elections, two GOP sources familiar with his plans told NBC News.
Cramer, the state's lone House member and a close ally of President Donald Trump, has long been considered the blue-chip recruit for Republican. He announced in January that he wouldn't challenge Heitkamp, but White House officials, party leaders and Cramer's home-state supporters continued to pressure him to jump in.
One of the other two candidates in the race, state Sen. Tom Emineth, a former Cramer campaign manager, dropped out on Tuesday, telling the Associated Press he believes Cramer will run. Some Republicans want the other candidate, Tom Campbell, to run for Cramer's House seat.
If Cramer gets in, it will be a coup for Senate Republicans. With a 51-49 majority in the Senate — and facing historical headwinds in the midterm elections — they were nervous about the prospects of sending anyone else into battle, even in a state where Trump won with 63 percent of the vote in 2016.
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I think we’re OK in MO.
yes, I posted that too. :)
EXCELLENT news. The Dems have another tough seat to defend, the one they just picked up in Alabama - that will be interesting if we actually run a decent candidate this time.
This is indeed very good news of SD. Both of the candidates in WV will be strong no matter which one of them wins the primary - but the key is this time Manchin can't be allowed to get away with the dog and pony show of being "independent" of the ultra left party leadership he will prop up and allow to control the agenda. Manchin voted to confirm Gorsuch, yes, but he also voted to block him from being able to get a vote by voting against the point of order to allow him to have a vote. If Schumer is the majority leader, which Manchin would vote to make happen, what Manchin claims to support doesn't matter if it never gets to the floor - and this point needs to be driven home. Heitkamp pulled a similar dog and pony show last time around to win in a Republican state...neither should be allowed to get away with that phony and false narrative - a vote for them is a vote for Pelosi/Schumer and that should be the theme of the campaigns in both states.
Josh Hawley would be very strong against McCaskill in MO...the GOP governor is in scandal trouble though which could affect the race. John James would be strong against Stabenow in MI, but only if he is able to raise the bucks to mount a campaign - this is where a grassroots money bomb campaign could come into play to move that race more onto the radar.
AL won’t be up until 2020 - but certainly should be high on the list as a prime pickup in that election year as you said.
I was a delegate to the 1980 and 1988 Republican convention in North Dakota. Kevin will be a fine candidate.
Heitkamp will fight dirty. Her brother is a talk show host
and attacked Rick Berg at every turn.
Rick worked for a large property management firm-I believe he did commercial leasing. So Heitkamp brought out a person who rented an apartment (they also had a residential division) but was evicted. So the ads showed Berg taking part in eviction of a poor helpless woman.
Crammer needs to fight like a Trump and not be a Chump.
Two sitting GOP congressmen are running in Indiana , I hope best one wins primary.
MUST take advantage of this.
Didn’t know regarding Alabama, that bites. Thanks!
ND...
The word is ‘confidantes, you illiterate dolt. But then again, what should we expect from someone who writes for MSN/NBC.writer.
Holy cow. Fumble fingers on the old iPhone tonight.
Correction: The word is ‘confidantes’ you illiterate dolt. But then again, what should we expect from someone who writes for MSN/NBC.
We should never lack for the strongest candidates. We don’t get them enough. They CHOOSE not to run.
... facing historical headwinds in the midterm elections...
Headwinds? Or, hot air?
It’s a pipe dream, but if the breeze is blowing the GOP’s way, it is not impossible to have 61 seats - that would be with holding Heller in Nevada and winning the seats in the Trump states. Supposedly the Franken seat with the appointed Senator in Minnesota is rated as toss-up and that would be 62 if that could somehow be won...however, with no serious contender challenging Klobachar in the other Senate race there (both of their seats are up) I’m afraid that would create too much of a headwind...Trump just barely lost, MN, however, and there were no resources put in there for GOTV, etc. If there had been, perhaps he may have carried it.
Again that’s just a dream to think everything would go our way everywhere, but it is a possibility - however very, very remote that it is, and it should be the goal. Our voters have to be woken up out of historical trends of complacency, however, for the party in power in off year elections - like they were in 2002. Pence and Trump making regular calls to the talk radio shows across the nation to tell people they have to start getting engaged now would be a good catalyst. I don’t know how to do this, but organizing money bombs can put every candidate in these races in good standing...there are certainly one million conservatives who could donate as little as $10 to each candidate on average - that miniscule amount turns into $10 million per candidate - putting races that are in second and third tier status right up to the front (like Michigan, Wisconsin). I have no idea how to organize something like that...but if it is possible, get it to all of the nominees running in the states Trump won first of all (in the open and contested seats)...then if it remains successful, might as well do it in the supposedly safe blue seats as well and put the Dems on defense nationwide. Just brainstorming here...
Ack. yes, of course. Sorry folks...I’m sure that’s a sore spot up there with people mixing it up for us out of towners...
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