A little before 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, NBC called Nevada’s tight Senate race for the incumbent: Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. Cortez Masto defeated Adam Laxalt, a former attorney general for the state, whom former president Trump had endorsed.
Yes! The hero of the re-making of the Michigan legislature is a young woman named Katie Fahey (I hope I spelled that right) who, after the trump victory in 2016, organized Voters Not Politicians, got a redistricting proposal on the ballot and voted in, and defined a process for citizen selection of redistricting maps that was carried out with public input and transparency during the past year -and look at the effect, we now have a democratic legislature for the first time in 40 years!
I went to law school with Adam Laxalt and we both summer clerked at the AF General Counsel’s office. Calling him as dumb as a box of rocks is an insult to boxes of rocks. He was totally the recipient of Affirmative Action for the duma$$ kids of the wealthy and connected.
Keep supporting Warnock in every way you can!!! This matters! And pray for the House majority it s very possible if these red numbers keep changing to blue as final ballots counted! The work is not done but let’s celebrate democracy is still here🥂🥁💙💙🇺🇸 Thanks Heather💐💐💐
“After the Nevada race was called, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters that the victory was ‘a vindication for Democrats, our agenda, and…for the American people.’ He explained: ‘The American people rejected the antidemocratic extremist MAGA Republicans.’”
Just as important for the future of honest elections, American voters rejected Secretary of State candidates who peddled the election lie and promised, if elected, to make sure the next election was not a repeat of 2020. Thanks to savvy voters who understood the importance of SOSs, Election deniers will not be controlling election machinery in Arizona, Mich, Minn, New Mexico and Nevada.
As ecstatic as I am about this, I still can’t help but wonder how Manchin and Sinema will vote. Of course, outside interests will put billions into the Georgia run-off. What a circus that will be! Still, American voters, not the least of which were young voters, saved our Democracy, confounding the touted “Red Tsunami” forecasters. The battle is far from over, still, this gives me hope. God bless America.
HCR followed my post on her Letter from yesterday with this Letter by like 5 minutes! So, I'll copy and paste what I said there on here:
Now, with Nevada AND Arizona sending Democrats to the Senate, that takes some of the urgency out of Georgia's Senate race. However, I think it does now create some questions. Essentially, how will this affect each candidates' chances? Who will it help? Who will it hurt? Make no mistake, the race is STILL vitally important to us here in Georgia. Will national Republicans now distance themselves from Walker, since our race doesn't matter so much now? Will Republican elites here in Georgia, who've never been totally comfortable with Walker anyway, decide to withdraw some support? There was a notable distance between Gov. Kemp and Walker during the campaign. Now that Kemp has won, will he decide he'll have nothing to lose by appearing to support Walker? Will T***p still come to Georgia, like he said he would, to campaign for Walker? T***p is NOT popular here and leaders wanted him to stay away. Safe to say, Walker is NOT the Senate candidate a lot of Georgia Republicans want representing them. When they thought he'd be part of a GOP majority, they could hold their noses and vote for him. Now, I wonder. As for Warnock, my fear is Democrats might sense the urgency is gone for them to vote and they won't turn up at the polls. Democrats are notorious here for not showing up for runoffs already--the last runoffs were a huge exception--so maybe we've learned? I think the rest of the country might not realize how "election weary" we are in Georgia. It's like the last 2 years have been one huge non-stop election. We're tired. Still, if we can hang on and send Warnock back to Washington, with a Senate majority of 51 we can maybe push Joe Manchin on to the ash-heap of irrelevancy. I'm hoping folks won't forget how important this race STILL is!!
My hope is McConnell, etal., will not want to put any more money into an election that will not garner him/them control (power). I have to say, I’ve put up a good front and totally had doubts about this country and our democracy as we know it! My faith has been restored in this country yet I still know the trek will need to be continued!! But for tonight—I rest and take a deep audible sigh!
Fix, codify and communicate the parts of the voting and certification processes that allowed the “deniers” to think their wacko plans and conspiracy theories would stand a chance
Yippee! I will continue to write letters to Georgia voters to remind them about the runoff election through Vote Forward.
