Posted on 06/27/2022 7:45:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican Allan Fung leads each of his potential Democratic rivals in the race for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District, a new Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll found, giving the GOP its best chance to flip a seat that has been held by Democrats since 1991.
The survey of 423 likely general election voters in the race to succeed retiring US Representative James Langevin shows Fung’s lead over each of the six potential Democrats nominees – state Treasurer Seth Magaziner, Sarah Morgenthau, David Segal, Joy Fox, Omar Bah, and Cameron Moquin – is fueled by strong support from voters who identify as independents.
At least 43 percent of voters said they support Fung in each potential matchup, while the Democrats range in support from Magaziner at 38.5 percent to Moquin at 32.1 percent.
“This race, to me, is worthy of being a national story,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “The fact that you have a Republican as the favorite right now is mindboggling, and it speaks to what’s going on in the country.”
Here’s a breakdown of how each Democrat fares against Fung:
Fung 44.9 percent, Magaziner 38.5 percent
Fung 43.2 percent, Morgenthau 34.5 percent
Fung 44.6 percent, Segal 34.5 percent
Fung 44.6 percent, Fox 34 percent
Fung 44.2 percent, Bah 33.8 percent
Fung 45.8 percent, Moquin 32.1 percent
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The last time a Republican won a House seat in Rhode Island was 30 years ago. RI is pretty much just a smaller replica of Massachusetts.
Republicans once went neatly 40 years without winning a House seat, pretty remarkable considering that isn’t some deep-South state where running as a Republican (or voting as one) were lynchable offenses for many decades.
Called Rogue Island for a reason.
It'll never happen. A story will break in the Providence Journal sometime in early October claiming he molests little girls. Even if it's not true.
They are going to cheat there (and in a lot of other places). Fung better be ready for it.
And Rouge Island!
How can you say this about this closeted gay republican?
To: cotton1706
Republican winning in Rhode Island not a good sign for Democrats.
It’ll never happen. A story will break in the Providence Journal sometime in early October claiming he molests little girls. Even if it’s not true.
MRIGA!
Backlash against the gun-grabbing gov?
Is he a RINO or a MAGA?
Born and raised in Massachusetts just over the border from Rhode Island, my observation is that the great majority of people there lack any basic ability to think. They are sheep. Basically Republicans never win in this state and a Republican won’t win this year either.
He will be another Susan Collins, and we should be grateful to have him. His policies will align with Trump something like 40% of the time. A RI Dem would align with Trump 0% of the time.
Why not have a more conservative person? Because YOU, YOU personally, did not travel to Rhode Island and persuade those voters of the rightness of your positions.
He will represent his voters, unlike Romney-types. Why would you have him do anything other than that?
But FR will still rage that he’s not conservative and why is there no conservative in that seat? The reason for that is in the mirror. Failure to persuade.
“Is he a RINO or a MAGA?”
From the picture that a fellow FReeper posted, where he’s wearing a Trump hat, my guess is he’s at least a Trump supporter. How much I don’t know.
he’s perfect!
Well...not really - the Dems haven’t chosen a nominee yet so it could just be they haven’t united around a candidate. Fung is “ahead” but polling in the mid 40s - that could be his ceiling as a Republican in Rhode Island.
He’s surely more RINO than MAGA. I’m no simpering “pragmatist” when that isn’t necessary, but this is one instance where conservatives shouldn’t complain about the candidate. Someone who is maybe 40% Republican and 60% Democrat is a solid improvement over the status quo in Rhode Island, and really does represent the best we can do.
If Fung was running in a state like Texas or Florida, he should never get anywhere near the nomination unless he’s running for the worthless Republican primary win in some 90% Democrat ghetto district.
But in Rhode Island, he’s as good an option as we have.
Folks here seem to have forgotten the former “Republican” from R.I. Senator Lincoln Chafee.
He was an OK “moderate” type when he first got elected, and then moved to the left and then further to the left and then further to the left...
and then the Democrats defeated him anyway when he tried to get re-elected.
A lot depends on who's nominated to run against him. Most of them sound like the kind of progressive activist that voters are likely to reject this year.
In 2022, Langevin announced he would not run for reelection, Democrats running to replace him include David Segal, former two-term member of the RI House of Representatives and co-founder of national advocacy group Demand Progress; Omar Bah, Founder and executive director of the Refugee Dream Center, Ed Pacheco, former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, Seth Magaziner, Rhode Island General Treasurer and former candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2022, and Michael Neary, former political strategist & John Kasich staffer.
Rhode Island may only have two districts because of census fraud. Next census, they will be down to one.
Once Fung wins, I will visit and spend a lot of tourist dollars.
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