One of the key figures who brought about the election of Doug Jones in Alabama was his masterful campaign manager, Joe Trippi.
Trippi managed to run a campaign that was brilliant in execution.
Trippi is well versed in Democratic campaigns for office, not successful on a regular basis as with Jones, but he is well regarded for his campaign strategies.
Among those he assisted in various campaigns for public office are:
Minnesota Senator and Vice President Walter Mondale and his Presidential campaign in 1984.
Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and his Presidential campaign in 1980.
Colorado Senator Gary Hart and his Presidential campaign in 1988.
California Governor Jerry Brown and his Presidential campaign in 1992 and gubernatorial campaign in 2010.
North Carolina Senator John Edwards and his 2008 Presidential campaign.
Missouri House Minority Leader and Congressman Dick Gephardt and his Presidential campaign in 1988 after Gary Hart dropped out.
Trippi also was campaign manager for Vermont Governor and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean.
Additionally, he assisted Senate elections of California Senator Alan Cranston, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.
Hopefully, the Doug Jones election in a “Red” state will be a turning point nationwide in the midterm Congressional Elections of 2018.
Ronald writes, with his last sentence, “Hopefully, the Doug Jones election in a ‘Red’ state [Alabama] will be a turning point nationwide in the midterm Congressional Elections of 2018.â€
It reminds me, here in December 2017, of January 2010 Massachusetts. That was Scott Brown having won a Republican pickup of Ted Kennedy’s Democratic-held U.S. Senate, in a special election, in a Democratic base state won in 2008 by Barack Obama by +26 points. In December 2017 Alabama, it was Doug Jones having won a Democratic pickup of Jeff Session’s former Republican-held U.S. Senate seat, in a special election, in a Republican base state won in 2016 by Donald Trump by +28 points.
What happened, after January 2010, twelve months after Obama took office, to the Democrats and for the Republicans in November 2010?
I’m thinking along the same lines, after December 2017, eleven months after Trump took office, that this will happen to the Republicans and for the Democrats will occur in November 2018.
Side Note: I anticipate Paul Ryan heading out the door. He is able to tell that, come January 2019, he will no longer be speaker of the U.S. House.
D, I think Paul Ryan may face indictment in the Russian Collusion scandal, as he seems to have known about it, when he shushed Kevin McCarthy at a House GOP gathering in 2016,
So he could end up indicted, whether or not he stays in Congress, or the GOP loses control of the House.
If so, it would be well deserved, as Ryan is a despicable human being who has no concern about the poor, the sick, the elderly, the disabled!
And yet, he claims to be a “good Catholic”, which he most certainly is NOT! 🙁