Blue America has just endorsed a new congressional candidate-- new for us anyway. Nate McMurray is the progressive Democrat running for the very red seat (NY-27) that surrounds Buffalo on the north, south and east and goes east to the exurbs west and south of Rochester. It's very white (92%), very Republican (R+11) and pretty Trumpist. He beat Hillary there 59.7% to 35.2%, although it's worth noting that in the primary Bernie beat Hillary by a very wide margin in every part of the district.
Nate was a Bernie supporter and he's running on many of Bernie's populist economic ideas to help working and middle class families, like Medicare for All.
The DCCC has no interest in his race and have refused to back him, claiming he's too progressive for the district, despite how much better Bernie did than Hillary. And despite the incumbent, Chris Collins, a Trump fanatic, being arrested by the FBI in his NYC penthouse and charged with numerous counts relating to insider trading including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, seven counts of securities fraud, and lying to the FBI.
Collins announced he wouldn't run for reelection but a few weeks later his lawyers told him that if he is reelected he could use his congressional seat-- as in resigning from it-- as a bargaining chip in negotiating for a lighter sentence.
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