My disappointment and concern center on the fact so many millions continue to elect these same GOPers - people who steadfastly support multi-felon trump at every turn.
Tens of millions of our fellow citizens firmly support candidates who firmly support trump. Let that sink completely in. They are the reason President Harris may not be able to lead as she has vowed to do. Brown and Tester are each going to lose. Scott and Cruz will each be reelected. So goes the Senate, it will be RED.
The fact is, trump's stench as the GOP standard-bearer doesn't seem sufficient to bring about a GOP implosion.
Or, will the country elect a Blue House and hang onto a 50-50 Senate split so VP Walz becomes the tie-breaker? One can hope!
This reporting on how important the Senate races are is crucial and greatly undercovered in national media. Demcratic control of the Senate is ESSENTIAL if a Harris victory is to achieve more than merely pressing pause on MAGAism. CONTRIBUTE, Bulwark readers! Here's one ActBlue link for 8 necessary Senate races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/americans-for-a-democratic-senate
Heard Sarah the other day saying the same thing, b/c she thinks it's the only way to ever get Repubs to ever do anything about the problems w/ the EC. But JVL quickly warned her that would be the worst possible outcome b/c it would be like pouring gas on the right's craziness.
Thank you for the great reporting the last couple weeks and taking deeper dives into the House and Senate. Having the Rs in control of either house will be terrible for Pres Harris, endless impeachment talk from the House side and worse if they control the Senate. I don't see her getting a Cabinet or judicial appointments done without long delays. But what would be the worst for me would be a 51-49 R Senate that would remind us of Charlie's disappointment with the WI Democrats for failing to unseat Ron Johnson.
Hi Bulwark subscribers, dropping this here again. We subscribe cuz we care about this election. The election has started and we win it or lose it in the next 4 weeks. So, humbly, I ask you to not just read this, do this. Relational organizing can make a huge difference. We don't all need to get 100 people out to vote, but if we can get 2-5 out to vote who wouldn't have otherwise, we'll win in a landslide.
So, please, today:
--Make a list of all the young people you know who are recently of voting age and send them this simple voter registration link: www.iwillvote.com . Please use your sway to impress upon them the importance of voting, voting early, and getting all their friends to register, vote, and vote early. Voter registration deadlines are approaching, we want to hit this hard NOW.
--Make a list of all the people you know in the crucial swing states: PA/MI/WI/AZ/NV/NC/GA. I mean everyone -- friends/neighbors/boyfriends/former neighbors who moved there/old boyfriends/old girlfriends :) Please send them the registration link and tell them to VOTE ASAP and to spread the word to all their networks to do the same, and their networks to spread it, and so on.
--Please spread this idea far and even this copy far and wide to all your pro-Harris networks (Social Media/Email Lists/Texting). Feel free to post/send a couple of times so the VOTING EARLY mantra sets in.
--Please make a small weekly donation to the Harris Campaign, if you can. Weekly donations are crucial for their planning and scaling in the crucial closing weeks. We want to keep crushing with our cash advantage so we can get out the vote. Even $3-$5 weekly donation from each of us, which we can cancel after the election, can make a huge difference. THEY HAVE A HUGE SEPT 30 FUNDING DEADLINE COMING UP, so anything you can give before then, please do.
Team, this is how we win and the time is NOW. Let's please please all do this, knowing we left it all on the field. Proud to be working alongside all of you.
Yes, the Democrats need a tremendous last six weeks to keep the Senate. It seems unlikely, but feasible if the Vice President has a strong run. It would make it very difficult for President Harris to get her nominees confirmed. But better than a President Trump with a Republican Senate!
THANK YOU Barbara Comstock, Denver Riggleman, and Olivia Troye. I'm in Alexandria, I will have to look for where this will be, would love to thank them in person.
Double check me on this, but I think I remember reading that if the Rs run someone else in his place, that person would get any votes that were cast for him. (Here's hoping this is not what Tillis means by "moving on"...)
