The YouTube algorithm is understandably spitting out Drazen for governor ads. What is a little less understandable is the ad they give me has the phrase “Make Oregon (something or other) Again”, which does not compute for a Republican who has murmured into the back channels of media consumption that if not for Trump she would carry the race — unless maybe you get this ad to people with a good backlog of Daily Caller views. I guess the campaign recalibrated, as their micro-target ads to me have switched to Drazen saying the “if you don’t think things are working–“, no alluding to anything “maga” — though, strictly speaking I would like a reference to a policy prescription or two, but I guess they know that way lies danger.

Dark intonations for Michigan, where Haley Stevens has been staging a protracted and long carefully planned for the last minute sabotage attempt of the Democratic al-Sayed — inch in, inch in further, inch in even further and take the plunge for the last minute “Vote for Rogers!” I can’t figure out if this leads to any votes — it exhausts media coverage and takes over narrative and is otherwise personal butt hurt matters, policy wise of any great concern by a couple percent in the vote. But personal drama ends up the bane for political coverage — well, Ross Perot spent the end of the 1994 campaign stumping for Ann Richards against George W. Bush and I guess we await to see if Stevens has voters lined up for her. It does not me that Stevens is hung up on internet jackasses Cenk and and Hassan Piker and is I guess unaware of horse-shoe al Sayed backers Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes — who have less to do with al-Sayed than Piker but just as much or little as Cenk.

The Final weekend of the campaign brings Trump out and in and out or in to Iowa and Kansas. I guess he sent a voice call to the rallies. As well Mississippi and, the latest barely possible but don’t hold your breath Democratic pick-up possibility with Republicans staring nervously at the numbers — Louisiana. I don’t know if any Democratic bigwig has made it to Louisiana, but Bill Clinton and James Carville and a one time Louisiana governor are in Mississippi. Good times for them if nothing else.

I ought read the New York Times piece, just for the entertainment value of the details of a caper, on the Great Dan Sullivan Hunt. Not as scandal, which it isn’t, but as human interest bit. I have a theory based on what went behind the thing — very little strategic thought, but the campaign controllers are sitting there relatively early in the campaign, mapping the strategy for the future and gearing up with all energy but nothing to do right then and there. They know they have a quirky ballot system, and how their candidate won in the second count with a drop of vote for Sara Palin, and looking for any angle comes this lark. A lark born of having nothing better to do right then but needing to do something. By what I understand, it was something of a town joke — Dan Sullivan, Senator. So on his part, Sullivan was game. He might have even been game without the campaign invitation — though I guess someone would have had to suggest it to him. Two larks intercept, more amusing than anything. And the dude is free to run. The state proceeds to make absolutely sure it is obvious on the ballot.

The theory of Alaska’s ballot process is one where, some theories of how it ought play or could play or might have evolved in a different political history get grinded by how it plays out in reality. In theory, this could be a good circuit breaker against nominating a candidate who gets exposed for something after the primary. If the Democrats have Graham Platner, they could lifeline him and go to the other candidate. Or they could salve the party division — El-Sayed and Haley Stevens obliged not to turn off supporters of the other candidate. In practice, the actual and real and no one bothering to remark on it political gamesmanship from the Peltola campaign, happening right in the open mind you, was talking the other Democratic top 4 winner “lark hobby horse” candidate, and then apparently the fifth one and next in line, to drop out and get off the ballot. So next in line is a Republican. Because this should be worth 30 or so votes in a statistical “someone Republican not happy Sullivan who’d want to get to him second will just drop off after this first vote” theory and practice.

And watching the third party candidates and their effects. Ohio has the case of a Republican super-pac — the one rich donor variety — funding mailers promoting a “Party of Socialism and Liberation” candidate — tearing down Democrat Sherrod Brown and not doing enough for Black Ohioans. Michigan continues to have the zombie “Natural Law Party”, as I understand it has its own idiosyncratic party boss that sweeps a whoever on the ballot with his theory of “candidates with unconventional platforms get their say”. Montana’s third party is the Democrats — and it is amusing to watch the “Independent” backed by the official Democrats interviewed on, I believe MSNow, have to switch quickly from having to provide Democratic Party bonafides in addressing the comments by this candidate to trying to pound the other message that he will be independent of the party in the Senate. Hard-core fans of marijuana have a “Legalize Marijuana Party” candidates — Republicans I guess would love the party if Democrats were more competitive there because all stoners are Democrats — and he is on the ballot but wishes he wasn’t and is backing the Independent who is actually a Democrat.

