"He [Musk] knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
"It’s only because they rigged the election that I’ll be your president representing you there."
If the election was stolen from Harris, everything the mainstream media and everyone else has said about how bad the Harris campaign was and why Trump won is bullshit. But I'll bet the mainstream media will ignore or soft-pedal these statements by Trump. It's also possible Trump is bullshitting as usual. But either way, it won't matter. And meanwhile, we all know what the North Carolina Supreme Court is doing.
No, I think he struggles to elucidate. It's like when he goes on about "raking" the rocky, precarious foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. I'm sure there's something to it (i.e. controlled burns to destroy excess dry brush and make firebreaks), but he can't seem to put it together that literally having teams rake the countless acres of rocky inclines is utterly stupidity.
I think there's plenty of evidence that the votes were counted accurately, including in Pennsylvania. They do random checks and didn't find anything strange. Trump is just doing his usual dementia thing.
I'm skeptical that it's grounded in truth. Systemic voter fraud has typical telltale signs in the final vote patterns that I expect election analysts would have picked up. There were no real major divergences between voting in PA compared to any other swing state that I can discern.
I'm open to being wrong but I'd want a critical analysis by people that know what they're doing before I believe it amounts to something real. It does merit investigation though: if someone implies they had an election rigged for them it should be looked into as a matter of course.
Trump is stupid and in severe mental decline. He doesn't know what he's talking about 90% of the time and doesn't know what's possible in general. I'd expect it's either a fundamental misunderstanding of the external help his campaign received, or it's something one of his handlers fed to him hoping he'd say bullshit like this so he could further undermine the democratic process by casting even more doubt on it.
Trump is bullshitting. He’s still whining because he was a sore loser and didn’t like losing. Perhaps to Trump the notion of losing narrowly in each key state is worse than losing in a landslide and by wide double digit margins.
Funny thing is, Musk was not originally a Trump fan. He supported Clinton and Biden over Trump in 2016 and 2020. He wasn’t exactly an “ideologue” but soon after Biden was POTUS Musk turned away from how he felt about him. This had nothing to do with Trump. It had to do with Tesla not being invited to the White House Summit on electric cars.
Musk though was not a stop the steal guy as far as I remember.
I have to say it's... Interesting that Trump decided to make his most serious run at an office because Obama stood up to him and Musk might have turned on Biden because he didn't get that invite. Standing up to bullies doesn't always turn out great.
Yes he was always susceptible to kooky ideas but he was one of the many people who spent WAY too much time online reading conspiracy shit online during Covid and the rational part of his brain melted away during that timespan.
That's not a good reason not to do it. The U.S. is in any case in a period that will lead to its downfall, because no-one will consider agreements or alliances with it to be worth the paper they're printed on, but either way, we need a new Teddy Roosevelt to bust today's huge trusts, just like that was needed at the turn of the 20th century.
Although TR was far from perfect on breaking up large corporations. Ironically his falling out with Taft occurred because Taft broke up a large corporation which TR considered a "good trust."
TR is such a fascinating figure. I think someone else on this site called Trump a very Sui Generous figure a few weeks back and that certainly also fits Roosevelt to a T.
OK, and he was a sane senator who showed occasional independence. Did he ever try to bust a trust, though? He was one of the Keating Five, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five.
I'm just pointing out what McCain believed. By contrast to today's GOP, McCain had more in common with Teddy Roosevelt as far as being a conservationist and pro-environment (although even McCain's environmental voting record while better to most in the GOP today was more mixed).
If I am able to find more of what was mentioned in this article about this topic, I'll share in this comment or a separate one.
Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of “those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”
“I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
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Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified with him as a fellow reformer and environmentalist and also touched on his assertive foreign policy. The choice might to some extent be an indication of how Mr. McCain would like to position himself now that he has moved from the primary to the general election.
“I believe less governance is the best governance, and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and individual entrepreneurship and the states can do, but I also believe there is a role for government,” Mr. McCain said. He added: “Government should take care of those in America who can not take care of themselves.”
Funny thing is, Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign mirrored Pat Buchanan’s. In fact, Buchanan himself ran in the Reform Party to (according to Jesse Ventura, who was Governor of Minnesota at the time) infiltrate it for his own needs such as paying off campaign debts.
Obama though was the “final straw” for Trump although per Howard Stern, Trump ran for POTUS as a publicity stunt in response to the ratings of the Apprentice.
