KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Three Republicans and two Democrats are facing off in the hotly contested 120th district race. After 10 years in Harrisburg, State Representative Aaron Kaufer is hanging up his orange tie and is not seeking re-election to the state house. Representative Kaufer has served the residents of the 120th district since […]
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they went to cast their votes, those races will determine who the democratic and republican candidates will be this november. for the latest on those races, i want to turn to msnbc s steve kornacki, over at the big board. steve, what is happening in texas? i can tell you, some of the members of congress who joe biden was addressing tonight while he was giving that speech found themselves, find themselves currently, and political crises back in their home districts. let s start in the 20th district of texas, this is south texas, this is the district here spending is san antonio down to son to laredo. the incumbent, where henry cuellar, he s been there from us 20 years, he s one of the more conservative democrats and congress. he s a hawk on the board, he s antiabortion. he represents some portions here, some of these counties here got a lot of attention after the 2020 election where
this is not a trump district. this is not a typical white working class dkt thistrict tha trump would do well in, but democrats do have to start winning seats and these are the kind of seats they think they can win and they re outperforming the seat if they re expected to pick up the house in 2018. but here s one reality. from 30,000 feet, this was a seat held by newt gingrich, and by tom price and won by republicans. if republicans lose this seat, there will be panic in the house of representatives and all of the concerns that republicans have about donald trump s falling approval ratings and the cloudy future for him politically will come into sharp relief and sticking with trump will you can almost write the president s tweet for him, so
again, i m not sure what s in it. they re not sure what s in it either, which might be part of the problem. i m not sure many senators know what s in it. democrats do need to capture 24 republican seats to take control of the senate next tall. o fall. jon ossoff and karen handel are neck and neck. it is a district where republican congressman tom price won 23 points last november, but where president trump had a far tighter margin of victory. the race has broken fund-raising barriers. ossoff pulled in more than $23 million, handel personally raising over $4 million. and with all the outside spending, the final amount could top a whopping $50 million.