TX-28: The progressive attempt to primary out conserva-Dem Rep Henry Cuellar continued to get attention, as AOC endorsed his challenger, Jessica Cisneros.
CA-50: Things continue to look not great for indicted Rep Duncan Hunter (R), as his wife is planning to testify against him.
OH-13: Rep Tim Ryan (D) ended his no-hope presidential bid, and will be running again for his House seat. Seat is Solid D.
HI-02: Fellow no-hope presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D, I guess) has announced that she will not be running again for her House seat (filing deadlines would have allowed her to do so pretty easily). Gabbard already had a primary challenger in state Sen Kai Kahele; other folks will likely now jump in. Seat is Solid D.
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KS: SecState Pompeo continuing to give off signals he's going to run for Senate. He visited the state yet again this week, and met with Charles Koch. Pompeo would presumably be a strong favorite in both the primary and the general, although it's possible his involvement in the Ukraine quid pro quo could damage him.
MI: Presumptive GOP nominee John James was spotted in old photos hanging out with Ukraine scandal figures Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas.
Interesting Crystal Ball analysis that presidential and Senate battlegrounds are possibly out of sync.
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IN: AG Curtis Hill escaped criminal charges apparently groping multiple women at a work party last year, but will now be the target of a civil suit.
MS gov: Internal poll by Hickman for Hood has Dem AG Hood up 46-42 on GOP LG Reeves. Mason-Dixon, on the other hand, has Reeves up 46-43.
KY gov: One of gov Bevin's GOP primary opponents has endorsed Dem Beshear.
TX: Shocker as powerful House Speaker Dennis Bonnen is retiring after a set of scandals. Dems presumably have no shot at his seat (HD-25 went 69-28 Trump), but this kind of turmoil will likely be helpful in their quest to flip control of the House.
NC gov: Harper Polling out with an early survey of the 2020 governor race has incumbent Dem Cooper leading all plausible GOP candidates by high single digits or more.
MD: Very longtime Senate president Mike Miller (D) is stepping down for health reasons, and will be succeeded by Sen Bill Ferguson. Miller has been a blocking point for progressive legislation in this solid blue state; Ferguson is considered likely to be far more helpful.
ODDS & ENDS
ACLU suing Minnesota to restore voting rights to people who have finished their prison sentences (but are on parole or probation). Could affect ~52k people.
Most states are refusing to provide driver's license data to the Census Bureau. This is yet another attempt to end run the collection of citizenship status.
Medicaid expansion looks likely to be on the ballot in Oklahoma in 2020 as backers turned in massively more signatures than required.
The lawsuit over North Carolina congressional gerrymandering has been remanded back to state court after a pointless attempt to move it to federal court (this move already failed in the legislative gerrymandering case).
Oregon mulling constitutional amendment to allow same day voter registration. Old people like myself will recall the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult, who were involved in how same-day originally got banned (it was a Bloom County story line and everything).
Pennsylvania gov Tom Wolf (D) appears to have struck a deal with the GOP-controlled legislature. In return for eliminating straight party voting, it provides funding for voting machine upgrades, loosens absentee voting and voter registration deadlines, adds no-excuse absentee voting, adds quasi-early voting at the county elections office, and creates a permanent vote by mail list. On balance, this is probably a positive outcome, and drags PA at least somewhat into the modern voting era.
NYT on efforts by the GOP in multiple states to suppress the college student vote.
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