Kentucky Democrats recruit the most State House candidates since 1984.
In the handful of states where the filing deadline to run in 2018 has already passed, the story has been the same. Alabama Democrats, buoyed by Sen. Doug Jones’ stunning special election victory, have candidates in all seven congressional districts for the first time since 1996. Kentucky Democrats haven’t contested this many statehouse races—93 out of 100 districts—since 1984. Democrats in Indiana are contesting 84 of 100 state legislature races—their highest this millennium. That trend shows no sign of abating as deadlines approach in the rest of the country. To take just one measure, the party has already secured candidates in all but 11 Republican-held congressional districts; in 2016, they failed to run candidates in 27 districts.
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