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If you all made Tim Walz cancel his square dance this weekend and you don't make him vice president, I am going to lose my shit.
BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz has announced the cancellation of his scheduled events for this weekend. The Governor was set to attend two county fairs, a high school football game, and go square dancing. The cancellations have been issued with no specific reasons provided.
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I just found all the GOP funded oppositional research on
@JDVance1
and it's worse than I thought. Here are the highlights.
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There's so much more here. It's very clear that Republicans are WAY better at oppositional research than Democrats.
But these docs clearly show
@JDVance1
either a fraud or a failure. Those are the only two options.
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Every man in that video knows Elon Musk is wearing his cowboy hat backwards.
No one told him.
Literally the richest person on the planet picking on literally the poorest people on the planet. What in the world is he thinking.
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First, here's the source. I dug through these docs to pull out the highlights on his failed non profit "Our Ohio Renewal". These oppo books where never meant to be made public and were created by a GOP super PAC. This research is from March 2021.
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Because locked doors keep people from entering buildings.
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By 2019 the press started to sense something was off. Records show the nonprofit was defunct two years prior but
@JDVance1
claimed they were still operational.
Few in the Ohio press pushed for details.
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I've noticed a number of national media outlets blaming the extreme nature of the Tennessee GOP on rural voters.
Apparently they missed this banner drop.
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As a progressive who has spent years working on the rural vote, this is the graph that keeps me up at night. Only 34% of rural White voters think
@JoeBiden
cares about them. But, 59% of rural White voters think Donald Trump cares about them. This is why Democrats lose.
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Most of the GOP oppositional research on "Our Ohio Renewal" can by found on page 43 of this doc.
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In 2016,
@JDVance1
told reporters he was moving back to Ohio to start "Our Ohio Renewal" to address the state's opioid epidemic.
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Jason Aldean never rented movies from the gas station.
Jason Aldean’s not even from a small town! He never had to eat potted meat because the grocery store was a 16 mile walk away! This is stolen valor
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In 2017,
@JDVance1
said:
I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt — all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.”
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So real story here is that 275 Sheriffs from 39 states are coordinating with a hate group. This is especially relevant in light of the Jan 6 insurrection and the ongoing targeted radicalization of local law enforcement by hate groups.
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.
@paulkrugman
: There's nothing Democrats can do to win rural voters.
@JohnFetterman
: Hold my beer.
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You know what they say about small hands? It means small crowds.
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.
@SenatorTester
(a personal hero of mine) was quoted in the
@nytimes
saying
"There’s no doubt about it, he [Trump] has an appeal in rural America. I can’t figure it out, but there’s no denying it."
@RuralOrganizing
spent a year researching this.
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If ending abortion was popular among the American people, Supreme Count justices wouldn't lie about their position during their confirmation hearings.
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I've spent a decade working with rural immigrant communities across South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. Everyone I know is telling me that the meat packing
#COVID19
outbreaks in their communities are way worse than what's being reported locally and nationally.
#Immigration
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This matrix pretty much sums it up for me. Notice the support for Trump's anti-corruption and anti-corporate rhetoric. Rural voters really connected with draining the swamp.
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This is what disinformation looks like. A designated hate group launders their agenda through local sheriffs and gets away with it because local journalists like
@StaceyHorstKCCI
don't do their homework.
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This is why
@RuralOrganizing
is calling for a National Office of Rural Prosperity. Democrats need not only to show up and engage rural voters, but show up with a plan.
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Rural voters have been left behind by powerful people and they think Donald Trump is a powerful person who is fighting for them because he truly cares about them.
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As a rural person who has worked in national politics for the last 15 years, this is the best take I've seen on the
#VirginiaElection
. Of course it comes from
@onesarahjones
who is from Southwest Virginia.
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Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre
@PeteButtigieg
giving a victory speech before the results are in
#IACaucus
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FDR fought fascism with progressive populism. Glad to see that Biden knows it's a winning strategy.
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For 10 years I’ve worked on progressive policies like immigration reform while living in rural or red states. Below is a thread to try and help progressives avoid repeating the same mistakes we’ve made in the past especially when it comes to the
#electability
argument.
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Donald Trump is from New York City.
