DL Open Thread Wednesday May 4 2022

Star Wars Day – May the 4th be With You.

…to anyone who celebrates it.

Its Trump’s Party

Trump’s pick in the the highest profile race of the day, the Ohio Senate GOP primary, (JD Vance) won the nomination largely due to Trump’s endorsement power.

Trump did not endorse in the Ohio governor’s race, where Republican Gov. Mike DeWine — one of the first prominent Republicans to acknowledge President Joe Biden’s victory — fended off a stiff primary challenge.

Trump bypassed the Indiana Senate race as well, where Sen. Todd Young — who said Trump bears responsibility for the January 6 attacks — won renomination. Trump also didn’t back Rep. David Joyce, the incumbent in Ohio’s 14th District, who issued a statement last year denying that the 2020 election was stolen.

In a race that the media will use to show that the Democrats need to “turn to the center”  

Rep. Shontel Brown of Ohio beats Nina Turner in Democratic primary rematch

CLEVELAND — Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, won a rematch Tuesday against Nina Turner, a progressive activist and former state senator who is known nationally for her work on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Democratic presidential campaigns, NBC News projects.

Brown was leading 65.3 percent to 34.7 percent, with 62 percent of precincts reporting, at 11:01 p.m. ET.

Brown beat Turner by 5.5 percentage points in a crowded special primary last summer and then easily won the vacant seat in Ohio’s overwhelmingly Democratic 11th Congressional District in the general election.

Read this to learn about how big money found a nominally issues-based super PAC, and poured in millions of dollars into the race to take down the most progressive candidate in a congressional, with ads that have nothing to do with that particular issue.