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Adam Sommer gives and Opening Statement connecting the "Death Tax" to "School Choice"
Rachel Parker and Sean Diller join Adam for a Talkin' Politics session, covering:
True Or False (6-7):Normcore Republicans Will Change The Trajectory of 2022 midterms?
In Missouri - multiple candidates rejected for being just the absolute worst
GOP rejected filing fees from Rep. Derges - the fake sure doctor and
https://www.ky3.com/2022/02/23/missouri-gop-rejects-filing-fee-indicted-state-rep-tricia-derges/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kytv
GOP rejected filing fees from Steve West
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/missouri-gop-rejects-filing-fee-of-candidate-who-once-said-hitler-was-right/
https://twitter.com/Adam_Sommer85/status/1500193806989340672?s=20&t=3M1Ifcr_52sF6fBZqhG3pg
National scene more of the same?
Yeah…No…(3min) Vicky’s twitter suspension for attacking trans people -
Buy or Sell (7-9) People still remember literally ANYTHING about the State of the union as of when this show comes out, Monday the 7th - less than a week later
Policy v. Political theater
Boebert shows her ass
Most salient and clear message was the US resolve against Russia
The Big One (16-18) - 34 Senate Seats are up for election in 2022
Useful link you can hover the state and it gives you information on the seat and it’s 2016 and 2020 margins
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,_2022#Seats_up_for_election
Some races are obvious and easy to predict, no reason to spend lots of time wondering if Rand Paul will be reelected in Kentucky or if Mike Lee will be reelected in Utah - feel pretty comfy saying Alex Padilla will be reelected in California
Cook political report has 5 of those as toss ups
https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings
Penn R - Open
Wisc R- Ron Johnson
Arizona D - Kelly
Nevada D - Cortez Masto
Georgia D - Warnock
4 seats are in the leaning column
Florida R - Rubio
Ohio - open
North Carolina - open
New Hampshire D - Hassan
Real Clear Politics has a broader map including Missouri as a “leans R” seat and wit 7 in the toss up and 5 more in the leaning - 3 more potentials
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map.html
Sabatos Cyrstal Ball - my favorite of the Crystal Ball
https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-senate/
Penn - Georgia - Arizona - Nevada - that’s it for toss ups
Other seats in the Midwest no one is talking about but us:
Kansas - Held by incumbent Jerry Moran
Oklahoma
Iowa
Penn R - Open - 12 Democrats - 16 Republicans - including Dr. Mehmet Oz - whose campaign slogan is ‘scrubs on, masks off!’
Conor Lamb - D - $4MM raised, $3MM cash, $0 debt
Dr. Oz - R - $5.8MM raised, $1MM cash, $5MM debt - my understanding is he loaned 5 million dollars of his own money to his campaign
David Xu Redneck - R - $1,700 raised, all from David except $50 - $1200 cash, no debt
Carla Sands - R - $4MM raised, 3.6 was hers, $1.5MM cash
Eric Orts - D - $244,000 raised, $1700 cash, no debt
Craig Snyder - $38K
Val Arkoosh - D - $2.8MM raised, $1.2 cash, $500K loan
Dr. Kevin Baumlin - D - $600K raised
Sharif Street - D - $400K raised
Malcolm Pac - D - $1.5MM raised, $285K cash, no debt
Jeff Bartos - R - $3.3MM raised, $2.4 cash, $1.2 loans
John Fetterman - D - $11.9MM raised, $5.3 cash, no debt
Kathy Barnett - R - $1.2MM raised, $565K cash, $158K debt
Americans for Parnell - $2MM raised, $330K cash, $73K debt
Citizens for Josh Mandel - $2MM raised, $6MM cash, no debt
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