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Cathy is the only qualified candidate in this race to beat Rep. Jerry Nadler
 
Both New York State GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy and Manhattan GOP Chair Andrea Catsimatidis endorsed Cathy Bernstein on Monday evening calling her the only true New York Republican in this race against Jerry Nadler.

 “Cathy is a true New Yorker who has lived and raised her family on the Upper West Side for the past 35 years. She is running because she has personally seen the city decline and is sick and tired of it.  I proudly support her effort to rid Washington and our City of needless Jerry Nadler who has done nothing for Manhattan and Brooklyn except waste tax payer dollars on a witch hunt of our President,” said Chairwoman Catsimatidis.

“Jerry Nadler has spent nearly 30 years in the Washington swamp and accomplished nothing except carrying Nancy Pelosi’s water in an embarrassing partisan attempt to remove our duly-elected President. He has turned a blind eye to the out-of-control homelessness, dilapidated MTA and vacant storefronts across his district. It’s time for change and Cathy Bernstein is the woman to deliver it. Cathy is a mother, an accountant and a civic leader who will go to Congress to deliver results for New Yorkers. I’m proud to endorse her,” said Chairman Nick Langworthy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/republicans-poised-to-flip-6-california-districts-primary-results-indicate_3261593.html?ref=brief_News&utm_source=Epoch+Times+

Republicans could flip six congressional seats in California in November, based on primary results. Four additional seats are enough to make GOP candidates competitive.

Democrats, on the other hand, don’t seem to have an easy path open to even one seat currently held by a Republican.

California as a whole leans left, with Democrats holding 45 of the 53 congressional districts (two are vacant). The March 3 primary results, however, suggest the GOP may heal its losses from the 2018 midterms, where Democrats flipped seven seats.

The state holds “jungle primaries,” which means both Democrats and Republicans show up on the same ballot, and the two candidates with the most votes face each other in the general election.

Voters who didn’t get their primary pick could still be generally expected to go for the winning candidate of their party. Thus, by adding up the votes for all Democrats and all Republicans on the ballot, one can get a rough idea of how many voters may show up for the candidate of each party in the general election.

In addition, there was only one statewide measure on the ballot this time—one for bonds to fund public school facilities (voted down). That means Democrats may have had a stronger motivation to show up, since they were deciding on their presidential candidate, while the Republican presidential primary was a largely symbolic exercise of confirming President Donald Trump as the nominee of choice. Trump received 92.5 percent of the vote.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ca-primary-reveals-bad-news-for-pelosi-gop-could-

I think it’s too early to get excited, but articles like this do give me hope that perhaps the tide may be turning. The idea that there are some Congressional races in California, of all places, that may be leaning back to red, could be a harbinger of a pushback against the Democratic takeover of the House in 2018. One can only hope. Amanda M.

With all the hype over the Joe Biden versus Bernie Sanders face-off during Tuesday night’s Democratic primaries, a dirty little secret for the Democrats was revealed in California, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to like it: nine seats currently held by Democrats in California look vulnerable enough that the GOP might grab them.

As J.D. Rucker notes at NOQ Report:

Keep two things in mind. First, these aren’t nine seats that are deemed “in play” through some election miracle. These are nine seats currently held by Democrats where Republicans have the upper hand based on analysis of Tuesday’s primary votes. Second—and this is very important to understand—with only one statewide ballot measure, the main draw was the Democratic presidential primary in which Republicans may not vote. That means that even without the draw of a presidential primary choice, nine seats showed Republicans either within striking distance or outright beating Democrats.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Republicans took a strong first step in the primary election toward grabbing back at least some of the seven California congressional districts that Democrats flipped in 2018. With millions of late-arriving mail ballots still uncounted from Tuesday’s election, Republicans have so far combined for a majority of the votes in six of those seven districts. GOP candidates have solid leads in two of them.”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/04/super-tuesday-primaries-put-gop-closer-to-reclaiming-house-majority/

TEXAS- DISTRICT 12- KAY GRANGER, DISTRICT 32 GENEVIEVE COLLINS, DISTRICT 24 BETH VAN DUYNE

 DISTRICT 7 HOUSTON- WESLEY HUNT

House Republicans had a good night on Tuesday, where a powerful incumbent fended off a well-funded primary challenger, and the party picked up one African-American and several women candidates to challenge Democrats this fall.

In Texas, Congresswoman Kay Granger who leads the House Appropriations Committee came out on top in a primary challenge from local conservative activist Chris Putnam in the state’s 12th district. Putnam accused Granger of not being far enough aligned with President Donald Trump, despite having Trump’s endorsement.

The bitter race attracted a considerable amount of outside spending, with the conservative Club For Growth sweeping in to oust Granger while the House GOP leadership’s super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund spent more than $1.3 million to protect Granger.

The incumbent congresswoman ultimately defeated Putnam with 58 percent of the vote to Putnam’s 42.

Elsewhere, House Republicans secured nominations for key recruits in their efforts to elect more women and minorities.

