Philadelphia Inquirer-Conor Lamb is the best choice Dems have to flip a Senate seat. Endorsement
This is a nice endorsement
Link to tweet
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/conor-lamb-us-senate-pennsylvania-2022-election-endorsement-20220508.html?utm_campaign=Philly.com+Twitter+Account&utm_source=t.co&cid=Philly.com+Twitter&utm_medium=social
Pennsylvanians deserve a senator who is more than just a plus-one vote for the Democratic caucus in the Senate; it’s crucial that voters elect a candidate who would add value by representing the commonwealth. Based on his history of winning extremely competitive general elections, his familiarity with Congress from his time in the House of Representatives, and his thoughtfulness on tough policy questions, we endorse Conor Lamb.
A former federal prosecutor and Marine veteran, Lamb won his seat in Congress in a special election in 2018 by a margin of fewer than 1,000 votes. In the process, he flipped a Republican-held seat in a district that favored Trump in 2016 by nearly 20 points.
Democrats may be wary that Lamb’s heavily pro-Trump constituency might make him an unreliable vote for the party’s agenda and the White House (See: Manchin, Joe). The congressman’s voting record, however, suggests otherwise. In just the past session, Lamb voted in favor of Build Back Better, the Women’s Health Protection Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the For the People Act. Then there’s the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, and the bill to make D.C. a state. There is no need to guess how he would vote on these bills; he’s already done it.
Lamb, for Pennsylvanians, is the best choice in a talented field.
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It's time for a change IMHO. No more milquetoast.
Right now, we need a firebrand fighter and Lamb ain't it. If anything, Malcolm Kenyatta is Philly's firebrand in the PA State House enough to get his exhortations on his city constituents' behalf, actually "heard", and picked up by the media. Plus he actually has the backing of much of Philly's black voters. But he is a complete unknown in the rest of the state and as far as I am concerned, we need his energy right where he is - or he could even go for State Senate at some point.
Edit to also add this - Joe Sestak had similar "military credentials" and had also flipped a House seat here in the east (beating Curt Weldon (R) in the then-7th Congressional District). He later ran against Arlen Specter (who had newly switched his party affiliation to Democrat, and ran as one in the 2010 primary as an incumbent for the seat that he had been in for 30 years), and beat Specter.
And then voila! Teabagger Toomey beat him and took the seat.
So that "military background" formula doesn't work that much anymore. I remember Patrick Murphy who was in the then 8th Congressional District (yet another flipped (R) seat) and one of the earliest supporters of candidate Barack Obama, and he too had military experience, was the very first Iraq War vet to run and win a Congressional seat back in 2006, and eventually lost in that same 2010 teabagger wave.
