@CookPolitical Report with @amyewalter Senate & Governors Editor. Senior author @The_Almanac. TN native/Vols fan. #1 Dolly Parton stan. @FurmanU alum. Dog mom.
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Patrick is worried about losing in November. He should be.
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The #GAGov runoff is next week!
Including runoff spending, the GOP primary has seen $158.4M, making it the 3rd most expensive gubernatorial primary on record.
Primary runoff ad support:
Rick Jackson: $89.9M
Burt Jones: $37.7M
Attacking Jones: $21.7M
Attacking Jackson: $514K
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) endorses Rick Jackson over Burt Jones, Trump’s pick for Georgia Governor.
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When I wrote about this race in April, almost everyone I spoke to agreed that Weiser was outhustling Bennet on the ground and drawing larger crowds:
cookpolitical.com/analysis/g…
Colorado Community Research poll | 5/22-5/28 LV
Colorado Governor Democratic primary 2026
🟦Phil Weiser 41%
🟦Michael Bennet 34%
Link to poll: coloradocommunityresearch.co…
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 11
This week on Beyond the Polls, @JessicaTaylor tells us what's going on the next week's GOP Senate runoffs in AL and GA. Plus I look at Matt Mahan's failed campaign to discover why $35 million didn't buy more than 4% of the vote. Listen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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National Democrats may be fretting about embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner’s viability this fall, but Maine’s Democratic voters are not.
Here's our post-primary recap:
cookpolitical.com/analysis/2…
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 10
NANCY MACE concedes in the South Carolina Republican race for governor, and immediately endorses Alan Wilson for governor. She says the two have "buried the hatchet."
"This isn't the end of the fight, but it is the end of a chapter," she says. #scpol #chsnews #scgovrace
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New: While Cornyn will "support the ticket" in favor of Paxton on the ballot, his help stops there. He offered an unequivocal "no" to stumping for Paxton on the #TXSen trail against Dem Talarico, even as both candidates court his voters.
washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 9
lots of talk about what Platner's benchmark should be tonight.
In the 2020 Maine Dem Senate primary, Sara Gideon got 71.5% of the vote. Both her opponents were still in the race, but were always considered longshots.
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To beat Collins in Nov, the Democratic nominee will likely need to win only ~80% of voters who disapprove of Trump. Every D Senate candidate in 18/20 won at least 89% of them-except Gideon, who carried just 71% v Collins. Pre latest scandals, Platner was winning just 74% of them.
Dems can't force out Platner if he wins today, as is near certain. But if he steps aside by 7/13 they can replace him. And in today's governor primary there are 3 alternatives w/broad support on the left: Jackson, Pingree, Bellows. At least 2 soon will be available to replace him
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I, for one, would not be despondent if I were sipping Mai Tais in Fiji
Jun 9
I once asked Tom Steyer, during his ill-fated presidential run, why he wasn’t chilling on a beach somewhere like most of us would be with his money. Found the answer very revealing:
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 9
In 2020, 60% of the electorate in Maine was female. Even as Biden won women by 23 pts, Collins won women by 3 pts - a 26 point over-performance by the GOP Sen. These split-ticket voters are who matter from now until Nov.
The second Pine Tree Results PAC ad Rs are planning to drop against Platner:
youtube.com/watch?v=1N8jcwGx…
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Did a double take with this voter’s name
Jun 9
One Dem Maine voter to Politico this weekend: “I’m watching, what is Bernie Sanders saying? What is Elizabeth Warren saying? They would be pulling their support if he couldn’t get elected.”
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Voters are heading to the polls in four states on Tuesday — Maine, South Carolina, Nevada and North Dakota. Here’s your guide to what we’re watching.
cookpolitical.com/analysis/2…
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The Tonys are my Oscars
And Ragtime should win everything
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 5
The winner of the Maine Senate race will not be determined by those on this platform, young folks in Portland, or Dem primary voters. How older, white women who live in Kennebec or York Cty, who aren’t engaged right now in this, will determine it.
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Jun 5
Big blow to Stevens especially; UAW has become more left-wing as it’s absorbed grad student organizers, but Stevens’s campaign is a noun, a verb, and “Michigan manufacturing.”
Jun 5
Inbox: UAW Endorses Secretary Jocelyn Benson and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Critical Michigan Races for Governor and U.S. Senate uaw-newsroom.prgloo.com/pres… #MIGOV #MISEN
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If Mills had actually gotten back in the primary when the sexting story broke and barnstormed the state in the final two weeks of the race it would have demonstrated more killer instinct and desire to win than she showed the entire time she was a candidate.
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“She said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist.”
Jun 4
New: Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior
w/ @llerer nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/po…
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Jessica Taylor retweeted
Jun 4
The issue isn’t whether this one new controversy or that is survivable for Platner.
It’s that this is one more log on the fire — and it’s the question of how women view him versus men.
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