In Houston-area 7th district, conservative African-American Army veteran Wesley Hunt captured the nomination to challenge incumbent freshman Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher who flipped the seat just two years earlier. Both the Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball rank the seat as “leaning Democratic,” making for a competitive race this fall with Hunt’s nomination to reclaim the seat.

https://pjmedia.com/election/are-you-ready-for-congressman-darrell-issa-again-californians-appear-to-say-yes/

It looks like Darrell Issa is back. Though votes are still being counted as of publication, Issa looks to have a solid second-place finish in Southern California’s Congressional District 50 on Super Tuesday. A win means Issa makes it to the general election in California’s “jungle primary.”

Issa came in second to Democrat Ammar-Campa Najjar in a field of five candidates, three Republicans and two Democrats, in California’s contested Congressional District 50, vacated by disgraced Congressman Duncan Hunter, who pleaded guilty to one count of campaign fund misuse. Hunter will be sentenced later this month.

Issa, the former congressman from California’s 49th Congressional District, announced his retirement before the 2018 election. That district was partially in Orange County and one of several that saw a sweep by Democrats in one of the last conservative bastions in the state.

Issa says he was no longer a match for the 49th district and also was asked by the Trump White House to serve as director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. The Senate never took up his nomination. Issa says he took himself out of the running for the job and jumped into the CD 50 race. Hunter’s father, the venerable former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter, endorsed Issa as did Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, who did commercials for Issa.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/04/pierce-bush-texas-2020-primary-name-campaign/

The grandson of the late President George H.W. Bush failed to make the runoff in a crowded GOP race to represent Texas’ 22nd District. Experts say the reasons are more complicated than the decline of the Bush family’s political influence.

Incomplete results indicated the nonprofit executive was headed to either a third- or fourth-place finish in a 15-way primary race to represent the suburban Houston district, which had become a national Democratic target even before U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, announced his retirement last July. The top two vote-getters in the race, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and technology consultant Kathaleen Wall, will face off in a May runoff election.

I think the fact that there are Congressional races all over the country where you have AOC-type progressives who are either challenging the old guard in primaries or are are poised to try to take the seats of those who are retiring  is worthy of attention. Amanda M.

https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/lowey-retirement-paves-way-for-generational-c

The decision by longtime Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey, the 82-year-old pro-Israel stalwart, not to seek re-election next year opens up the possibility of generational change in the district after 31 years of her leadership.

Lowey’s retirement and the fact that she was already facing a primary challenge from the left also shakes up a race that calls to mind the 2018 primary fight between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Crowley, the longtime representative of Queens and the Bronx whose defeat came as a shock to the Democratic establishment. Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory inspired a new wave of primary challengers, particularly in safely blue districts in New York like Lowey’s, where Mondaire Jones, a former attorney for Westchester County, announced his campaign for Lowey’s seat in July. Jones raised $218,000 in the third quarter of this year.

https://pjmedia.com/election/jeff-sessions-faces-a-runoff-in-the-gop-primary-for-his-old-u-s-senate-seat/

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will face a runoff in the Republican primary in the race to win back the U.S. Senate seat he vacated to join the Trump administration, the Associated Press projected. Sessions appears to be essentially tied with Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach.

As of 11:30 p.m. with 51.4 percent reporting, Sessions led with 129,497 votes (32.5 percent) to Tuberville’s 122,713 (30.8 percent). Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore trailed at about 7 percent. The winner will face Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who was uncontested in the Democratic primary. Since Alabama is a deep-red state, either Sessions or Tuberville is almost certain to defeat Jones in November.

Tuesday’s incoming results will likely set up a four-week runoff between Sessions and Tuberville after a campaign focused on which Republican was most loyal to Trump.

“We’re going to overtime, and I know someone who knows how to win in overtime,” Tuberville said in a speech Tuesday evening, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. “We’re going to finish what President Trump started when he looked at Jeff Sessions from across the table and said, ‘You’re fired.'”

Ouch!

Tuberville is running as an outsider who will help implement Trump’s agenda, but Sessions has been extremely loyal to Trump. He was the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump in the 2016 primary, and he resigned from the Senate in 2017 to become U.S. attorney general.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/dan-driscoll-north-carolina-11th-congressional-district-race-young-veteran-braves-11-way-gop-primary/

A young veteran makes his case in an eleven-way primary. By John McCormack

With all eyes on the Democratic presidential race, it’s difficult for candidates running in down-ballot primaries on Super Tuesday to get much attention. It’s even more challenging when there are eleven candidates running for their party’s nomination in one congressional race, as is the case in the Republican campaign to succeed retiring North Carolina representative Mark Meadows.

“Basically, what the local papers have all said is there’s too many people running and they want to try to give people equal coverage,” said Dan Driscoll, a young Republican Iraq War veteran running to replace Meadows, in a phone interview on Sunday. With the local media not particularly interested in the race, Driscoll has instead relied on grassroots campaigning: “We have 25 guys who deployed with me to Iraq . . . making calls to voters.”

The good news for Driscoll, as he tours VFW halls and those who served with him call voters across the district, is that he has a winning story to tell: After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, the North Carolina native attended Army Ranger school and was then deployed to Iraq. When he got home, he attended Yale Law School on the G.I. bill. He graduated from Yale in 2014 and has worked for the last several years investing in businesses across his home state.