"In Miami-Dade...more than 7X as many Republicans as Democrats changed their party registrations in the aftermath of the violence. The ratio was almost as high in Palm Beach County." sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…
A *2nd* data point to show that the GOP is hemorrhaging voters.
In Orange County, CA, they "lost 8x more voters than it gained after the violence in D.C., with 600 GOP voters lost from Wednesday to Friday".
And now a 3rd instance of reporting from Pennsylvania:
"Staff reported a spike in phone inquiries after Wednesday’s riots, and 'virtually all the people calling were people saying ‘I no longer want to be a Republican, how I do change it.’”
"In Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, more than 1,000 Republicans left the party in the three days after the mob attack. Voting records show during the same three-day period last year, 65 Republicans left the party.
Here's a 5th story, with GOP voters leaving the party in Pennyslvania and Ohio.
The party switching "...offers an early sign of the volatility ahead for the GOP as the party braces for political fallout of the riots that Trump incited." tribtoday.com/news/latest-ne…
Yet another article on the GOP exodus, detailing some previously reported information...but including this tidbit from Arizona:
"Arizona's Secretary of State's office has seen thousands of Republicans change their party registration since last Wednesday." newsweek.com/swing-states-r…
Story #7:
Douglas County is in #NE02, which Joe Biden flipped in 2020.
“We've seen an uptick in voter registration change and as you could imagine the vast majority of those are going from Republican either to nonpartisan, Democrat, or Libertarian." wowt.com/2021/01/13/dou…
#8: Another story that Pennsylvania GOPers are leaving the party.
"Nearly 100 voters in Lebanon County have changed, more than normal for the same period in the past. Most are GOP voters who switched to the Democratic, Libertarian or independent parties." ydr.com/story/news/202…
Here's #9 where the headline says it all:
"Hundreds of Central Florida Republicans Leave the Party After Capitol Riot"
"2,025 Republicans in the three counties switched parties from Jan. 6 through Thursday. That compares to 306 Democrats who switched parties in the same period, even though Democrats outnumber Republicans in the counties." tampabay.com/news/florida-p…
12. Duval/Jacksonville, FL
"The impact has prompted more defections from the Republican Party in Duval County. The number of GOP defections in Jacksonville has more than doubled in the past week."
"In the days following the siege at the Capitol, 4,937 Republicans sent in a request...to switch or remove the party affiliation on their voter registration."
"According to a report from the Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office, in the week following the Capitol riot, 668 people changed their political affiliation. Nearly 530 of them were Republicans."
Story #18: I've been waiting for national coverage of Republican voters leaving the GOP after the Trump-inspired insurrection...and now it's starting to break through.
This piece is about the Arizona GOP’s general descent into madness, but it spends some time highlighting the THOUSANDS of Arizona Republicans who have left the party since Trump’s Insurrection.
Jeff Flake weighs in on the exodus of Arizona Republicans.
2,000 Oklahomans have opted to leave the Republican Party since the Capitol Insurrection, making up for 80% of all voter registration changes in that time.
7,600 Republicans have left the party in Utah since the Insurrection.
Said one voter:
“I will not be part of that. That is disgusting. I just don’t recognize the party. It’s not the Republican Party anymore. It’s a Trump party.” sltrib.com/news/politics/…
Story #25: OREGON
6,145 Republicans have left the party in Oregon since 1/6.
Ds currently sit at 51-49 with a guaranteed loss in WV.
So the strategy of keeping our majority runs through a flawless defense of every other D seat, and hopefully flipping two tough GOP seats.
Race: Montana (#MTSen)
Democrat: Jon Tester (@jontester)
Flip/Hold: Hold
Facts: If Tester can put together a coalition (Ds, Rs, Is, Indigenous, environmentalists), he can win against his scandal-plagued opponent. Our toughest race this year.
Facts: Another tough race, but Sherrod has been blessed with a weak opponent (a familiar theme this year), and with our help he'll have what it takes to win.
Time for a tutorial in right-wing media propaganda.
I came across this local print edition of the Epoch Times delivered to the mailbox of someone I know.
It has the look and feel of a standard local paper, w/ a front page featuring local stories.
But let’s look closer…
First let’s zoom in on the top of the front page.
The paper slyly promotes the Epoch Times video website featuring a documentary about “The Real Story of January 6” and a story about “Unusual Blood-clotting” (anti-vax conspiracy theories).
But that’s just the start…
Remember that Page 1 lures in the reader with the promise of local news coverage, with a small-print hint about the paper’s true intent.
But Page 2 is dives in with snippets and quotes and brief items that have a distinct conservative theme.
We’ve now had *2* major accusations against Biden that have been refuted:
1. Robert Hur’s accusation about Biden’s cognition, which was belied by his own words in the transcript.
2. The GOP’s accusation of Biden taking bribes, which fell apart when their witness was indicted.
Republicans have relied heavily on both of these false narratives, and both have crumbled away.
Impeachment is going nowhere and Biden’s SOTU killed their ‘Sleepy Joe’ approach.
That’s a big problem for the GOP.
Why? Two reasons.
1. Now the GOP needS to formulate new lines of attack. It wont be easy.
2. Those two false Biden narratives were supposed ‘cancel out’ the *accurate* liabilities for Trump: his obvious cognitive decline and his blatant corruption. That strategy is gone now.
I really encourage everyone to read this conversation with @SimonWDC (posted by @atrupar without a paywall; thank you Aaron!).
There are some great electoral and political insights that cut through many of the BS media narratives that we are being fed. publicnotice.co/p/simon-rosenb…
I love this part.
Many of us are still so traumatized by 2016 that we've created this mythology around Trump and his abilities.
But the data points to 2016 having been - dare I say - a fluke.
Don't get me wrong, a fluke could happen again.
But not if we put in the hard work.
I see this trauma every day in my conversations with like-minded friends and family.
I see the anxiety, I see the fear, I see the pessimism.
It's as though they are stuck in '16, and the subsequent seven years of elections never happened.