Democrat Conor Lamb Wins House Seat in Trump Country

[Straight Shooter]

LOS ANGELES — President Trump woke up here in the land of earthquakes on Wednesday morning, but he was 2,500 miles away from the tremor that was really shaking his party.

While the president hobnobbed on Tuesday night with wealthy donors in the exclusive enclave of Beverly Park, the voters in the suburbs south of Pittsburgh were in revolt, giving the Democratic candidate a narrow victory in a special election in Pennsylvania that was taking on outsize proportions.

Just as they did outside Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala., in December, and Richmond, Va., and Washington in November, energized and angry suburban voters were swamping the Trump stalwarts in the more rural parts of those regions, sending a clear message to Republicans around the country.

While Republican turnout in a district that Mr. Trump won in 2016 by 20 percentage points was healthy, Democrats showed again that they could tap unions and other traditionally friendly groups to get their voters out in droves. The N.A.A.C.P. helped win Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s former Alabama Senate seat for Doug Jones in December. Organized labor, once seen as fractured and feckless in the Trump era, gave the Democrat Conor Lamb his edge in Pennsylvania.

Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate who wrapped himself in Mr. Trump’s cloak and drew the president to his district last weekend in a bid to rescue a faltering campaign, trailed Mr. Lamb, a former Marine seeking to show his party can compete even in red territory. Mr. Lamb held an apparently insurmountable lead of 641 votes on Wednesday, with about only 500 absentee, provisional and military ballots remaining to be counted, according to county election officials.

The victory may yet be contested, but whether Mr. Lamb holds on to officially win the House seat matters less than the fact that he was so competitive in the first place. The rebuke of Mr. Trump came from a part of western Pennsylvania that overwhelmingly supported him in 2016 and that typically would not seem likely to turn to a Democrat. The district was seen as so strongly Republican that the Democrats did not even field a candidate in recent years.

And while Mr. Saccone carried the most Trump-supporting counties along the West Virginia border, Mr. Lamb made just enough inroads in those rural areas to give the voters in suburban Allegheny County the chance to deliver the Democrat the slimmest of leads.

Rarely shy about weighing in on other news of the day, Mr. Trump made no mention of the race on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Instead, he left it to an aide to find the silver lining. Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, told reporters on Air Force One en route to St. Louis that Mr. Trump actually helped the Republican candidate and asserted that the Democrat’s showing was really a validation of the popularity of the president’s policies.

“The president’s engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie,” Mr. Shah said. “Also, the Democrat in the race really embraced the president’s policies and his vision, whereas he didn’t really embrace Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader.”

The stinging message could hardly have been more pointed for a Republican president mired in low approval ratings, burdened by investigations and facing the growing likelihood that Democrats may seize power in Congress later this year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/pennsylvania-congressional-race-conor-lamb-trump.html

Cadet Bone Spurs is the kiss of death. If I'm a GOP candidate I don't want this guy anywhere near me.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Run a Kamala Harris type in that district and they would run her out of town. For someone who follows politics, you sure shit the bed when it comes to the nuances.

There is also the dynamic of the pro life evangelical vote that didn’t turn out because they were disgusted with the guy that resigned.

Come November, the majority of Democrat candidates will be to the left of [NOBABE] Angela Davis. [/NOBABE] If you had more candidates like Lamb you might do well. But you won’t so I am encouraged.

 

[xfire]

 

[Jack Davenport]

$1000.00

Come on!
Since it’s inevitable.

 

[xfire]

$1000.00

Come on!
Since it’s inevitable.

Thanks for the offer of free money, but winning congress will be enough.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Thanks for the offer of free money, but winning congress will be enough.

Uh huh.

 

[Straight Shooter]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/pennsylvania-congressional-race-conor-lamb-trump.html

Cadet Bone Spurs is the kiss of death. If I'm a GOP candidate I don't want this guy anywhere near me.

 

[sean miguel]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/pennsylvania-congressional-race-conor-lamb-trump.html

Cadet Bone Spurs is the kiss of death. If I'm a GOP candidate I don't want this guy anywhere near me.

Huh? How did President Trump hurt Saccone? You can say the President's coattails weren't enough in this instance to carry him over but wasn't Saccone further behind than how it finished? He closed the gap in the final days.

Congrats to Conor Lamb and the democrats. He ran a smart campaign and like has been pointed out, is a blueprint the Dems should follow to win that rust belt back.

 

[Straight Shooter]

 

[Jack Davenport]

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Limbaugh just said almost verbatim what I posted here yesterday. Lamb ran as far away from the Democrat establishment as possible to win the seat. He was more conservative than Trump on many issues. The Democrats will not put up with their party snapping back toward the middle. Just ask Johan. He thinks the Democrats need to be more liberal.

This is the first special election the Democrats have won and by the skin of their teeth. So your second screenshot is irrelevant. They had to run as conservatives to win it.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Thanks for the offer of free money, but winning congress will be enough.

Republicans abandon tax cut message in Pa. special election
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...ecial-election-preview-tax-republicans-458276

Not a good sign. Their key issue and they had to abandon it. It's just not resonating the way they thought it would

Also funny is how on Tuesday he was a puppet of Pelosi, part of her liberal flock, but on Wednesday he was suddenly a conservative according to Paul Ryan. LOL. And they say Democrats don't have a message?

 

[Jack Davenport]

Here’s to Dims running 200 more just like him in November.

 

[xfire]

Here’s to Dims running 200 more just like him in November.

Not this year, we're running candidates that fit their respective districts. Mid term election, Donald Trump despised more than Obama was at this point in 2010, shaping up for some serious Republican tears.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Not this year, we're running candidates that fit their respective districts. Mid term election, Donald Trump despised more than Obama was at this point in 2010, shaping up for some serious Republican tears.

Just 23 seats needed to flip the House

 

[Jack Davenport]

Not this year, we're running candidates that fit their respective districts. Mid term election, Donald Trump despised more than Obama was at this point in 2010, shaping up for some serious Republican tears.

Then you don’t mind putting your money where your mouth is.

$1000.00

We’ve won every special election except for Tuesday's and the Dim has to run as a Republican.
And no, there is not a groundswell like 2010. The generic polls don’t indicate that at all.
The only tears are gonna be when the Dims lose half of the senate seats up for grabs.

But continue to set yourself up for a huge disappointment. You are at your most entertaining after your side gets their asses kicked.

 

[xfire]

We’ve won every special election except for Tuesday's and the Dim has to run as a Republican.

To quote Sam Fisher...

Is she insane?

And please quit offering to give me money. I'm not going to take it and it's not going to make me stop posting.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Democrats flipped their 38th and 39th Republican-held state legislative seats since President Donald Trump took office
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/democrats-flip-two-more-seats/index.html

 

[Jack Davenport]

To quote Sam Fisher...

And please quit offering to give me money. I'm not going to take it and it's not going to make me stop posting.

Put up or shut up.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Democrats flipped their 38th and 39th Republican-held state legislative seats since President Donald Trump took office
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/democrats-flip-two-more-seats/index.html

If you gave me and every other person that voted for Trump the choice of Hillary winning the presidency and a few gains for Republicans in the mid terms or even a senate supermajority or Trump winning and lose the house during the mid terms, we’d take the latter all day long and twice on Sunday while rubbing one out with our schadenboners.

That said, the few wins your side has gotten are squeakers and the angry electorate just isn’t there. If so, you’d be marching to wins in a romp.

 

[xfire]

Put up or shut up.

Go pound sand.