Paul Ryan Just May Lose His Congressional Seat,

[ghostsinthemachine]

Opponent’s Campaign Ad Has Gone Viral
Bycpowell
Posted on July 18, 2017

I hate to stereotype, but let’s be honest, Randy Bryce looks like a Trump-supporting, blue-collar, “make American great again” kind of guy.

Here’s the thing, though. He’s not. Not even close. In fact, Bryce is running for congress. His opponent? Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

While I think that alone should be enough to immediately get him elected, he’s still got an uphill battle for election:

More:
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/paul-ryan-just-may-lose-his-congressional-seat-opponents-campaign-ad-has-gone-viral/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=PL&utm_campaign=facebook_PL

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Koch etal will give Ryan one hundred million dollars if necessary.

Koch etal do this because it has been proven money will make people do stupid things, like vote for a politician who stays up nights figuring out how to take your medicare and SS from you.

[grantcart]

24. talk to Jeb Bush about what a $ 100 million buys you in campaigns now

Fact is that Koch brothers spent a $ 100 million to get anybody but Trump elected and failed but here is the reason that they will not spend even $ 10 million to save Paul Ryan;

If the Koch brothers have to spend a dime to save Paul Ryan it means that there are 60 other seats that they will have to spend tens of millions on. If the Republicans have to spend money to save Ryan then it is like the Titanic taking one water, its going to be little, too late and the ship is going to go down.

[SJMULE]

2. and use the dirty Russian tricks

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[bearsfootball516]

3. I'd be stunned

If Ryan lost his seat. Thrilled, yes. But this is a seat he won by 35% last year. He's practically cemented in there.

[TheDebbieDee]

26. If it happened to Cantor - it can happen to Eddie Munster...

[33taw]

4. That district is so gerrymandered that any republican will win.

[SCantiGOP]

19. I think you're right

i believe I have read that this is one of the safest GOP seats in the country. Sounds like wishful thinking.

[Jim Lane]

25. No, it's a Republican lean but far from hopeless.

In 2012, Romney, even with local hero Ryan on his ticket, beat Obama in the district by only four percentage points. In 2016, Trump's margin over Clinton was ten points, but that didn't represent a GOP surge; Trump, like Romney, got 52% of the vote. The difference was that Clinton fell several points short of Obama's share of the vote. I'll hazard a guess that the 2016 result reflected Clinton's negatives in the eyes of many voters.

To hope for a Democratic wave in 2018 is optimistic but not pure fantasy. If the wave materializes, a strong Democratic candidate could take this one.

[BannonsLiver]

5. I really like Bryce a lot

I hope rather than shitting all over his chances or worrying about what the Kochs are going to do people take the leap and give the guy a chance, and preferably some cash.

[ghostsinthemachine]

7. Bingo. The defeatists here are sickening

Oh, just give up.....

[Binkie The Clown]

12. What the hell. Climate change will kill us in the next 20 years anyway.

[mountain grammy]

9. I like him too!

He says what he thinks, but unlike the moron president, he thinks.

[Lucky Luciano]

17. Exactly. Let the kochs blow $100M defending this seat. nt

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[susanna]

29. Amen.

Bankrupt them in trying to maintain their false America.

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Ryan is currently waaaaaay underwater-24/57

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/paul-ryan/

If the GOPee shitshow continues, any of them are beatable, and maybe the leadership more than most.

[MiddleClass]

10. Election is 15 months away. Hopefully if they keep screwing the football

[DK504]

18. Please DCCC pay attention to this one.

Knocking Cryin' Ryan out of the House would be a true kick in the jewels to the Rethugs.

[eleny]

8. Being a union activist means he knows how to connect with people, too nt

[dubyadiprecession]

11. Let's not get on that emotional rollercoaster.

We just lost 4 special elections in the house, that we were supposed to win.
Setting ourselves up for an unrealistic expectation of taking Ryan's seat, just makes us look foolish.

[moose65]

13. I beg to differ....

We weren't "supposed" to win in ANY of those special elections. They were all heavily Republican districts.

[WoonTars]

20. This

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[GreenEyedLefty]

31. This.

[Pacifist Patriot]

33. I don't know why it isn't obvious.

For one thing, these were vacancies due to appointments and those appointments were made, in part, because they were felt to be Republican-safe districts. How can anyone ignore that salient point? Thinking Dems were supposed to win those seats was wishful thinking. They were all uphill battles. If anything, the Republicans are shitting bricks at how close they came to losing those supposedly safe seats.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. Show me where were "supposed to win" any one of them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. What a shitty lede.

[TeamPooka]

15. Voter, please. nt

[msongs]

16. link to Randy Bryce for congress ---

https://randybryceforcongress.com/

[Ccarmona]

22. He was On the Nicole Sandler Show Thursday

And is a true Progressive. He's getting no help from the DCCC, but running a grass roots campaign.

[japple]

23. I truly wish we could bleed the Koch brothers dry by making them

spend all of their money on political campaigns. Then they wouldn't have any more money to invest on those mammoth chicken growing operations that they are funding in my rural Georgia community. It stinks to high heaven around here these days because of the (cock) Koch brothers "food" enterprises.

[EarnestPutz]

27. Proud Democrat?

I just googled Randy Bryce and had to click on
five different links and watch his commercial three
times before I found something that told me that
he was a Democrat.

[leftstreet]

30. Oh wow, you're right

I had to wade through a few links before I found a bio statement that he's chair of a local Democratic party

How interesting!

Out here in the wild, wild west campaign signs NEVER state party affiliation. Haven't for years. I didn't realize that was happening in the midwest!

[brooklynite]

32. Not very likely...

1. Bryce is NOT running against Ryan. Right now he's running against other Democrats for the nomination. Maybe he'll appeal to the D voters, maybe he won't.

2. Think what you will about gerrymandering, but his district is SAFE R and isn't going to be redrawn before the 2018 election.

3. His COH is $11.1 million. Long way to go to match that.