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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocratic challenger to QAnon Quack Marjorie Taylor Greene dropping out of race.
Kevin Van Ausdal. No specific reason why, but he says he's moving out of the state.
Political novice and given the demographics of the district he was fighting an uphill battle. But it was nice knowing there was at least someone taking on Marjorie's lunacy.
Hopefully it is as he says and a replacement candidate can be found. He or she would be fighting that same uphill battle, but the idea that someone as stomach turning as Marjorie Taylor Greene could waltz into Congress without a fight would be most dispiriting.
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Democratic challenger to QAnon Quack Marjorie Taylor Greene dropping out of race. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2020
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. Damn that sucks. Hope we don't just hand the seat to a Quazy.
MagickMuffin
(15,893 posts)2. Has the State already had its primary
If so, Can they get someone else on the ballot?
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)3. I'll lay odds that he was receiving serious threats on the part of the
QAnon Flying Monkey Brigade.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)5. i wouldnt take any odds on that.
not that i am a gambler. i have other vices. but nope.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)4. In that area, she's a lock. It's sad. Clinton got less than 17% of vote in 2016.