Jon Ossoff has $64M in finances for this must hold Senate seat. He has a little-known primary challenger in Kia Legette who is highly unlikely to provide much resistance to Ossoff.

Ossoff supports: enhanced health care and worked on $35/ month cap for insulin; anti-corruption measures that would ban stock trading in Congress; strengthening border security; better public safety measures; helping Georgia farmers; better mental health services for veterans; better internet access for rural areas; protection for Social Security and Medicare; and reproductive rights.

Endorsements: End Citizens United, Human Rights Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, Population Connection.

The Opposition: Presently, there are 3 MAGA GOP candidates whose campaign finances exceed $1M. Congressman Buddy Carter has $6.2 M, Congressman Mike Collins has $3.3M, and football coach Derek Dooley has $3M. Early polls give Collins a 9 point lead over the others. The primary is May 19 with a possible June 16 runoff.

The Odds: Cook Political Report and Inside Elections rate the race as a toss-up, though Sabato’s Crystal Ball recently switched from a toss-up to leaning Democratic. Early polling has Ossoff leading the above 3 GOP candidates by 3 to 6 points.  Biden won Georgia by 0.24% in 2020 and Trump won in 2024 by 2.2%.

Donations by check can be written to:

Ossoff for US Senate

PO Box 451209

Atlanta, GA 31145-9209

Contributions can also be made via: www.ElectJon.com/grassroots

(Kia Legette information is not available.)

The Democratic Party’s nominee will be decided in an August 4 primary, and it is far from clear right now which of 3 candidates will get the nomination. The three candidates are Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Wayne County Health Director; State Senator Molly McMorrow; and 11th District US Representative Haley Stevens.

El Sayed/ McMorrow/ Stevens support:

All 3 candidates agree on most issues. El Sayed supports Medicare for All, while McMorrow supports adding a public option, and Stevens makes bland statements on the issue in her website. Stevens is supported by AIPAC interests, while El Sayed is supported by Track AIPAC, which opposes AIPAC influence.

Endorsements:

El Sayed: Bernie Sanders, Keith Ellison, Pramila Jayapal, several state and local officials; the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Peace Victory, the Michigan Democratic Party’s Grass Roots, LGBTQ+ and Progressive caucuses, and Track AIPAC.

McMorrow: Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Martin Heinrich (NM), several state legislators, and the United Association Local 370 labor union.

Stevens: Nancy Pelosi, Michigan US Reps. Hillary Scholten and Shri Thanedar, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, and many state and local officials; Democratic Majority for Israel, Elect Democratic Women, and Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus; Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Teamsters, Iron Workers, Unite Here, and United Association Local 636.

Israel-related endorsements for El Sayed and Stevens map into the fault lines in the Democratic Party. AIPAC opposes progressives that speak out about Israeli excessive violence, etc., in Gaza.

The Opposition: While there are at least 5 candidates for the GOP nomination, Mike Rogers, the former 8th congressional district representative and loser in the 2024 Senate race against present US Senator Elissa Slotkin, is the prohibitive favorite. He has Donald Trump’s endorsement and $5.4M while all others have less than $100K.

The Odds: The race is rated a toss-up. Among the Democratic candidates, early polling and money for El Sayed is 18% ($5.4M), McMorrow is 23.7% ($5.6M), and Stevens is 23.3% ($6.8M). The early polling for the three Democratic candidates versus Rogers has Stevens with a small lead over Rogers, Rogers with a small lead over El Sayed, and McMorrow even with Rogers. Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024 won in Michigan by very small margins.  

Donations by check can be written to:

(El Sayed does not have a mailing address)

McMorrow For Michigan

PO Box 917

Royal Oak, MI 48068

Haley Stevens for Senate

PO Box 96091

Washington, DC 20090-6091

Contributions can be made via: 

www.AbdulforSenate.com,  

www.McMorrowforMichigan.com

www.HaleyforMI.com

The most prominent Democrats that will be competing in the June 9 ranked choice voting primary are Governor Janet Mills ($2.7M) and progressive Graham Platner ($7.9M). Less well-known announced Democratic candidates are Natasha Alcala ($?) and David Costello ($102K). Most likely, the ranked choice voting in the primary will yield either Mills or Platner as the winner.