They could run someone else, but it would be a write-in candidate. Too late to officially change the ballots. Robinson could stay on the ballot and win, which is what he's praying for. Remember, he's disgusting, but he hasn't been charged with a crime.
Precisely because the Senate math is so brutal for Democrats, the Harris campaign absolutely should be pointing out how critically important it is that there is a Democrat-controlled Senate. If she wins but does not have a Democrat Senate, she’ll have a hard time getting any of her agenda enacted & she can forget about Supreme Court appointments. If, God forbid, Trump wins, a Democrat Senate will be needed to stop his appointment of partisan ideological hacks. It’s not just about Dobbs. This Supreme Court is poised to restrict our freedom even more. This issue deserves more attention & amplification than it is getting.
JD is, in essence a stalking horse (of sorts) for a certain group of people in the GoP--mostly the financial/tech bro contingent. He is a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. His ownership and the backing of Tucker landed him his VP candidate spot. Basically a quid pro quo of sorts.
Gonna go outon a limb here and say I would not be totally surprised that, at some point, if/when Trump appears non compos mentos enough (which is going to happen), they try and 25th Amendment him and replace him with JD. Who will be absolutely controllable.
Because he lacks charisma and an independent dedicated base of cultists. He would largely be hanging in the wind.
I am not saying that this is definately going to happen or that it would work if they tried it. But it seems like something that would happen (or be seriously considered) in a cult movement like MAGA that is being used as a front by people like Thiel.
I'm positive that Vance will figuratively or literally stab the Orange Snake if he becomes VP. He'll become P, and Thiel or Tucker or whomever's, puppet.
My disappointment and concern center on the fact so many millions continue to elect these same GOPers - people who steadfastly support multi-felon trump at every turn.
Tens of millions of our fellow citizens firmly support candidates who firmly support trump. Let that sink completely in. They are the reason President Harris may not be able to lead as she has vowed to do. Brown and Tester are each going to lose. Scott and Cruz will each be reelected. So goes the Senate, it will be RED.
The fact is, trump's stench as the GOP standard-bearer doesn't seem sufficient to bring about a GOP implosion.
Or, will the country elect a Blue House and hang onto a 50-50 Senate split so VP Walz becomes the tie-breaker? One can hope!
This reporting on how important the Senate races are is crucial and greatly undercovered in national media. Demcratic control of the Senate is ESSENTIAL if a Harris victory is to achieve more than merely pressing pause on MAGAism. CONTRIBUTE, Bulwark readers! Here's one ActBlue link for 8 necessary Senate races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/americans-for-a-democratic-senate
Thanks for the link!
Please tell Mona how much I loved her piece.
I believe that Harris will win the electoral college while losing the popular vote, simply because that would be the funniest possible outcome
Heard Sarah the other day saying the same thing, b/c she thinks it's the only way to ever get Repubs to ever do anything about the problems w/ the EC. But JVL quickly warned her that would be the worst possible outcome b/c it would be like pouring gas on the right's craziness.
Thank you for the great reporting the last couple weeks and taking deeper dives into the House and Senate. Having the Rs in control of either house will be terrible for Pres Harris, endless impeachment talk from the House side and worse if they control the Senate. I don't see her getting a Cabinet or judicial appointments done without long delays. But what would be the worst for me would be a 51-49 R Senate that would remind us of Charlie's disappointment with the WI Democrats for failing to unseat Ron Johnson.
Hi Bulwark subscribers, dropping this here again. We subscribe cuz we care about this election. The election has started and we win it or lose it in the next 4 weeks. So, humbly, I ask you to not just read this, do this. Relational organizing can make a huge difference. We don't all need to get 100 people out to vote, but if we can get 2-5 out to vote who wouldn't have otherwise, we'll win in a landslide.
So, please, today:
--Make a list of all the young people you know who are recently of voting age and send them this simple voter registration link: www.iwillvote.com . Please use your sway to impress upon them the importance of voting, voting early, and getting all their friends to register, vote, and vote early. Voter registration deadlines are approaching, we want to hit this hard NOW.
