So I do actually think a Barnette / Mastriano ticket would be way too extreme / turn off most moderate voters. That, combined with Fetterman’s massive crossover appeal with Republicans, could give down ballot Dems their best showing in years. It might even help us flip the state house back to Dems now that the new maps give them a fair shot. We’ll have to wait for the results to come in tonight, but Fetterman’s campaigning in rural PA counties with sizable D registrations may have single handedly saved Pennsylvania for Democrats.
AIPAC also succeeded in smearing the first Muslim woman to be elected to in NC-04: While Dems in NC rallied around the only anti-choice Democrat in the legislature to stop a pretty mildly progressive black woman in NC-01. The only race AIPAC heavily invested in yet are poised to not succeed in their buy-off is an Oregon primary where they for-some-reason went all-in on a Blue Dog despite them running against a largely staunch Biden-team Democrat.
Everything is bad but I'll accept the KHive tears from Fetterman's win. That health scare instilled the fear of God in me. He's the future of the party if they have any sense (minus the alleged Zionism nn). They don't have sense, but I gotta cling to something!
He is a far-right extremist who funded busses to and actively participated in the insurrection and flies the Christian Nationalist appropriated “An Appeal to Heaven” flag outside of his office in the state Capitol :)
He’s also a resident of my hometown, which I can confirm is filled with right-wing Christian nuts. So, yeah.