Clinton Returns To Ropegate State Amid New Media Angst Stories
From Mark Leibovich’s article in the New York Times Magazine:
Another Democrat Joins Crowded Nevada Primary
The NV-4th Congressional District primary became even more crowded when Former Nevada Assembly Speaker and failed Congressional candidate John Oceguera became the 4th Democrat to join the race. Oceguera doesn’t see much difference with his opponents when it comes to his liberal positions, but thinks his 12-year career as a politician will set him apart.
House Democrats’ Never Ending Primary Problems
Democrats have to win big in 2016 to disassemble the GOP’s historic House majority, but they’re off to a bad start. In must-win districts, Democrats are seeing their hopes severely threatened by contentious primaries throughout the country:
FL-18: Democrats’ preferred choice to run in the open swing seat has gone disastrously wrong. Three candidates are now vying for the coveted seat.
IA-01: Following Bruce Braley’s disastrous 2014 Senate bid, Democrats lost his vacant, Democratic-leaning seat. Now, in their battle to reclaim a seat they had held for nearly a decade, they are coping with a high-stakes primary with three Democratic contenders in an expensive top 2016 state.
Read more at America Rising.
Nancy Pelosi Chicago Visit Puts Spotlight On Contentious House Democrat Primary
As House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi gears up for her high-end Chicago fundraiser in June, an important question lingers in the suburbs north of Chicago – will Pelosi invite former 10th district Congressman Brad Schneider?
In March, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering threw a wrench into Washington Democrats’ plans when she announced her candidacy, triggering a potentially problematic primary challenge to Schneider.
What will Pelosi and the Democrats do? Will they invite both prospective nominees to the fundraiser or will they alienate a Democratic candidate to anoint their preferred nominee?
Read more at America Rising.
Iowa Democrat Primary Shifts Further To The Left
In a competitive Democrat primary for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, former SNL cast member Gary Kroeger has declared his support for a carbon tax:
“I support a carbon tax as a simpler and more transparent way to control dangerous carbon dioxide. Because certain carbon intensive industries create this negative outcome, a tax will encourage cleaner alternatives and the revenue raised could be used to subsidize those alternatives as well as to repair damage caused by pollutants.”
Where do his fellow progressive challengers Monica Vernon and Ravi Patel stand on the expensive carbon tax?
Hillary Clinton’s Quiet NH Visit Didn’t Go As Planned
A quiet, “low-key” visit to New Hampshire turned into a political
quagmire for Hillary Clinton last week. While Clinton wanted to focus on
her tightly-scripted and controlled events with “everyday Americans”
(translation: highly-vetted Democratic activists), all
anyone else wanted to talk about was pay-to-play allegations involving
Clinton’s time at the State Department and the Bill, Hillary, and
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Clinton’s camp was hoping for positive headlines during her inaugural
trip to the home of the all important First In The Nation primary, but
the editorials from key regional outlets show she got anything but.
Democrats in Disarray
Eighteen months before Election Day, Democrats are publicly and privately attacking one another’s credibility and viability in Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Maryland, Nevada, and Illinois.
As Roll Call’s Nathan Gonzales reported this morning, the DSCC is doing its best to tamp down these would-be challengers to the Party establishment’s preferred candidate, but that’s not stopping candidates from jumping in.
Four Times Michelle Nunn Dodges Better Than A Washington Politician On ObamaCare
Michelle Nunn’s Senate campaign has a messaging problem. In four different interviews, Nunn and her campaign refused to say how she would have voted on ObamaCare if she were in Congress when the law passed.
First, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” aired an interview where Nunn point blank refused to say if she would have voted for ObamaCare, noting, “it’s impossible to look back retrospectively.”
Read the whole story HERE.
VIDEO: Michelle Nunn Refuses To Say If She’d Have Voted For ObamaCare
Watch Michelle Nunn equivocate in order to not answer a very straightforward question.
NBC’S KASIE HUNT: “Would you have voted for the Affordable Care Act?”
MICHELLE NUNN: “At the time the Affordable Health Care Act was passed, I was working for Points of Light. I wished that we had more people who had tried to architect a bipartisan legislation.”
HUNT: “So yes or no?”
NUNN: “So I think it’s impossible to look back retrospectively and say what would you have done if you were there?”
MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel was none too pleased with Nunn’s efforts to be political and dodge the question.
MSNBC’s MIKA BRZEZINSKI: “I love the way Nunn schools you to say, you really can’t look back at what you would have done – you can’t look back. Actually you can but okay.”
See the FULL story HERE.
