A Guide to Supporting Democratic Senate Candidates

Jeremy Fassler
5 min readJan 27, 2020
Photograph courtesy of CNN

Donald Trump is not the only person on trial in the Senate right now — every Republican Senator is on trial with him. All of them have abandoned their duties when it comes to ensuring a fair trial, and if they all vote to acquit, then they are enabling the President to act as a monarch instead of a democratically elected leader, weakening Americans’ faith in the process that has governed our country for the last 244 years.

Even if a Democrat wins the White House this November, their presidency is meaningless without a Democrat-controlled Senate, and we need to vote out as many Republicans as we can to ensure the restoration of democratic rule in the upper chamber of Congress.

There will be 35 Senate races this fall. Here is a quick and handy guide to every Democratic Senate Candidate you can support against these traitors, sorted into four categories and alphabetized by state.

DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGERS TO REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS

ARIZONA — Democrat Mark Kelly (profiled in Candidate Watch 2020 here) is the likely nominee against Republican incumbent Martha McSally, and one of our best shots at a pickup.

COLORADO — Former Governor and presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is running against Republican Cory Gardner, who has been a sitting duck for some time.

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.