The closing week of the midterm election season. Donald Trump switches from talking up male politicians’ butts to a female century’s butt. J.D. Vance picks up on the joke — promises his audience he won’t talk up male butts. The other gambit from Trump is to hold hostage federal funds for a veteran settlement in Georgia if they vote the Democrat into office and to promise Kansas to sweep money in for a military – ethanol complex project, I think.

Obama stands in Michigan, and then Ohio and anywhere else, in rare form of speechifying, and makes a crack I have heard variations many times — this, making the white house into Saddam Hussein’s Cheesecake Factory. A more common name I have heard for gaudy referencing is Liberace. And this would not be an American election of we did not dip into the silly response to the silly comment. It is curious that ‘Cheesecake Factory’ is the focus of the ire — but in a Michigan election where the entire Republican message comes down to “dude’s Muslim”, Obama may have hit not on a strange innoculating in picking his dictators — to mention Saddam is to suggest that you can tell a difference between El Sayed and Saddam, and where does that get him?

Cank Uygar pops in for a Pac ad — one that raises that weird question I have always had — why aren’t the bulk of pac ads just shady fraudulent dirty tricks — presenting an unappetizing “positive” case for the opponent, hyping up their full throttled unafraid “Open Borders” policy and “Trans for Everyone”. The other item in the Sea of the race — the defeated primary opponent — Haley Stevens — after her initial full blown support of unity refused to put in any good word on El-Sayed, and is on CNN praising the gubernatorial candidate, and then asked about El Sayed praises the gubernatorial candidate again. So. “Vote Blue no matter Who “. Or not.

Funny thing with Annie Andrews in South Carolina. She responded with a “I respect it” to a question about a write-up campaign for the defeated Republican primary candidate — Norman — suggesting a pretty good hope that a slice of Republican vote will park it away from Graham. And Andrews joins the Kansas Democratic candidate in finding an old last century Republican governor to have an endorsement ad — here, tag-teamed with a last century Democratic governor.

Iowa’s Democratic candidate is knocked around a bit … from the left… for putting in an ad asserting opposition to transgender surgery — I am not sure how far we are going with it, but generally speaking Andrews and Hamilton have handled the issue better, Turek here just trying batting down a thing pre-emptively that maybe has no salience. The problem is the basic thought of gay marriage 2008 — if this is your issue, even though Obama is stated opposed to get marriage, you are urged voting for McCain. See too the threat of a war with Iran and a Trump versus Harris race, never mind the “America First” line. It may be a signal that Kansas and South Carolina are actually more likely to go Democrat than Iowa — Republican candidate quality, the point of two this is worth cannot be lassoed.

Maine gets curious. The Democratic candidate would be the only senator without at least a ba– he has a two year aa, late comes to a couple years of community college classes. In the comments section of the debate coverage there looks questions alongside the line of “where did they pick out this hayseed?” , which does present the great question — where the big problem of the Democratic Party is the Assad margin of victory in rural areas for Trump — you get a cultural representative and he gets trashed thusly. The Republican hayseeds are tending toward Ivy leaguers with affected southern accents. Susan Collins responds with a note and tone of irritation that she even has to deal with the man, that he might indeed beat her — unworthy challenger to get Senate seat birthright.

A bit of a yawn — explosive New York Times article about the Democratic candidate’s plot to get a second Dan Sullivan onto the ballot. And we all pretended we did not basically know this. Throws a wrench into a clean-squeak visage, I guess, if you have that as her. In theory this should be solved by a Republican campaign to — as we see in campaigns in ranked choice cities such as mine — “Don’t Rank”, or urging suggesting to just punch both of them even if the ballot names are pretty cleanly deliniated.

The final pitching from Talarico in Texas — “my opponent is Musk”. Good campaign close, I sayeth, though Musk remains after the election to, alongside Meta, shape the internet information and organizing space continually — whatever a temporal break presents.

And kudos to Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati for giving JD Vance the justified cold reception in his visit to the locker room.

