Democratic Primaries

arguably the two worst Democratic caucus (AND are both in safe Blue seats) members in the House, Henry Cuellar (who won his primary, unfortunately) and then Marie Newman (hardly a so-called democratic socialist, she has most all large endorsements across the board last time, including Emily's List, etc) against Dan Lipinski. Cuellar and Lipinski are anti-LGBTQ (I am a young married lesbian and like hell if I will support (in a primary) someone who if they had their way would null and void my marriage), they are anti-choice, Cuellar campaigned and fundraised for an odious bigot and climate change denier Trumper Rethug, John Carter against MJ Hegar, who is now running against Cornyn for one of the Texas Senate seats, if she wins her run-off.

Cuellar is A - rated by the NRA, voted close to 70% of the time with Trump and the Thugs in the last full Congress, is the biggest recipient of all House Dems in terms of private prison cash ((including the biggest sums (over 100,000 usd in the last 8 years, 32,000 just in 2018) from the Trump-entangled scandal-related immigrant detention firm GEO Group, and in the top few in terms of fossil fuel money. Lipinski ran a truly odious smear campaign against Newman in 2018, infused with close to a million dollars injected by dubious partially RW dark money pools, plus he outrageously and falsely smeared Newman as a Holocaust denier and anti-Catholic zealot. Cisneros, who lost to Cuellar, was also endorsed by EMILY's List. Newman was EMILY's List's only loss in a primary in 2018 (they are endorsing her again against the forced birther, anti LGBTQ Lipinski), and Cisneros is their only loss so far in 2020 primaries.

Those 2 (Cuellar, Lipinski) were literally the ONLY two incumbent Dems I wanted to see go down in the primaries, as they are against fundamental parts of our Party's platform and one actively supports Rethugs. I do NOT believe in primarying incumbents (for instance the also extremely problematic Collin Peterson, who is the best we can hope for in his ultra ruby red MN district) in shaky barely blue, pinkish, purple or red seats at all. I am very pragmatic when it comes to US politics.


All the rest of the Dem primary people AOC directly endorsed so far were or are running for open seats or against Rethugs. The minute she endorses a primary challenge to an endangered incumbent Democrat in a shaky seat, I will be amongst the first to condemn that move. To the best of my knowledge she has come nowhere near doing this so far. If you know of one I will gladly cry foul.

I think AOC wins in a cakewalk, she has done a tonne of community outreach, despite the plazzy meme posited repeatedly on this board that she has utterly ignored her local constituents.

I can provide a shedload of additional links for anything that I posted above btw.

Bookmark this, as I am extremely comfortable with saying I am not going to have to eat crow come June 23rd when it comes to AOC being reelected.