{"id":27836,"date":"2020-03-06T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27836"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:30:45","slug":"the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/06\/the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Senate Campaign: Jockeying For Position, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A positive rush of Senate campaign news has popped up for the political news junkie.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most important is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/05\/politics\/steve-bullock-montana\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a> that in Montana term-limited (and former candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination) Governor Bullock (D-MT) has changed his mind, after a lot of prodding, and will run for the seat <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/29\/the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position#montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently held<\/a> by Senator Daines (R-MT). This transitions a safe Republican seat into a seat that could potentially be taken by the Democrats, as Bullock has held two state-wide seats, governor and attorney general. It&#8217;s true that his margins of victory do not approach those of Daines, but it&#8217;s also true that it&#8217;s a chancy business to compare victory margins, as there are too many variables, including the waxing and waning of Trumpism. And whether or not Daines&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/05\/politics\/steve-bullock-montana\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>TrumpScore<\/em><\/a> of 85.5% is good or bad for his campaign is also not clear &#8211; will Trump endorse him, and even that raises questions. I await the next poll with mild interest, and, if it suggests a tight race, I will increase my count of Republican seats in play to ten.<\/li>\n<li>In a slightly dated, but still applicable, post, <em><strong>The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/2\/21\/1920708\/-Morning-Digest-Alabama-Republicans-air-each-other-s-dirty-laundry-ahead-of-nasty-Senate-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> that in <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/04\/the-2020-senate-campaign-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alabama<\/a>, the two surviving candidates for the Republican nomination to the Senate seat being defended by Senator Jones (D-AL), Sessions and Tuberville, are indeed ripping into each other with vigor. While this seat remains likely to change hands next January, it&#8217;s not foreordained. And given the enthusiasm for Trump displayed by the two candidates, they both have a real vulnerability if the Alabama electorate sours on the President.<\/li>\n<li>And Steve Benen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/bullock-weighs-change-heart-senate-actually-play-n1150461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presents<\/a> his summary of recent Senatorial campaign news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/bullock-weighs-change-heart-senate-actually-play-n1150461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, covering Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the happy season for the political junkie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A positive rush of Senate campaign news has popped up for the political news junkie. The most important is the announcement that in Montana term-limited (and former candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination) Governor Bullock (D-MT) has changed his mind, after a lot of prodding, and will run for the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/06\/the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27840,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27836\/revisions\/27840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}