NV-04: Lucy Flores running

[Landslide Lyndon]

Why is Flores "naturally weak"? It wasn't her fault Nevada had an R wave.

That's not why. Steven Horsford and Ross Miller were victims of the R wave, as were most of the row officers that ran that year (though some did better than others). Flores, however, ran a terrible campaign

That doesn't sound like she ran a terrible campaign, more like she used a strategy that the columnist disagreed with politically.

Former gang member? Had an abortion? This stuff might be a "compelling story" from a progressive standpoint, but the average swing voter is not going to see that stuff automatically as a plus. Heck, it will turn off a large number of them if she doesn't explain it right. In this case, I see what the columnist is getting at.

But the point is exactly that this isn't a swing district.
Besides that, she left that life behind and became a successful member of the community. How can that be used against her?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Not all Dems think having an abortion is "good." They just support what they see as a right to choose.  And as for her gang life, how do we know she didn't hurt anyone and just didn't get caught? If that article is accurate, then she dodged questions on that.

I doubt that she campaigned saying how proud she was that she had an abortion.