If there was substance to the claim of "stolen presidential election" being made by some Democrats, then I really do think Marc Elias would be all over it. I have yet to see him mention these claims in his Democracy Docket newsletter, although I admit I don’t always have time to read every word.
That said, what the NC Supreme Court is doing is a heinous attempt at election theft. If a Democratic-controlled state supreme court was doing something similar, the national outcry would be ten times as loud.
Stealing seems more likely by legal means: Striking voters from the voter lists; rejecting absentee and provisional ballots in Democratic areas; preventing voters from voting due to "unacceptable" ID; etc.
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The legal justification for the firings is murky, given that Congress strengthened protections for inspectors general from undue terminations when it amended the Inspector General Act in 2022.
The law requires a 30-day notification window between the White House informing Congress of its intent to fire an inspector general and that inspector general being removed from on-duty status. The White House must also provide substantive reasons for why the inspector general is being removed.
I’m confident Speaker Mike Johnson right now is formulating a stern bipartisan letter objecting to Trump’s failure to meet his obligation to first notify Congress.
I think congressional Republicans are in complete denial about the multiple constitutional crises that Trump will engender. He is already flouting established law, and it's only week 1. IGs are supposed to have bipartisan backing in the Senate; will Thune and co. actually do anything about this? Probably nothing but exhibit endless Susan Collins-esque "concerns" to the Tigerbeat Beltway press as Trump walks us right into a Hungarian dictatorship.
Our saving grace in this is that he's so old and unhealthy that sticking around unconstitutionally would be physically difficult for him. Which is not the same as impossible, unfortunately.
Exactly, most probably agree with it and the few that oppose are gonna keep their yappers shut in order to not get a primary opponent with the Orange furors endorsement.
It's not Thune etc. who will do anything here, but the courts might. DC circuit is where all this would be heard, and it's full of some extremely pissed-off judges right now thanks to those Jan. 6 pardons.
If they don't, which I think is possible even though they haven't before, they'll make an enemy of the court system, even this conservative one. SCOTUS likes conservatives but also likes its own power. And if we get in a posture of full-on defiance of all court orders, I don't think they have the ability to sustain the kind of repression it would take to win that fight.
That's why it comes down to the Senate. They have to insist that no agreements can happen in that body if the Admin is simply going to withhold mandated disbursements or just ignore statutes willy nilly.
If Republicans overall do NOTHING because they're terrified of Trump, 2026 midterms should be EASY for Democrats:
"The government is broken. Checks & balances are nonexistent with terrified rubber stamps and blank checks. This Congress is blindly loyal to Trump, Musk and the ultrawealthy while average Americans are paying the price and suffering everywhere. 2 years single-party rule has been an unmitigated disaster, worse than anyone thought"!! 💙🇺🇲
Trump slaps a 25% tariff on Colombia in anger, because they refused to take a plane full of deported immigrants.
Colombia is the largest supplier of coffee & flowers into the U.S. and Valentine's Day is coming up. Costs will go ⬆️ and hopefully voters turn their anger to him and end this honeymoon period of approval ratings?! 😢🇺🇲
Coffee might take a hit that people feel. I think the bigger question is if this escalates quickly into a large tit-for-tat with random countries all over the world which seems likely and even if it doesn't happen there are more tariffs planned for next month. if prices increase drastically we need to hammer it relentlessly and ensure Trump owns it all. I think the perceptions of inflation alone were worth the <2% differential in PA + MI + WI.
We’ll see how big of a reaction the market has to this tomorrow - a lot of the upside the last few days was based on the (relatively) muted tariff tone coming out of the inauguration
I'd say the prices of coffee will be far more affected at coffee shops and coffee chains like Peet's, Philz Coffee and Starbucks. It depends on where it's being sourced.
I've had coffee at 7-Eleven locations and by contrast pay much less. I don't think coffee will go up that much there but I also am not aware of where the grains get purchased from.
Willingly making coffee more expensive has to be among the dumber options on the list of things to make more expensive. There's dumber ones out there, but coffee has to be near the top of the list. Americans love coffee and buy it frequently. It's exactly the kind of price hike that can be easily noticed and easily assigned.
This definitely seems to be an application of the adage
"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
It's not like there's much of a domestic coffee industry that would benefit anyway, aside from a few growers in Hawaii. Also coffee trees take 5 years to start bearing fruit and by then Trump's temper tantrum, (and his presidency), will be over.
