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RandySF

(58,899 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:25 PM Mar 2020

MI-13: Detroit City Council President will challenge Rashida Tlaib in the Democratic primary.

WASHINGTON — Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones appears to be running for Congress again this year, though she hasn't made any formal announcement.

On Saturday, a political tracking website called Poltics1.com posted on Twitter that Jones, who lost a close race to U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, in 2018, had filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission indicating she is a candidate in 2020.

The paperwork was dated Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Ian Conyers, D-Detroit, who also ran against Jones and Tlaib for the Democratic nomination to Michigan's 13th Congressional District, noted Jones' apparent entry into the race on his own feed on Twitter, saying it was "great news" for the district.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/21/brenda-jones-files-paperwork-to-face-rashida-tlaib-again/2893539001/

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MI-13: Detroit City Council President will challenge Rashida Tlaib in the Democratic primary. (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP

Hmmm, I Wonder Who Will Have The Last Laugh Me. Mar 2020 #1

She has a good shot of winning MichMan Mar 2020 #2

Me.

(35,454 posts)

1. Hmmm, I Wonder Who Will Have The Last Laugh

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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:29 PM

Mar 2020

MichMan

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2. She has a good shot of winning

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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:12 PM

Mar 2020

Jones actually beat Tlaib in the special election to finish out Conyers term, but lost to her in the election for the next term. Both of the elections were the same day. Incumbency is very difficult to overcome in Detroit, but Jones has just as much or more name recognition.

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