That would be my guess as well.
Posted on 08/05/2020 3:38:02 AM PDT by Libloather
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In a major upset, activist, nurse, and pastor, Cori Bush won her second attempt to win the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District against 10-term incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay.
Clay is the seventh House incumbent to lose renomination from his own party this cycle, along with Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO), and Rep. Steve Watkins (R-KS), who also lost his primary the night of August 4.
Bush is part of a wave of progressive candidates cropping up around the country seeking to unseat longtime Democrats. She previously ran for the same seat in the 2018 midterm elections but failed, with 37 percent of the vote. Her candidacy was featured in the 2019 Netflix documentary "Knock Down the House," along with the unsuccessful campaigns of two fellow progressives and the victorious election of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Bush was endorsed by Justice Democrats, a group that boosts diverse candidates who back progressive policies. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, has also supported the primary challenger, and more recently, progressive Jamaal Bowman threw his name behind Bush after he won his own primary against veteran Rep. Eliot Engel in New York.
A Black single mom from St. Louis, Bush became an activist after participating in the 2014 Ferguson protests, provoked by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old Black man, Michael Brown — events now marked as the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. She is hoping to increase her political viability by building on the momentum of current anti-racism and police brutality protests following the killing of George Floyd.
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13 point swing. Not good.
The end of a dynasty. Mrs. jimfree lived in that St. Louis district when Clay Sr. was elected 52 years ago.
That Medicaid expansion will bankrupt the state.
If I were taxpayers, I’d start making plans to vote with my feet.
BLM activist - I assume she ‘talks with attitude’ as well
“”””provoked by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old Black man, Michael Brown “””””
Unarmed.....DRINK
Every story about the Gentle Giant called him unarmed which apparently means he was defenseless.
Same with Saint Floyd. Every story says murdered or killed by cops.
It’s called propaganda, Jim.
Yeah..so we need to be worried about November.
When we say the left is imploding and the like, stuff like this proves it is not...it is more insane and virulent and it wins votes.
Is that a safe district for the democrats? Is there a decent republican challenger?
What scares me is that so many supposedly sane Americans in the middle are actually swallowing the KoolAid!
Our systems of government depends upon an informed, enlightened, moral electorate. This country seems now to be deficient in all three areas.
Just thinking about this at a high level, I would think that the democrats choosing leftists to run against republicans would be good for republicans. That is, I think Walk Away would increase and the party would do worse in general elections.
If it does better, well we’ve come full cycle and it may be time for the tree of liberty to be watered again.
That would be my guess as well.
I ‘spose it depends. If all it represents is a further lurch to the left by the enemies of freedom, it might make conservative values more attractive to those who aren’t radicals.
On the other hand, if this is a primary in a safe democratic district, then increased radicalism means more vocal idiocy in Washington.
If by “not good” you mean this bodes poorly for the general election then maybe you could help me understand that because I’m not sure how a conclusion about that could be drawn from this democrat primary.
Most likely I just don’t fully understand what you’re getting at here.
Free stuff wins out again.
All we need. Another BLM liberal _lack
It had help. That Medicaid expansion vote was conducted on a primary day for a reason.
It’s St. Louis. Next question.
“When we say the left is imploding and the like, stuff like this proves it is not”
There seem to be a lot of delusional conservatives who get angry when you point out reality. There was an article posted recently about about how the left was dying because they wouldn’t reach their stated goals. I couldn’t believe how dumb that proposition was. Their stated goals are not their actual goals.
I’m seeing a lot of women who can’t balance a budget to save their lives. All these dollar amounts aren’t real to them. They think there’s a pot of gold that everyone draws from and business owners simply spend from it.
The only thing they know about capitalism is that it’s bad.
Our country can’t survive these people for long.
There seems to be a new breed of democrat coming in with violent activism on their resume'
Reminiscent of the Brownshirts. Never a majority party but big enough to cause problems.
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