Texas Republicans Accidentally Deliver 2020 Playbook To Democratic Inboxes | Talking Points Memo

Texas Republicans’ 2020 election game plan somehow made its way into Democratic inboxes Monday evening, listing 12 statehouse districts to attack and focusing on how to mitigate “the polarizing nature” of President Donald Trump.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1265146
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Why does there seem to be a “Problem” with Trump?

I thought he had a plan rolling to win in 2020…

Everybody knows that.

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To quote their former Governor, “Oops.”

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I guess they really are sick of all of that winning after all. Who knew?

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My coach used to to say, “We should be able to give them our playbook, and execute so well, we beat them anyway!”

As far as I know, he never gave the opposition our playbook. And we lost a lot anyway.

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Oh, this is fun. Do Republican staffers never look at the address field before they hit send?

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Rerouting people to propaganda sites. That’s what a major political party considers fair play. I suspect a few of those Texas GOP’ers that don’t want to show up are more fed up with the Texas GOP than they are the “polarizing nature of the President”. These guys even lie to themselves.

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“Part of the plan includes buying ostensibly supportive domain names to reroute them to the negative sites.”

Hmmm, that’s an awful funny way to spell “Running on the merit of our policy ideas.”

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If the GOP is so great then why won’t they play a fair game on a level playing field?

My memory isn’t the best but I don’t recall the Democratic party ever resorting to this kind of long-term, nation-wide chicanery.

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Was this an accident it was sent to Dems or an ‘accident’? This seems like a plant…

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KKK Keystone Kops

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They never get beyond the sophomore college republican stage. And it’s all fun and games, until they nominate Donald Trump.

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Ah, nice work - you idiots!

BTW. Not that we couldn’t have already figured out your targets.

:rofl::rofl:

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Given the polarizing nature of the President, I suspect some Republicans will refuse to turnout during the General Election because they don’t want to vote for him.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

You know, one time we had a hill bombed … for twelve hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill … smelled like … victory.

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I miss Molly Ivins.

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If only Roger Stone were still around to appreciate them …

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Perhaps they should ask Tucker Carlson for help. Psst — He knows a guy who knows a guy.

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“Given the polarizing nature of the President, I suspect some Republicans will refuse to turnout during the General Election because they don’t want to vote for him

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

When the guy’s so incredibly awful that your own people won’t vote for him, “polarizing nature” is more tactful than accurate, Document Writer Person. Broccoli is polarizing. What you have there is incredibly awful. But go on, Ronna McRomney McDaniel, tell us more about those awesome internal poll results you have, when your state people in fucking Texas are begging your voters, “Look, look, we have other people you can vote for! Good people! Really!” Oh, my darlings, it’s just too, too delicious. :heart_eyes_cat::kiss::nail_care:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Well, there was FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society, and even Obamacare.

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It’s a primary qualification for being a modern, up-to-date Republican.

(Some of them fake it.)

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