Tucker Carlson is from San Francisco.
Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica
But it's those dumb fucking rednecks who are too stupid to read the New York Times who are destroying our democracy.
Got it.
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.
@davidaxelrod
please stop saying "Democrats need to show up and listen to rural voters." You're reinforcing the frame that Democrats aren't rural. Instead say, "Democrats need to listen to our rural base who knows how to get us out of this mess" because we do.
How do Dems actually win back rural voters?
“Showing up helps. Showing interest, showing respect, coming to listen and not just to deliver stone tablets telling people what is best for them, that helps”
—
@davidaxelrod
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Trump deploying the National Guard on our border after failing to get his wall is 100% about securing his base — not our border.
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Other Democrats think they lose rural White voters because progressives are pushing for universal Healthcare. But 80% of rural White voters think "Our government should ensure that everyone living in this country has access to affordable health care."
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65% of rural White voters want police reforms that will "stop the killing and abuse of African Americans, Latinos, and People of Color."
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It might be tempting to write rural White voters off as racist. Some definitely are. But 59% of rural Whites think the rise of white supremacists are a major threat to our country. (And don't forget that 1 in 5 rural voters are People of Color and not included in this data.)
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I wonder if she knows what he said about her in the book?
JD Vance: "I love you mom."
JD’s mom: "That's my boy."
What. A. Moment.
Truly the American dream for a parent.
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67% of rural White voters want to make it easier to prosecute police officers when they kill or abuse people.
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.
@realDonaldTrump
supporters have been targeting people of color for the last 9 months. Check out this map.
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I love that with
@GovTimWalz
, Rural Ds are having a moment right now.
Despite the stereotypes, there are millions of Democrats in rural America from all different walks of life.
There are 20 states where the majority of Ds live in rural/exurban areas.
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This is a must read from
@ThePlumLineGS
because it raises serious questions about who is really fighting for rural voters.
@RuralOrganizing
has done extensive research and polling on this so here's a quick thread with data.
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform is a SPLC Designated "hate group". They have been for years.
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@MissMargoPrice
Lost in the debate is the sad truth that the high rate of suicides in small towns means that gun deaths are higher in rural America than in urban America.
Thanks for speaking up. We need to take this stuff head-on.
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78% of rural White voters support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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This is hilarious.
@KimReynoldsIA
has ads in Iowa media promoting her response to Biden's
#SOTU
. They're appearing on articles about how the Biden admin gave her $100 million from
#ARPA
to address housing issues in Iowa. How can her response be anything other than 'Thank you?'
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.
@realdonaldtrump
's wall is wildly unpopular. In fact it's as unpopular as he is. Sad!
#heretostay
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Now
@KimReynoldsIA
is taking credit for programs passed by
@JoeBiden
and
@TheDemocrats
and opposed by Republicans. Good thing I got this sticker.
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The lesson we learned from Ohio:
Small town organizing works.
Athens CO has a population of 60K. Our team attempted conversations on the doors with 30K people this cycle.
72% of voters in the county voted "Yes." today.
56% voted for Biden in 2022.
We aren't losing rural voters because of "social issues." Democrats are losing rural voters because we outsource our campaigns to consultants instead of empowering constituents and voters.
That's why
@RuralOrganizing
is going all in on yard signs. All politics are local.
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58% of rural White voters want the government to take steps to reduce the number of people behind bars.
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Candidates must also remember that rural ≠ white. "Roughly one-fifth of rural residents in this country are people of color."
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So who is
#electable
in rural America? A candidate who fights for the rural way of life, rejects big money in politics, call out racist, sexist, & homophobic politics of division, expands Medicare, & favors small, local businesses over major corporations.
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"Don't mistake your consultants for your constituents."
That's my number one tip for Democrats running in rural America.
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For voters under 40 years old, when the media pundits say "pocketbook" they mean bank account.
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Every local reporter has the responsibility to research their stories. It only takes a little bit of Googling to see that FAIR is the group behind this letter.
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I've been seeing a lot of these "I did that" stickers on gas pumps in rural communities. So, I made this "sticker" to paste in the comments when Republicans try to take credit for programs they voted against. Download it here:
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It's not just about showing up. It's about showing up with a plan.
