NY-24: Katko considering running for NY AG

[heatcharger]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/upstate-gop-congressman-run-nys-ag-sources-article-1.3091390?cid=bitly

This would be a favorable retirement for Democrats.

[The Other Castro]

Do it!

[Virginiá]

Yesss. Good. Walk into the meat grinder.

[Roronoa D. Law]

I don't think he going to run because it would basically give Democrats a free pick up. Eric Sneiderman is becoming a hero for the resistance. Besides its a Trump midterm and it's going to be hard when Cuomo and Gillibrand on the top of the ticket are likely to receive 60% of the vote in 2018.

[Maxwell]

Uuuuh u wot mate?

[Hindsight was 2020]

He saying he won't https://mobile.twitter.com/NickReisman/status/856551270492123137

[Brittain33]

His odds at winning AG in a Trump mid-term election are close to zero, anyway.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Ok, yall republicans might have the majority now, but democrats still have these things called strongholds, statewide positions in New York are some of them. Enter at your own discretion.

[Figueira]

That would have been a bizarre decision.

Katko should be vulnerable anyway, though, right?

[Anna Komnene]

That would have been a bizarre decision.

Katko should be vulnerable anyway, though, right?

In theory, yeah it's a seat that the dems have to contest but Katko just won Onondaga County 57 - 43 at the same time that Clinton won it 54 - 40. And that's not even counting the more conservative counties in the district (Cayuga, Wayne, Oswego). So Katko had a pretty strong grip on the mythical swing voters.  Maybe the dems could do better with a candidate who's argument is stronger than "Hey guys Kirsten Gillibrand wants you to vote for me!" Trump's disapproval could help too. The problem is that this district also has a history of abysmal dem turnout in midterms.