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| Gallego defeats Lake in Arizona Senate race |
| 2024-11-10 |
| [The Hill] Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is projected to beat Republican Kari Lake in a consequential race for Arizona Senate, dealing the former local news anchor her second straight electoral loss, according to Decision Desk HQ. Gallego, who has served in the House for nearly a decade representing a Phoenix-based House seat, will succeed outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). Sinema opted against reelection after changing her political affiliation from Democrat to Independent last year, as Sinema faced steep odds in getting reelected. Gallego announced his challenge to Sinema even before she made clear she would not be seeking another term, putting Senate Democrats in a temporarily awkward position of possibly having to choose which Democrat they would support. The Arizona Democrat leaned into his biography as the son of a single mom, with family roots in Mexico and Columbia. He also touted his time in the Marines. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Just think of all those Republican lawyers who were watching the polls showing up in February as DoJ lawyers doing a Jack Smith on the Maricopa County election machine. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-11-10 13:12 |
| #5 Gallego flooded the airways with Dem money using his supposedly poor background and lies about Lake. The GOP refused to help Lake and she ran almost zero adds. Funding mattered here. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-11-10 11:25 |
| #4 Unfortunately for Lake, people have seen enough of her to form opinions which won't change. She can become the Harold Stassen of Arizona politics and will never be elected to statewide office. As for Press Secretary, not a good idea. She'd become the story, not President Trump. |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-11-10 09:40 |
| #3 Hell of an idea Mike... |
| Posted by: Warthog 2024-11-10 09:02 |
| #2 ...Bring Lake in as Press Secretary. The head explosions will be epic. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-11-10 08:37 |
| #1 .....putting Senate Democrats in a temporarily awkward position of possibly having to choose which Democrat they would support. Nothing difficult about that, neither one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-10 07:26 |