This is the GOP long con in a nutshell. Trump blazes away with raw and hideous racism. Meanwhile, he and his party look for ways to ship yachtloads of cash to the super wealthy. Don’t let them get away w it.
Meanwhile, GOP policies leading to the shuttering of rural hospitals across the United States. And if the Republican lawsuit to kill the ACA succeeds, the wave will become a deadly tsunami.
Why are the Republicans sending a California megamillionaire to Wisconsin?
It’s simple. They need someone who will put them, and their rich and powerful friends, FIRST while putting middle-class Wisconsinites LAST.
Eric Hovde is their #1 guy.
Just how luxurious is Eric Hovde’s California life?
🌴 He owns a $7M mansion in Laguna Beach.
🏅 He’s been named one of Orange County’s most influential people. Three times.
🏦 He runs a West Coast bank that does *next to nothing* in Wisconsin.
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If you’re freaking out about polls, do two things.
First, take a breath. Polling this early doesn’t predict much. It just tells us we have work to do.
Second, channel your anxiety into actually helping raise $ and volunteer in the places that will decide the outcome.
Biden could’ve lost 8 million votes across CA, NY, and IL and still won each state & beaten Trump.
But if Biden had lost 42,921 votes in WI, AZ, and GA, Trump would have won in 2020.
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Wisconsin elections are administered hyper-locally—by 1850 municipal clerks, who are in turn chosen by mayors and city councils. County judges make quick decisions about disputes. Hundreds of these officials will be up for election this spring.
These are the kinds of low-profile contests that often fly completely under the radar. Most go uncontested. But after Trump lost, Steve Bannon and the ultra-MAGA crowd realized they might be able to swing elections by taking over the machinery of democracy.
The Poller Coaster: Sometimes, you’re up. Sometimes, you’re down.
And at the end of the day, those climbs and drops don’t always tell you all that much about where you’re going to wind up.
Tough polling. Strong elections. What gives, and what does it tell us about 2024?
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Before last week’s elections, Dems nationwide read with horror new polls: A New York Times/Siena battleground survey had President Biden lagging Trump in 5 of the 6 most critical swing states, while a CNN poll put Trump ahead 49%-45% nationally. nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/…
The one swing state that seems to be an exception is Wisconsin, where Biden led Trump in both the Times survey and a Wednesday release from the highly-regarded Marquette University Law School poll.
I first knew Ady, starting in 2013, as a dear friend, dreamer, and fellow organizer.
Later, he was shattered by his ALS diagnosis. And then he figured out how to turn it into fuel for social change—and found transcendent, electrifying purpose.
Throughout, he was hilarious.
When we first met, he was dreaming up a campaign to try to affect monetary policy. As far as he or anyone else knew, nobody had tried to use direct action to affect Federal Reserve policy. At @CPDAction, he launched the Fed Up campaign—with huge results. politico.com/magazine/polit…
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Mike Johnson—the “key architect” of the House GOP’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, foe of Social Security and Medicare, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT extremist—is now second in line to the presidency.
Every Wisconsin Republican member of Congress backed him. Five voted for him; the sixth, Derrick Van Orden, wrote “Mike Johnson is an outstanding man and will make a fantastic Speaker.”