I'm hearing from mult. campaigns about some isolated, issues with precinct-level #NVCaucus operations. In some sites the precinct leads who're supposed to run things didn't show up leaving folks scrambling — and some campaign vols asked to step in
At a few other sites, hear the precinct leads were still waiting on early vote info shortly before caucuses began. They literally can't caucus without this — need those numbers to get to the second round of voting.
To be clear, doesn't sound widespread — w/ caucuses there's always last-minute scrambling. But something to keep an eye on. State party says things running smoothly, say avg. of 8 vols. per caucus site(2K statewide) and as of noon, 1K+ vols had already logged into caucus calc
Statement from @nvdems spox: "We have been recruiting and training volunteers all the way through this morning to ensure we have the capacity we need and we are confident in having the necessary volunteer numbers to cover caucus sites today. ..."
"...We have thousands of volunteers working hard across the state today and this is not occurring at the vast majority of sites and precincts.
It's common and not unusual for campaign volunteers to help with running precincts on Caucus Day - this happened in 2016 and in 2008."
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I spent the last few months trying to get my head around Tommy Tuberville for @RollingStone. Talked to him multiple times, chatted with former players and a bunch of senators.
Claremont recently opened its first state-based office in its history in FL, and DeSantis rolled out the red carpet.
He's involved them in his hostile takeover of New College, his push to end DEI programs and a K-12 civics program.
They're involved in his nascent campaign too.
“On a whole range of issues where wokeness is a threat he has risen to the occasion—rhetorically, but he’s also trying to do something about it legislatively," Claremont Institute senior fellow Charles Kesler, who DeSantis appointed at New College, told me.
Trump and his allies have spent two-plus years plotting to turn states with slower vote counts into scenes of chaotic protest, last-minute lawsuits and outright rejections of the democratic process.
“I'm very concerned about the possibility of violence in the post-election period incited by losing candidates."
The two swing states where conditions are most ripe for chaos:
Arizona (mail-heavy state, vigilante voter intimidation, a slate of election-denying candidates)
Pennsylvania (slow mail ballot counting caused by intentional GOP intransigence, focus from Trump folks)
“After I pulled an all nighter watching The Fall of the Cabal, I was wrecked. Between the compelling evidence indicating that the migrant caravan in 2018 was totally staged, to the bone chilling saga of Pizzagate..."
"..., to the idea that JFK Jr. could still be alive (which I believe is completely false), my world was rocked."
Shuppe repeatedly used the QAnon hashtag WWG1WGA and referenced "the storm," and seemed particularly alarmed by pedophilia conspiracies (Pizzagate/Wayfair).