Posted on 10/20/2024 6:04:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On matters of substance and style, there is little distance between former President Donald J. Trump and Kari Lake, the bombastic former news anchor running for Senate in Arizona.
Both rose to fame on television. Both have refused to concede their last election. And both favor the incendiary rhetoric that delights supporters in the base of the Republican Party.
But there is a vast distance between them in the polls in the Grand Canyon state. Mr. Trump has consistently put up competitive polling numbers, while Ms. Lake has routinely lagged behind her Democratic opponent, Representative Ruben Gallego.
A similar phenomenon is playing out in at least two other battleground states where polling shows that despite Mr. Trump’s competitive standing, Republican challengers in pivotal Senate races are trailing the Democratic incumbents. In Nevada, Sam Brown, an Army veteran whom Mr. Trump helped elevate out of a crowded primary race, is trailing Senator Jacky Rosen, the mild-mannered, low-profile freshman Democrat. In Pennsylvania, David McCormick, a businessman, has begun to close what polling showed last month was a nine-point deficit with Senator Bob Casey.
Ticket-splitting, in which voters choose candidates of different parties for different offices up and down the ballot, has for years been on the wane in the United States, as partisan polarization has consumed American politics. But polling this year, which suggests that some conservative-leaning voters in critical states are rejecting Republican candidates for Senate even as they support the party’s presidential nominee, seems to indicate important pockets of the country where it is very much alive and could boost Democrats’ uphill battle to hold their majority in the Senate.
It also underscores what has emerged as a recurring theme: Even candidates who closely mirror Mr. Trump rarely are able...
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Yeah Casey and Baldwin making trump videos isn’t a good look for Kamala
Gallego is a pig. Ran off with another woman and left his pregnant wife. Kelly left his wife and kids too. POS. Perfect for purple Arizona.
The NYT is praying for a split ticket in AZ.
Unlikely the writer has ever BEEN to AZ.
I don’t understand the logic of a voter who would think they are supporting Trump by voting for a Democrat that will launch “investigations” and block legislation.
We need a firewall against having to depend on Collins, and especially Murkowski.
“ I don’t understand the logic of a voter who would think they are supporting Trump by voting for a Democrat that will launch “investigations” and block legislation.”
It’s the New York Times. They just make crap up. And what they write is never true.
Don’t bet on it, NY Times.
OTOH, there are Republican-leaning voters who won’t vote for Trump but will vote GOP downballot.
Sherrod Brown is the same. No pics of Biden or Harris with Brown in any ads. SB lies about Bernie Moreno. I hope Brown doesn’t win because of abortion. It’s settled in Ohio
I've always felt the MSM explanation of "ticket splitters" is just to cover up the fraud. Like in 2022 in GA where "ticket splitters" supposedly voted for Republican Kemp for governor, but then voted for the marxist commies for the Senate.
So Trump voters are going to vote for looney left Democrats... The NY Slimes are in full meltdown mode.
Ruben Gallego has a convicted drug trafficker for a father who came here to the USA illegally! He is currently living in IL still a drug trafficker….The only reason Kari Lake is behind in the polls falls squarely on the McCain crime family here in AZ! They dislike her intensely and have undermined her at every turn.
No way should anyone be elected to the USSenate with a CONViCTEd DRUG Trafficker in their family. Gallego is HUGR open borders, pro illegal…and that doesn’t include his actions in his divorce with ex wife Kate Gallego Phoenix Mayer another democrat.
Don’t forget his drug dealer father. We Arizonans don’t deserve another stolen election.
Clam Down! There are plenty of fries for everyone!
Funny how so many of these so-called commies are just ordinary crooks.
Split Ticket voting is BEYOND PSTUPID! How the HELL does that help the President??
Dream on. This will be the lowest “split ticket” election in modern history. Voters know Comrade Harris didn’t nearly destroy America and our lives by herself. We know the Democrats are our real enemies. We will clean their clocks top to bottom.
I can’t believe voters who are casting their ballot for Trump would then say, “Yeah, but I’m going to vote for a supporter of the far-left Democrat party down-ticket”.
It just doesn’t make sense. The media casts these Democrat Senate incumbents as “moderate”, yet they have voted for the leftist policies 90% of the time.
Does anyone at FR know of someone who plans to vote in such a manner?
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