Tuesday Open Thread

6 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread”

1. Heather Cox-Richardson:

   Trump has made it clear he is not trying to win the popular vote. When his primary challenger Nikki Haley dropped out of the race in March, Trump’s team made no effort to win over her voters; it was President Joe Biden’s reelection team that reached out to them.

   A few days later, when Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and his loyalist Michael Whatley took over the Republican National Committee, they killed the plans of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to open 40 satellite campaign offices across ten battleground states. As The Dispatch noted, that meant very little ground game: doors knocked on, phone calls made, or volunteers organized. The new leadership of the RNC also fired 40 out of 60 employees whose job was field organizing.

   Trump was clear what he was doing: rather than worrying about attracting voters, he intended to play out the game of the Big Lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election. 

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   1. Trump is supposedly depending on people like Charlie Kirk, from Turning Point USA, and Nick Fuentes, to do his ground game. I don't think Kirk and his like are up to the challenge. Don't think Trump's strategies to date, like the 2020 election, Harris' race, Harris being a Marxist, et al, are going to play well with remaining swing voters in the battleground states. Trump's twisting and turning on the abortion issue won't help with suburban women.

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2. Calvarese and Boebert, CD4 candidates, are debating this morning in Littleton, Colorado, at the Ravenna Golf Club.

    Topics include "business and economic issues". The debate started at 11:30 and is open to the public, although tickets are sold out. Let's hope Kyle Clark covers it.

   Ernest Luning of Colorado Politics will moderate. Douglas County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the event.

   Denver Gazette has the story.

   Streaming video follows:
   

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3. John McCain's son, Pat Toomey….DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. 

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   1. So at this point is the Orange Turd grand strategy just to collect money, golf, call the VP names, lose the election and then contest it ? Looks like all he has.

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   2. WAPO reported:

      Republican Voters Against Trump launched an $11.5 million ad campaign in five key states, with ads and billboards featuring testimonials from former Trump voters who say they’ll be casting their ballots for Harris in November.

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