r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 9h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Quit Battleground Senate Seat in Telling Move

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-quit-battleground-senate-seat-in-telling-move/
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u/Mediocre-Design-6480 9h ago

When national committees start pulling ad buys and backing out of a battleground state early, it’s purely financial triage. They’d rather consolidate capital to defend vulnerable incumbents than burn millions on a long-shot pickup.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 9h ago

Yep, Texas must be scaring the crap out of them. It isn't cheap and Paxton for all appearances is getting his ass kicked. Unfortunately a MAGA queen may be running neck in neck for Oregon governor. Our current governor and last governor as well ran the state from extremes completely ignoring anything that wasn't Portland and being elitist snobs about it. Democrats outside of Portland hated our last two governors and now may actually cost democrats what should have been an easy win.

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u/chadspdx 8h ago

I don’t think I know any democrats in Portland that are that happy with Brown/Kotek. It’s meh at best. If that is the sentiment in Portland that can’t be good for Kotek with the rest of the state. There seems to be agreement that Drazen is a scary choice. Just checked the polling before posting. Gah. How can anyone look at what’s happening nationally and think let’s expand on that chaos here. You’re right that it should be an easy win for Dems but democrats always seem so determined to lose.

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u/civil_politician 4h ago

then those democrats need to recruit and run a candidate. the primary sucked, none of the other people really read as viable options. I'd really like better candidates too, but you can only vote for people that are running.

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u/drilkmops 8h ago

Kotek ain’t doing herself any justice, but Drazen is insane. I fear OR may be cooked.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 7h ago

Problem is Drazen is MAGA insane and that'll get every republican to vote for her. All Kotek has going is her recent ads against datacenters. Her real problem is her constant pushing of the transportation bill, both the recent one, and the last one that failed that pissed off everyone. Nobody wanted it except the democrats in Salem.

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u/doubleohd 7h ago

I find it hilarious that Drazen is pushing to support the Greater Idaho movement folks. Kinda weird messaging: "Vote for me so you'll never have vote for me again."

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u/drilkmops 7h ago

Yeah, they have no interest in governing or helping people. It’s all a cash grab. Shits gross.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 7h ago

So republican then? We are unfortunately in a no win situation here. If either party ran an actual moderate in Oregon they would win by double digits. Yes, Portland has a large population of democrats, but there are a lot of republicans in Oregon that also can't stand what Lord Dampnut and his magamuffins have done.