The following stories are examples of this week's Election Roundup of 72 down ticket stories covering Sunday 10/28 through Saturday 11/3.
(VA-07) Dave Brat, You’re No James Madison! But Posers Gotta Pose…by Aleurophile
Dave Brat (House Freedom Caucus member, #VA07) has recently been found by Washington Post reporter Laura Vozzella to have “heavily borrowed” from the writings of Ben Bernanke when he was a professor at Randolph-Macon College (see HERE a hilarious video of Brat running away! running away! from a student who tries to get him to address this charge. Hmmm….if he has confidence in the legitimacy of his work, why doesn’t he simply stop and say so?).
Let’s put Brat’s “borrowing” in the context of his general tendency to inflate his academic record, which tracks perfectly with his consistent inflating of his accomplishments as a Congressman and his propensity for telling flat-out lies about his opponent Abigail Spanberger – even after he’s been called out on them.
(IA-04) NRCC won't come to Steve King's rescue by Christian Dem
With a week to go before Election Day, indications seem to be piling up by the day that Steve King is in a lot of trouble in his own normally crimson-red northwest Iowa district, IA-04. He’s getting outspent—and badly—by his Democratic rival, J. D. Scholten. Cook Political Report recently moved the race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” in part because he has virtually no campaign infrastructure worth mentioning—no ads and virtually no money left after paying a campaign staff laden with relatives.
But conventional wisdom held that King was going to get a lifeline. After all, he sits in an R+11 district that gave Trump 61 percent in 2016. Moreover, it’s a naturally Republican district. No way the GOP was going to even chance letting a district this red get flipped unchallenged, right? Wrong.
National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Stivers turned a lot of heads on Tuesday when he publicly ripped King a new one on Twitter.
(WA-08) Notes from the Campaign Trail: WA State’s 8th Congressional District by Our Past
Washington is a very very blue state, especially the western-Pacific Ocean facing part of the state. This means Seattle but also Bellingham, Tacoma, and Olympia. For the most part, the state gets less blue and more purple to red the farther you get from Seattle. I live in Seattle proper and since my amazing representative, Pramila Jayapal, will easily win her race in the WA 7th Congressional District, my family has adopted Dr. Kim Schrier, the Democrat running against long-term Republican Party stalwart Dino Rossi in our state’s 8th Congressional District. Dr. Schrier is a pediatrician and if elected (which would flip this open seat from Red to Blue) she would be the only female doctor in Congress. She’s great on the issues, vowing to protect the ACA, women’s reproductive rights, control the cost of prescription drugs, and work hard to improve health care.
She has really made health care and her role as a pediatrician a central plank of her campaign. My family (wife & kids, 11 and 14 years old) have spent pretty much every weekend for the last month+ canvassing for Kim, knocking on doors, and doing what we can to educate and persuade voters and now helping to get out the vote. We’ve attended fund raises and donated what we could…hard to do when I look at our kids and think about the money we should be putting away into their college funds. I’ve met and spoken with Dr. Schrier several times now and she is amazing in person…charismatic, able to work a room really well, very smart, funny and gracious. She reminds me…in a good way…of Hilary who may have been at her best in smaller, more personal settings where people always came away impressed.
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Sunday 10/28 - Saturday 11/3
Stories: (72)
Senate: (11) posts, (7) states
House: (33) posts (15) states (16) districts
State and more: (18)
Polls: (10)
Rescues since 2006 (13,370)
Welcome to Election Roundup, formerly known as Election Diary Rescue. Look for this down ticket collection every Monday through the election. The Roundup team has compiled and linked down ticket stories since 2006. Archives
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