AdamSmith Posted August 30, 2020 Posted August 30, 2020 Heh heh heh. This is how to do politics. 2020 ELECTIONS Kennedy scrambles to close gap in Massachusetts Trailing in the polls, the young congressman needs to turn things around quickly in his primary bid against Sen. Ed Markey. Rep. Joe Kennedy's focus in the final days of the race will be to turn out a diverse coalition of voters who will vote in person. | Jessica Bradley/WPRI-TV via AP By STEPHANIE MURRAY 08/30/2020 06:44 AM EDT Facebook Twitter Link More BOSTON — Just two years ago, Joe Kennedy’s star was so bright that he was asked to deliver the Democratic Party’s response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. Now, if he can’t turn things around before Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate primary, he’ll be out of politics. A handful of recent polls show the 39-year-old congressman trailing incumbent Sen. Ed Markey — the septuagenarian incumbent whose campaign is improbably powered by younger progressive voters. Among voters under the age of 35, one of those polls reports, Markey is leading Kennedy by an almost 2-to-1 margin. Advertisement "The AOC, Sunrise Movement, Justice Democrats embrace of Ed Markey to me is twofold. That is what has allowed this remarkable makeover of Ed Markey to combat the fact he's 74 years old and been in Congress 44 years. The way they did that was to make him the darling of the climate change warriors, and instrumental to that is [New York Rep.] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," said Mary Anne Marsh, a Boston-based Democratic consultant who is neutral in the race but whose firm works for the Kennedy campaign. "Without her, I think it would've been a much harder effort to make him into the Ed Markey people see in this race, which is very different from the Ed Markey people in Massachusetts have seen in 44 years."... https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/30/joe-kennedy-massachusetts-senate-primary-404936 Quote
floridarob Posted August 31, 2020 Posted August 31, 2020 Just voted for him.....he's always stood up for the regular guy.... Quote
