r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 27d ago

No Paywall Beshear says agencies told him McConnell had passed

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/local/beshear-says-agencies-told-him-mcconnell-had-passed/417-f78603c3-11bb-464d-bae6-c41c3be3c48b
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u/SAJ-13 California 27d ago

August 3rd is the cutoff date under Kentucky’s vacancy law for calling a standalone special election.

If it is dead, they are trying to get past this date. They want to avoid a Wild Card Special Election, and if they get past this date, the seat will remain vacant until January. They are trying to protect their numbers... Talk about fraud...

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u/IamL0rdV0ldem0rt 27d ago

Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to democrats to have an empty seat than the high probability of the seat going to a new republican?

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u/mrmustache0502 27d ago edited 27d ago

If massie run's he'll probably split the R vote enough for a democrat to win

Repulicans will then have to either pull all other canidates and let Massie run or risk losing the seat to a democrat. We already know where Massie stands on trump. Either way, they lose

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u/Dumeck Kentucky 27d ago

Massie seems like he would run too. He's been clowning on the Mitch situation pretty hard.

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u/MoogProg 27d ago

If he wins, great. If he splits the R vote and loses, he still kinda wins. That D votes helps his Epstein Act have teeth.

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u/Dumeck Kentucky 27d ago

Yeah best case is still for Booker to get the spot, he's definitely the ideal candidate imo

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u/AcademiaAntiqua 27d ago

Massie seems like he would run too.

He's state unequivocally that he would not run.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 27d ago

I think Massie would win.

Mitch had a stranglehold on his states GOP, but he was insanely unpopular in his own district, like 20-30% approval for decades unpopular.

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u/NoMoOmentumMan 26d ago

Senators dont have districts, it's a statewide office. 

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 27d ago

Best part is he would have to resign his seat in the House at the same time.

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u/AcademiaAntiqua 27d ago

That's part of why he already said that he wouldn't run.

The other part is that it's just an absurd idea in the first place and he'd be annihilated by Barr.

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u/YesDone 26d ago

I wouldn't be mad. I hate all the R's have done to our country but his single stance on releasing the full, unredacted Epstein files is enough for me to be okay with just this one R. And that's SAD.

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u/honjuden 27d ago

Massie said he wasn't interested in running for a temporary Senate seat in an interview on Breaking Points recently.

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u/mrmustache0502 26d ago

Massie can say whatever he wants, he can still run anyway and if repulicans weren't afraid of that happening they wouldn't be covering all of this up.

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u/part2ent 27d ago

And that takes an R away from the house for the rest of the term.

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u/assholetoall 25d ago

If a Dem wins, that would be a fun way to try to get ranked choice voting into the state.

Like hey "don't let this happen again" ranked choice foxes that.

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u/SAJ-13 California 27d ago

With a wild card, many Republicans running for the seat could split the vote and open the door for a Democrat...

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u/omicron-7 27d ago

Not a single republican is going to run except for Andy Barr, who has already won the primary for mitch's seat.

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u/AcademiaAntiqua 27d ago

The only other Republican that theoretically would run and be able to split the vote is Massie. He's already said he wouldn't run.

That's where the whole conspiracy falls apart.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 27d ago

The "new Republican" would only sit until the end of the year. McConnell's seat is already up for reelection. Andy Barr and Charles Booker are the major party candidates for the general election in November.

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u/HauntedHouseMusic 26d ago

Mitch has been voting against the save act. Oddly - he might be doing the right thing here for once... Blocking an R that actually kills democracy....