Official Midterms 2022 Thread... GA pulled it off again... congrats Sen Warnock!
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And these Gen Z are DIFFERENT! I love it though.
I play DFS and in a few discord channels where we discuss various DFS sports and these GEN Z white boys are telling me things like - man that lil baby album fire, Drake just dropped and the album fire, Ja Morant is a god, and etc. I’m like wtf am I hearing, but I love it lol (random I know)
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Never underestimate how racist white people really are. 74% of them voted nationally for the openly racist party . Twitter makes it seem like most white people are normal. MFers are just acting.
bumping to read later
NYTimes has a similar article but it's behind a paywall.
If Democrats Lose the House, They May Have New York to Blame - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Republicans may take the House because of what happened in New York.
Curious to what happened.
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But when I look at the results in texas I can't help but ask, are mexicans any different?A Puerto Rican dude on TikTok called Cubans the KKK of the Caribbean
The biggest fans of Trump are the BLUE hat MAGAs that you see post on BGOL. (like the OP of this thread and others)
They want Trump back in office because of the latent admiration they have for him and it allowing them to be perpetual victims. Trump is the most liberal President the United States has had since in a long time.
They're not. They are competing with CubansBut when I look at the results in texas I can't help but ask, are mexicans any different?
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Murdoch’s news outlets extend their criticism of Trump.
For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans’ unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties.
By Jeremy W. Peters
Nov. 10, 2022, 1:14 p.m. ET
Murdoch’s news outlets extend their criticism of Trump. (Published 2022)
For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans’ unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties.
For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans’ unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties. And the consensus wasn’t kind to former President Donald J. Trump.
“Trump is the Republican Party’s biggest loser,” declared the headline on a Wall Street Journal editorial on Thursday, which accused Mr. Trump of having “flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.”
The cover of the New York Post on Thursday was just as scalding, if slightly more tongue-in-cheek. It had an illustration of Mr. Trump depicted as Humpty Dumpty. “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall — can all the G.O.P.’s men put the party back together again?” the headline read.
Inside, the Post ran an opinion piece by the conservative writer John Podhoretz, a frequent critic of the former president, that called Mr. Trump “the most profound vote repellent in modern American history.”
Fox News spent all day Wednesday featuring commentators who blamed Mr. Trump for dragging the entire party down, and the criticism continued into prime time. Laura Ingraham, who was one of the former president’s biggest boosters in conservative media during his four years in office, took what appeared to be a swipe at him.
“The populist movement is about ideas,” Ms. Ingraham said. “It is not about any one person. If the voters conclude that you’re putting your own ego or your own grudges ahead of what’s good for the country, they’re going to look elsewhere, period.”
Her colleague Tucker Carlson was gentler in his assessment of the election, saying that Mr. Trump had always been a “mixed blessing” for Republicans. “In this case, he’s certainly not the single cause of anything,” Mr. Carlson added.
The two Murdochs who run the Fox Corporation and its newspaper businesses, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, are said to have soured on Mr. Trump lately and expressed concern that he would harm the Republican Party’s chances of winning big on Tuesday. Their discomfort with him, according to people who have spoken with both Murdochs, stems from his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.
Over the spring and summer, Mr. Trump was hardly a presence on the network where he was once a fixture, calling in almost nightly. For a stretch of more than 100 days, Fox News did not broadcast a single interview with him.
This is not the first time Murdoch media properties have criticized the former president. Following the revelations of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, The Journal and the Post published blistering editorials condemning his inaction that day.
Of course, the pendulum can always swing back, as it has again and again over the course of the complicated, decades-long relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Mr. Trump. After drawing the ire of the former president and his supporters — and dropping precipitously in the ratings — Fox News followed its election night prediction that Mr. Trump would lose Arizona in 2020 by promoting some of his false claims of widespread voter fraud. The network and its parent company are now facing a $1.6 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems over those erroneous reports.
Mr. Trump appears to have been watching as Fox guests and anchors blamed him for the underwhelming results on Tuesday. On Thursday he lashed out on his social media platform, Truth Social, writing, “For me, Fox News was always gone, even in 2015-16 when I began ‘my journey.’” He added, “but now they’re really gone. Such an opportunity for another media outlet to make an absolute fortune, and do good for America.”
NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump’s Private Reaction To The Election
Historic ‘ass-kicking’ may prompt Michigan GOP to rethink Trump candidates
November 9, 2022
www.bridgemi.com
Michigan Republicans were picking up the pieces of a broken election on Wednesday, with some arguing the Democratic drubbing should be a wake-up call for the GOP to move on from Donald Trump’s obsessive quest to re-litigate his 2020 loss.
“It might be a healthy ass-kicking for the GOP to maybe do an assessment of where we are and what our state party is built to do,” said Jason Roe, a strategist and former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party.
“Is it built to tilt at windmills, or is it built to win elections? If it's the former, then it's gonna be a rough decade ahead of us.”
Democrats dominated Michigan elections on Tuesday, re-electing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other statewide candidates while flipping both chambers of the Legislature, controlling all branches of government for the first time since the 1980s.
As Republicans sought to make sense of their loss, state GOP Chair Ron Weiser and Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock were conspicuously quiet. Neither responded to Bridge Michigan voicemails seeking comment on the election results.
Republican operatives and experts say strong support for abortion rights Proposal 3 drove turnout and helped Democrats overcome a challenging electoral environment given sky-high inflation.
And Whitmer’s strong performance, beating Republican challenger Tudor Dixon by 10 points, boosted down-ticket Democrats, helping them to pick up competitive seats that were reshaped by the state’s new independent redistricting commission.
But Republicans endorsed by Trump lost contested races, and the GOP suffered from a significant “candidate quality problem,” said Wayne Bradley, former director of African American Engagement for the Michigan Republican Party.
“Better candidates will get you better results,” he said.
Bradley didn’t blame Dixon, whom he described as a “formidable” campaigner who was unable to raise enough funds to compete with Whitmer. But Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo and Attorney General nominee Matthew DePerno were “problematic” because they continued to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election, Bradley said.
“You see full across the country that didn’t play well with a lot of folks,” Bradley said. “So it’s time to move on. Maybe we’ll get the lesson to focus on 2024.”
Karamo was silent Wednesday, but DePerno conceded defeat to incumbent Democratic Attorney Dana Nessel. In doing so, he promised to remain active in the conservative movement, where he has become a favorite among grassroots activists in the Michigan GOP.
“I refuse to concede that Michigan is a blue state,” DePerno said in a statement. “I will continue to fight like hell to restore Michigan to all it can be and I look forward to continuing this journey with you all.”
Grassroots vs. Establishment
DePerno and Karamo were both virtual unknowns in 2020, when they became leading figures in Trump’s attempt to overturn his election loss.
That made them stars to grassroots delegates who dominated Michigan GOP endorsement and nominating conventions.
Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was the top vote getter among statewide Democratic candidates, defeating Karamo by nearly 14 percentage points, according to unofficial results.
Karamo had “zero credentials” to run state elections, and with DePerno under investigation for alleged vote tabulator tampering, it was “difficult for voters to picture a person who might be losing their law license serving as the top lawyer in the state,” Roe said.
GOP convention delegates “did not choose Republican candidates based on their ability; they chose them based on their fidelity to Donald Trump,” he added.
“If our party is going to be focused on carrying out the delusions of one man over electing candidates and controlling policymaking in the state, we will be a minority party for many years to come.”
Republicans are grappling with an “identity crisis,” but it’s not fair to place all the blame on “grassroots” candidates when “establishment” donors abandoned them, said Jon Smith, secretary of the Hillsdale County Republican Party.
“I think the establishment actually purchased Dixon early on and then dried the party out,” said Smith, who helped lead a Trump-aligned takeover of the Hillsdale GOP two years ago.
The reluctance of traditional Republican donors to fund Dixon, DePerno and Karamo in the general election felt “like a form of retribution or punishment” against grassroots activists, he said.
A public action committee backed by the powerful DeVos family of West Michigan spent more than $6 million to support Dixon, but her campaign was badly outraged and outspent by Whitmer. Through late October, Whitmer has raised $36 million compared to $6.7 million for Dixon.
“We’re having a problem with principle versus what we are willing to compromise within the party structure” in order to win elections, Smith told Bridge Michigan, arguing that Republicans shouldn’t abandon election security concerns just because it may not be a winning issue.
“I don’t take winning as the be-all end-all,” he said. “I do have a certain level of principle that I think is just as important as a win.”
A bad night for Trump, good night for DeSantis
As Trump considers another run for president in 2024, with an announcement expected in the near future, he has maintained a huge influence over the Michigan Republican Party.
