I've said it privately, I've tweeted it some, but I'm going to lay it out bluntly. Please listen.
Too many insiders continue to categorize certain states as "tipping point" states as if we're in a normal political environment.
But we're not in a normal moment...
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...as Trump reminded us again tonight.
The new reality is that Trump will seize any close and dragged out election result to deny an election loss. To challenge it all the way to the Supreme Court.
And the result of such an effort by Trump, Barr & their lackeys...
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....should scare every last American who cares about this nation's future.
But still, too many continue to approach this election as if success is winning the "tipping point" states that lock in a close victory.
But of course achieving this goal simply means...
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...we are aiming no higher than a constitutional crisis.
We need to aim higher. We need to change the goal.
The new "tipping point" must be winning those states that make it clear, as early on as possible, that Donald Trump lost. That he got his ass kicked. That it's over.
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Let me offer Ohio as an example.
A new poll today showed that Biden is up .5 in Ohio.
Remarkable, given how much time and money Trump has spent here.
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But here is what's even more important:
As Karl Rove showed in 2012, a blue Ohio makes clear as can be that the election is over
Absentee ballots in Ohio are counted first, not last. They're announced first
The Sec of State in Ohio is a Republican. So is the Gov.
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Both have said that vote by mail here is secure, and not susceptible to fraud.
So Trump can't claim the "Dems rigged it."
And ballot applications are sent out to voters, not the ballots themselves, unless requested. So Trump can't complaint there either.
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Bottom line: the results in Ohio will be clear earlier than many states. Trump will have a hard time claiming that the results here are not legitimate. And a blue Ohio will be clear as day that Trump will not be reelected.
Now THAT sounds like a tipping point.
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There are other similar states. North Carolina. Florida. Etc.
Iowa, Georgia and Texas are tight as well.
Bottom line, we have to go bigger. And especially with Trump on the ropes with $ (he just pulled his TV buy from Ohio to combat Bloomberg's $100M in Florida)...
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those who have the resources to help states like these become blue, should consider doing so as quickly as possible
To say it differently, Trump's comments about ignoring the outcome of an election assumes it's a close election
It assumes a long, drawn-out counting process
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In addition to fighting to protect every vote, the best way to combat his plan is to end it before it starts.
Win the "tipping point" states, like Ohio, that will make it clear as early as possible that it's done.
His presidency. And any drama he has planned.
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So go out and help states like Ohio take margin-of-error situations and turn them into victories.
And with just a few victories in these new "tipping point" states, it's over.
Please give what you can, then volunteer all you can.
Just over five years ago, after several years of pain, a disc in my lower back ruptured (in Cleveland…it was a long drive home).
Surgery followed.
The weeks of recovery spanned April of 2019.
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And unable to do much, I got restless.
When I was able to walk around the first of the month, I hobbled into the art store where I’d always bought small gifts for my sons Jack and Charlie (then 4 and 1) and I asked: “if I wanted to paint a painting, what do I need to buy?”
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We walked around the store and bought some canvasses, paint, brushes and a few other things.
Then I went home, and began playing around with my new art supplies.
Back to 1864, the days of
bloodletting and blistering!
The AZ ruling is shocking.
But also horribly symbolic. The GOP wants to take women back to an age of near-zero freedom.
But that also gives us an opportunity to go on OFFENSE.
WATCH, RT &
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All across America, basic GOP policy is to send women back in time—to an era where they were, at best, second class citizens. With little freedom. Few rights.
That’s the terrible news and sobering reality.
But there’s a glimmer of hope amid all of this.
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And it’s that they can’t hide their extremism anymore. They can’t run from it, as hard as they (even Donald Trump) might try.
Which means we can fight back. And stop it. This year!
In 2024, in Arizona, we can enshrine reproductive freedom into the Constitution.
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round trip drive to St. Louis to access the closest specialist covered by her insurance.
At one point, she “had depleted her lifetime fertility insurance benefits available through her previous workplace,” so she had to change jobs to continue her care.
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The explosion of universal vouchers in states around the country is nothing short of a five-alarm fire, consuming both public education and democracy, and spreading rapidly.
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Every month, we see the cost of these new, unrestricted private vouchers exploding—skyrocketing toward $1 billion in Ohio, already above that in Arizona, and not far behind in other states.
“Within democratic nations the chief concern of the people is to prevent the continuance of the rise of autocratic institutions that beget slavery at home and aggression abroad. Within our borders, as in the…
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…world at large, popular opinion is at war with a power-seeking minority….
“They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street…they engage in vast propaganda to…
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spread fear and discord among the people—they would “gang up” against the people’s liberties…
“The principle that they would instill into government if they succeed in seizing power is well shown by the principles which many of them have instilled into their own affairs:”
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