Second to last stop of the day here for Tim Ryan in Medina, solid turnout at around 100
This flag is a bit of a hit at the Ryan rally
The Medina Dems are plugging an election night watch party with “free pizza, beer, and pop.”
Rally is on a delay because Ryan is running late
more merch variety
Ryan supporters try to get a chant going for the candidate’s walkup #OHsen
Ryan really gets the crowd going by saying “now we’re kicking JD’s ass” after the debates and Fox News town hall, going into his JD Vance teenage son metaphor now #OHsen
Ryan has really smoothed out this bit on the stump, which allows him to name drop MTG, Alex Jones, and DeSantis in a quasi call-and-response type deal. Very effective at getting the crowd into it
These guys on motorcycles keep circling the rally and just about all the attendees seem pretty on edge about it
Ryan invokes Bobby Kennedy at the rally after promising to shock the world and win Ohio
Ryan gets mobbed after his speech, which ended on a rallying cry to “put a dent” in the longstanding GOP stronghold of Medina. The only Dem elected official in this county is the auditor (who was MCing the event) #OHsen
Also in attendance: Steve Schmidt
Ryan says Schmidt is a longtime friend of his, would not get into specifics when I asked about his presence
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On the Yang "Forward Party" platform, gonna do a separate thread here on the descriptions of the 6 components/slogans. 1/ businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-ne…
Ranked choice voting & open primaries:
"Party primaries disenfranchise the majority of voters. In 80 percent of cases the general election is essentially a foreordained conclusion. Non-major-party candidates are regarded as a “waste” of a vote and can never compete..." 2/
More on RCV:
"Candidates spend millions trashing their lone opponent, making us all more cynical. Ranked choice voting better captures voters’ true preferences and
enables a more dynamic and truly representative democracy while addressing all of these problems." 3/
Scooplet — @AndrewYang's third party has a name "The Forward Party." Comes in the final chapter of his forthcoming book, a copy of which was obtained by Insider. businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-ne…
@AndrewYang "The two sides will be trapped in a war that both sides win—they will still be hovering in one of the most affluent areas in the country trading power—but the people will lose," Yang writes in the chapter about the new party. businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-ne…
Eric Adams is back on Morning Joe, sitting next to Rev. Sharpton on the panel
Adams also says people are walking into Duane Reade pharmacies with garbage bags to take stuff off the shelves with no pushback from security or the NYPD
Really like the way @RossBarkan's piece expounds on this stat hiding in plain sight:
"If they were a single candidate, Wiley and Garcia would have taken 41 percent of the first-place vote, compared to Adams’s roughly 31 percent." rossbarkan.substack.com/p/the-decline-…
This dynamic in primaries is really where New York could be a leading indicator in what the Democratic Party becomes over the 2020s
As an operating term, a party's "base" is who shows up to vote in primaries, not necessarily who constitutes the largest number of people registered/self-identifying with the party. The primaries are where everything starts in the US political system