Posted on 03/13/2024 5:54:54 PM PDT by cotton1706
Next week’s special election to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has another layer of intrigue, after The Associated Press projected that the November general election will feature McCarthy’s chosen successor running against another Republican.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux secured the second general election spot on Wednesday, eclipsing Democrat Marisa Wood and setting a November matchup with state Assembly member Vince Fong, a former McCarthy aide.
The results set the stage for the March 19 special election to fill out McCarthy’s unexpired term. Whoever emerges from that race — whether next week or in a potential May 21 runoff if no candidate earns a majority of the vote — will have a powerful incumbent's advantage going into November.
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litmus test on the political savvy of republicans in Bakersfield. if they have any sense, they’ll unite around defeating Fong (not counting on it though).
Trump’s achilles heel.
As. usual trump picks the swamp option but spit out the fighting bs . .lol.
So Trump endorsed the guy that McCarty endorsed. What is up with Trump. He is making worse picks than last time. He has learned nothing. I would also be worried about CCP connections on this one.
“What is up with Trump.”
My guess is it’s a payoff for something. And we’ll never know.
So a Republican hold.
Yep.
“Donald Trump just endorsed the worst Deep State candidate this cycle.
@MikeRogersForMI
is a never Trumper, and a card carrying member of the spy state that seeks to destroy Trump.
You have to ask yourself who gives Trump this awful advice?
Who’s next, John Bolton?”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1767322669274272019
For November, yes. Then there is the special election next week - it would be a primary unless a candidate gets over 50%, otherwise another election 5/21/2024.
This is who you expected him to endorse instead?
“I rise today in support of these articles of impeachment,” he said on the House floor. “Not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, but as an American, who cares deeply about the Constitution, the rule of law, and the rights of the people.” The five-term congressman noted that the impeachment process should not be about “policy disagreements,” “ineffective governance,” or “criminality based on statutes that did not exist at the time our Constitution was written.” Instead, he said, it “is about maintaining the integrity of the office of the presidency and ensuring that executive power is directed toward proper ends in accordance with the law.”
“Conservatives will someday face the horrible truth that the Republican Party fought so hard to justify and excuse an amoral and self-serving president,” Amash tweeted last night, “and what he gave them in return was bigger government and erosion of the principles and values they once claimed to cherish.”
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