MTG campaigning for JD Vance. Her first big applause: Asking the crowd if we’ve heard about “those truckers in Canada.”
MTG says she talked to Trump on the way into this event, and asks us if we heard what he said about Jan. 6 defendants.
“He told them he’s going to make sure they’re treated right, and he wants to pardon them," she says, to applause.
Vance and Greene doing a joint Q&A. Will Vance vote against McConnell for leader? He won’t “commit” to it and will listen to the people.
One voter asks why Greene picked Vance over the crowded OHSen field.
"If someone was a Never Trumper, but they truly got behind Trump and stuck to it?" Greene says. "That means a lot to me."
Q: Impeaching Biden?
"I'm all for articles of impeachment," Vance says. "What do you impeach him for? There's so much." No. 1: Allowing "invasion" on border. "A lot of negative things I could say about Bill Clinton, but he didn't allow an invasion on this scale."
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Both of those would be huge events that occupy lots of news cycles - fate of Roe with bigger long-term effects, obviously.
It's stuff like this that makes me think 2024 speculation *in 2021* is crazy and (mostly) a waste of time.
(It's not a waste of time to track what party operatives are saying and who's working for who, but miss me with the "could Kamala be replaced by Buttigieg" stuff)
The primary in #FL20 so far: Early mail votes from Broward County (about 3/4 of population) are 29% Holness, 21% Cherfilus-McCormick, Thurston and Sharief at 19%.
Omari Hardy, a young rising star who hoped to be the AOC of Florida, is a non-factor: 3% of the Broward vote. sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…
And sure enough, Cherfilus-McCormick leads the PBC early vote: 29% with Holness getting just 7%.
Had Hastings retired in 2020, he could have anointed a successor. But he stuck around, died, and left an opening for Cherfilus-McCormick, who ran against him twice.
This will be a Take if McAuliffe loses, though the race is so clearly about the Loudoun County school board and SOL test scores, not anything happening in DC. McAuliffe begged in vain for something to get passed but most voters are bored and not watching.
If you're on Politics Twitter you're more politically engaged than most people and you got sick of the BBB/ BIF drama weeks ago. Imagine how normal people view it! It's impenetrable, they just want to pay less for gas.
I think this take comes from the memory of 2009-2010: Dems lose Scott Brown's seat and panic. But that was a race largely fought over whether voters wanted to break the Dem supermajority with an R vote. And Dems ended up passing their bill anyway.
McAuliffe talking to supporters before he votes. “Donald Trump wants to use this election to get up off the mat and run in 2024.” Campaign has planted YOUNGKIN = TRUMP signs around the site.
Youngkin at a “Parents for Youngkin” rally at a Culpeper restaurants. “When Virginia parents make a statement in this election, it will be heard in every school board across the country.”
Youngkin says that McAuliffe called Biden to get the DOJ to announce that it was investigating harassment of school board members. The DOJ move has angered conservatives but the link to McAuliffe is bogus vpm.org/news/articles/…
The idea that the DOJ is going after "moms protesting Critical Race Theory," as JD Vance puts it, is based on a DOJ memo that doesn't mention CRT. Feels like there's been a politically convenient conflation between CRT protests and anti-max/vax protests. justice.gov/ag/page/file/1…
Obviously everybody should be skeptical when the DOJ says "we're going to investigate this," but like, check back in a month and see who's gotten a visit from the feds.
Keep in mind, conservatives are reacting to what they see as an overly permissive law enforcement response to left-wing protests, most recently the bird-dogging of Sinema etc. The feds aren't rounding up those protesters - but they're not rounding up anti-CRT parents, either.