The new, gerrymandered districts in Texas resulted in Crockett being moved out of her district. Any election she gets involved in will be unnecessarily complicated (as intended) by the new districts. She has name rec and can fire up the base, but she will start 10 points behind because she's a black woman. Yes, it's still about racism and sexism.
For at least the next 20 years or so, I hate to say, in the south you’d better find a white cis male to run statewide. The racism and misogyny are just still too entrenched. Doesn’t matter how qualified they are for the job.
I would argue that Platner’s Nazi tattoos make him less than ideal. Also, we should let the voters of the state with the primary decide, and focus on our own state and re-electing Justice Anita Earls to the NC Supreme court.
UGHHHHH. Why is she running?!? It reminds me of Stacey Abrahms...Georgia is still Georgia and Texas is still Texas. There are candidates that can win that will get cross over votes, but sadly just like white dudes would not vote for Kamala, same for Jasmine. All she will get is a platform. There is a former astronaut who is running who is great and could get cross over votes or the Pastor (because this is Texas and that will sell!!). Texas is still far from purple, but she is not going to be the one to get it there, if it was another state, yes...maybe she could get the votes. So now other actually viable candidates will get less attention, and I say this as someone who donates exclusively to Democratic women candidates!!!
Thomas remember the GOP interested in a recent democratic primary in NC for US Senator. I can’t remember the year, but I do remember Republicans promoted the candidacy of a Black state senator who fortunately lost the primary
It was dishonorable when Democrats fucked over Peter Meijer and threatened the republic for their own gain, and now the Republicans are doing something similar. So stupid and gross. Neither party should be ratfucking in the hopes it will help them win elections.
Janet Mills still supports the filibuster. That is so completely disqualifying. So f@ck the DCC.
David Hogg supports Platner and with good reason.
The GOP just gerrymandered safe Texas districts into vulnerable ones. They also recruited RFK and then panicked. LOL. They are terrible at rat fucking. Let them.
You're failing to point out the one big factor here that made Crockett appealing to the GOP as an opponent - race.
The GOP - and particularly the NC GOP and conservative PACs - have consistently and shamelessly used race to bash Democratic candidates. I received dozens of flyers, every single election cycle, showing Black candidates image altered in Photoshop to make their skin appear darker than they really are or paste them into imagery of Black protests. Even commercials running on the Internet and tv outlets are tweaked to make people of color appear darker and more menacing. The campaign messages in these ads associate candidates with violence and protest or immigrants.
This has been the "elephant in the room" since the Obama years and, more occasionally back in the Helms campaigns, that you and other political pundits here in NC have never addressed, preferring to focus on the more "polite" messaging Republicans put out against candidates on economic or social issues.
No matter how centrist or progressive a Democratic candidate is, Republicans will portray them as "radical", "Communist", and the second coming of Lenin. They have for years.
The only Republican campaign I recall any political commenters addressing this issue and pointing out GOP race baiting was Jesse Helms's famous "Hands" ad. And that was all the way back in 1990.
I don't think Crockett will be the only Democrat that Republicans push in the primaries. There will be other people of color that Republicans will latch on to, knowing that race-baiting and bigotry is the only message left that "sells" to consistently turn out their base.
I don't believe race had that much to do with it. Colin Allred is African American and he outperformed statewide Democrats in 2024 by 5.5%. The people who are going to vote on racial issues are already voting Republican.
If race isn't a factor, then why has the NC GOP and related PACs consistently used the type of racist imagery I pointed out in flyers and online ads fed to Democratic and Unaffiliated voters?
If race doesn't have anything to do with it, why go to all the trouble to consistently and persistently alter candidate images and create montages using scare-tactic racist imagery? Why bother to go to that extra effort and expense in the design and editing/color timing processes for these ads?
If you don't believe me, start collecting mailers and recordings of video-based ads from the 2026 campaign and talk to graphic designers and video professionals and ask their opinion on what they're seeing.
This tactic - "divide and conquer" - is a common tactic with GOP campaign and image-building messaging.
What I'm seeing is using race in a subtle and not-so-subtle way to drive a wedge between liberal voters who might still vote Democratic, but have uncertainties about the viability of Black or Latino candidates.
This same tactic was used in the previous couple of election cycles against the LGBTQ community, with "Gays for Trump" or supposed liberal gay influencers on social media, directing material at the LGBTQ community deriding trans people, saying that "trans" people "aren't really gay" or "aren't part of the gay movement".
Another example is Moms for Liberty, advocating for banning of LGBTQ material in libraries or school curricula, masking it as "Parental Rights" and raising holy hell about material that's "obscene" to back liberal legislators and local politicians into a corner to "protect children".
