Discussion: Scarred By Sinema's Senate Win, Team Trump Makes Early Moves To Keep AZ Red

Let the rat-fuckery commence…

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Hey, Brad? Maybe you should be thinking about turning states’ evidence regarding Cambridge Analytica, instead of further embedding yourself in conspiracy and fraud?

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Sinema won b/c she turned out a lot of younger voters and latino voters and got over 40% of the white vote, including a net positive crossover vote among Republicans. Trump is most likely in the same boat as was McSally and perhaps more so.

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Your words in Dog’s ear…

(FWIW, I agree with your assessment…)

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In fact, on paper, McSally was a perfect candidate for a GOPer in AZ and she became the first AZ GOPer to lose a Senate race in 30 years.

I think Trump is in real trouble in AZ. HRC only lost it by 4 points.

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Per CBS, campaign manager Brad Parscale is very glass-half-full on some solidly blue states he thinks could turn in 2020: Minnesota, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Colorado and Nevada.

I didn’t know the Trump campaign was into fiction writing. Next, they can come out with polling showing Trump had a 99% approval rating.

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My take is that AZ votes with some inertia, sticking with one party, but is not deep red ideologically. Therefore, although it hasn’t elected a Dem for over 30 years (longer than TX) , its GOP senators were also not that extreme. Now that Sinema has broken part of the inertia maybe we can expect to see more Dem senators.

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IMO, AZ is more purple than anything else. It’s not so much an issue of “keeping” in red but getting whatever they had back. Rump had little in the way of “coattails” in AZ so I don’t see the GOP as having much success there.

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Team Trump is reportedly most worried about “McCain moms,” a nod to the late senator. This group is composed of suburban women who usually vote Republican and did so in 2016, but who chafe against President Donald Trump’s behavior and may have crossed the aisle for Sinema in 2018.

Uh, “may have crossed the aisle”? This is so delusional it’s almost comical. In 2018, the Rethugs lost the suburban vote by a large amount. By this time next year, that amount will just increase exponentially.

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I think/hope Kelly has a shot at the 2nd Senate Seat

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Sinema is no prize, she, along with manchin and jones voted for barr

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Listen up House Democrats.
Shortly after Trump was in office, 17 prisoners were all of a sudden turned loose…why?
Investigate that.
Paying ransom and then lying about it to make yourself look better? He’d be hurt by that.
Conservative columnist Matthew Walther said:

This would be a lie concerning a subject about which most Americans have strong views — i.e., the lives of their fellow citizens in the hands of our enemies. I cannot imagine even Mitch McConnell defending Trump’s attempt to cover up something as sordid as a ransom paid secretly in order to secure an outcome that was later passed off as the work of a heroic and skilled diplomat.

The political ads Democrats could run would be brutal and devastating.
This could be the dagger into the heart of Trump’s re-election campaign. There has to be a money trail.

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I don’t know who he thinks he’s going to get to flip to Trump in New Mexico. Hispanics? Native Americans?


The “Other” includes Native Americans.

Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanic ancestry, at 47 percent (as of July 1, 2012), including descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Hispanic America.

Considering Trump’s Hispanic outreach program, I don’t think that’s likely to be a strong sell in New Mexico.

Parscale needs to have another look at his demographics. New Mexico is neither Texas nor Arizona.

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AZ is slipping away, thanks to Trump and the ugly under belly of the GOP he has exposed. Maybe Trump should stop attacking a dead man (McCain).

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He’ll never stop doing that, dead men can’t respond, which is the only weight class Trump can punch against.

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Regardless of republican “strategizing” their candidates still have to run for office with the dead weight of Trump at the top of their ticket. One thing, for sure, is that the more intense the investigations become, and the closer they get to him and his family, Trump is likely to go further off the deep end as his blind rage increases.

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“Minnesota, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Colorado and Nevada.”

None of those states are taken for granted.

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Despite all of the immigration rhetoric from Trump, he isn’t doing AZ any favors with his “solutions”. They are being swamped (like TX) and it’s getting worse. If Dems were smart, this would be a time to get into this fight and address whatever is happening in central America and get a handle on it. Great piece on “60 Minutes” yesterday about the crisis.

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They’re also going to lose WI, PA, and MI - unless the rigging is too much to overcome, which is sadly very possible. Hey Andrea Mitchell et al, why not a few questions to the GOP on supporting a bill to strengthen voting systems?

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SOP for Trump and team. Just keep repeating the same lies over and over and over again, and most of the media will just run with it, because it’s easier than reporting. I believe Goebbels called it “propaganda”.

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