Tony Cani retweeted
I'm gonna be honest, it seems like the only Democrats who are fighting post election are like 4-5 consultants on Twitter and the rest of us are just having a great time and probably going on vacation soon.
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Tony Cani retweeted
Look there’s a world under the new NRSC Supreme Court decision where you could hire (or keep) organizers now and just organize Texas from now until the 28 general and just coordinate with the nominee when we get one to make Texas competitive.
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This is the Chair of the TN Dem Party.
Investment by the DNC in even the deepest red states has to continue.
Investment by the DNC in even the deepest red states has to continue.
Thank you Chair @kenmartin73 for your historic investment in red states. Because of that, we flipped 33 Local seats, 6 state leg seats, and one Cong , every single county shifted blue. When shit got hard, you put your head down and stayed working. Thank you!
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I 👏TOLD 👏YOU👏
Dude sent his goons after me for predicting this EXACT thing in the post I’m retweeting here. Go look at what I wrote
Remember: election denialism is a business. And the grifters can't pass up any opportunity to make some money off the gullible
I 👏TOLD 👏YOU👏
Dude sent his goons after me for predicting this EXACT thing in the post I’m retweeting here. Go look at what I wrote
Remember: election denialism is a business. And the grifters can't pass up any opportunity to make some money off the gullible
I've been pointing to this guy as a prime example of a grifter who knows he will personally and financially benefit from lies and conspiracy theories about this year's election results if Dems win.
Go look at his feed. He has been making pretty indefensible projections and r a few weeks. I argue he has no problem doing this because, if proven wrong, he will just start pretending his previous estimates prove elections were stolen.
One thing not to ignore as this all starts spinning up once again: election denial is a business. It has its own economy both for grifters and for candidates.
You have the influencers and "experts" who will make money as they travel around the country both from their social clicks, views, and subscriptions and, for some of them, for being hired to investigate or whatever.
You also have the candidates. Wendy Rogers and Mark Finchem were basically pariahs in their own party until they started making promises in 2021 about recounts, audits, and not certifying the 2020 election. As a result, their small-dollar donations skyrocketed.
And, on top of this and in part because of this economy, there is no such thing as starving these people for attention as they start pushing their lies. "Dont give them any oxygen, just ignore them." Not only will they have the White House on their side, but they also have their own information ecosystem.
That is why I think confrontation and correction, even if you know it won't penetrate far within their own audiences, still matter.
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They can blame TPUSA all they want but the increase in extremism in the GOP can’t be attributed to them alone. I talked about this in 22 when asked what I thought Doug Ducey’s actual legacy would be as he left office.
My answer then? all of this stuff now.
My answer then? all of this stuff now.
New: It would be easy to blame Republican losses on Trump’s unpopular war in Iran and expensive gas. But when Katie Hobbs defeated Andy Biggs on election night, it was not an isolated incident
Arizona Republicans haven’t won a big race since Doug Ducey got reelected in ‘18
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Dennis Welch asked Doug Ducey during the debut of the politics unplugged podcast what he thought about extremism taking over his party how there wasn’t room for a biz republican anymore. Ducey mocked Dennis saying no such thing had happened. Only people who watch too much cable . Maybe only people who didn’t fund the takeover thought so
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And I have been annoyingly saying all this would happen for a long time. The “normal electable” Republicans try all are clamoring for are the reason the unelectable extremists even made it to the table in the first place.
A little walk down memory lane:
A little walk down memory lane:
A reporter asked for comment after a GOP consultant re Ducey & Robson's support for Rogers said: "No matter how many times Tony Cani tries to will it into existence, independent/swing voters simply will not care about this issue in the fall."
This "ISSUE."
huge 🧵w/ my reply
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Sean Noble is the king of cope.
I get it he needs to scramble to defend his way of life. He’s one of many AZ GOP lobbyists who made a career of being a republican who lobbies other republicans. That is now not as lucrative in az as it was a few days ago. But he also is a chief architect behind the Biggs campaign which makes all this noteworthy.
He does two dishonest things here:
1) he repeats an easily disproven claim using a dishonest baseline that Biggs actually did better than other gop gov candidates around the country. I replied to this earlier and will post it after this response. Maybe he’s just wrong but more likely it’s spin for his clients to try to stay relevant. My advise: don’t hire people who try to gas light you.
2) he seems to live in victimhood the same as Biggs did as they whine that all those ads against him were lies. They were not. Biggs has a clear voting record and each attack about his votes on Epstein, on Warren Jeffs cult, on spousal rape — all of them originally were made by conservative republicans who were upset with his actions as they happened.
