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20 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Thread: because Trump lost by a lot in WI, the scale of the attempted disenfranchisement is huge (something like 69K votes in Dane County alone), completely at odds with how votes have been counted elsewhere in WI and in the past, and supported by the WI Republican Party.
At Milwaukee, some Trump campaign "observers" are objecting to every absentee ballot. Their standard is that literally no absentee votes in a majority Black city are legitimate.
To be clear, this is not just the Trump campaign. The Wisconsin Republican Party is supporting this effort at mass voter suppression. They gave observers a script (below). Even conservative outlets in the state are saying this is off-the-rails.
There will be a lawsuit that emerges over this, where Trump tweets out something about how crooked officials ignored their objections.
When you see that, bear in mind his campaign is trying to toss ballots on the basis that *they were folded*
Was going to make a joke about how the Trump campaign and WI Republican Party are turning on their COVID Lifestyle base here, but honestly this stuff is so infuriating. Imagine trying to toss the votes of people who made the effort to vote from hospital.

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Rubio: Attacking public officials for their religious beliefs is beyond the pale.

Unless,
of course,
that person
is a Democrat.
Here, Marsha Blackburn is attacking a reverend for the religious content of his sermon.
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It's November, COVID is the worst it has ever been, and the WI state legislature has no specific plans, just calling pressers to describe ideas they like, which, y'know might become law somehow one of these days when we figure out how that whole deal works
This is really just an amazing statement. We are seeing the results of the legislature doing nothing except blocking the Governor, which is that WI has uncontrolled spread. Do something!
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One can make complaints of cross-group equity, and whether a targeted approach would be better. But as a factual matter, this is not how revenues and expenditures for this policy would work which the *checks notes* WI Assembly Majority Leader surely nows.
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