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Katherine Harris is doggedly keeping her floundering U.S. Senate bid alive by injecting $10 million of her own money (inherited from her recently-departed father) into the campaign.
This, despite polls showing her trailing Democratic Senator Bill Nelson by 20 percentage points — basically the same deficit she’s been running against the incumbent this whole time. Not to mention her own party is doing everything it can to replace her with a more viable candidate.
What happens from here is fairly predictable: Harris will lose big to Nelson, and she’ll blame Florida Republicans for undercutting her and the media for sliming her. She’ll still hold onto her Sarasota U.S. House seat for as long as she wants it (see the comments, below) — they love her there, regardless of how incompetent she is — but her role as a major player in the GOP will be finished.
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How does she hold on to her house seat? It’s up for grabs every two years and she’s not running in both elections. I’m not sure that’s even possible.
Comment by Michael Conlen — 03/17/2006 @ 7:25 PM
Good point; I guess I was of two minds while writing this.
She can’t go for both House and Senate simultaneously. Actually, she could — it’s been done before — she just couldn’t actually hold both offices, and would have to resign immediately from one in order to take the other (assuming she won both). But aside from how it’d look to voters, it’s moot, because the party wouldn’t let that fly. That’s why there’s a Republican primary for the seat this year.
However… The filing deadline for Congressional races is May 12th, and there’s always the chance that she can ditch her Senate bid and re-enter the House race as incumbent, which she’d win easily despite these shenanigans. Granted, that’s not at all likely now, in light of the $10 million and her unveering course on this.
But I guess I had that contingency in mind, even though it doesn’t make sense with the premise of her losing the Senate race.
Comment by CT — 03/18/2006 @ 10:26 AM