Cut flowers, on the other hand, were not always grown abroad, so a protectionist policy could in theory revive the industry. However it would have to be thoughtfully and consistently applied and just biased on day-to-day caprice.
Yes that's true of pretty much all protectionism and it's the probably the biggest argument for free trade. We get more goods and services than if we made them all ourselves.
Biden has an industrial policy focused mainly around national security and climate change. Trump's is focused around coercion and vendettas. There's no logic to how his actions in terms of how it will make the US economy more resilient in the long run to justify his choice. Just Colombia did something I don't like, therefore tariff. He's threatened a bunch of other countries with similar measures.
My point is that if you decided that cut flowers were an industry of national importance, tariffs on Colombian imports would be part of that strategy, not that Trump's action was at all reasonable or well considered.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced today that veteran Democratic strategist Devan Barber will serve as the DSCC’s Executive Director for the 2026 cycle. Additionally the DSCC announced Jessica Knight Henry and Andrew Piatt will return to the Committee with expanded roles. Knight Henry will serve as Deputy Executive Director and Chief Diversity and Inclusion officer, providing strategic guidance on the DSCC’s political, finance and operations work. Piatt will serve as Director of Campaigns and Paid Media Strategy, leading the Committee’s work on media expenditures and advising campaigns.
“Devan, Jessica and Andrew are among the most talented, smart and tenacious strategists I have ever met. They have shown time and again that they know how to win the toughest campaigns,” said Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. “This team will guide our Senate campaigns to success and ensure Democrats regain the Senate majority so we can deliver on the priorities that matter most to hardworking Americans.”
“I also want to thank Christie Roberts for her amazing leadership of the DSCC through multiple campaign cycles,” continued Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. “Her steady, strategic guidance has contributed to some of our most important wins, and she is handing off the DSCC in the best possible position.”
I actually could care less about who they are; the important part is what they do, and frankly the DSCC over performed in the 2024 cycle, so bringing them back is good news for our party
What do you all make of this? https://crooksandliars.com/2025/01/trump-confessed-election-was-rigged-elon
Trump at a January 19 rally:
"He [Musk] knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
"It’s only because they rigged the election that I’ll be your president representing you there."
If the election was stolen from Harris, everything the mainstream media and everyone else has said about how bad the Harris campaign was and why Trump won is bullshit. But I'll bet the mainstream media will ignore or soft-pedal these statements by Trump. It's also possible Trump is bullshitting as usual. But either way, it won't matter. And meanwhile, we all know what the North Carolina Supreme Court is doing.
I’d be very skeptical
Do you think it's a confession?
No, I think he struggles to elucidate. It's like when he goes on about "raking" the rocky, precarious foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. I'm sure there's something to it (i.e. controlled burns to destroy excess dry brush and make firebreaks), but he can't seem to put it together that literally having teams rake the countless acres of rocky inclines is utterly stupidity.
It was also a thing last time around. His strange phrasing created the Qanon boondoggle.
Ethan, I think making Donald the Felon rake the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains would be the perfect sentence for his crimes.
I think there's plenty of evidence that the votes were counted accurately, including in Pennsylvania. They do random checks and didn't find anything strange. Trump is just doing his usual dementia thing.
I'm skeptical that it's grounded in truth. Systemic voter fraud has typical telltale signs in the final vote patterns that I expect election analysts would have picked up. There were no real major divergences between voting in PA compared to any other swing state that I can discern.
I'm open to being wrong but I'd want a critical analysis by people that know what they're doing before I believe it amounts to something real. It does merit investigation though: if someone implies they had an election rigged for them it should be looked into as a matter of course.
Trump is stupid and in severe mental decline. He doesn't know what he's talking about 90% of the time and doesn't know what's possible in general. I'd expect it's either a fundamental misunderstanding of the external help his campaign received, or it's something one of his handlers fed to him hoping he'd say bullshit like this so he could further undermine the democratic process by casting even more doubt on it.
Trump is bullshitting. He’s still whining because he was a sore loser and didn’t like losing. Perhaps to Trump the notion of losing narrowly in each key state is worse than losing in a landslide and by wide double digit margins.
Funny thing is, Musk was not originally a Trump fan. He supported Clinton and Biden over Trump in 2016 and 2020. He wasn’t exactly an “ideologue” but soon after Biden was POTUS Musk turned away from how he felt about him. This had nothing to do with Trump. It had to do with Tesla not being invited to the White House Summit on electric cars.