An Adam Hamilton followed by a Roger Marshall ad followed by an Adam Hamilton ad followed by a Roger Marshall followed by an Adam Hamilton ad. The first one appears a cookie cutter Epstein ad from an outside pac, I don’t know how coordinated in our Supreme Court decisions that green light coordination, slot in the incumbent Republican. The second ad feels like a muddying attempt of a response — Adam Hamilton’s church camp houses a paedophile — the outgoing tagline “God will judge Adam Hamilton’s soul.” (Or, something I place of ‘soul’ — forgiveness?). “You can judge Adam Hamilton’s Leadership.” The third ad is a direct response ad to this one – – an attorney chimes in “I grew up on a farm and I know bull when I see it.”. ” Adam Hamilton fought pedophiles!”. The fourth ad and “Liberal Adam Hamilton supports amnesty for illegals” — and I assume the Mexicans shown are drug dealing violent men. “And formed radical movememts” — photo of “Allies for Racial Justice”.

A later ad block introduces us to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who is sided next to Gavin Newsom and will “being California values to Kansas.” She even said “God has no gender”. Blue-haired old woman gasps at the blue haired young woman, and the state of political discourse is set.

A week ago I saw that old man James Carville was on with old man Bill Kristol — the field guide on the ex-Republican led Bulwark is with a core four 40-something year olds doing main product through the week and a couple dusty old timers off to the side — so Bill Kristol has an hour on Sunday.  The weird thing here is this in itself looks boring but Carville will elicit enough response from his left — particularly talking to someone like Kristol — and Carville is good for a couple inciting comments that the clipping commentary will be entertaining at least.  And sure enough he made one comment that immediate raised ire, something I can split between charitable and not charitable for Carville.  He would just as soon have the Democrats not win the House by less than five margin than the Democrats win it if they win by less than five — and have Jeffries tied to the small DSA bloc.  Which — even from Carville’s vantage point, and where he later sheds that second part of the equation in his responses to responses — is insane — it might make sense in a situation where Democrats control  the Presidency and the lack of form control of a Congress leads to more dysfunction and no understanding by the electorate on the lack of real power here, but where Trump is in the white house you really do want the investigative power and the dsa wing is not the ones standing in the way of that.  As these things go this comment get s some screeds — and I see a link-baity youtube visual from Kyle Kulinski “Carville says the Quiet Part Out Loud”, even though from my reading here — no, the old guy said the out loud part out loud, and has since popped up, reiterated it, made snarling sarcastic comments on “the progressive movement” and had a focused response on one article on this controversy that apparently caught his eye more than anything.  The dumb thing is I don’t even think this is the stray comment worth pouncing on from this hour chat — the somewhat bothersome one is one that questions a logic and motive of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in campaigning in some rural areas of Michigan for Sayed– “so when on election day he will claim and say she is making inroads there for the ‘Progressive Left'”.  And … yeah, this is politicking, even on the most practical level — the “Assad level numbers” Trump wins in rural climes need to brought down for the sake of the Democratic Party’s future, no?  Also, how are these politicians’ and associated organizations supposed to advance their policy ideas and concepts out of what Carville has as a few advanced college degree holding New York City districts if they stick exclusively there — isn’t that the crux of his complaint?

There is the strange interplay with The Majority Report of Sam Seder and Emma V-something and on to Kyle Kulinski — and The Bulwark as a whole.  And from there something called ‘Vanguard’ releases videos with headline blaring that ‘The Bulwark is in Shambles’ — highlights Sam Seder saying mean things about the Bulwark.  I looks over and scratch my head — the outlet continues putting out material, like it or not.  And a new one informing me that ‘The Bulwark audience turns on Sarah Longwell’ off comments of somewhat in an interview with Ezra Klein.  And on the screen appears to be comments off of YouTube floating around her head — people are indeed welcome to post things on youtube comments — strictly speaking, automated bots are as well.  Kyle Kulinski posts something with some image of them and a “Shut Up” and “Progressive Media turn on The Bulwark” with finanglings that they have been “exposed”.  If not for the fact that they all misrepresent Longwell’s comments, I would mostly just indifferent here — quite a bit someone on the left side of the Democratic Party could fault on what th at group think — but I am stuck on the reality behind Longwell’s “audio revealed!” comment that ” she would vote for Ted Cruz over Mamdani.”  Not a fan of Mamdani for how he danced off of the slogan “From the River to the Sea” in his interview with Tim Miller on the Bulwark, and in the world where she is not voting here anyway she can throw out that hyperbole — she And the rest of these ex-Republicans have come around, and for reasons that Mamdani has betrayed DSA platforms with stray comments of kvetching of some messagers to the Majority Report — kept the police chief.  The other weird notes of incongruity — “thought it was a good idea for Kamala Harris to campaign with Cheney” and that event — actually,  Tim Miller didn’t… Longwell?  I don’t know, but was game to do that event.  On the Hassan Piker beat — another exclamation from Sam Seder on her “being obsessed with Hassan Piker” — no she isn’t.  She made one commentary that Sayed would be wise to not campaign with him — which apparently the candidate agrees with — and has occasionally made stray negative sentences on him — that does add up to “obsessed”.  But.  The narrative continues, every sentence uttered about Hassan Piker will be noted and pounded in this political battle and — so it goes.

