[rightwingintelligentsia]

HSN just ran a puff-piece on the Democrat today. Of course they are presenting this as a referendum on Trump policies.

[TexasGurl24]

The media is openly colluding with the Rats. I also strongly suspect that Twitter and Facebook are using algorithms that ensure that only liberal Democrats get tailored notices about these special elections. Facebook and Twitter categorize users based on political ideology and it’s easy for them to tailor results so that conservatives don’t get notice of the elections while liberals do.

[hsmomx3]

I voted for Lesko. I read yesterday that the democrat will run in the next election should she lose today.

[Dave W]

That is what this is - a referendum on Trump - perhaps more so than his policies. Every democrat will vote - they are energized as we have seen in other special elections - against the republican, who is the stand in for Trump.

As was the case when Obama was president, republicans were energized to vote against whomever the democrat was running for whatever office it was. Which is why the democrats lost over 1,000 elected offices during his 8 years in office. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

The good news is that this is a heavily republican district and based on the returned ballots so far, the vote is heavily republican. The only question is the margin of victory - hopefully, it is double digits. If it is single digits - not so good.

The democrats aren't really contesting this one too much, either.