Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. This is the prob w the media system covering impeachment as if its a damn murder trial. The senators are called jurors, but they're NOT. They have no enforced obligation to "judge" on evidence- they're free to "judge" on party loyalty. In both cases, they did that perfectly!

https://twitter.com/overlayered/status/1360988551853260801

2.And I hope to show this in the upcoming poll y'all crowdfunded- many Republicans DID NOT WATCH THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.

Why? Bc they are working hard to maintain their Conway" "alt fact" version of America so, just like the 1st one, they are not going to watch

3. the actual trial. If they did they'd be forced to confront the "inconvenient truth of Trump's Big Lie, their Fox News & talk radio heroes Big Lies, their fav GOP elected ranging from Ted Cruz to Marco Rubio's Big Lies. They are NOT going to do this. There are a few centrist Rs

4. that watched, my poll will try to suss them out but its a question of money, the budget is VERY SMALL, just so you know you really need 20K to pull off this type of survey so I am going to be VERY limited in number of questions, and I want to focus on extremism but most will

5. will report not watching bc it screws with their priors (based on previous work I did on this). A lot of Trump's enduring support, both among regular Republicans AND elites, is y them refusing to look at what he does. @StrikePac will be forcing R and right-leaning voters to

6. LOOK as part of our ad campaign. Using the Rs voter file just to force them to LOOK and see what they've been supporting. What I'm calling the sunshine effect. It has had impacts on a lot of Rs. @CapehartJ just said, Reps don't care about facts! and this IS partly try but it

7. also partly WRONG & if I ever get to talk to @billmaher again, I'll tell him how imp this is. We don't actually know how the other 20% of Rs will react to facts (not the Bannon Rs) the what I can "habitual Rs). BC they don't get any. The GOP spends lot of effort block facts

8. completely from them, and I know this bc lately I've landed on their radar and they are FEEAKING OUT that someone might find these folks and tell them the truth. And not at the candidate level, where the GOP could probably head it off. But elsewhere. Where they might not.