He endorsed DePerno and Karamo in contested convention fights earlier this year, helped congressional candidate Jon Gibbs oust incumbent GOP U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer and backed Dixon days before she won the Michigan primary.
But those high-profile candidates each lost their general election matchups Tuesday. Gibbs lost to Democrat Hillary Scholten in a race that cemented a political sea change in the once conservative-stronghold of west Michigan.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered Trump’s top competition for the 2024 presidential nomination, gave a “thumping” to Democratic challenger Charlie Crist on Tuesday and looks “like the future of the party,” Roe said.
“I think we’d be wise to take note of what he’s doing there and get rid of the idiocracy of re-litigating 2020.”
Trump can claim some wins in Michigan – he also backed congressional incumbents Lisa McLain, John Moolenaar, Bill Huizenga and Tim Walberg — but each won re-election in a safe Republican district where they were all but guaranteed a general election victory.
“This is the worst night in the modern history of the Michigan GOP, and a lot of it is the former president's fault,” Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist said in a post-election media briefing with MIRS subscription news.
Trump-backed candidates also lost other key races around the country, including U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. But in Ohio, Trump-backed J.D. Vance won a U.S. Senate seat, and a Georgia Senate race with Trump-backed Herschel Walker remained too close to call as vote counting continued Wednesday afternoon.
Many Republicans reeling from a tough midterm are looking to DeSantis, who was able to put together a diverse coalition that included Latino and Black voters and is “what the party needs to be paying attention to right now,” said Bradley, the former Michigan GOP director of African American engagement.
Trump rallied for Dixon, DePerno and Karamo in Michigan but provided very little financial assistance, limiting the impact of his endorsement, Bradley noted.
“I think now maybe candidates understand that they need to talk more with their constituents and listen to the folks that are here on the ground,” he said. “Those are the people that are going to get them elected at the end of the day.”
November 9, 2022
Historic ‘ass-kicking’ may prompt Michigan GOP to rethink Trump candidates | Bridge Michigan
Michigan Republicans struggle with an ‘identity crisis’ after suffering major losses in the Tuesday election. It was a tough night for GOP candidates and former President Donald Trump.
Michigan Republicans were picking up the pieces of a broken election on Wednesday, with some arguing the Democratic drubbing should be a wake-up call for the GOP to move on from Donald Trump’s obsessive quest to re-litigate his 2020 loss.
“It might be a healthy ass-kicking for the GOP to maybe do an assessment of where we are and what our state party is built to do,” said Jason Roe, a strategist and former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party.
“Is it built to tilt at windmills, or is it built to win elections? If it's the former, then it's gonna be a rough decade ahead of us.”
Democrats dominated Michigan elections on Tuesday, re-electing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other statewide candidates while flipping both chambers of the Legislature, controlling all branches of government for the first time since the 1980s.
As Republicans sought to make sense of their loss, state GOP Chair Ron Weiser and Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock were conspicuously quiet. Neither responded to Bridge Michigan voicemails seeking comment on the election results.
Republican operatives and experts say strong support for abortion rights Proposal 3 drove turnout and helped Democrats overcome a challenging electoral environment given sky-high inflation.
And Whitmer’s strong performance, beating Republican challenger Tudor Dixon by 10 points, boosted down-ticket Democrats, helping them to pick up competitive seats that were reshaped by the state’s new independent redistricting commission.
But Republicans endorsed by Trump lost contested races, and the GOP suffered from a significant “candidate quality problem,” said Wayne Bradley, former director of African American Engagement for the Michigan Republican Party.
“Better candidates will get you better results,” he said.
Bradley didn’t blame Dixon, whom he described as a “formidable” campaigner who was unable to raise enough funds to compete with Whitmer. But Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo and Attorney General nominee Matthew DePerno were “problematic” because they continued to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election, Bradley said.
“You see full across the country that didn’t play well with a lot of folks,” Bradley said. “So it’s time to move on. Maybe we’ll get the lesson to focus on 2024.”
Karamo was silent Wednesday, but DePerno conceded defeat to incumbent Democratic Attorney Dana Nessel. In doing so, he promised to remain active in the conservative movement, where he has become a favorite among grassroots activists in the Michigan GOP.
“I refuse to concede that Michigan is a blue state,” DePerno said in a statement. “I will continue to fight like hell to restore Michigan to all it can be and I look forward to continuing this journey with you all.”
