Holy hell, Jack, this week's gone from bad to worse for Senate Republicans:


Marquette is the most respected pollster in Wisconsin and they're showing incumbent Republican Ron Johnson trailing Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat Mandela Barnes. I don't need to tell you that this is a big f-ing deal. Incumbent senators are very, very hard to unseat and Democrats are running into the headwind of a midterm election, which of course always poses huge challenges for the party that controls the White House.

Yet, remarkably, Wisconsin isn't alone in seemingly defying the midterm curse. As I wrote to you just days ago, Trump-endorsed daytime TV "star" Dr. Oz's Senate campaign has proven to be an ongoing dumpster fire in Pennsylvania. The GOP Senate campaign arm just slashed $5 million in ad support for Oz and Mitch McConnell has admitted that Team Red's Senate prospects have been diminished by poor "candidate quality."

Let me repeat that last point because it is huge, huge news: Mitch McConnell is openly saying that this year's Republican candidates are so bad that they're hurting his party.

Republicans are flailing and even Mitch McConnell is admitting as much. Democrats have a chance to not just hold their majority but to expand it by flipping Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina from red to blue. Please, if you haven't already, take a minute right now to chip in $3 to each of the Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats in these seats and let's CRUSH anti-democratic, pro-insurrection, Trump stooges in November.

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David Nir, Political Director
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P.S. Here's my email from earlier in the week in case you missed it:

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Astonishing news, Jack: We're less than 90 days out from a major midterm election and Republicans are CANCELING ad times in three major swing states in what the New York Times is calling "a likely sign of financial troubles."

Republicans are already trying to spin this as somehow not as bad as it looks, but the fact that more than half of their spending cuts come in Pennsylvania is telling. Pennsylvania is a big, expensive state where GOP candidate Mehmet Oz has become a national laughing stock for his haphazard, gaffe-prone campaign. Republican operatives have been sweating the race for months, with damning quotes both on and off the record appearing in news stories through the summer. (A humiliating Oz supermarket trip to buy "crudit?" just made the rounds again on Monday.)

Dr. Oz's ongoing catastrophe of a campaign is a huge problem for the GOP because this is a Republican-held seat, giving Democrats a shot at gaining a seat even against the electoral headwinds that come with midterm elections. (I'm sure you've heard a million times by now that the party that controls the White House typically loses seats in midterm elections.)

So why am I writing you today? Well, it's simple: Republicans are sinking, so let's toss them an anvil.

Republicans are retreating from key Senate races. We have an opportunity to not just keep our Senate majority, but to expand it by flipping Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina from red to blue. Please take a minute right now to chip in $3 to each of the Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats in these seats and let's CRUSH anti-democratic, pro-insurrection, Trump stooges in November.

DONATE
Thank you,
David Nir, Political Director
Daily Kos

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