As KY Shadow Looms, Trump Scrambles To Avoid Recurrence In LA

A sweaty President Donald Trump, flanked by the mustachioed stars of “Duck Dynasty,” took to the stage last night to lend his support to Republican Eddie Rispone, the candidate trying to unseat Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards in a runoff election.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260786
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Interesting that the only Republican who lost was the one who held a rally with the President.

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Unlike Kentucky, Louisiana would actually be a heavy lift for Trump. Edwards has a decent lead.

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The only coattails he has ever had are in Senate seats in red/purple states. The GOP has lost ground every place else with him as the leader of the GOP. If not for the Judiciary,GOPs would have little to show for crowning Trump.

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The Trump Kiss of Death. I hope.

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Yesterday I heard on the Lawfare podcast that “more than half of states” have paper ballots, i.e. auditable elections. More specifically,

Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey and South Carolina have no paper backup systems anywhere in the state. Nine other states have several jurisdictions without a physical alternative to electronic records — Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.

WTF, America?!

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Just wait till candidates tell him they don’t need him. Whatever will he have to do then?

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attend the barn burner LSU-Alabama game this Saturday

So Trump either pisses off Tiger fans or Tide fans, depending on who wins. Seems like a lose-lose proposition…so I say go for it Trump!

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The ultimate irony of being called dumb by John Kennedy:

With President Trump to his right, the red-faced and performative Kennedy said “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him,” which was received by the crowd’s lustful booing. He followed with “I don’t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.”

Seriously, is there anything that the dregs who attend these rallies will not cheer or boo?

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And, coming to a voting booth near you, Ivanka trademarked voting machines made in China.
Needs to be some serious looking to see if these will appear in the US.

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There is no mystery, Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
That’s all anyone needs to know.

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"A sweaty President Donald Trump, flanked by the mustachioed stars of “Duck Dynasty,”
Is this what our government has come to? A phony TV personality surrounded by other phony TV personalities, the Founding Fathers must think we have lost our collective minds.

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So was the rally held in a trailer park?

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Everyone Trump Endorses Defeated.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/trump-very-keen-on-doing-the-apprentice-white-house-and-keeps-pitching-it-to-nbc-creator-mark-burnett-report/

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Please, oh, please…boos at the ball game. I’m not going to hold my breath on that one, but it would be sweet.

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A good corollary to ETTD!

I encourage the Trump campaign to conduct more rallies for struggling Republicans! At this point, you have to wonder if Trump isn’t secretly working with Dem GOTV operations.

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He has another trip planned to Louisiana two days before the runoff election on the 16th, and will attend the barn burner LSU-Alabama game this Saturday — coincidentally, the last day of early voting.

The Alabama University student government sent out a letter to all ticket holders threatening them with loss of their seats if they protested or booed Trump during the game. After criticism they had to walk back their warning, reafirm 1st Amendment rights, and claim no one should have interpreted their original letter to have political components to it. Except it did. So, a big fat nevermind, but not before a rather lame attempt at a bit of facism and censorship.

The scope of Sherman’s orders were entirely too limited. 6 inches of salt laid over a few thousand square miles was needed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469283-alabama-student-government-association-threatens-to-revoke-reserved

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How does attending the LSU-'Bama game help the GOP candidate for LA guv? The game’s in Tuscaloosa, not Baton Rouge.

Good luck getting reimbursed for security, Tuscaloosa.

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So Trump either pisses off Tiger fans or Tide fans, depending on who wins. Seems like a lose-lose proposition…so I say go for it Trump!

Lardass just doesn’t get it - SEC footfall IMO dominates all other sports (including the NFL) in the South. One has to be very careful, but Donnie doesn’t know from careful.

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