2022 elections

[Vrede too]

Biden's speech was really good. MAGAs are saying Biden is being divisive and so forth. Do these people not remember the entire Trump presidency? It has to be on purpose. Projection is a large part of their philosophy. Everything they've done, they accuse others of doing.

I watched much of this WI speech. No notes, I don't think teleprompters, strong, comprehensive and coherent.

Dark Brandon Strikes Again: Joe Biden Hits Heckler With Scathing 1-Liner
The president gets in the last word during this encounter.

President Joe Biden showed his feisty side on Monday when a heckler interrupted his speech in Milwaukee.

It’s not clear what the heckler was yelling about, but Biden responded with a “God love ya.”

As security moved toward the heckler, Biden urged them to back off.

“Let him go,” Biden said. “Look, everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.” ...

More text and many more tweets at the link.

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She's got a good platform to send a good message during the campaign. If she (Peltola) has time to at least file a couple of bills. Even if they don't go anywhere, she'll be able to say she filed them.

I'll bet that state and national RepuQs are bribing either Palin or Begich to drop out....

Palin urges Begich to drop House bid; Begich declines

Alaska U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin called on fellow Republican Nick Begich to drop out of the race Monday, holding a news conference in the same place where on a holiday weekend more than a decade ago she announced plans to resign as Alaska's governor.

Not very smart optics. They've been real bitches towards each other. If Palin really wanted him to drop out an ally would be making the pitch quietly.

“He keeps calling me a quitter," she told reporters, adding later: "And now he wants me, the one who is clearly the only true conservative in this race who can win, he wants me to quit! Now that's the real joke. Sorry, Nick. I never retreat, I reload.”

Monday was the deadline for candidates to withdraw from the November general election. Begich, who was critical of Palin during the campaign, seeking to cast her as a quitter and questioning her motives in running, said Monday his campaign is “confident that we are on a positive trajectory to win in November.”

Sweet, even if one drops out now both their names will still appear on the ballot.

... Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, and Begich lost an Aug. 16 ranked choice special election to serve the remainder of the late Republican Rep. Don Young's term to Democrat Mary Peltola. The results were tabulated Wednesday and certified Friday. Peltola led in first choice votes heading into the tabulation rounds, followed by Palin and then Begich. Begich was the candidate eliminated first.

Of the Begich voters who ranked a second candidate, 36% chose Peltola and about 64% chose Palin.

Losing 36% is terrible for a fellow RepuQ.

A spokesperson for Peltola's campaign, Josh Wilson, said Peltola will be sworn in on Sept. 13.

Peltola, Palin and Begich also advanced from the August primary to the November general election, with the winner of that contest to serve a two-year term. They will be joined by Libertarian Chris Bye, after the fourth place finisher in the primary, Republican Tara Sweeney, withdrew....

With Palin and Begich mostly attacking each other maybe the Libertarian takes a significant number of disgusted GQP votes. Wow, could AK elect a Dem to a full term?

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Johnson the johnson, again :

Fake Wisconsin Elector Is On Sen. Ron Johnson's Campaign Payroll
The beleaguered Trump ally has more explaining to do.

Conservative Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who is trailing in the polls, is paying a campaign worker who was a bogus elector in a scheme to overthrow Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

RCP Average
8/10 - 8/25, Barnes (D) 50.0, Johnson (R) * 45.7, Barnes +4.3

Former fake elector Pam Travis is a “dedicated,” “grassroots staffer answering phones,” Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning insisted in a text message Wednesday to NBC News. “This is being blown way out of proportion.” Henning also called it a “baseless attack on a private citizen.”

The Department of Justice is currently investigating fake electors in Wisconsin and six other states and their plot to overthrow the choice of voters, according to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the House Jan. 6 commission.

Travis was one of 10 Wisconsin Republicans who signed completely bogus paperwork claiming to be an elector backing Trump when they were not.

Tom Nelson, a Wisconsin Democratic county executive who briefly ran in the state’s GOP Senate primary, said of the fake electors: “They should be in prison. Instead, they are on Ron Johnson’s payroll.”

Lock her up!

Johnson’s reelection campaign has paid Travis just over $10,200 for full-time work since April, and an additional $3,500 in reimbursements for mileage costs between May and July, according to Federal Election Commission financial filings reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which first uncovered the story.

Johnson currently appears to be the most vulnerable of Republican senators in the midterm elections. The 11-year Senate veteran and fierce Trump supporter is trailing Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes by a slim margin, according to recent polls, in yet another example that extreme Trump loyalty might not pay off in the general election.

Johnson recently has been scrambling to distance himself from Trump — and the fake electors scheme. He insisted to a reporter last month that he was involved in the plot to present a false slate of electors for only “seconds,” and that he really had no idea what was going on.

“I had virtually no involvement,” the testy senator said at the time. “Literally, my involvement lasted seconds, OK?”

