2018 Congressional Recruitment/Fundraising/Ratings Megathread

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Angie Craig is reportedly looking for a rematch in MN-02

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State Rep. Carol Ammons has formed an exploratory comittee for a run in IL-13. Ammons' seat is in the Champaign-Urbana area, and received an endorsement and funding from Bernie Sanders in her last election.

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State Rep. Carol Ammons has formed an exploratory comittee for a run in IL-13. Ammons' seat is in the Champaign-Urbana area, and received an endorsement and funding from Bernie Sanders in her last election.

Unelectable, we need Andy Manar

The fact that she's even considering probably means Manar isn't interested. I say give her a shot.

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This kinda fits here:

Collin Peterson is going for another term.

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MI-11: Dems have recruited Haley Stevens. Stevens, only 33, was chief of staff to President Obama’s Auto Task Force in 2009 when it was overseeing the financial rescue of Chrysler and General Motors.

MI-11 is a 50-45 Trump district. Rep. Dave Trott beat his last challenger 53-40.

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Recruitment for the Senate Ds has been pretty disappointing, still no candidates in the two states(NV,AZ) they must win to even break even in the Senate. 

As opposed to the Republicans who have so far recruited such heavy hitters as Josh Mandel and...uh....Curt Schilling?

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FL-18: Attorney Pam Keith (D), who came in 3rd in in last years FL-Sen primary, is weighing a bid against Brian Mast

Would Jonathan Rothschild be a good canidate aganist McSally https://mobile.twitter.com/ericawerner/status/860138281064943617

Personally, I like Rep. Randall Friese, who's been talked about as a statewide candidate recently. Holds a swingy Tucson based seat, and before he was a politician he was a trauma surgeon who treated Giffords and other victims of the Tucson shooting.

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There's totally a scenario where the AHCA dies in the Senate and completely fades from public memory by the time November 2018 rolls around. Not ready to start celebrating yet.

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WA-05: Washington State University-Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown is resigning from her post, and says she's weighing a bid against Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Brown was previously a state legislator for 20 years, serving as Senate Majority Leader from '05 to '13.

Brown played a key role in bringing the WSU medical school to Spokane, which has been great for the city. Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart is already in the race. It's pretty exciting to see a competitive primary for this off the radar seat.

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Former Cuomo aide Gareth Rhodes will challenge John Faso (NY-19).

http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/05/07/former-cuomo-aide-to-challenge-faso-111866

"Rhodes will move back to his native home of upstate New York"

Didn't we go through this with the last two candidates for this seat?

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MN-03: Wealthy businessman Dean Phillips (D) is officially IN against Eric Paulsen.

NY-24: The DCCC is reportedly very close to recruiting Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner. Miner had previously declined to run in 2016.

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NE-02: Former Rep. Brad Ashford and his wife Ann Ashford will announce which one of them will run for Congress on Wednesday after Tuesday's Omaha Mayor election.

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https://twitter.com/greggiroux/status/862677191880060929

Richard Ojeda in for the Dems in WV-03. Great recruit, extremely tough district.

Oh hey that guy! Awesome recruit.

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Kirkpatrick considering to move to #AZ-02 and challenging Mcsally

Skeptical that such an obvious carpetbag would work. Did she carry this district in her Senate run?

My ideal candidates for AZ-02 are Rep. Randall Friese or former Rep. Stefanie Mach. Either one of them has a personal background that could let them crucify McSally on healthcare.

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Looks like Bryan Caforio is going to announce a rematch bid for CA-25 against Steve Knight.

https://twitter.com/BryanCaforio/status/862390491559505920

By all accounts ran a weak campaign last year. Hope for someone better.

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Yeah, I somehow doubt that Ann Kirkpatrick running against Martha McSally is a good idea. I mean, she could win if people are mad enough at Republicans, but she doesn't seem like a great option to me.

McSally is already losing to a generic Dem by a significant margin.. 43-50.
https://perma.cc/FQ4L-ZWV2

Kirkpatrick isn't really a "generic" Dem. She recently lost the Senate race, including losing this district, so even ignoring "carpetbagging" there are reasons to believe she's not the best candidate.

Hmm... who would be the best candidate? Mayor Jonathan Rothschild of Tucson?

Randall Friese
Stefanie Mach

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NY-19: Hospital executive Sue Sullivan (D) is in.

Sullivan describes herself as a "lifelong resident" of the district.

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What's John Barrow up to? Could he make a come back? Or is the GA-12 too far gone for the Ds?

Barrow took a resident scholar position at University of Georgia, funnily enough his class is about political polarization and gerrymandering. Not something that would preclude him from running again.

GA-12 went from 55-43 Romney to 56-40 Trump. I doubt he runs, giving up a nice teaching job to run in a district that was drawn specifically to make you lose is a lot to ask.

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^wtf?



On topic: Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart is dropping out of WA-05 due to family health concerns:

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State Rep. Carol Ammons has formed an exploratory comittee for a run in IL-13. Ammons' seat is in the Champaign-Urbana area, and received an endorsement and funding from Bernie Sanders in her last election.

Unelectable, we need Andy Manar

The fact that she's even considering probably means Manar isn't interested. I say give her a shot.

Update: Ammons will decide on June 15th, and she isn't dumb:

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"If I'm going to run, it will be based on our ability to count (votes in) the district, and we are doing that part of the work. But we also need to count the number of people who are absolutely committed to walking and knocking on doors in places where people may not be accustomed to voting for someone who looks like me or who has a record like mine."

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WA-04: Former news anchor Christine Brown files to run against Newhouse.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/newhouse-gets-challenger-washington

Interesting that so far two of Washington's house republicans have a challenger named Brown. We'll see who will stand against Buetler and Riechert.

Out of curiosity can any members of King County council run for Riechert seat? Cause if so dccc needs to get on recruiting someone from that group to run

The council districts that overlap with Reichert's district (Council districts 3, 7, and 9) also coincidentally happen to be the 3 districts Republicans still hold on the council.

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Tim Canova says he's going to challenge Debbie W Schultz again lol

Tim Canova is the one Democrat who would make me consider voting for DWS.

Just push that district into the Atlantic.

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Ann Kirkpatrick has officially opened an exploratory committee for AZ-02.

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Stanton would be a much stronger candidate than Synema or Kirkpatrick IMO.

Frankly agreed. I'm not convinced Sinema is electable statewide just yet, and I'd rather like to keep her as my Representative besides.

Why not? She's a Blue Dog moderate who could reassure suburbanite voters in Maricopa County who are skeptical of Democrats when the Republican isn't Trump.

She has a ton of baggage

Every candidate either has baggage or is an absolute non-entity, that's what I say.

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Honestly I like the Nader-voting, "prada socialist" radical queer Sinema over Blue Dog Congresswoman Sinema.