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7/15 Progressives Have a Window in TX; AOC Punks Ivanka’s Goya Ad; News Roundup & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on July 15, 2020 by BennyJuly 15, 2020

Si es Trump, tiene que ser corrupto đź’¸ https://t.co/Ti3oxFO6oY

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 15, 2020

Leave it to AOC to tee up for someone to jab the Trumps. Spoken in Spanish…nonetheless.

Texas gained some progressives wins for the GE this fall. Grim and Chavez at The Intercept write:

The recent wave of progressive primary victories rolled into Texas on Tuesday evening, with Candace Valenzuela and Mike Siegel pulling into strong leads against centrist opponents for the chance to flip Republican-held suburban districts. In the Travis County district attorney race, José Garza, an immigrant rights activist and former public defender backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, ousted incumbent Margaret Moore. The Democratic national party’s pick for Senate, M.J. Hegar, meanwhile, found herself locked in a much closer fight than expected with Royce West, though by the end of the night, she appeared headed for a general election race against Republican Sen. John Cornyn.

With well more than half of the precincts reporting, Siegel was leading physician Pritesh Gandhi by 9 percentage points and declared victory around 10 p.m., Texas time. Valenzuela was up nearly 20 points over veteran Kim Olson, and also declared victory.

Computer engineer Donna Imam was leading Christine Mann, a physician who backed single-payer health care, by almost 14 percentage points in a race where the ideological lines were less clearly drawn.

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The wins would be well-timed. Simply winning a handful of House races each cycle is nowhere near enough to change the structure of Congress fast enough to stave off cataclysmic climate change tipping points, to rescue the economy from a tailspin, or to address the unfolding health care crisis. But if the window for big legislative maneuvering opens in 2021, and House Democrats feel that their seats are in jeopardy if they don’t go big, the consensus within the party of what the most strategic move is could shift left.

SIEGEL, A CIVIL rights attorney who supports a Green New Deal and Medicare for All, first ran in 2018, when Democrats considered the district out of range, but surprised officials back in Washington by winning 47 percent of the vote. That blood in the water drew new candidates, notably corporate attorney Shannon Hutcheson, who was backed by EMILY’s List and was clearly the establishment favorite, even though she did not have the official backing of the DCCC.

But a super PAC backing Gandhi, 314 Action, spent heavily pounding away at Hutcheson, and she failed to make the runoff. The super PAC has continued to spend big — dropping close to $600,000 on the race — in the runoff. The PAC presents itself as pro-science, but endorsed John Hickenlooper, a champion of fracking, in Colorado, and Gandhi has called the Green New Deal and Medicare for All “fool’s gold.” 314’s main line of attack against Siegel is that his loss last cycle proves he is unable to win the general election. Ironically, of course, it was his surprisingly narrow defeat that coaxed Gandhi and Hutcheson into the race. The parallels with Levin’s 2018 race are notable, as Applegate, like Siegel, helped make the district competitive the cycle prior, and 314 Action helped power Levin over Applegate.

Sen. Kamala Harris had endorsed Gandhi, while Siegel had the backing of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Siegel’s outspoken civil rights record was a boon throughout June, as protests erupted after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.

In his victory speech Tuesday night, Siegel noted that the district is more than just a stretch of suburbs, zeroing in on the closure of three rural hospitals in the district over the past 10 years. “We are in a district where the legacy of Jim Crow racism hangs heavy,” he said, noting the recent five-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland in the district.

The wave of protests also helped Valenzuela, who surged significantly following the March 3 primary. Last week, a survey, which was commissioned by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and conducted in July by Data for Progress, revealed a significant shift in the race, showing that Valenzuela was climbing, leading Olson by an 11-point margin. Early voting data from her campaign suggests that the surge was fueled by higher turnout among voters of color. If elected, Valenzuela would be the first Afro-Latina in Congress. And as someone who grew up homeless, at one point “sleeping in a kiddie pool outside a gas station,” Valenzuela would also be bringing this economic perspective to Congress, where many of the lawmakers are millionaires. She noted in her victory speech that, thanks to a newborn and another young child, “the majority of our campaign was run out of our master bathroom.”

Leading up to the March primary, Olson led the rest of the field in fundraising and as a retired Air Force colonel, fit the mold of the party’s preferred candidate. But her record, specifically that Olson was charged with war profiteering in Iraq, had the potential to be too big of a political liability in the general election, so the House Democrats’ campaign arm stayed out of the race. EMILY’s List, which doesn’t typically weigh in on races between two pro-choice women, backed Valenzuela.

Valenzuela also won endorsements from the Congressional Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Progressive Caucuses, and lawmakers like Warren and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. In the most recent fundraising quarter, The Intercept reported last week, Valenzuela outraised Olson, $465,000 to $438,000, with a smaller average campaign contribution.