--Make a list of all the people you know in the crucial swing states: PA/MI/WI/AZ/NV/NC/GA. I mean everyone -- friends/neighbors/boyfriends/former neighbors who moved there/old boyfriends/old girlfriends :) Please send them the registration link and tell them to VOTE ASAP and to spread the word to all their networks to do the same, and their networks to spread it, and so on.
--Please spread this idea far and even this copy far and wide to all your pro-Harris networks (Social Media/Email Lists/Texting). Feel free to post/send a couple of times so the VOTING EARLY mantra sets in.
--Please make a small weekly donation to the Harris Campaign, if you can. Weekly donations are crucial for their planning and scaling in the crucial closing weeks. We want to keep crushing with our cash advantage so we can get out the vote. Even $3-$5 weekly donation from each of us, which we can cancel after the election, can make a huge difference. THEY HAVE A HUGE SEPT 30 FUNDING DEADLINE COMING UP, so anything you can give before then, please do.
Team, this is how we win and the time is NOW. Let's please please all do this, knowing we left it all on the field. Proud to be working alongside all of you.
Yes, the Democrats need a tremendous last six weeks to keep the Senate. It seems unlikely, but feasible if the Vice President has a strong run. It would make it very difficult for President Harris to get her nominees confirmed. But better than a President Trump with a Republican Senate!
What were the predictions for Georgia’s two Senate seats prior to Orsoff and Warnock victories?
THANK YOU Barbara Comstock, Denver Riggleman, and Olivia Troye. I'm in Alexandria, I will have to look for where this will be, would love to thank them in person.
If Mark Robison dropped out voluntarily, it being to late to insert another R, would Josh Stein automatically win?
Double check me on this, but I think I remember reading that if the Rs run someone else in his place, that person would get any votes that were cast for him. (Here's hoping this is not what Tillis means by "moving on"...)
They could run someone else, but it would be a write-in candidate. Too late to officially change the ballots. Robinson could stay on the ballot and win, which is what he's praying for. Remember, he's disgusting, but he hasn't been charged with a crime.
Precisely because the Senate math is so brutal for Democrats, the Harris campaign absolutely should be pointing out how critically important it is that there is a Democrat-controlled Senate. If she wins but does not have a Democrat Senate, she’ll have a hard time getting any of her agenda enacted & she can forget about Supreme Court appointments. If, God forbid, Trump wins, a Democrat Senate will be needed to stop his appointment of partisan ideological hacks. It’s not just about Dobbs. This Supreme Court is poised to restrict our freedom even more. This issue deserves more attention & amplification than it is getting.
Nice job getting covered this week! Just saw Bulwark credited in a story on the new Robinson material noted on NYT.
For those of you in FL, you've got a bona fide hurricane heading your way. Stay safe!
Interesting, a bit off topic. But the Orange Snake is getting some pushback about his beautiful, wonderful plan to put 200%, or whatever his latest brain "storm" is, tariffs on everything. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/25/2272765/-Mitch-McConnell-is-the-latest-to-trash-Trump-plan-that-will-raise-prices?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web
Only if you are referring to a parallel universe does this fool look anything like MLK on Steroids.
JD is, in essence a stalking horse (of sorts) for a certain group of people in the GoP--mostly the financial/tech bro contingent. He is a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. His ownership and the backing of Tucker landed him his VP candidate spot. Basically a quid pro quo of sorts.
Gonna go outon a limb here and say I would not be totally surprised that, at some point, if/when Trump appears non compos mentos enough (which is going to happen), they try and 25th Amendment him and replace him with JD. Who will be absolutely controllable.
Because he lacks charisma and an independent dedicated base of cultists. He would largely be hanging in the wind.
I am not saying that this is definately going to happen or that it would work if they tried it. But it seems like something that would happen (or be seriously considered) in a cult movement like MAGA that is being used as a front by people like Thiel.
I'm positive that Vance will figuratively or literally stab the Orange Snake if he becomes VP. He'll become P, and Thiel or Tucker or whomever's, puppet.