Flicking into the 2024 Republican primary debates of 2023, Trump sitting off to the side under the protection of Judge Cannon, a simple observation — all of them, while sucking in both the pre and post-Trump real of ways they can, and generally dancing around with the biggie of January 6, are better for small ‘d’ American democracy than Trump, and the nation will be better off if any of them get through — with one exception. So I am sitting there with the “Anyone but Ramaswamy for Anyone But Trump” conclusion.

The debasement of the political scene since then now has brought in new despicable creatures — Bobby Kennedy, Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, newly political Elon Musk — and dragged your Marco Rubio into more despicable territory, while Rubio played his part with a quick strike on Venezuela as prelude to Iran. So I suppose we now sit at seeing the Republican field of 2028 and wishing for the halcyon days of the Republican field of 2024.

There was a logic to the path off of Access Hollywood — a view of cynicism that, yeah, Hillary must have been sitting on that and let us not be beaten by the cynical machinations of the Hillary Clinton campaign for “locker room talk” of long time ago and Clinton is not outraged at all but a little too gleeful. But the lesson learned by Trump — and the Republican tacks us to the no-holds barred steel grip — Dewine voices the descipableness of the Ramaswamy ad — Vance steps in and voices the descipableness of any hard-wringing on the ad, Trump steps in and calls Dewine a RINO and ungrateful for his support, and Dewine re-iterates his support for Ramaswamy, and becomes 2026’s 2016 Paul Ryan. The other great purpose looms out of “they’re eating the dogs, cats” — the Vance defends that if he has to make things up to get the media to pay attention, and you get that over on Ramaswamy’s kvetch that she is not debating him and she lies generally.

Seen this way, the looming defeat of Ramaswamy will be more satisfying than the overall defeat of Republicans across the board — the former a stand in for justice against the politics due to the specifics of the case — it only needs to happen once and there it did, the latter elicits a shrug that “yeah, but it needs to happen more than once, it didn’t when it mattered two years ago, and no one can be deserving of it happening multiple times — so there is not much to cheer on here.

Setting up a ‘red state Democrat’, and then venturing into the Arkansas and South Carolina Senate candidates shuffling for votes. They walk into a folksy locale — and every county faire and diners they hear the same message from all types of people, all the Democrats, all the Republicans — they are tired of the lefts, the rights — they just are looking for common sense solutions and people willing and ready to reach across the aisle, get things done, and — oh, did I mention how badly Biden screwed up with the border?

A comedy act with Darline Graham at the Republican debate. She, in her position in the Senate, got the Lindsey Graham Russian Sanction Bill passed, signed by the President, giving the President new tools to save Ukraine against Russia. And then we look up and see a new bold front by Trump and Elon Musk to screw over Zelensky and Ukraine, and we are officially all dead and hollow inside. Not sure how much the last vestige of the purpose of Lindsey Graham — keeping Trump somewhere with Ukraine — falling off the wayside of this plays with this South Carolina electorate. Something of the unsexy rationales for Biden as he doddered off the stage and Harris, making the mistake of trying to accumulate this vote that maybe does not really exist by having a campaign appearance with Lynne Cheney (perhaps slighting off the other part of the equation — Trump will carry us into Iran — failure of imagination to picture that alarmist future) — and I gather as military focused as this state is, the electorate still can’t get budged because — the Democrat’s name rhymes with “Tranny” and Jane Fonda has donated money to get campaign.

The Libertarian candidate was on the stage, and a Constitution candidate sits over there off stage, and I do wonder if in the weird world where a right wing opposition to Lindsey Graham always existed — a constellation of how deeply in the inner Senate and ready guest for national political programming, pasts attempt at more liberalized immigration policy, and the belief / awareness that he was a closeted gay man — metastasizes with Darline’s vacant empty suit to park five or more percentage points to them — the respectables to the Libertarian and the cranks to the Constitution Party guy. But stirring up this vote probably works out as ineffectually as the Republicans in Ohio in nibbling to the edges in support for the bonfide Socialist running for Senate against Sherrod Brown, paying for mailers for him — there I wonder if the micro-target gets too much air and creeps off as the overall message against Brown who they want a broader electorate to think he is there.

