The month of July was a quiet one in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm election.
In Georgia, Brian Kemp destroyed Casey Cagle in the Republican primary runoff for governor by a margin on 39 points. Kemp, who was endorsed by President Trump, will face off against the Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, who is the first African American woman to win a major party nomination for governor in the United States.
Meanwhile, Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., survived her primary challenge from former Democratic congressman-turned-pro-Donald Trump conservative Bobby Bright.
Roby became a vulnerable candidate after the October 2016 release of the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump in 2005 bragged about touching women without their consent. Right before the 2016 election, Roby insisted then-candidate Trump should “step aside.”
Despite her rebuke, Trump still endorsed Roby for Congress because she was running against, as Trump put it, “a recent Nancy Pelosi voting Democrat.”
In other developments, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, announced that he was running for the Speaker of the House, challenging House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for Paul Ryan’s soon vacant seat.
It gets complicated when you factor in that, as of the end of July, a Quinnipiac-Kaiser Family Foundation poll found Democrats hold a 12-point lead on the generic ballot to take back the House.
While there are many issues that voters are faced with like immigration, gun control, healthcare, or the economy, we never thought we’d see the day in which we question where a candidate stands on the topic of “Bigfoot erotica.”
My opponent Denver Riggleman, running mate of Corey Stewart, was caught on camera campaigning with a white supremacist. Now he has been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica. This is not what we need on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/0eBvxFd6sG
— Leslie Cockburn (@LeslieCockburn) July 29, 2018
In Virginia’s 5th Congressional District race to replace the retiring Tom Garrett, Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn accused her Republican opponent Denver Riggleman of being a “devotee” to Bigfoot erotica after Cockburn dredged up an old Instagram post of a drawing of the nude mythical creature.
While that leaves everyone confused, the lesson to be learned here is this: Delete your accounts before running for office.