Garza, executive director of the Workers Defense Project, ran on a progressive platform that focused on transforming the criminal justice system to decriminalize poverty. He was endorsed by Sanders, Warren, Julián and Joaquin Castro, the Austin DSA chapter, the Center for Popular Democracy Action, and the Working Families Party. One of the major highlights of Garza’s platform was a vow to treat substance abuse as a public health crisis and end the prosecution of low-level drug offenses, which he defined as the sale and possession of a gram or less of narcotics.

More news, tweets, videos, etc in the comments. This also serves as an open thread.

Posted in 2020 Elections, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, grassroots, News, Open Thread | Tagged AOC, Latino vote, progressive movement, Trump, TX

3/3 Sanders Carries UT,VT, CO and CA; Super Tuesday Results Liveblog #2 & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on March 3, 2020 by BennyMarch 4, 2020

Thank you Vermont! It is an honor to be your senator. Let's go forward and transform the country together. https://t.co/XiUeH3P0WH

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 4, 2020

Thank you Colorado! https://t.co/71XP5KU0E8

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 4, 2020

Bernie just tweeted out a reminder that he’s still holding a rally in VT:

Polls are still open in many states! Find your polling place at https://t.co/1V41XetPg0 and make your voice heard. Live now from Vermont, our rally with The Mallett Brothers Band and @Phish's Jon Fishman and Mike Gordon: https://t.co/kNFbkQ9I9O

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 4, 2020

More jibber jabber in the comments. Still open thread.

Posted in Activism, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, News, Open Thread, Video | Tagged TX, VT

2/23 News Roundup & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on February 23, 2020 by BennyFebruary 23, 2020

How Sweet It is!

Bernie Sanders surges to the lead among Wisconsin Democratic voters in new statewide poll

ermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a commanding lead over his rivals in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary race after strong performances in early-voting states, according to a new statewide poll.

The Wisconsin poll, coordinated by the UW-Madison Elections Research Center in collaboration with the Wisconsin State Journal, also shows a precipitous decline in support for former Vice President Joe Biden and an upswing for the newcomer to the race, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Sanders, who won the state’s 2016 presidential primary, was the top choice for 30% of registered voters intending to vote in the Democratic primary on April 7. The five other top Democratic contenders besides Sanders find themselves scrabbling for second place with between 9% and 13% support.

“Bernie Sanders is clearly the leader among Democrats,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who has developed a new battleground state polling project in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania through his Elections Research Center. “He has a pretty commanding position.”

Despite Sanders’ position in the primary, he doesn’t fare much better in the general election than the other Democratic contenders, who each have slight leads over President Donald Trump in a hypothetical match-up, but all within the poll’s margin of error.

“In the general, who the nominee is didn’t do much to change what voters’ likely intentions were,” Burden said.

Sanders also leads among Democratic primary voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but by smaller margins, the poll found.

The poll was conducted Feb. 11-20 by YouGov, which has also done polls for CBS News, The Economist and other news outlets.

The opt-in online poll includes 1,000 registered voters in Wisconsin, 1,300 in Michigan and 1,300 in Pennsylvania. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.1, 3.4 and 3.2 percentage points, respectively. For the Democratic primary voter sample in Wisconsin the margin of error is plus or minus 6 percentage points. The sample was selected and weighted to reflect the adult population in each state based on gender, age, race and education.

More news, tweets, videos in the comments.

Posted in 2020 Elections | Tagged Bernie Sanders, NV, South Carolina, Super Tuesday, TX, WI, Wisconsin

2/22 Breaking News: Bernie Sanders is the Winner of the NV Caucus! Live Blog #2 & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on February 22, 2020 by BennyFebruary 22, 2020

Welcome to Live Thread number 2, late afternoon/evening for most of us. Looks like it’s going to be a real slog; at least they got started early.

THE REVOLUTION…#NVCaucus pic.twitter.com/M92n7vj2p3

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) February 23, 2020

 

Just some of the incredible field team that powered our victory in Nevada. We all should be endlessly grateful for their hard work. pic.twitter.com/DurQglwIEq

— Nick Martin (@lancnick) February 23, 2020

Sorta news…

Earlier this week in a conversation about the Sanders campaign and the behavior of his staff and supporters I referred to his campaign spokesperson as coming from the Island of Misfit Black Girls. It was a harmful and unnecessary comment and I apologize.

— Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) February 22, 2020

 

 

BREAKING – Data at the precinct level for 33 majority-Latino precincts statewide shows Sanders winning 74% of final alignment votes in these 33 precincts compared to 18% for Biden. As more data is reported, we will release updated analysis – by @MichaelHerndon_ & @mfr_roman pic.twitter.com/7UAWr9QbjE

— UCLA LPPI (@UCLAlatino) February 23, 2020

Meantime, Bernie just finished holding a rally in San Antonio. Potential voters waited in line for over a couple of hours!

Please continue the conversation in the comments. I’m adding a song by MJ, at the height of his bestseller, Thriller.

Posted in 2020 Elections, grassroots | Tagged Bernie Sanders, Nevada, Nevada caucus, NV, San Antonio, Texas, TX

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