What Went Down In The Mississippi Senate Runoff Election

Clare, I’m not sure that a Democratic win would tell us all that much about 2020, other than that the GOP needs to stop nominating shitty candidates and that the Democrats ought to be running decent candidates everywhere just in case the GOP nominates shitty candidates.

Gillum was my sleeper pick in my first 2020 presidential draft back in October, but I almost think Abrams, given the potential salience on the left of the issue of voter suppression, has a higher ceiling in star power — right now at least.

OK, so maybe in the interest of going 30,000 feet up, what do we think an Espy win tonight would say about, say, 2020? Does it lend strength to candidates who lost in the south like Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum? (Who, I would say if we’re talking about candidates that lost well, ought to be discussed as much as Beto O’Rourke is).