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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMI-13: Rashida Tlaib is the most vulnerable member of The Squad to a primary challenge.
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MI-13: Rashida Tlaib is the most vulnerable member of The Squad to a primary challenge. (Original Post)
RandySF
Feb 2020
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If I were Tlaib's campaign manager, I'd find another good qualified black MI-13 resident ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2020
#10
Dearborn has a very large Arabic population which will undoubtedly support Tlaib
MichMan
Feb 2020
#12
DURHAM D
(32,986 posts)1. Also, I read somewhere that Hillary won that District by 30 points
in the 2016 primary.
RandySF
(82,137 posts)2. It's most of Detroit, Dearborn and a chunk of Western Wayne Co.
She was part of a huge, mostly African-American candidate field and wil probably lose if she goes one-on-one against Brenda Jones.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,632 posts)10. If I were Tlaib's campaign manager, I'd find another good qualified black MI-13 resident ...
... or two, and schmooze them into running, maybe finance the kickoff. Split the vote again.
MichMan
(16,867 posts)12. Dearborn has a very large Arabic population which will undoubtedly support Tlaib
but you are absolutely correct about the AA vote in Detroit.
It needs to be an AA candidate who is pretty well known. Name recognition and incumbency are hard to overcome in Detroit based on history.
demosincebirth
(12,818 posts)3. One term rep
leftstreet
(39,501 posts)4. Then she surely needs all of DU's support n/t
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)5. Nope, I will donate to Brenda Jones
She needs to go in the primary.
11cents
(1,780 posts)6. Why? She'll be replaced by another Democrat.
She's vulnerable to a primary challenge, not a GOP candidate.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,632 posts)11. Yep, Republicans probably won't run a candidate in the district.
That district is gerrymandered to "pen in" a great concentration of Democratic Party voters. Repubs didn't run there in 2018, no point.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)7. I'll let the Democrats of MI-13 decide.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)8. AOC challenger:
tritsofme
(19,842 posts)9. Great news! I hope she gets crushed!
Would she boo the Democratic voters who kicked her out?
Gothmog
(176,683 posts)13. There appears to be a primary in this district
