#candidate-recruitment

#candidate-recruitment

The party would need to flip four seats to restore the majority it lost in 2022. (Democrats currently hold 47 seats, and with J.D. Vance's tie-breaking vote, the requisite number for control is 51.) And the 2026 map is forbidding: With only one Republican-held seat up for grabs in a blue state and two Democratic-held seats up in states Donald Trump won, the odds of the chamber switching hands have looked pretty long.

Soon after Zohran Mamdani secured the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, Amanda Litman posted a video selfie on TikTok. "The dinosaurs of the past, the boomers, the hostile managers, the assholes-they are behind us," she preached to the camera. If viewers felt inspired to "run to take on the status quo," they should head to her organization's website and register.

As politicians seem so slow out of the blocks in this race, maybe it's time to look elsewhere for our next president - even Michael O'Leary would be a welcome injection of energy