Rachel Maddow Interviews Dems' Last Hope For Senate: Louisiana's Foster Campbell

[womanofthehills]

One more US Senate seat to be decided Dec 10 in run-off vote. Worth a donation folks!!!!!!!!!!

Foster Campbell is running as a Democrat for the US Senate in Louisana. The election has resulted in a run-off vote that will be held in December. Rachel Maddow interviewed him on Thursday.

RACHEL MADDOW: Louisiana voted on election night across the nation. Louisiana voted in their jungle primary. And in that Senate race in Louisiana, none of the 23 people who were running got a majority and won the seat. So now what happens next is the top two finishers, regardless of party, they go to a runoff that happens three weeks from now. I should tell you, happily, David Duke was not in the top two, nowhere near. He's now gone back to his regular life of being a full-time fan boy for Donald Trump, celebrating his victory as a coup for White supremacy. But the Louisiana Senate race continues without him. The runoff election takes place in Louisiana on December 10th. There's so much at stake here. Right? This is how the Senate looks now. Right now it's 48 Democrats and Senate horseshoe, pretty even. 51 Republicans. Democrats picked up two seats last week, but Republicans retained control of the Senate narrowly. You can see the one clear dot there that's not filled in, that's what we're talking about tonight. That's Louisiana. If a Republican wins that, that would make the difference 48-52, it's a four-seat difference, Republicans would have a fairly firm grip on that chamber, but if a Democrat would win, that would make the difference between the Democrats and Republicans only two. That is a gap Democrats can work with. That is a gap that stuff might happen. You know, winning this Louisiana Senate seat could mean a world of difference for Democrats trying to stop the Trump agenda, as the best website in the world, Wonkette.com, put it today,

"if a Democrat won that seat, it means it wouldn't be as much of a stretch to try to form majority coalitions with Republican senators who are occasionally decent on specific issues, like John McCain with Russia or Rand Paul opposing Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton for Secretary of State. If 49 Democrats can pull a John McCain or a Susan Collins across the aisle to oppose Trump in erecting a statue of Vladimir Putin on top of the White House, we might at least be able to mitigate some of Trump's damage, which is what we mean.
And I know, I know, Louisiana is a red state. Louisiana went for Donald Trump by 20 points, for Christ's sake, but Louisiana also did elect a Democrat for governor last year. And this Louisiana Senate race, the Republican is the State Treasurer. He's a former Democrat. He unsuccessfully ran in 2004, became a Republican in 2007. Smart money says he is favored to win, but the Democrat is no slouch. He's one-half of the last Senate race in the country right now. And he is carrying the hopes of Democrats not just in Louisiana, and honestly around the nation. "

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/rachel-maddow-interviews-last-democratic

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I still can't watch Maddow

or any cable news yet. But I donated to Foster Campbell's campaign last week, and may donate again. If anyone wants the link so they can also donate, it's here:

http://www.fostercampbell2016.com/

[riversedge]

6. Thank you. I hope all will help him if they can.It might make the next 4 years a tad

bit more swallow-able.

[msongs]

2. chuck schumer still sitting on a huge pile could give this guy a financial hand up eh? nt

[compsports]

4. Unfortunately

When I called the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Friday again, they were still accessing whether to get involved in the race. Needless to say, I was extremely frustrated.

[OnDoutside]

5. That's just bizarre.

[compsports]

7. I agree

I agree OnDoutside. As an FYI, I have called three times, the first one on 11/15 after I saw this blog entry on Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/14/1599417/-Where-is-the-DNC-in-the-Lousiana-Senate-run-off

I was told by the person I spoke with, Mitch, that they would be putting resources into the race in the upcoming days. I then called back on 11/16 to see if they needed volunteer help and was told by the person I spoke with that they are still accessing whether to get into the race or not. I was not going to get past this person as the gatekeeper regarding this issue. And then on Friday, I called for a third time just to see if they had an update and was still getting the same information.

Out of curiosity, I looked for polling results and was only able to find this one article that showed Campbell way behind with no hope of catching up.

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_136e0c40-add8-11e6-85a7-1b9929daeeed.html

At this point, I am not sure what to say. If more experienced people could comment on what this all means, I would love to hear your viewpoint.

Thanks!

[OnDoutside]

10. Well done to you for caring, it would be ironic if the DNC were basing their decisions on private

polls ! Sometimes you gotta go from the gut. Such is the Center Left fear of Trump, fundraising will not be an issue.

[JudyM]

11. According to this analysis, if he can flip the undecideds, that brings him within 3 points. This

needs to be splashed all over democratic sites.

https://www.bustle.com/articles/196161-how-to-donate-to-foster-campbell-help-get-one-more-democrat-into-the-senate

[CrispyQ]

9. WTF?

That makes no sense at all! It's almost like they want to lose!

[Lucinda]

3. KNR

[sarcasmo]

8. Donated.