Posted on 06/30/2024 6:03:21 AM PDT by Libloather
Democrats are worried President Biden’s dismal debate performance could doom any slim chance the party has for holding its Senate majority by further depressing turnout in critical battleground states.
Democrats were already in a tough electoral spot, with Republicans only needing Montana or Ohio — in addition to their guaranteed pickup in West Virginia — to take the upper chamber. Thursday’s debate debacle only makes the road for incumbents in red or purple states more treacherous.
“Last night was a bad night for the president and it was not a good night for the Democratic Party writ large,” said John LaBombard, a former top aide to former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and a Democratic strategist with ROKK Solutions. “It made it harder. It for sure made it harder. Every Democrat on the ballot would have benefitted from a terrific debate performance by Joe Biden.”
Biden’s performance — which featured a soft, raspy voice and meandering and sometimes-unintelligible answers — is raising the possibility that Senate Democratic incumbents and candidates will need to run their operations independent of the top of the ticket.
“They’re great candidates. They’re going to run their own races, as they should, in their states,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told reporters in the Capitol on Friday.
Cardin, 80, who is retiring this year, allowed that the president had a “bad evening” and that party members were looking for a “more energetic approach” during the event. However, he stood by him.
Much of the attention remains focused on Sens. John Tester (Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio), two red-state Democrats whose races likely hold the key to the majority one way or another.
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Hopefully, RFK, Jr. has a bunch of Senate and House candidates on his ticket too. We should all volunteer to sign petitions to get more leftists on the ballot in November.
I keep saying this. No one seems to notice.
The nominee (whoever it is) MUST BE NAMED virtually before Aug. 7 (DNC convention a week later) in order to qualify for the OH ballot.
Failure to do so-—and this has been confirmed again and again by DeWeenie and admitted to by the DNC-—will result in an EMPTY presidential line on OH ballots. This would put Moreno in the Senate, likely hand the Rs 1-2 more House seats, and destroy every single D downticket candidate. They MUST nominate before Aug. 7-—again, way before the Convention, which is what they said they’d do.
Some elections may be beyond the margin of cheat.
What an u usual thing to promote when their chomo president drops anchors in his pants all the time. Metaphorically of course..,
*Cardin is a life-long loser and absolute waste of space.*
Wrongo. He’s life-time winner. Rich too and smart. Could be luck but does it matter?
Why should they worry? Most democrat Senators are almost as competent as Joe.
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