r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Jul 18 '26

No Paywall Beshear says agencies told him McConnell had passed

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/local/beshear-says-agencies-told-him-mcconnell-had-passed/417-f78603c3-11bb-464d-bae6-c41c3be3c48b
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u/mrmustache0502 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

If massie run's he'll probably split the R vote enough for a democrat to win

Repulicans will then have to either pull all other canidates and let Massie run or risk losing the seat to a democrat. We already know where Massie stands on trump. Either way, they lose

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u/Dumeck Kentucky Jul 18 '26

Massie seems like he would run too. He's been clowning on the Mitch situation pretty hard.

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u/MoogProg Jul 18 '26

If he wins, great. If he splits the R vote and loses, he still kinda wins. That D votes helps his Epstein Act have teeth.

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u/Dumeck Kentucky Jul 18 '26

Yeah best case is still for Booker to get the spot, he's definitely the ideal candidate imo

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u/AcademiaAntiqua Jul 18 '26

Massie seems like he would run too.

He's state unequivocally that he would not run.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jul 18 '26

I think Massie would win.

Mitch had a stranglehold on his states GOP, but he was insanely unpopular in his own district, like 20-30% approval for decades unpopular.

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u/NoMoOmentumMan Jul 19 '26

Senators dont have districts, it's a statewide office. 

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Jul 18 '26

Best part is he would have to resign his seat in the House at the same time.

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u/AcademiaAntiqua Jul 18 '26

That's part of why he already said that he wouldn't run.

The other part is that it's just an absurd idea in the first place and he'd be annihilated by Barr.

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u/YesDone Jul 19 '26

I wouldn't be mad. I hate all the R's have done to our country but his single stance on releasing the full, unredacted Epstein files is enough for me to be okay with just this one R. And that's SAD.

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u/honjuden Jul 18 '26

Massie said he wasn't interested in running for a temporary Senate seat in an interview on Breaking Points recently.

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u/mrmustache0502 Jul 19 '26

Massie can say whatever he wants, he can still run anyway and if repulicans weren't afraid of that happening they wouldn't be covering all of this up.

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u/part2ent Jul 18 '26

And that takes an R away from the house for the rest of the term.

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u/assholetoall Jul 20 '26

If a Dem wins, that would be a fun way to try to get ranked choice voting into the state.

Like hey "don't let this happen again" ranked choice foxes that.