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Republicans are actually “both-sidesing” an assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi. Sick. Dangerous. Monstrous. What about Steve Scalise? He’s a member of Congress and he got shot playing a congressional baseball game! And what about Rand Paul? He’s a member of Congress and he was assaulted and put in the hospital! Steve Scalise getting shot was horrible. Democrats never said it wasn’t. They didn’t gang up on him, ignore him, blame them, or even politicize the shooting. Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi did a press event together and denounced the shooting. Rand Paul got his ass kicked by his neighbor over his yard. The neighbor served time and he got a financial settlement. Getting his butt kicked by a neighbor was NOT a politically motivated attack.
By refusing to ask their supporters to stop with the violence and calm down, the country is left to assume that they want it to continue which means they are willingly putting Democrats running for office and the people voting for them in danger. A Democratic candidate running for a state seat in Pennsylvania, Richard Ringer, 69, was assaulted, bloodied and knocked unconscious on his own property. He had been receiving threats for weeks and had to call 9–1–1 twice in two weeks after his house was vandalized — once with a brick thrown through the window and once with graffiti.
Senator John Cornyn from Texas worked a GOP talking point (immigration) into the attack on Paul Pelosi in a tweet: If Paul Depape has overstayed his visa and was illegally present in US, will Biden administration seek to deport him as part of the consequences of the assault of Paul Pelosi?
Congressman Eric Swalwell from California responded to John Cornyn in his own tweet: Are you so indecent that you can’t simply say “I hope Mr. Pelosi recovers and I denounce violence of any motivation?” Seriously? Is that so God Damned hard for you? Or is it just own the Libs at all costs, even as the man is treated at an ICU?
Eric Swalwell’s chief of staff spends 10 hours a week filling out paperwork with law enforcement on death threats that Swalwell and his staff receive.
We’re less than a week away from the election and the Republicans are desperate. They have filed over 100 lawsuits targeting early voting, mail in voting, voter access, voter registration, and voting machines. They’re well coordinated this time, unlike in 2020 when cases popped up here and there by pods working on their own. Now it’s well funded and strategic. MAGA state officials are involved this time. Republicans have spent millions and hired 37 lawyers to cheat.
Republicans have created a campaign in 7 states that make it look like a red wave is coming by hiring a lot of firms to conduct their own polls which has corrupted and polluted the poll averages overall. More Republicans conducting and taking polls means that the results will obviously favor Republicans. The media helps them by relentlessly reporting that the red wave is coming, which bums Democrats out. That is by design. If Dems feel defeated already, they may blow off voting altogether.
If Republicans were so confident that they will win, which historically should be the case because midterms usually favor the opposite party of the president, they wouldn’t be using such dirty, desperate tricks. They’re spending millions to make it look like they’re performing better than they are and plan on fighting the results if they don’t win.
The mainstream media, pundits and social media are all playing up the winning Republican narrative. The truth is Dems are winning. It’s close, but they’re up in crucial races. There are more registered Dems than Republicans. The Republicans don’t put much time, money or effort into getting the vote out because their voters always turn out. They take them for granted. All they have to do is scare them about their whiteness and privilege being taken away by Democrats and they’ll be there. Democrats, on the other hand, have to work for their votes. They not only have to make a great case for why people should vote for them, but they have to work at getting voters to actually show up at the polls. Some need reminding and some need convincing.
There has never been an election where the Dems have embraced the early vote before a midterm like this one. Republicans have always been the ones to vote early, but ever since Trump tricked them into believing they can’t trust early voting, they haven’t been doing it. More Democrats are voting early because they don’t trust Republicans not to cheat. They don’t want to be taken by surprise on election day when they show up to vote and are told they can’t.
At this point in 2018, Republicans had 180,000 more votes than Democrats. Today Democrats lead by almost 3 million.
If we all vote, Republicans can’t win. So get the vote out — remind your friends, neighbors, family members and complete strangers that election day is November 8 so SHOW UP.
