So it turns out I will be voting in the Republican primary tomorrow, just for the Senate race. I honestly think Samuals would make a better Senator that Oman, but the polling on that race is going to be a walkover of Omar over Samuals and the margin is wide enough it's not even worth voting in that race.
But in the Republican primary, they have a Trump populist with the GOP endorsement and a pretty flakey background (including not paying for child support), running against a long serving navy vet with a deep intelligence background, whose worked with NATO and seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders (for a Republican).
I am absolutely done with populists. Klobucher will nuke either one anyways, but the race on the Senate primary is close enough that I want to send a message to Republicans that backing an unethical populist over someone who seems mentally stable and is committed to fighting Putin and Xi is a "Bad dog! Bad dog!" move. I'm a strong Democrat but I also speak Republican, having spent my 20's among several of them. I'm pretty strong when it comes to national security as well. There are bad actors out there, and ignoring them to play culture war games is going to cost us severely.
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