“I had nothing to do with the alternate slate,” he added. “I had no idea that anybody was going to ask me to deliver those. My involvement in that attempt to deliver spanned the course of a couple of seconds ... I knew nothing about it.”

Johnson ended up not delivering the fake Wisconsin slate because the chief of staff for then Vice President Mike Pence said it would not be accepted....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Muy_lLlMY

In another now unpopular position, Johnson defended the Capitol rioters as “peaceful” shortly after the insurrection — even after millions of Americans watched the violence on live TV.

“I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned,” he said on “The Joe Pags Show.”

Almost 850 people have been charged with crimes in the storming of the Capitol. Johnson said he would have been “concerned” had the rioters been Black Lives Matter protesters.

Now Johnson is clearly edging away from Trump — at least in public.

“I don’t personally think Trump should have any impact whatsoever on this [Wisconsin] election in November 2022,” the senator said last month.

America needs a Mandela in DC.


Mandela Barnes (D)

I missed this at the time, GoCubsGo:

GOP Senator's 'Mass Murder' Ad Quickly Removed After Highland Park Shooting
A badly timed ad from the campaign of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was taken off the air "ASAP" this week.
Jul 7, 2022, 11:33 PM EDT | Updated Jul 14, 2022

“The latest mass murder in America didn’t involve guns ...”

Opps.

[GoCubsGo]

I missed this at the time, GoCubsGo:

GOP Senator's 'Mass Murder' Ad Quickly Removed After Highland Park Shooting
A badly timed ad from the campaign of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was taken off the air "ASAP" this week.
Jul 7, 2022, 11:33 PM EDT | Updated Jul 14, 2022

“The latest mass murder in America didn’t involve guns ...”

Opps.

I didn't see that at the time either.

What a scumbag.

That staffer was probably on his payroll for only a minute or so... and he barely knew her.

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I didn't see that at the time either.

What a scumbag.

That staffer was probably on his payroll for only a minute or so... and he barely knew her.

Another RepuQ flip-flop:

Right After Primary Win, Bolduc Reverses Support for Election Lies

Like a driver making a screeching U-turn, Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, pivoted Thursday from his primary race to the general election, saying he had “come to the conclusion” that the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen,” after he had spent more than a year claiming it was....

TRE45ON even turns retired Army generals into sniveling cowards like he has been his entire life.

[GoCubsGo]

TRE45ON even turns retired Army generals into sniveling cowards like he has been his entire life.

Probably not enough to make anyone vote dem but maybe enough to stay home?

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TRE45ON even turns retired Army generals into sniveling cowards like he has been his entire life.

Probably not enough to make anyone vote dem but maybe enough to stay home?

Tough choice for Nov, be a 2020 Trumpette wingnut or be a flip-flopping wimp. So far, so good:

Emerson poll: 9/14 - 9/15 51-40 Hassan (D) +11

Gen Bolduc, Nov 9: Waaa, the election was stolen from me, waaa!

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Kari Lake drops an embarrassing bombshell that blows up in her face



It's extra scary that Lake's "team is triple-confirming its [sic] true." Not only is she ignorant about lawmaking and stupid, but everyone around her is, too.

This is what TRE45ON has wrought - not just really dumb candidates, but also millions that swallow the really dumb things they post.

When the Trumpettes lose across the board we'll have to suffer through endless shrieking that the elections were "stolen".

I doubt she cares if it's untrue, or even if she made a spectacularly embarrassing mistake. She's appealing to a base that doesn't care about "facts"--they'll just remember the slur, not the correction.

Sigh, yep.

It must be so....freeing...to not have to worry about whether something is true or not when you make a public statement. So much less stress and worry! And, even better, no consequences. Kind of like taking a little too much Xanax.

[GoCubsGo]

Only in trump's America.

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Only in trump's America.

As you say:

Ohio GOP House candidate misrepresents military service

Let's see . . .
Hard-right Trumpette RepuQ
No political experience, yet running for the US House
Lied about by the House Republican campaign committee
Qidiot, too cowardly to admit being a Qidiot
Jan. 6 traitor, but was too cowardly to enter the Capitol
Failed military stint
Claims Qatar as a "combat zone", Qatar, lol
Sleazy Afghanistan “combat" stolen valor, too cowardly to admit it once caught
Doing his part to dissipate the supposed "red wave"

Oh yeah, HARD-RIGHT TRUMPETTE REPUQ. They must be sooo proud.

[GoCubsGo]

Only in trump's America.

As you say:

Ohio GOP House candidate misrepresents military service

Let's see . . .
Hard-right Trumpette RepuQ
No political experience, yet running for the US House
Lied about by the House Republican campaign committee
Qidiot, too cowardly to admit being a Qidiot
Jan. 6 traitor, but was too cowardly to enter the Capitol
Failed military stint
Claims Qatar as a "combat zone", Qatar, lol
Sleazy Afghanistan “combat" stolen valor, too cowardly to admit it once caught
Doing his part to dissipate the supposed "red wave"

Oh yeah, HARD-RIGHT TRUMPETTE REPUQ. They must be sooo proud.

