{"id":105122,"date":"2022-11-30T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105122"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:55:44","slug":"we-do-need-to-find-someone-to-run-against-ted-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105122","title":{"rendered":"“We do need to find someone to run against Ted Cruz”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Off the Kuff<\/a>: “I know I just said that I don\u2019t want to engage in wischcasting for this, and I still don\u2019t. But we do need to be prepared to think about who we want to see run for this nomination, and the sooner the better. It\u2019s still the case that no Texas Republican has come as close to losing statewide this century as Cruz did in 2018, and it\u2019s still the case that all decent people loathe Ted Cruz. I\u2019m sure there are some people who will relish the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know we just came off a mediocre at best election, but the\u00a0optimistic view<\/a>\u00a0is that Dems have been steadily gaining ground overall, and we\u2019ve done better in Presidential years. The lunatic fringe of the Republican-majority House will make a very easy foil for President Biden, and Donald Trump will either be the Republican nominee \u2013 and nobody has done more for Democratic turnout efforts over the past three cycles than he has \u2013 or will be enraged and embittered over not being the nominee \u2013 and nobody has done more to sow division and turmoil in the Republican Party over the past six years than he has. There are any number of ways that things could be bad, and that\u2019s before we consider whether Biden should be running for a second term, but there is a very plausible optimistic case to be made. Of course, I said the same thing about 2022 not long after Biden was inaugurated, so take all that into account. The point still is, at least at this time, there\u2019s no need to fear running in 2024.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Off the Kuff: “I know I just said that I don\u2019t want to engage in wischcasting for this, and I still don\u2019t. But we do need to be prepared to think about who we want to see run for this nomination, and the sooner the better. It\u2019s still the case that no Texas Republican has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105123,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105122\/revisions\/105123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}