Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. Keep trying to get Reps to understand, there have been 2 or 3 inflection points where they had an opp to re-seize control from Trump via coordination. They failed to act on it. They have another op right now to act together to marginalize him. Unwittingly this little GA cohort

https://twitter.com/AJCGaPolitics/status/1333728567633600515

2. provides a little "seed" for it, and the motivation, of course, is the very same senate run-off that GOPers worry that angering Trump hurts their odds in that race. But the fact is, they have lost Trump to full crazy. He's not capable of being an electoral asset down there

3. and for the 1st time, may actually spoil a race for the party bc there is a contingent of the nuts now that think that the GA race (recounted 3 Xs & matched to paper ballots!) was fraudulent also to help Kelly Loeffler steal the race from Doug Collins, the House Rep down there

4. that caused this seat to be vulnerable in the 1st place by challenging her in the state's fairly unique "jungle" general for an appointed seat. Now some contingent of the GA GOP electorate, the most Q'Anon part, is advocating people protest ballot the election to teach the

5. party a lesson for trying to "pull one over on the people" and Trump is helping the Republican Party- paying it back for its years of "belly up" humiliation & willingness to destroy the Constitution they had claimed to love, he's paying them back for all of that by adding

6. fuel to this conspiracy fire. SO, there's a "not zero" chance that the Warnock race, the one we were most worried about anyway, might get an extra break in the form of some 3rd party protest balloting. If even 2pts of vote that would've gone to Loeffler instead goes to writing

7. in Trump, that could decide the race in Ds favor. So far, this has been Trump's main contribution to the GOP post-election. Let's say that does happen, that Ds do pull off these run-offs (understand, Ds are underdogs for both no matter what sunny picture others paint on these

8. the run-off history of these races for Ds is terrible. That said, can it be done? It can. The team sent in by DSCC seems to indicate some acknowledgment of what went wrong in the general & yields to the reality that by far the best asset these candidates have is @staceyabrams

9. and the other groups working in conjunction w @fairfight on enhancing turnout. If both campaigns focus first on turnout of Dem coalition voters as they structure their campaigns, they have a chance. Winner will be determined by whether Ds can match Rs on turnout and blow up

10. turnout among Indies (get the Indie turnout swing). The Ossoff campaign has been using a lot of nationalized, stakes framing in their ads. They seem to understand this. I am less confident in the messaging from the Warnock campaign. But Abrams' efforts around registration &

11. vote by mail puts both seats within reach and the stakes couldn't be higher. Win them and they'll be a Biden agenda. He will be able to enact some policies. Lose them and likely McConnell will run the senate with one goal in mind, destroy Joe Biden. This means that Americans

12. lives literally depend on these two seats. Prospective Dem voters will be hit with the message that their one vote can elect two senators that might change the lives of millions of Americans. It might save them from losing their healthcare. Or from being deported to a country

13. they left at age 2. Or from being left to lose their homes and businesses and to suffer from COVID economic malaise bc the GOP decides to give them NOTHING, like they've done for the past 4 months. That's one hell of a vote, if you ask me!

14. If the Ds DO win these seats, that will create a 3rd inflection point for the GOP to turn against Trump & try to excise him. It is, absolutely still true that they can not lash out at him alone. But collectively, when he is weak and seen as causing the party harm? Its hard

15. to believe that they were willing to follow this nut into a coup- but they were. If they don't decouple themselves from him in Jan, they'll be stuck w him until he ages out. For all his strategic brilliance, its baffling to me how McConnell keeps getting beat by this clown.

To be clear- the organizers of the "boycott" movement are telling people to cross out Loeffler and write in Trump

This invalidates the ballot but gets the point across.