That's why we at
@RuralOrganizing
are calling for a National Office of Rural Prosperity. We need to show rural voters we are fighting for them.
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Me: Extensive polling from
@RuralOrganizing
shows that working class people see the Democratic Party as the party of corporate interests.
Democratic Consultants: What?!? No! How could that be? Something is wrong with your polling!
Democrats:
Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain
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Wearing a Carhartt jacket over a suit coat and telling the American public that you're not going to fix school shootings is the most Republican thing you can do.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on school shootings:
"We're not gonna fix it."
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Is the
@GOP
sure that they want
@KimReynoldsIA
giving the State of the Union rebuttal speech? Maybe they should pick a candidate who didn't balance their state budget on $3.2 billion from a
@JoeBiden
program they called a "Blue State Bailout".
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I’m strongly considering a Go Fund Me campaign to hire a private investigator to look into Steve King’s skeletons. Anyone interested?
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Most of the media is missing the fact that Donald Trump instigated the storming of the Capitol during his speech today. He said he would be there but then retreated to the safety of the White House.
Trump says he's leading a march to the capitol building to heckle Congress as they vote confirm Joe Biden as the next President of the United States.
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This is why good policy is still good politics. Look how dumb Hawley sounds running against construction, HVAC, and manufacturing jobs...
Sen. Josh Hawley on infrastructure: "This is a bill that is about the woke political agenda of the left."
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When politicians run in rural America as a Democrat with Republican policies, they lose voters on both fronts because rural voters self ID to the right but lean left on key policies. For example, a majority of rural Americans support medicare for all.
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.
@SenatorTester
is 100% correct in saying:
"You cannot have Chuck Schumer talking rural issues to rural people; it ain’t gonna sell."
But outsourcing rural engagement to lobbyist aint gonna sell either. The worst thing Democrats can do is bring a lobbyist to populist fight.
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If your legal defense is "I am above the law" you probably broke the law.
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This article from
@ThePlumLineGS
is a must-read!
Heading into 2024, Democrats have to cut Republican margins in Rural America!
@JohnFetterman
(along with
@GovEvers
,
@GovWhitmer
, and
@LauraKellyKS
) showed the party how to do it.
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Love how
@BrianKempGA
refers to his use of
@JoeBiden
's American Rescue Plan funds for rural broadband as "fiscally conservative".
This is bipartisanship in 2022. Democrats pass solutions and Republicans spend the money.
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Quick tip for candidates this cycle.
Abortion access is a bigger issue for rural voters in Senate battleground states than ag policy.
If I was a Democrat looking to engage rural voters in battleground states right now I'd rather be endorsed by
@PPFA
than the
@FarmBureau
.
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This is huge. GOP oppo docs show
@JDVance1
:
1. Worked for a lobbying firm hired by Purdue Pharma widely blamed for getting millions of Americans addicted to opioids.
2. Raised $220K for a fake charity to fight the opioid epidemic that spent $0 on charitable activities.
I just found all the GOP funded oppositional research on
@JDVance1
and it's worse than I thought. Here are the highlights.
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What if we just ask rural voters what they want? Has anyone tried that?
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Also, candidates must call out Trump’s “divide and distract” strategy. 75% of rural American’s in the
@RuralOrganizing
poll agreed that politicians scapegoat immigrants and people of color to distract us from the real sources of our problems.
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Columbus Ohio Just Became One of the Most Pro-Immigrant Cities in America
@mayorginther
@zmklein
@lizclarkebrown
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.
@paulkrugman
asks, "What explains small-town America's sense of rage?"
The answer is pretty simple. Here's a thread.
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In rural America, investing in infrastructure without investing in our people is just building roads and bridges to nowhere. The bipartisan bill is great for the built environment but our economy is powered by human capital. Rural Americans deserve the reconciliation package.
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This flips the "rural voter" media narrative on its head. Looking at the first alignment of the
#IowaCaucus
, small metro voters went solidly for Sanders and Warren. Sanders also ran neck and neck with Buttigieg in rural counties.
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If you are surprised by the Texas Truck Terrorists watch this ad from the 2017 Virginia Governor's race. This has been a long time coming.
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