I also think it might be worth a thread later as try keep pushing this logic on all the insane strategic decisions the campaign made that must have come from someone that clearly doesn’t know how to win a campaign outside of a primary. And I’m
Not talking ideological mistakes I’m talking simple obvious nuts and bolts of a campaign blunders.
I get it he needs to scramble to defend his way of life. He’s one of many AZ GOP lobbyists who made a career of being a republican who lobbies other republicans. That is now not as lucrative in az as it was a few days ago. But he also is a chief architect behind the Biggs campaign which makes all this noteworthy.
He does two dishonest things here:
1) he repeats an easily disproven claim using a dishonest baseline that Biggs actually did better than other gop gov candidates around the country. I replied to this earlier and will post it after this response. Maybe he’s just wrong but more likely it’s spin for his clients to try to stay relevant. My advise: don’t hire people who try to gas light you.
2) he seems to live in victimhood the same as Biggs did as they whine that all those ads against him were lies. They were not. Biggs has a clear voting record and each attack about his votes on Epstein, on Warren Jeffs cult, on spousal rape — all of them originally were made by conservative republicans who were upset with his actions as they happened.
I also think it might be worth a thread later as try keep pushing this logic on all the insane strategic decisions the campaign made that must have come from someone that clearly doesn’t know how to win a campaign outside of a primary. And I’m
Not talking ideological mistakes I’m talking simple obvious nuts and bolts of a campaign blunders.
Tyler, you and I have known each other a long time, and we probably agree more than disagree. However, in this case I respectfully disagree. Two things: 1 - no other candidate had more than $30M of actual lies dumped on their head, so of course he underperformed compared to other AZ statewide candidates. 2 - when compared to other Gov races in the U.S., he actually OVER-PERFORMED. There was a -13 point swing in AZ from 2022. In TX and FL it is was -18 and in IA it was a whopping -29. Proof that he was a good candidate (outperformed Gov. Abbott!) and @TPUSA engagement kept it from being much worse (they weren't in TX, FL, or IA). When there is a blue tsunami and you have a "R" by your name there is no place to hide, whether you are conservative or moderate. But good candidates and strong outside efforts can make it less bad. I have not always agreed with TPUSA - but I give them credit because credit is due in this case.
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Your’s is either an intentionally dishonest comparison or it’s an incompetent one.
1) Hobbs just won by a bigger margin than three races you’re comparing her to. She beat Biggs by13. The Iowa Dem won by 11, TX Dem by 7, and & Florida by barely a point. You’re highlighting swings while ignoring that she produced the largest actual win of the group.
2) But let’s talk baseline. The 2022 baseline is uniquely bad for this comparison. Iowa, Florida, and Texas had popular Republican incumbents (Reynolds, DeSantis, Abbott) running in deep-red states against lingshot Democrats in the first midterm of an unpopular Democratic president’s term. Republicans flipped the House that year. It was a red year.
Arizona GOV that year was a near tie in an open seat in a purple state. You’re measuring swing off three red-state blowouts to one toss-up and pretending the starting points are comparable.
The numbers don’t do what you’re claiming they do
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Which included Ducey being the angel investor in making Wendy Rogers a thing. He got the business community to spend for her despite everything she has done and said and is.
Lots of revisionism happening here.
Lots of revisionism happening here.
"Evaluate the things that @DougDucey did to be successful in Arizona and win the number of races that he did, and perhaps try to replicate that." - @JJHunt10
azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
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Tony Cani retweeted
The Arizona political operators blaming the "national environment" for Republican losses are the same ones who spent the last 10 years turning the GOP into a fan club for a reality-show celebrity from Queens, New York.
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Maybe it would be bipartisan. It was just 10 years ago when JD Mesnard and Mark Finchem were huge supporters of the national popular vote.
azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/01/2…
azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/01/2…
An Important piece of Tuesday's results 💡
Dems gained trifectas in PA, MI, WI, AZ, and NV (61 EVs). NPVIC is at 222 and needs 270.
If those states join in 2027, it can activate in 2028, awarding electors to the popular-vote winner.
SCOTUS will need to adjudicate this - another ce aging justices & WIN in 2028.
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I’m going to (sorta) defend Turning Point here:
All the Republicans attacking TPUSA are doing so because they STILL don’t have the courage to do what’s actually necessary and stand up to the President and his unprecedented corruption, lack of focus, and reckless foreign policy.
TPUSA is Trump. It’s wild to go after an organization and still genuflect to Trump
All the Republicans attacking TPUSA are doing so because they STILL don’t have the courage to do what’s actually necessary and stand up to the President and his unprecedented corruption, lack of focus, and reckless foreign policy.
TPUSA is Trump. It’s wild to go after an organization and still genuflect to Trump
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