Yes! The hero of the re-making of the Michigan legislature is a young woman named Katie Fahey (I hope I spelled that right) who, after the trump victory in 2016, organized Voters Not Politicians, got a redistricting proposal on the ballot and voted in, and defined a process for citizen selection of redistricting maps that was carried out with public input and transparency during the past year -and look at the effect, we now have a democratic legislature for the first time in 40 years!
I went to law school with Adam Laxalt and we both summer clerked at the AF General Counsel’s office. Calling him as dumb as a box of rocks is an insult to boxes of rocks. He was totally the recipient of Affirmative Action for the duma$$ kids of the wealthy and connected.
Keep supporting Warnock in every way you can!!! This matters! And pray for the House majority it s very possible if these red numbers keep changing to blue as final ballots counted! The work is not done but let’s celebrate democracy is still here🥂🥁💙💙🇺🇸 Thanks Heather💐💐💐
So pleased to hear that no election denier has won in one of the battleground states in Senate races!
“After the Nevada race was called, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters that the victory was ‘a vindication for Democrats, our agenda, and…for the American people.’ He explained: ‘The American people rejected the antidemocratic extremist MAGA Republicans.’”
Thank goodness❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Folks- Vote Forward is asking that volunteers write letters for the GA Run Off.
Just as important for the future of honest elections, American voters rejected Secretary of State candidates who peddled the election lie and promised, if elected, to make sure the next election was not a repeat of 2020. Thanks to savvy voters who understood the importance of SOSs, Election deniers will not be controlling election machinery in Arizona, Mich, Minn, New Mexico and Nevada.
As ecstatic as I am about this, I still can’t help but wonder how Manchin and Sinema will vote. Of course, outside interests will put billions into the Georgia run-off. What a circus that will be! Still, American voters, not the least of which were young voters, saved our Democracy, confounding the touted “Red Tsunami” forecasters. The battle is far from over, still, this gives me hope. God bless America.
HCR followed my post on her Letter from yesterday with this Letter by like 5 minutes! So, I'll copy and paste what I said there on here:
Now, with Nevada AND Arizona sending Democrats to the Senate, that takes some of the urgency out of Georgia's Senate race. However, I think it does now create some questions. Essentially, how will this affect each candidates' chances? Who will it help? Who will it hurt? Make no mistake, the race is STILL vitally important to us here in Georgia. Will national Republicans now distance themselves from Walker, since our race doesn't matter so much now? Will Republican elites here in Georgia, who've never been totally comfortable with Walker anyway, decide to withdraw some support? There was a notable distance between Gov. Kemp and Walker during the campaign. Now that Kemp has won, will he decide he'll have nothing to lose by appearing to support Walker? Will T***p still come to Georgia, like he said he would, to campaign for Walker? T***p is NOT popular here and leaders wanted him to stay away. Safe to say, Walker is NOT the Senate candidate a lot of Georgia Republicans want representing them. When they thought he'd be part of a GOP majority, they could hold their noses and vote for him. Now, I wonder. As for Warnock, my fear is Democrats might sense the urgency is gone for them to vote and they won't turn up at the polls. Democrats are notorious here for not showing up for runoffs already--the last runoffs were a huge exception--so maybe we've learned? I think the rest of the country might not realize how "election weary" we are in Georgia. It's like the last 2 years have been one huge non-stop election. We're tired. Still, if we can hang on and send Warnock back to Washington, with a Senate majority of 51 we can maybe push Joe Manchin on to the ash-heap of irrelevancy. I'm hoping folks won't forget how important this race STILL is!!
My hope is McConnell, etal., will not want to put any more money into an election that will not garner him/them control (power). I have to say, I’ve put up a good front and totally had doubts about this country and our democracy as we know it! My faith has been restored in this country yet I still know the trek will need to be continued!! But for tonight—I rest and take a deep audible sigh!
I sure am proud to be a Nevadan Democratic Woman tonight!
Hallelujah!!! America chose DEMOCRACY!
Exceeded my expectations and I’m happy!!!
Oh Happy Day 🎶!
Fix, codify and communicate the parts of the voting and certification processes that allowed the “deniers” to think their wacko plans and conspiracy theories would stand a chance