I still see a lot of people aghast that governments still have high approval ratings after rising deaths (Tories in Ontario, UK Tories, even Trump last year to an extent), but it seems like a fundamentally global phenomenon where voters aren't blaming governments for deaths.
Trump absolutely stretched the limit of this phenomenon to the point where he did suffer more than any other global leader, but it also was exactly the type of scenario that underscored literally all of his character flaws. You could not script a worse crisis for him to manage.
Compare that to Boris, or Doug Ford, or Cuomo -- people are willing to say "it's a crisis, it's not *their* fault there's a pandemic" and have a seemingly hard time connecting policy failures to deaths.
Tories are on an upswing as the vaccine is rolled out. Again, whatever policy failures the government might have done, voters seem forgiving. Might also be worth asking why instead of people on the left continuously being flabbergasted by this.
I still can't believe that McCarthy made his members take this vote. (I mean, I can, he's not very bright)
Staffer: "We're hemorrhaging voters who don't like conspiracy theories and QAnon"
McCarthy: "Okay, so here's what we'll do: we'll make each of our members vote on whether a conspiracy theorist should be on the budget and education committee."
Staffer: "Uh"
I have no idea if this will be effective. But perhaps "your rep voted to put a 9/11 truther on the education committee" has some salience for people.
This person isn’t serious (they worked for the Daily Caller) but lefties really need to look in the mirror and realize their “all they gave us were $1200 checks” rhetoric didn’t at all articulate how much stimulus was in the CARES Act... including enhanced UI benefits
I voted for Bernie in the primary and had to watch some of his very online boosters misrepresent a bill that helped millions as “just” giving $1200 and nothing else. It’s the same rhetoric all over again.
To be clear, any Dem running here is going to be running uphill -- Dems have fielded real candidates in 2016 (including Donovan's predecessor in CO SD 05), 2018, and 2020 *and* with the addition of an 8th district in CO, it's likely there'll be a red district on the western slope
Not to mention, the general issues with it being a Biden midterm and Biden didn't win the current configuration of CO-03 (Trump won it 52-46, and there's a lot of animosity in the rural areas vs the liberal ski towns and Donovan is from Vail). That being said... Boebert is crazy.
David Perdue is down by 45,000 votes (and that could go up!) and still hasn’t conceded yet even after every major news organization called the race for Jon Ossoff two days ago. Even Kelly Loeffler conceded.
He can't even say Ossoff's name, he thanks "the Democratic Party and his opponent". Sorry you got humiliated by a guy half your age, go back to your private island.
Based on absolutely nothing (truly), I bet there was some sort of ultimatum of this type of statement he had to give in order to avoid the 25th amendment, and see if you can spot all of the lies still in here -- he refused to call the national guard!
Ultimately, a version of this statement should've been given on November 7th. The damage is done. You can't "now it's time to have a smooth transition" out of spending two months trying to upend a free and fair election and then getting *5* people killed with a dumb coup attempt.
Listening to these House speeches, it's quite obvious how many are bullshitting -- but it's also striking how you can see how many true believers there are.
These people also have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s just bad faith bullshit.