Rodriquez is out: from seven to four
Sara Rodriguez is suspending her campaign. “As we have continued today to [word indistinct] our financial report, it has become clear that there are issues that would be an ongoing distraction,” the candidate said this morning. A bitter pill, but bravely swallowed.
Lt. Gov. Rodriguez’ name will remain on the primary election ballot, as will those of David Crowley and Missy Hughes, who have suspended their campaigns — Crowley just days before Rodriguez’ campaign committed auto de fe over the weekend with the bombshell (we try not to over-use that word) that her campaign finance reports had been spatchcocked and deep-fried, and that she was down to shaking the sofa for loose change.
Maybe it’s just the random fickle finger of fate that of the seven candidates, the three to drop out occupy the political center — leaving Joel Brennan its sole occupant with the three others far to the left: Mandela Barnes, Kelda Roys, and Francesca Hong. It is not out of the question that Crowley could get back in and the chatter is that Gov. Tony Evers would endorse the Milwaukee county executive if he did.
We won’t waste too much valuable bandwidth on last night’s embarrassing display of presidential obsession — MAGA’s Lost Cause, aka the Stolen Election that wasn’t. We summarize (with credit to Scott D. Henry):
When Obama was in charge of foreign intelligence in 2016, Trump won.
When Trump was in charge of foreign intelligence in 2020, Biden won.
When Biden was in charge of foreign intelligence in 2024, Trump won.
→ “The President who cried election fraud; does he have any credibility left on the subject?” from Bari Weiss’ conservative Free Press.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Of all the potential uses for a prime time address to the nation in the lead-up to the mid-term elections, this obsessive-compulsive President chooses conspiracy mongering. As for Sara Rodriguez, could the case of the non-existent donations be any more bizarre?
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