The new, gerrymandered districts in Texas resulted in Crockett being moved out of her district. Any election she gets involved in will be unnecessarily complicated (as intended) by the new districts. She has name rec and can fire up the base, but she will start 10 points behind because she's a black woman. Yes, it's still about racism and sexism.
It’s called: misogynoir.
Thank goodness Roy Cooper is running in NC.
For at least the next 20 years or so, I hate to say, in the south you’d better find a white cis male to run statewide. The racism and misogyny are just still too entrenched. Doesn’t matter how qualified they are for the job.
I would argue that Platner’s Nazi tattoos make him less than ideal. Also, we should let the voters of the state with the primary decide, and focus on our own state and re-electing Justice Anita Earls to the NC Supreme court.
UGHHHHH. Why is she running?!? It reminds me of Stacey Abrahms...Georgia is still Georgia and Texas is still Texas. There are candidates that can win that will get cross over votes, but sadly just like white dudes would not vote for Kamala, same for Jasmine. All she will get is a platform. There is a former astronaut who is running who is great and could get cross over votes or the Pastor (because this is Texas and that will sell!!). Texas is still far from purple, but she is not going to be the one to get it there, if it was another state, yes...maybe she could get the votes. So now other actually viable candidates will get less attention, and I say this as someone who donates exclusively to Democratic women candidates!!!
This is tit-for-tat and I hate it. Remember Democrats spending $44 million in 2022 for whack-job GOP candidates. Just cut it out!
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries/
Thomas remember the GOP interested in a recent democratic primary in NC for US Senator. I can’t remember the year, but I do remember Republicans promoted the candidacy of a Black state senator who fortunately lost the primary
It was dishonorable when Democrats fucked over Peter Meijer and threatened the republic for their own gain, and now the Republicans are doing something similar. So stupid and gross. Neither party should be ratfucking in the hopes it will help them win elections.
Janet Mills still supports the filibuster. That is so completely disqualifying. So f@ck the DCC.
David Hogg supports Platner and with good reason.
The GOP just gerrymandered safe Texas districts into vulnerable ones. They also recruited RFK and then panicked. LOL. They are terrible at rat fucking. Let them.
You're failing to point out the one big factor here that made Crockett appealing to the GOP as an opponent - race.
The GOP - and particularly the NC GOP and conservative PACs - have consistently and shamelessly used race to bash Democratic candidates. I received dozens of flyers, every single election cycle, showing Black candidates image altered in Photoshop to make their skin appear darker than they really are or paste them into imagery of Black protests. Even commercials running on the Internet and tv outlets are tweaked to make people of color appear darker and more menacing. The campaign messages in these ads associate candidates with violence and protest or immigrants.
This has been the "elephant in the room" since the Obama years and, more occasionally back in the Helms campaigns, that you and other political pundits here in NC have never addressed, preferring to focus on the more "polite" messaging Republicans put out against candidates on economic or social issues.
No matter how centrist or progressive a Democratic candidate is, Republicans will portray them as "radical", "Communist", and the second coming of Lenin. They have for years.
The only Republican campaign I recall any political commenters addressing this issue and pointing out GOP race baiting was Jesse Helms's famous "Hands" ad. And that was all the way back in 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_(advertisement)
I don't think Crockett will be the only Democrat that Republicans push in the primaries. There will be other people of color that Republicans will latch on to, knowing that race-baiting and bigotry is the only message left that "sells" to consistently turn out their base.
I don't believe race had that much to do with it. Colin Allred is African American and he outperformed statewide Democrats in 2024 by 5.5%. The people who are going to vote on racial issues are already voting Republican.
If race isn't a factor, then why has the NC GOP and related PACs consistently used the type of racist imagery I pointed out in flyers and online ads fed to Democratic and Unaffiliated voters?
If race doesn't have anything to do with it, why go to all the trouble to consistently and persistently alter candidate images and create montages using scare-tactic racist imagery? Why bother to go to that extra effort and expense in the design and editing/color timing processes for these ads?
If you don't believe me, start collecting mailers and recordings of video-based ads from the 2026 campaign and talk to graphic designers and video professionals and ask their opinion on what they're seeing.
This tactic - "divide and conquer" - is a common tactic with GOP campaign and image-building messaging.
What I'm seeing is using race in a subtle and not-so-subtle way to drive a wedge between liberal voters who might still vote Democratic, but have uncertainties about the viability of Black or Latino candidates.
This same tactic was used in the previous couple of election cycles against the LGBTQ community, with "Gays for Trump" or supposed liberal gay influencers on social media, directing material at the LGBTQ community deriding trans people, saying that "trans" people "aren't really gay" or "aren't part of the gay movement".
Another example is Moms for Liberty, advocating for banning of LGBTQ material in libraries or school curricula, masking it as "Parental Rights" and raising holy hell about material that's "obscene" to back liberal legislators and local politicians into a corner to "protect children".