Alcala supports: information is not available

Costello supports: increasing voter participation with automatic voter registration and improving election security; public financing of US House and Senate races; rank choice voting and abolishing the Electoral College; 20 year term limits for elected officials and mandatory retirement ages for judicial appointees; increasing federal Child and Earned Income Tax Credits and SNAP benefits; increased funding for education especially for pre-K and universal day care, vocational schools and higher education; improving the Affordable Care Act and offering Medicare For All who want it with vision and dental added; raising the cap on Social Security contributions; increasing incentives for individual retirement savings plans; increasing benefits to low income retirees; expansion of small business loans; labor unions and their right to organize; more balanced budgets and tax fairness; raising the federal minimum wage to $15; global minimum corporate taxes; securing our borders and immigration reform; increasing funding for green energy and implementing more stringent environmental standards; reproductive rights; common sense gun laws; greater public safety funding; and, maintaining military and intelligence gathering superiority.

Mills supports: protecting health care; protecting Maine from Trump’s excesses; lowering costs for everyone; expanding child care; greater broadband access; free community college; paid family and medical leave; investing in renewable energy; reproductive rights; and increasing funding for small businesses.

Platner supports: ending Citizens United to reduce billionaire influence; building an economy that works for workers and small businesses; Medicare For All; lowering drug prices; eliminating unfair corporate tax advantages; immigration reform with strong borders and a path to citizenship; urgent action on climate change; protection of the Clean Air and Water Acts; improved loans for homebuyers and banning hedge funds buying up housing; Medicare and Medicaid funding; eliminating the cap on Social Security contributions; billionaire minimum taxes; tribal sovereignty; fishing industry subsidies; labor unions including the right to organize and requiring union labor on federal projects; better funding of public education and eliminating school vouchers; reproductive rights; regulating excessive government surveillance; raising the federal minimum wage; LGBTQ+ rights; opposition to US support for Israeli efforts in Gaza; ending the war on drugs; fighting government waste; improving child care; improving veterans benefits; defending the US Postal Service; and term limits.

Endorsements:

Mills: US Senators Schumer, Mastos, and Gillbrand; Governors Healey (M), Beshear (KY), Grisham (NM), and Whitmer (MI); Elect Democratic Women, EMILY’s List, Reproductive freedom For All, and the DSCC.

Platner: US Senators Murphy (CT), Heinrich (N), Sanders (VT), and Whitehouse (RI); economist Robert Reich and several state legislators; International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Maine State Nurses Association, and United Auto Workers; College Democrats of America, Maine People’s Alliance, Our Revolution, and Track AIPAC.

The Opposition: Susan Collins ($10.1M), one of the few remaining moderate Republicans, who ends up supporting Trump more often than not anyway. Restauranteur Carmen Calabrese and former police officer Dan Smeriglio have also declared their candidacies for the GOP nomination. There is one independent candidate.

The Odds: Early polling results for Mills vs Platner are erratic. Early polls of either Democrat versus Collins are close to even. While the Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball rate the November race as a toss-up, Inside Elections has it tilting Republican. Harris won Maine by 7 points in the 2024 presidential election.

Donations by check can be written to:

Costello for U.S. Senate

PO Box 1038,

Brunswick, ME 04011

Graham for US Senate

PO Box 1009

Ellsworth, ME 04605-1009

Mills for Maine

110 Marginal Way #722

Portland, ME 04101

 Contributions can be made via:

www.costelloforsenate.com

www.GrahamForSenate.com

www.JanetMills.com

North Carolina seems to be a prime candidate for flipping a Senate seat from Republican to Democrat. The Democratic nominee is the very popular former governor Roy Cooper ($18M). Cooper handily defeated 5 primary challengers, receiving 92% of the vote on March 3.

Cooper supports: bipartisanship; framing affordability as the key issue; banning stock trading in Congress and personally will not trade individual stocks; increased funding for education, especially raising teacher salaries and more training for better paying jobs that require new skills; greater spending for public safety; and expanding Medicaid.

Endorsements: Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein; American Federation of Government Employees, National Education Association; Democratic Majority For Israel, End Citizens United, Giffords, League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club.

The Opposition:  Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley ($5.8M). Whatley is associated with an unsatisfactory response within North Carolina to the most recent hurricane relief problem.

The Odds: Toss-up, early polls give Cooper a 6-point lead over Whatley. Libertarian, Green and independent candidates are also running, and this may take away more votes from Whatley than Cooper.

Donations by check can be written to:

Cooper for North Carolina

PO Box 106

Raleigh, NC 4411

Contributions can be made via www.roycooper.com