{"id":12586,"date":"2018-05-23T17:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:58:46","slug":"progressives-win-some-lose-some-in-tuesday-primaries-in-ga-ky-ar-tx-bradcast-5232018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12586","title":{"rendered":"Progressives Win Some, Lose Some in Tuesday Primaries in GA, KY, AR, TX: ‘BradCast’ 5\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Primary elections for the crucial 2018 mid-terms were held on Tuesday in Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas (which held their primary runoffs following the first round of voting back in early March.) That, as hopes for a massive “blue wave” this fall could be fading, at least according to some new polling<\/a>. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

The results, as reported as of today, present a mixed bad for progressive Democrats who performed well in key races for Governor in Georgia (Stacey Abrams became the first female nominee<\/a> in the state from either major party, and would be the nation’s first African-American Governor, if she wins in November), and for the U.S. House in an upset win against the national Democrats’ preferred candidate in Kentucky (Marine vet Amy McGrath defeated<\/a> the DCCC-recruited, conservative Blue Dog<\/a> Democrat Jim Gray, Mayor of Lexington).<\/p>\n

The news was less good for progressives, if better for establishment Democratic candidates, in several of the Texas runoffs<\/a>, where turnout was as low as it’s been in nearly a century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it was, once again, another good day for female, minority and LGBTQ candidates in several races in all four states. (In Texas, Lupe Valdez, the former Dallas Sheriff became the first<\/a> openly gay, Latina nominee for Governor, and Gina Ortiz Jones in the 23rd Congressional District, would become<\/a> the first lesbian, first Iraq War vet and first Filipina-American to represent Texas in the U.S. House if she wins in the fall.)<\/p>\n

Longtime progressive champion HOWIE KLEIN<\/b>, co-founder of BlueAmericaPAC<\/a> and creator of the “Down with Tyranny!” blog<\/a>, joins us to help make sense of the good news and bad from a number of Tuesday’s closely watched races, and offers a preview for several important contests in California’s upcoming June 5th mid-term primaries.<\/p>\n

Also today, we detail some of the good and bad news for Republicans, in Kentucky, where a high school math teacher unseated<\/a> the state’s current state House majority leader and particularly in Texas, where the GOP establishment seems to have held off<\/a> most of the more extreme rightwing candidates in the run-offs, including one proudly racist<\/a>, Christian homophobe in Dallas…<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast: Primary elections for the crucial 2018 mid-terms were held on Tuesday in Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas (which held their primary runoffs following the first round of voting back in early March.) That, as hopes for a massive “blue wave” this fall could be fading, at least according to some new polling. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,1171,12,89,675,1006,850,1119,299,930,28,1123,72,1172,261,247,477,1173,771,300,1170,47,166,198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-amy-mcgrath","category-arkansas","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brian-kemp","category-dallas","category-dccc","category-democrats","category-election-2018","category-election-reform","category-gender-equality","category-georgia","category-gina-ortiz-jones","category-immigration","category-kentucky","category-kpfk","category-lupe-valdez","category-race","category-republicans","category-stacey-abrams","category-texas","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-us-house","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}