Grassroots vs. Establishment
DePerno and Karamo were both virtual unknowns in 2020, when they became leading figures in Trump’s attempt to overturn his election loss.
That made them stars to grassroots delegates who dominated Michigan GOP endorsement and nominating conventions.
Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was the top vote getter among statewide Democratic candidates, defeating Karamo by nearly 14 percentage points, according to unofficial results.
Karamo had “zero credentials” to run state elections, and with DePerno under investigation for alleged vote tabulator tampering, it was “difficult for voters to picture a person who might be losing their law license serving as the top lawyer in the state,” Roe said.
GOP convention delegates “did not choose Republican candidates based on their ability; they chose them based on their fidelity to Donald Trump,” he added.
“If our party is going to be focused on carrying out the delusions of one man over electing candidates and controlling policymaking in the state, we will be a minority party for many years to come.”
Republicans are grappling with an “identity crisis,” but it’s not fair to place all the blame on “grassroots” candidates when “establishment” donors abandoned them, said Jon Smith, secretary of the Hillsdale County Republican Party.
“I think the establishment actually purchased Dixon early on and then dried the party out,” said Smith, who helped lead a Trump-aligned takeover of the Hillsdale GOP two years ago.
The reluctance of traditional Republican donors to fund Dixon, DePerno and Karamo in the general election felt “like a form of retribution or punishment” against grassroots activists, he said.
A public action committee backed by the powerful DeVos family of West Michigan spent more than $6 million to support Dixon, but her campaign was badly outraged and outspent by Whitmer. Through late October, Whitmer has raised $36 million compared to $6.7 million for Dixon.
“We’re having a problem with principle versus what we are willing to compromise within the party structure” in order to win elections, Smith told Bridge Michigan, arguing that Republicans shouldn’t abandon election security concerns just because it may not be a winning issue.
“I don’t take winning as the be-all end-all,” he said. “I do have a certain level of principle that I think is just as important as a win.”
A bad night for Trump, good night for DeSantis
As Trump considers another run for president in 2024, with an announcement expected in the near future, he has maintained a huge influence over the Michigan Republican Party.
He endorsed DePerno and Karamo in contested convention fights earlier this year, helped congressional candidate Jon Gibbs oust incumbent GOP U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer and backed Dixon days before she won the Michigan primary.
But those high-profile candidates each lost their general election matchups Tuesday. Gibbs lost to Democrat Hillary Scholten in a race that cemented a political sea change in the once conservative-stronghold of west Michigan.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered Trump’s top competition for the 2024 presidential nomination, gave a “thumping” to Democratic challenger Charlie Crist on Tuesday and looks “like the future of the party,” Roe said.
“I think we’d be wise to take note of what he’s doing there and get rid of the idiocracy of re-litigating 2020.”
Trump can claim some wins in Michigan – he also backed congressional incumbents Lisa McLain, John Moolenaar, Bill Huizenga and Tim Walberg — but each won re-election in a safe Republican district where they were all but guaranteed a general election victory.
“This is the worst night in the modern history of the Michigan GOP, and a lot of it is the former president's fault,” Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist said in a post-election media briefing with MIRS subscription news.
Trump-backed candidates also lost other key races around the country, including U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. But in Ohio, Trump-backed J.D. Vance won a U.S. Senate seat, and a Georgia Senate race with Trump-backed Herschel Walker remained too close to call as vote counting continued Wednesday afternoon.
Many Republicans reeling from a tough midterm are looking to DeSantis, who was able to put together a diverse coalition that included Latino and Black voters and is “what the party needs to be paying attention to right now,” said Bradley, the former Michigan GOP director of African American engagement.
Trump rallied for Dixon, DePerno and Karamo in Michigan but provided very little financial assistance, limiting the impact of his endorsement, Bradley noted.
“I think now maybe candidates understand that they need to talk more with their constituents and listen to the folks that are here on the ground,” he said. “Those are the people that are going to get them elected at the end of the day.”
If these media outlets were smart or really gave a shit (which they're not and they don't) about all the fucked up shit Trump has done while in office and continues since leaving they wouldn't give them the satisfaction of showing up to report this and would simply cover it by announcing it themselves without giving him the air time or publicity.
But he's controversial and therefore brings in viewers so they could care less.
History? Lol
Correct me if I’m wrong but during Reconstruction there were over a dozen black men elected to congress as Republicans no?