Honestly downballot results were bad as a whole, progressives kept their seats sure, but none of the election day candidates Bernie endorsed won either (although some of this can still just be explained by gerrymandering and not having a real rural strategy for dems in Texas).
It’s not like an onslaught but he did back some significant winners who weren’t incumbents like Cori Bush in Missouri, Nikema Williams in Georgia, Marie Newman in Illinois, and Jamaal Bowman in NY.
Honestly downballot results were bad as a whole, progressives kept their seats sure, but none of the election day candidates Bernie endorsed won either (although some of this can still just be explained by gerrymandering and not having a real rural strategy for dems in Texas).
That’s not true. Link of Bernie 2020 endorsements.
It’s not like an onslaught but he did back some significant winners who weren’t incumbents like Cori Bush in Missouri, Nikema Williams in Georgia, Marie Newman in Illinois, and Jamaal Bowman in NY.
None of those people had competitive races today. I'm talking about the ones with competitive races.
I don’t know what your standard of competitive is, but Marie Newman won with 54% of the vote which seems competitive to me.
That's a blue district that had been held by democrats for decades is still how I view it though.
This is a bad take. That district is where all the Chicago cops live, it is definitely not progressive. Lipinski was anti-abortion and anti-lgbt.
DSA won 19/22 or something like that