Posted on 04/17/2019 11:11:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hey, it worked for AOC, right? And Kirsten Gillibrand needs to capture some lightning in a bottle soon if she’s going to move up from her current support level of zero in the Democratic primary race. What better way than to toss your support to a hard left primary challenger even after the DCCC said they would blacklist anyone trying to knock off the current incumbents?
For better or worse, that’s what the New York Senator seems to be doing this week. She’s pushed herself into the primary for the Illinois Third District seat currently held by pro-life Democrat Dan Lipinski. Gillibrand has endorsed his primary challenger (and previous opponent) Marie Newman. (WaPo)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is endorsing a Democratic challenger to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), making her the first presidential contender to wade into a down-ballot Democratic primary.
At a Democratic Party event in Chicago, Gillibrand endorsed Marie Newman, a liberal activist who narrowly lost to Lipinski in 2018. At the same event, Newman endorsed Gillibrand’s presidential campaign.
“She’s got a tough race in front of her, but I promise you, Marie will represent her district better and she will represent all of us better,” said Gillibrand. Moments earlier, Newman had endorsed Gillibrand’s presidential campaign.
We’ve covered Lipinski here in the past, mostly because he drives the rest of the Democrats crazy. He’s already drawn primary challenges from his left on multiple occasions, but he keeps hanging in there somehow. Illinois-3 is a rather strange district, as we’ve noted here before. Located in a more rural part of the state outside of Chicago, it’s definitely still a blue district, clocking in at around D+15. (Hillary Clinton carried it by a wide margin.) But it’s also not a pro-abortion area either. It’s tailor-made for a more moderate Democrat like Lipinski.
So Gillibrand’s play may not wind up having any impact on that race, but that’s not the audience she’s speaking to. She wants to show the national primary voters that she’s “brave” enough to stand up to the party establishment and push a far more progressive/socialist female candidate. And since plenty of progressives are making a game of kicking Nancy Pelosi and the DCCC around these days (and reaping a ton of earned media for doing so), it might not be the craziest idea she’s had.
But will it do any good? Despite getting an early start, Gillibrand’s national campaign has gone absolutely nowhere. Her opponents were all more than happy to remind everyone of her conservative roots in Congress before she’d even gotten out of the gates. She hasn’t made too many major gaffes in the campaign since then, but with so many more liberal choices on the menu, people simply aren’t flocking to her banner. And if she can’t push her campaign into a higher gear by summer, I’m going to predict that she’ll probably be one of the first to drop out, possibly as soon as the results from the Iowa straw poll come in.
The “RAT RACE” is getting more entertaining by the day.
“if she’s going to move up from her current support level of zero in the Democratic primary race”
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No if about it. It ain’t happening for her. She’s the wrong color and not gay or trans. True, she’s a woman, but in today’s democrap party, just being a woman ain’t good enough. You need more Identity than just that.
Ask the buttplug. You don’t have to even BE a woman as long as you’ve got the Identity politics down pat.
I just noticed. In the picture posted at the top, it looks like she’s got Man Hands. Maybe that can get her some Identity Votes.
Is that a security guy behind her?
Do you think he has an evil GUN?
The DNC primary debate is going to have more people On-Stage than in the audience.
“got the Identity politics down pat”
AOC’s predecessor had the identity politics down pat but he didn’t have a Hispanic last name.
Bet she can pop the tail off a lobster with a flick of the wrist.
It might be a resume’ enhancer if Hillibrand reveals her connection with NXICM. Is she branded?
If her Mother or Grandmother wasn’t “close” to powerful Mayor Erastus Corning of Albany, NY, nobody would have heard of her.
LOL!
FLASHBACK:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: I keep 2 guns under my bed
By TOM BRUNE
February 15, 2009
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-says-she-keeps-2-rifles-under-bed-1.887707
GILLIBRAND BED GUN-FREE
By Associated Press
February 17, 2009
https://nypost.com/2009/02/17/gillibrand-bed-gun-free/
Kirsten Gillibrand No Longer Keeps Guns Under Her Bed
BYLINE: The New York Senator emerges as a major gun control backer. Four years ago her NRA rating was 92 percent.
Ruby Cramer
BuzzFeed News Reporter
December 18, 2012
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/rubycramer/kirsten-gillibrand-no-longer-keeps-guns-under-her
A pro life dem? Is he the only one left in national politics?
AOC’s predecessor had the identity politics down pat but he didn’t have a Hispanic last name
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Plus, like Hillary, he didn’t bother to campaign.
Lipinski has a MOSTLY pro-life voting record.
He is joined in this by MN’s Colin Petersen, the overall most moderate rat in Congress (who needs to be ousted from his Republican district because shouting out Pelosi’s name for Speaker =-10000 pro-life points)
Henry Cullear of Texas’ record seems to have gone south.
https://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/scorecard.xc?chamber=H&state=US&session=115&x=15&y=11
For the record, Republicans in IL-3 have my permission to vote in the rat primary for Lipinski if they wish, especially given there will likely be no GOP primaries of import to vote on. ;)
As for Gillibrand, she has NO support and her catering to the far left has done little to endear herself to their voters. Very amusing.
Wat is Nazi doing lately in that district?
Is Shaw dim?
There is no Iowa straw poll. Never was for dems
See last sentence in article above
Herr Jones, probably less of a Nazi than Pelosi, got 25.9%. 38.2% in the Will County (Lockport, Homer Glen) portion of the district.
%s gotten by other GOP in district under current lines
2016: ~
2014: 35.4%
2012: 31.5%
GOP voters didn’t know (most I’m sure), or didn’t care. State GOP failed to put up an independent, there was time! Only pathetic write-ins.
Perhaps he was speaking figuratively.
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