Kim Klacik, a speaker at this Save America near Atlanta, jokes that she can't be called racist "because I'm a black woman," then compares Stacey Abrams to a "crazy ex-girlfriend" and describes Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner as "her sister who looks just like her, unfortunately."
This is followed by Klacik calling Ossoff a "domestic enemy" (due to a Chinese media company paying for one of his documentaries) - someone yells "soy boy" and she calls him that instead.
Small problem with flying in guest speakers: One called Warnock "Ralph" and one attacked "David Ossoff."
Now up, @RyanAFournier. "The media doesn't declare the president-elect. The electoral college does, and we haven't had that vote yet."
(We had that vote on December 14.)
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Pence tells the crowd he "needs you" to turn out the vote.
"We need you do the right thing January 6!" yells someone in the crowd, followed by applause.
There are some more shouts about the election certification. “We’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence," Pence says. "But tomorrow is Georgia’s day.”
("We'll have our day in Congress" is a phrase I have genuinely never heard before, replacing the more common "we'll have our day in court.")
Rep. Austin Scott kicks off Pence rally by noting that Obama and Clinton get less than 100,000 absentee votes in Georgia, while Biden got many more.
"Something's not right with that. Now, he may end up getting sworn in as president..."
There are shouts of "no!" from the crowd.
But Scott ads that Biden is "less scary to me" if Perdue holds his Senate seat.
Rep. Drew Ferguson says that the Democratic agenda is straight of out "Communist China," citing "defund the police" (not part of the actual agenda) etc.
"How many of you think that sending children to colleges for indoctrination right now is a good idea?" he asks.
Howard Dean once told @AriBerman that his fights with Rahm were good bc they forced the media to cover his (Dean's) 50-State Strategy. Interesting question here: Why the same sort of story (squad v centrists) didn't get much of squad's agenda covered.
If you watched TV in competitive races, you were informed that the squad (usually AOC) was all about socialism, boycotting Goya, and defunding police. That wasn't their legislative agenda!
You're seeing the splashback now with the various "conservative squads." None of them have a governing agenda, the premise is that the squad is socialist and socialism must be stopped, whatever it is. (Don't say "free money," that's a Trump policy now.)
The phenomenon Matt describes here — activists refusing to celebrate half-measures — is a fascinating contrast with how satisfied conservatives are by Trump. He didn’t deliver on killing the ACA so they just agreed to stop caring about that.
Part of this asymmetry is that conservatives are happy to control courts if it means they’ll get wins/block the left eventually, and progressives are more focused on passing big legislation. The irony being that conservatives accuse *the left* of needing courts to do their work.
And it’s not like left-wing politicians don’t try! In 2016, when he made his final surrogate stops for Clinton, Sanders emphasized that she could appoint a justice who’d overturn Citizens United. Protest voters didn’t care, even though that was absolutely their only shot at CFR.
Here's how 2020 would have gone 1) if Biden only got as many votes as Clinton '16, while Trump hit his 2020 turnout number and 2) if Trump only got as many votes as he did in that election, while Biden hit *his* 2020 turnout number. OH is really red now and VA is really blue.
The map on the left is basically the same as the "real election numbers rescued from the secret CIA server farm" map, the map on the right is basically the high-end Dem fantasy of how 2020 could have gone.
Biden got 2,679,165 votes in Ohio. Had Trump gotten exactly as many votes as he got in 2016, and not one more, he'd have still won the state by 161,841 votes.
I have fractures on both 1) a tooth and 2) the little charge-container that my headphones came with, and I honestly am more annoyed by 2 bc the company phased it out and I can't replace it.
(Who cares, but I've always had a weak left canine tooth - it's a baby tooth that the real tooth never descended to replace. Probably getting invasive surgery to end the year, which seems right for the time.)
(I realized over the weekend that the tooth had split in half yet is still in my mouth so I'm just trying to avoid taffy or caramel apples or whatever food would most comically yank the tooth out of my skull.)