Ah, this explains it.

[neoplacebo]

More bullshit. Your name and branch of service and dates of service are not classified. These people now just take lying as a right. And they assume the nuts that vote for them don't care about lying as long as you lie good.

[O Really]

"Trump endorsed congressional candidate JR Majewski today says that the reason why there is no record of him serving in combat in Afghanistan in his service record is because it is “classified.”

Bullshit of course. But if that were true would that not also mean that Majewski had publicly disclosed classified information? These people are all dumber and more useless than a bent nail.

And in addition to lying, they don't even try to tie their lies into reality. Tiffany Smiley, who is trying in vain to win a Senate seat in Washington, has ads in which she blames Dem incumbent Patty Murray on (1) crime in downtown Seattle and a Starbucks closing; and (2) schools closing during covid, neither of which Murray or any US Senator had anything whatsoever to do with. It's a good thing Smiley is in Washington, though. She's a pretty good candidate overall and would probably get added to the clown car if she were in a reddish state. https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiffany-s ... te-for-her

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Ah, this explains it.

Riiight, Ohio Republican J.R. Majewski, “passenger operations specialist” and international spy.

[neoplacebo]

Passenger Operations Specialist = POS

[billy.pilgrim]

More bullshit. Your name and branch of service and dates of service are not classified. These people now just take lying as a right. And they assume the nuts that vote for them don't care about lying as long as you lie good.

trump classified it with his imagination

[Vrede too]

More bullshit. Your name and branch of service and dates of service are not classified. These people now just take lying as a right. And they assume the nuts that vote for them don't care about lying as long as you lie good.

trump classified it with his imagination

Democratic ex-cop Demings closes in on Republican Rubio in Florida

RCP Average 8/24 - 9/18: Rubio (R) * 46.8, Demings (D)44.0. Rubio +2.8

At worst it will force the GQP to spend money made scarce by Dolt .45's greed. At best . . .

... Rubio will need a strong turnout in Florida's heavily conservative northwestern panhandle, the strategist added....

If only we knew someone in the area that could put some Giardia in the water.

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Meanwhile in PA:

Mastriano's Sputtering Campaign: No TV Ads, Tiny Crowds, Little Money


A sparse audience listens to the early speakers at a rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Even when Mastriano took the lectern, only a few dozen people were on hand.

... He is being heavily outspent by his Democratic rival, has had no television ads on the air since May, has chosen not to interact with the state’s news media in ways that would push his agenda, and trails by double digits in reputable public polling and most private surveys.

There’s no sign of cavalry coming to his aid, either: The Republican Governors Association, which is helping the party’s nominees in Arizona, Michigan and six other states, has no current plans to assist Mastriano, according to people with knowledge of its deliberations....

Dr. Oz Accidentally Gives Fetterman An Awesome New Slogan As Insult Backfires
Critics of GOP Senate nominee Mehmet Oz say this attempted slam only makes his Democratic rival seem cooler.

Oz again shows that he is not from Pennsylvania.

I mean, if you advertised an event where Philadelphians were given the opportunity to "Come kick authority in the balls." there would be a line 6 miles long before the first kick was landed.

Damn, Dr. Oz is campaigning hard for Fetterman.

“He’s kicking authority in the balls” feels like a damn good tagline that Fetterman’s social media team is going to spin into gold.

Oz I'm already supporting @JohnFetterman you don't have to help!

At this point @JohnFetterman might at well take a break and let Oz run his campaign for a while. “Kicking authority in the balls” may well be the greatest campaign slogan ever.

RCP Average 8/20 - 9/24: Fetterman (D) 48.9, Oz (R) 44.4.
Fetterman +4.5

I fully endorse TRE45ON's apparently successful efforts to destroy the GQP. Buh-bye PA Gov and US Senate.

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RCP, NC: Ted Budd (R) +3.8 > Cheri Beasley (D)

So, even IF she loses she may contribute to a GQP loss elsewhere. ...

It's now Ted Budd (R) +2.8, with the only poll since 7/1 calling it a tie!

2022 North Carolina Senate Race Polls: Cheri Beasley to win North Carolina Senate Race?

Data-heavy article, so I'm not bothering to pick what to excerpt, but it's all interesting to me....

It's now Ted Budd (R) +2.0, within all of the MoEs.

Beasley is being swamped by lying, nasty ads from Budd and "independent" committees. Beasley is striking back, but not with the same volume. Maybe the ratio varies in different media markets.

NC Dems:


https://www.thisbuddsnotforyou.com/

[GoCubsGo]

This needs to be everywhere.