Believe it it or not, Joseph Biden is out on the campaign hustlings. This, of course, follows where the Iowa Democratic candidate was asked if he would want Biden and Harris campaigning for him, and come an answer of “is he even still able?”. Biden is only let in to states too Democratic or too Republican to bother — South Dakota and Maryland, and deep in the well of speaking to activists with Planned Parenthood, but it does bring a smattering of footage to place side by side with Mitch McConnell’s last public communique when Louisiana’s Republican senator — or whoever — gives a response of “But Biden” when asked why McConnell isn’t and didn’t resign.

A more obvious figure anyone wants is Barack Obama, and I guess I’m the new stage he is a more effective surrogate for campaign appearances for Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate than Hassan Piker. He also makes his way to Ohio and Maine. I am a tad surprised he isn’t working his way to Minnesota or New Hampshire — the sort of shore up operation for probably winning underperforming Democratic candidates that have the parallel on why Trump is in South Carolina and Nebraska. Obama at least has an ad for the Senate candidate in Mississippi — somewhat the last candidate you can picture winning if you squint hard enough — which provides that bell curve — missing are the middle states — Trump is not going to get into Iowa, Alaska, Texas, Florida, or Kansas. (Yeah, he cut an ad for the Iowa Senate candidate in the primary race.)

Kamala Harris has stops over in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Mississippi, Georgia, and Nevada. And virtual space for Florida which — I guess that represents a bit of a half hearted toss out. Bernie Sanders is a lot more into Florida — alongside Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, as too Maine. Noteworthy that Bill Clinton has made his way to Florida — on behalf of the other Democrat on the ticket, the gubernatorial candidate — maybe the Senate candidate really doesn’t want him anyways. Hillary Clinton, before starting her podcast, made her way to Nebraska — a couple women in the Omaha area, and for a state whose Republicans always took pride that Bill Clinton visited that state as the 50th state he visited, the value of the defacto Democratic candidate in going ‘Independent’ comes to play — he has no reason to share that stage.

I guess the two biggies for the Republican side are Trump and Vance. A weird tag team — Trump goes off admiring the Michigan Republican Senate candidate’s ass while Vance calls the Texas Democratic Senate candidate gay.

Cute ad from the Republican gubernatorial candidate of California — meant to go viral, meant for chatterers to chatter, but through the noise and static, and not on tv, but besides sportsball what the heck is programmed scheduled tv these days? Trying to dissect the responses and the divergent strains of Republican cultural politics — religious right grumblings and denunciations — differs from liberals’ “exploitative” this moves back to promoting “lifestyles”. Given the next chunk of Republican culture is politically incorrect edgelordism, one might think this would get more accolades from that cohort, but they are staring at a dull Republican behind the bit — maybe off the radar screen. The phrases in vogue, “permission structure” — vote Republican in California — from a candidate who is trying to make a pitch of “I have nothing to do with Trump” — or his Fox News commentary history — to Democratic podcasters and audiences who think the Democrats in power have gotten fat, lazy, unresponsive to some real issues and need shaking up or checking, and no one wants to vote for the Democrat that got himself nominated. The message of first time lesbianism as stand in is… provocative for a couple minutes at least — not much to follow up, though — not like you can expand the premise. Or Maybe he can?

There is a moment where you have to pity the politician, in this case the Republican Representative from Florida running for governor, and one indignity of campaigning — town hall campaign, questions from the audience, and you get asked a stupid question but have to pretend that it is not a stupid question. I remember Barack Obama, somewhere in his first time, having to answer a woman who appeared to mostly be stammering on her failure to find spiritual meaning in life and wanting Obama to know she let her down. I suppose the grandma at Darnolds’s event at least had a more specific gripe — her child won’t let her visit her grandchildren, and something needs to be done. Darnolds offered a cheerful, “I need her vote”, “definitely look into it and see what can be done” answer — and we are this much closer to mandatory grandparent visitation rights, government organized scheduling on everyone’s parenting.

