How to kill time till polls close
While you wait for election night results and hit refresh on every button you can find, knowing that it won’t bring you anything new, I have a few interesting stories that might help you pass the time. (If you’re on your way home, this week’s podcast features The Intercept’s Lee Fang and former Clinton adviser Peter Daou.)
There’s been a lot of debate on the left over Elizabeth Warren, her narrowing path to the nomination, and how her decision-making will affect either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. Rachel Cohen and I have a story that might help disentangle some of the complexity of the primary, and includes some news-making comments from the spokesman for the Working Families Party, Warren’s most prominent outside group.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook has a fascinating piece I helped out with about Rep. Joyce Beatty, her role in gentrifying Columbus, and how that very dynamic is now threatening her seat. Very much worth your time. She faces insurgent challenger Morgan Harper in two weeks.
Aside from the presidential primary, there are a number of important congressional primaries in Texas and California today, which we cover here. (This doesn’t include the California race between Cenk Uygur and Christy Smith, because Cenk is my TYT colleague and I’ve recused myself from covering that race. It also doesn’t include Donna Imam’s primary north of Austin because frankly I simply missed that one, but it could be interesting nonetheless.)
Akela Lacy is in Texas for us, reporting on Mike Bloomberg’s sagging hopes.
I was on Democracy Now this morning (with a new haircut), as well as Rising (same haircut), and will be back on both this evening. Democracy Now is doing live coverage starting at 7 p.m. in partnership with The Intercept. I’ll be on from 8-9, and on Rising later in the evening.
Meanwhile, there were reports of poll workers not showing up for fear of the coronavirus. How do you hold an election in the midst of a pandemic? Can you? I guess we’ll find out. Be safe out there.