Democrat Charles Booker launches Senate challenge against Rand Paul

[jct74]

Democrat Charles Booker launches Senate challenge against Rand Paul

BY MAX GREENWOOD
07/01/21

Democrat Charles Booker launches Senate challenge against Rand Paul

Booker, a progressive who came within striking distance of the Democratic Senate nomination in 2020, announced his latest campaign in a video posted online Thursday. His decision was first reported by HuffPost.

“As we go into this day where we celebrate our independence, let’s commit to making it mean something,” Booker says in his announcement video. “And I’m not just asking that of you. I’m going to lead by example. And it’s with that understanding that we have to lead ourselves that I’m going to run for United States Senate.”

Booker is the first Democrat to launch a 2022 challenge to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a conservative firebrand who regularly draws the ire of the left. Only one other Democrat has received widespread mention as a potential Senate candidate, former state House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins.

Paul is likely to prove difficult to beat. He was last reelected in 2016 by a nearly 15-point margin and has $3.1 million in his campaign account. Kentucky is also a reliably conservative state that has eluded Senate Democrats for more than two decades.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...r-launches-senate-challenge-against-rand-paul

 

[helenpaul]

Rand would be hard to beat in any case and with a dem president in the 2022 mid-terms i dont think Rand will even need to spend any money campaigning

 

[tebowlives]

Striking distance???? He lost to the person who lost in the general by 20 points.

 

[Working Poor]

Rand said he is going to work on purging the voter roles of dead and illegals so he might ought to start in his home state of Kentucky.

 

[jct74]

campaign announcement video

 

[acptulsa]

So will the fact that the average low-information voters think he's Corey Booker help him because of name recognition, or hurt him because people think he's from New Jersey?

 

[dannno]

campaign announcement video

Long video, can't tell what issues, if any, he disagrees with Rand Paul about... except maybe the whole everybody should have a good union job, lol...

Will be interesting to see if he brings up the Breonna Taylor shit in a debate.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Rand had better get on the audit bandwagon.
Dominion could give the race to a cheese sandwich and they already stole the governorship in his state for practice.

 

[Invisible Man]

Striking distance???? He lost to the person who lost in the general by 20 points.

You sure about that? This article says she only beat him by less than 3%.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/8825...arles-booker-in-kentucky-senate-democratic-pr

 

[acptulsa]

Rand had better get on the audit bandwagon.
Dominion could give the race to a cheese sandwich and they already stole the governorship in his state for practice.

Are you promoting federalization of Kentucky's election process?

Please clarify. I'm sure all your sock puppets will otherwise be horrified to learn you're a useful idiot for the DNC.

 

[CaptUSA]

You sure about that? This article says she only beat him by less than 3%.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/8825...arles-booker-in-kentucky-senate-democratic-pr

Reading comprehension is important...

He lost to Amy McGrath, who lost to Mitch by nearly 20 points.

 

[Invisible Man]

Reading comprehension is important...

He lost to Amy McGrath, who lost to Mitch by nearly 20 points.

Yes it is.

From the OP:

Booker, a progressive who came within striking distance of the Democratic Senate nomination in 2020....

 

[tebowlives]

The point I was trying to make is that the striking distance is a silly thing to say since he lost to someone who got clobbered in the general.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Are you promoting federalization of Kentucky's election process?

Please clarify. I'm sure all your sock puppets will otherwise be horrified to learn you're a useful idiot for the DNC.

Point to anything that says federal in what I said.

 

[acptulsa]

Point to anything that says federal in what I said.

How about, the place where Rand Paul works and the sort of bandwagon he's liable to find there.

How about, the type of initiative Rand confines himself to because he doesn't believe in exerting federal influence on state governments.

Do you know nothing of his history and habits in the Senate? Nothing? You know what he had better do, but nothing of what he does do?

 

[Swordsmyth]

How about, the place where Rand Paul works and the sort of bandwagon he's liable to find there.

How about, the type of initiative Rand confines himself to because he doesn't believe in exerting federal influence on state governments.

Do you know nothing of his history and habits in the Senate? Nothing? You know what he had better do, but nothing of what he does do?

Being a Senator in no way requires him to take federal action, he is a citizen of the country and of his state as well and can do all the things other citizens can do.
He can certainly speak out in favor of the state audits and demand an audit in his home state.

And since the Constitution mandates that the federal government ensure a Republican form of government there may eventually be a place for federal action against states so corrupt that they won't audit their own elections even after the other states expose the extent of the fraud.
States controlled by politicians who are elected through fraud are hardly likely to fix the fraud that keeps them in power.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

He might be a decently strong candidate in a purple state with a large black population but Kentucky is not that.

 

[jct74]

Charles Booker wears a noose in new Senate campaign ad blasting Rand Paul. Here's why:

Morgan Watkins
June 1, 2022




LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker stands with a noose around his neck in a new campaign ad criticizing his opponent, Republican incumbent Rand Paul, for holding up legislation in 2020 that would have made lynching a federal hate crime in America.

The certain-to-be-controversial ad, which Booker's campaign released Wednesday morning, includes a content warning for "strong imagery."

It does not mention that Paul went on to co-sponsor a new (and bipartisan) version of that legislation. The Senate unanimously voted this March to pass the updated Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which is now law.

"The pain of our past persists to this day," Booker says in a voiceover as his ad begins, showing a historic lynching photo and a noose hanging from the limb of a tree. "In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom.

"It was used to kill my ancestors," Booker says as he appears onscreen, standing next to a tree with a noose looped around his neck.

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read more:
https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...-blasting-rand-paul-lynching-bill/9913300002/

 

[jct74]

^ Comment I left on the youtube video

I think too much is being made of Rand's opposition to the lynching bill, which he actually ended up later supporting after a change was made. Also, he has introduced a lot of criminal justice bills in the Senate that would greatly benefit minority communities, such as the Justice Safety Valve Act to provide judges with greater sentencing flexibility, the Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act to restore voting rights for non-violent felons, the REDEEM Act to allow sealing and expungement for non-violent crimes, the FAIR Act to rein in police use of civil asset forfeiture, the RESET Act to address the crack sentencing disparity and how drugs are weighed, the Police CAMERA Act to increase the use of body cameras by police, the Stop Militarizing Our Law Enforcement Act to reduce the use of military equipment by police, the MERCY Act to restrict the use of solitary confinement on juveniles, the Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act to encourage states to reform bail policies, the Pregnant Women in Custody Act to protect the health and safety of pregnant women in prison, and the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act to end the use of no-knock warrants.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Wonder if Booker knows this new campaign ad has more dislikes than likes.