A bit of Looney silly season, and we are either at that point where a new bottom is going to fall out of the Republican’s electoral fortunes, and more elections are going to fall the Democrats. Just as likely we have as expanded a map for the Democrats will get and they will shore up anything new threatened to get lost — we know that the Republicans have conceded the House, and the Senate appears to be there for the Democrats but — maybe they will lose everything by a point,no one can figure what the electorate will be and the undecideds and not responders are full of unenthused Trump voters. Trump is in Oklahoma and Alabama — not much in Oklahoma, I don’t think, but I guess it is better to keep people engaged. There is a gubernatorial race in Alabama — Joe Trippi really wants to make a thing and goes back and forth on just how heavy he emphasizes the “it’ll be tough” part of the equation. I wonder if the next Republican governor will successfully squelch the big furry airplane pilot epidemic.

Skipping down the map — Nort Carolina, Ohio — probably a minute from now on election eve Republicans will fold in Ohio. Alaska, Maine, and Texas become slightly unpredictable — the ex-wife of the Republican Senate candidate checks on with an ad about “the elephant in the room” and “not about the individual, it is about the team” — another message that is the dreary pitch but is what they have. And then comes Iowa, which I suspect is how far the Democratic chain of Senate victories goes — the candidate has the benefit of a gubernatorial candidate coming in for a ten percent margin of victory, and it is hard to see the drop off not carrying him over. From there money flows now to Kansas and South Carolina and Nebraska. These are where the unlimited money supply gets dropped to assure the worst nightmare doesn’t happen. The off kilter nature of disaffection on Lindsey Graham over the years — always worth a 30 plus percent vote primary opponent — is worth a deeper look, and today we state at her blank sister and ponder the milquetoast politicking of the Democrat — now important enough for an alliterative insult slur from Trump. Kansas polls show a 45 / 45 split, which — the percentages need to be higher to see how this Democrat can get through. I do like Nebraska’s not Democrat Democratic candidate comment on Trump’s invitation of war against San Diego and Los Angeles.

Kind of as expansive a map as you can possibly imagine. Yet we fall deeper into fantasy. Florida and Mississippi are the next on the list. Florida’s candidate has a feignt chance, and anger by the left that she isn’t getting a Money drop — but the state is expensive, and mostly you are just left thinking — good compliment with the Gubernatorial candidate — he shores up a right flank, she shores up a left flank for him, if either wins that becomes a crucial dimension of the story. James Carville rushed in on a single poll for Arkansas. Someone else thinks you gotta keep an eye on the not Democrat more assertively than Nebraska’s not Democrat in Idaho — and, sure, send Trump there — might as well. At least I can identify a race tgere, unlike Oklahoma.

I did see one of the “paid for by the U.S. Government” ads, Trump campaigns with spliced speeches spotlighting his one “final battle” here against the “Marxists”. This one was not the one backed up with music with the lyrics “love me, love me, love me”, so I suppose it is the negative as as against that More positive message. Also evidently an oldie, borrowed from the 2024 race — so the “final battle” is redefined and we no longer know what to make of his bold stand against the “war mongerers”, even if we can always deign to understand the “Marxists”.

We expect the elections to produce something between a “blue wave” and a “blue tsunami”, the problem on the Democrats’ side being that the undecided voters for the outer edge of races are comprised of people who nodded to the first run of the U.S. Government “final battle” ad. A bunch of candidates with a path to 47 percent and no firm grasp on where to get in that last three percent. And there it is a funny scramble, merry amusement on just how much the “horse shoe” theory can get pulled. Texas’s gubernatorial candidate throws up an ad touting a regular voter brandishing her conservative credentials — “I was at January 6”, and Abbott speaks not for her. We do see maybe a match for Florida’s two races where one candidate — Florida’s gubernatorial candidate and Texas’s Senate candidate — stir to win over a slice of the respectable suburban Republican voters and the other candidate — Florida’s Senate candidate and Texas’s gubernatorial — a slice of unrespectable downscale voters. The sets of candidate need each other to cover for the win. On where this goes for them in office — rhetorically, Florida’s would be Democratic governor is bringing to mind Kyrsten Sinema.

We are getting fury at Chuck Schumer for the release of a donor pitch where he talked up long shot Mississippi and put aside long shot Florida. It is a funny upset — two candidacies you don’t really believe in, and sure the wrangling on the “socialist” probably spurs him on one, it is still two candidates hard to figure winning. I guess there will be egg on Schumer’s face conservation day and Mississippi’s Democrat comes in at 45 percent And Florida’s at 46.