Democrat death rattle becomes an echo as Congressional campaigns run out of ideas

Wait -- isn't she running in CD 31?
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The American left is coming to grips with a grim electoral reality.

Their New Deal policies are losing favor with the public, state legislatures are overwhelmingly going red (67-32 chambers), and ill-conceived schemes like Obamacare are turning people to the GOP in droves. And let's not get started on the unpopularity of taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood!

That jangling noise you hear coming out of that TV in the corner still tuned to MSNBC is the death rattle of the Democratic Party. And recently it's starting to echo.

The left won't go down without making a huge spectacle. They have President Trump's tweets to energize the crowds into their own versions of the Tea Party (e.g. Indivisible, Resist, etc.), they have the Hollywood elite as cheerleaders, and they will pounce on any public tragedy to attack conservatives -- going as far to denounce the prayers of the faithful in wake of the recent, horrific shooting at a Florida public school. Sensationalism is their new game.

Their only hope of winning future races is to simulate a groundswell of enthusiasm that recent numbers have simply not supported. Republicans need not panic (see our analysis from Nov. 8, 2017).

In the meantime Democrats even in Texas will do everything to take advantage of a new and unfamiliar presidency to make one last play for power. As one local example, Republican incumbent John Carter in a strongly conservative Congressional District in Central Texas only managed to draw one challenger on the GOP primary ticket, Mike Sweeney. But the Democrat primary ballot for CD 31 features four contenders hopeful that an apocryphal "blue wave" will carry them into Congress.

Optimistic Dems are staking their fortunes on races like CD 31, and especially CD 7 (U.S. Rep. John Culberson), CD 23 (U.S. Rep. Will Hurd) and CD 32 (retiring U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions), hoping for seats to flip from R to D in November based on a mixture of anti-Trump vitriol and a belief in a cultural progressive fait accompli.

Those races in particular are drawing more than their usual share of candidates -- even against Carter, Culberson, and Hurd who have no intention of leaving and are not causing a power-vacuum to occur (see info on CD 21 below). The question is how many (or how few) of these Democrat candidates are running their own campaigns and how many are merely taking marching orders from the usual-suspect consultants.

Democrat newcomer M.J. Hegar's campaign -- one of four seeking to upset Carter's apple cart in the general election -- had an "oops" moment that could be interpreted as evidence of the heavy influence of the same group of Democrat consultants pulling the strings in multiple races.

Orlando-based freelance reporter Jacob Engels wrote about this first-time candidate in a stinging op-ed: 

"Ms. Hegar, who brags about her book "Shoot Like A Girl" being turned into a Hollywood blockbuster" is "... in a desperate attempt to win her party's nomination. ...

"... As evidenced by a campaign email sent out by Hegar [see above], she famously forgets to cover up her plagiarism and fails to swap CD7 for CD31, in a desperate plea for money from her most ardent campaign supporters. One wonders what race the folks who responded thought they were donating to?"

Read more: https://stonecoldtruth.com/texas-congressional-candidate-plagiarizes-possibly-embezzles-funds 

An innocent typo in an endorsement letter is one thing, but not catching the wrong congressional district number in a fundraising email is an awful mistake that reeks of centralized decision-making -- especially when it's the district number of another race considered to be a battleground.

(Engels has an interesting theory about even "Hollywood Hegar's" campaign slogans and messaging being lifted from other Democrat campaigns. The Tracker could not confirm this at the time of posting, but it would not surprise us given recent history.)

Now back to CD 21: There's the case of Democrat Joseph Kosper, who seems to have appropriated Derrick Crowe's email wording -- URL and all -- in the donkey party primary in CD 21 (to replace retiring Lamar Smith). A whopping 18 Republicans are in that race, all trying to distinguish themselves from one another! But half of the Democratic field? Well, see below ...

Ohhhhh my ...

Don't be surprised if you hear about more of these "McCampaigns" as the left marches further into irrelevance and anger-based tactics. They'll be left with little choice but to circle the wagons and reassure each other that their failed ideas are still working.


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Jacob Engels
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