This is from 5 days ago and is still true for Fetterman:
As far as the value of daily meet and greets, it is hard to see it hurting, but is there any political science evidence on it?
I think Fetterman is a strong candidate even if he needs to takes rests while campaigning. The political science evidence says that moderates tend to win, and, whether it is true or not, Fetterman is extremely good at giving the impression of being a highly normal guy.
I have seen more Fetterman commercials than oz commercials.
Down in the Peach State:
Not that I want to give them any helpful advice but if Walker loses in November, GA Republicans may want to change their nominating procedures to one like VA Republicans used to pick Glenn Youngkin for their candidate for governor.
Briefly, the VA GOP eschewed a popular primary, limited voting to delegates and used RCV to select a consensus candidate (and keep the nuttiest out).
I don’t know if that’s legal in Georgia, though.
Not that I usually hold much stock in polls (Rasmussen, anyone?) but hopefuly there’s some legitimacy here.
You can tell what Republicans think of Herschel Walker based on how they’re handling him. No press interviews outside of friendly media like Fox (and even then, he’s giving nonsensical answers to questions he should have been prepared for). Refusing to debate primary opponents (he’s apparently agreed in principle to debate Warnock in the fall without committing to a specific number of or schedule for debates). No public events that aren’t stage managed down to the second.
I’m sure the ideal situation for his campaign would be to put him in a box until November and put our press releases about how much Biden sucks and do you remember that Bulldogs national championship team? That’s hard to maintain for five months, though.
Not that they probably won’t try….
Psst! The RINO Establishment wants to change the rules to silence the voices of True Merkins! Pass it on!!
January 6 Commission testimony today that Senator Ron Johnson tried to handoff to Pence a list of fake Trump electors just before the VP was about to start the electoral count. Apparently it was shut down by aides.
Sadly, I’m not sure if this hurts him or helps him this fall.
As mentioned in NC the Dem was only a judge never in state house , state senate, etc. So they are going over her rulings with a fine tooth comb to find cases she ruled on they are using to bash her
Some interesting polling in Utah, where incumbent Republican Mike Lee leads independent candidate Evan McMullin only 41-35 in recent polling. Twenty percent were undecided in a race between the two. You may remember McMullin from this 2016 presidential bid where he ran as a “never Trump” independent conservative. He got less than 1% of the vote nationally but won 21% in Utah.
Lee’s probably fine, but Utah Democrats are not running their own candidate. In 2016, the combined vote for Clinton and McMullin was 49% vs 45% for Trump. Could at least keep it interesting.
Ugh ugh ugh. I suspect they’re not paying attention to the Jan. 6 hearings or SCOTUS’s lurch to the right:
I’ve heard the counter-argument that they’re doing it to vote in Republican primaries, for the “less trumpy” candidate. Not sure how valid that theory is.
“One swallow does not a summer make” and all that, but my very Democratic wife took a GOP ballot in today’s primaries (Illinois) to vote for the least Trumpy/MAGA/dominionist candidate for governor (Schimpf), as the incumbent Dem. governor (Pritzker) has virtually no primary challenger and indeed very few Dem primaries in our suburban county are contested.
Of maybe they’re paying attention to how the Biden told them on May 23rd that it was good they were suffering due to high gas prices because it’ll force them to go buy a $30,000 electric car with all the spare change they have in their pockets. Or paying attention to how the Democrats are reacting to the exploding crime rate that’s now spreading from the city to the suburbs where they live with “Defund the Police”. Or how they can’t put a finger on much of anything that this administrations done to benefit middle class suburbanites.
I shouldn’t bother but Cite?
I too would like a cite for that. I mean, I’m aware that Trump explicitly asked the Saudis to cut production in 2020 for the express purpose of raise oil prices and oil and gas company profits, and I’m aware that Republicans have voted against the various measures Biden has undertaken to reduce gas prices, and I’m aware that US oil drilling and exports are actually up in the past year, but I haven’t seen anything about Biden telling people that it was “good that they were suffering due to high gas prices”.
A cite for this would be useful as well.
Infrastructure, COVID relief and reduced unemployment all benefit middle class suburbanites - in fact they benefit everyone - and I could name those off the top of my head.
This may also be of interest:
"Out of touch as ever, President Biden celebrated record-high gas prices Monday, gushing that the pump pain was part of “an incredible transition” of the US economy away from fossil fuels. "
That article doesn’t come anywhere close to what you claim Biden said.