2026 Elections | Stefanik drops out

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Kingpin said:
My former student from PR told me to not assume PR would vote Dem. Many are catholic and socially conservative. And most of the intellectual and entrepreneurial minded have all left the island - so primarily what’s left behind are MAGA material.
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That may well be true, but I think that whether it ultimately would vote GOP or Dem it's still going to take several decades for it to become a state as white MAGA Republicans will never in their current form agree to make it a state for racist reasons alone. It will take decades for it to ultimately become a state, even if it does vote Republican when it does (assuming that there are still Republicans and Democrats around in a half-century or so, which right now is a big if. Hell, the USA in its current form likely won't exist if things keep developing as they are).
 
nycfan said:
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I suspect that the next three years will play the same pivotal role on building left leaning politicians and political coalitions as the late 1960s/early 70s did. For better and for worse, those coalitions have remained in power for the last half century. We will see what the impact of the rise of new blood has moving forward.
 
altmin said:
That was part of the problem. There is no room for female leadership in Gilead.
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No doubt, and I've mentioned it before. A lot of female GOP politicians refuse to see that they are members of a party that is openly hostile to placing women in high leadership roles, and especially the presidency - just look at what Pete Hegseth is doing to female leadership in the military. Yes Trump has Leavitt as Press Secretary and Bondi as AG, but neither of those are usually considered top positions, and Trump's own comments about Leavitt have focused mostly on her good looks, and he clearly seems to evaluate women in public roles based on their physical attractiveness rather than effectiveness or qualifications.

Someone awhile back said that if the MAGA base wasn't in favor of having women in top leadership roles then why were some GOP women serving as state governors or members of Congress? My reply would be that it's one thing to serve in what most voters would consider subordinate roles, but will MAGA voters support a woman for president? I seriously doubt it, unless she's running against a Democrat, and if the Democrat is male I'm still not sure that some MAGAs just wouldn't stay home on election day, or leave that part of the ballot blank. And of course she'd have to win the GOP nomination to start with, which is very, very unlikely. It's like conservative churches where women can sometimes serve as the music minister or a Sunday School teacher, but they'll never let them get the top job of being the main pastor or a leader of the denomination (like Southern Baptists, say).

And anyone who believes that there isn't some serious misogyny and sexism in the MAGA movement just needs to listen to Trump's speech in NC yesterday. It's shot through with it.
 
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Mulberry Heel said:
Someone awhile back said that if the MAGA base wasn't in favor of having women in top leadership roles then why were some GOP women serving as state governors or members of Congress?
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Yeah, the "I don't mind a republican woman as governor" and "I have plenty of black friends" rationalizations for misogyny and bigotry kind of melted away in the Virginia gubernatorial beatdown of Winsome Earle-Sears. To lose by 15 points in the Old Dominion, plenty of pubs needed to stay home.
 

Lummis announces retirement from Senate​



“Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) announced Friday she will not seek reelection to the upper chamber next year, setting up an open seat primary in the ruby red state.

Lummis made the announcement after the Senate adjourned for the holiday break, a move that will end her stay after a single term in office.

… The move makes her the fifth Senate Republican to head for the exits next year, joining Sens. Joni Ernst (Iowa), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.).

It also means another primary could be on tap. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) is considered a top-tier option to run in her place next year in what is among the reddest states on the map.

The primary is set for mid-August.

No Democrat has held a Senate seat in Wyoming since 1977.…”
 
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