Musk though was not a stop the steal guy as far as I remember.
History here:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us-election-results-2024-what-triggered-elon-musk-to-be-donald-trumps-biggest-cheerleader-and-bidens-biggest-critic-101730880654665-amp.html
I have to say it's... Interesting that Trump decided to make his most serious run at an office because Obama stood up to him and Musk might have turned on Biden because he didn't get that invite. Standing up to bullies doesn't always turn out great.
Yeah, sometimes you gotta let the baby have his bottle, so to speak.
Musk seemed to be on his path by 2020.
Musk seems like a casualty of sitting at home rotting his brain during COVID and eventually breaking
Like so many millions around the world sadlt
You're talking about a billionaire nazi. Hitler had a diseased brain, too. I believe that talking about that is missing the point and the threat.
"The social media mind virus"
Yes he was always susceptible to kooky ideas but he was one of the many people who spent WAY too much time online reading conspiracy shit online during Covid and the rational part of his brain melted away during that timespan.
That's not a good reason not to do it. The U.S. is in any case in a period that will lead to its downfall, because no-one will consider agreements or alliances with it to be worth the paper they're printed on, but either way, we need a new Teddy Roosevelt to bust today's huge trusts, just like that was needed at the turn of the 20th century.
Although TR was far from perfect on breaking up large corporations. Ironically his falling out with Taft occurred because Taft broke up a large corporation which TR considered a "good trust."
Which one?
US Steel.
TR is such a fascinating figure. I think someone else on this site called Trump a very Sui Generous figure a few weeks back and that certainly also fits Roosevelt to a T.
He didn't break up many trusts, he mostly put in regulations.
But at least he faced down some very powerful, rich people and got the ball rolling.
I recall years ago that the late John McCain was a fan of Teddy Roosevelt.
OK, and he was a sane senator who showed occasional independence. Did he ever try to bust a trust, though? He was one of the Keating Five, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five.
I'm just pointing out what McCain believed. By contrast to today's GOP, McCain had more in common with Teddy Roosevelt as far as being a conservationist and pro-environment (although even McCain's environmental voting record while better to most in the GOP today was more mixed).
If I am able to find more of what was mentioned in this article about this topic, I'll share in this comment or a separate one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13mccain.html
I just got more from the NY Times article, which was published on July 13th, over a month before the 2008 RNC Convention:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13mccain.html
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Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of “those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”
“I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
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Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified with him as a fellow reformer and environmentalist and also touched on his assertive foreign policy. The choice might to some extent be an indication of how Mr. McCain would like to position himself now that he has moved from the primary to the general election.
“I believe less governance is the best governance, and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and individual entrepreneurship and the states can do, but I also believe there is a role for government,” Mr. McCain said. He added: “Government should take care of those in America who can not take care of themselves.”
Funny thing is, Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign mirrored Pat Buchanan’s. In fact, Buchanan himself ran in the Reform Party to (according to Jesse Ventura, who was Governor of Minnesota at the time) infiltrate it for his own needs such as paying off campaign debts.
Obama though was the “final straw” for Trump although per Howard Stern, Trump ran for POTUS as a publicity stunt in response to the ratings of the Apprentice.
If there was substance to the claim of "stolen presidential election" being made by some Democrats, then I really do think Marc Elias would be all over it. I have yet to see him mention these claims in his Democracy Docket newsletter, although I admit I don’t always have time to read every word.
That said, what the NC Supreme Court is doing is a heinous attempt at election theft. If a Democratic-controlled state supreme court was doing something similar, the national outcry would be ten times as loud.
Stealing seems more likely by legal means: Striking voters from the voter lists; rejecting absentee and provisional ballots in Democratic areas; preventing voters from voting due to "unacceptable" ID; etc.
need to contest all elections coming up..will give us Trump barometer to guide us moving forward
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14 Inspector Generals fired:
The legal justification for the firings is murky, given that Congress strengthened protections for inspectors general from undue terminations when it amended the Inspector General Act in 2022.
The law requires a 30-day notification window between the White House informing Congress of its intent to fire an inspector general and that inspector general being removed from on-duty status. The White House must also provide substantive reasons for why the inspector general is being removed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189261
Over to you congressional Democats.
I’m confident Speaker Mike Johnson right now is formulating a stern bipartisan letter objecting to Trump’s failure to meet his obligation to first notify Congress.
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I think congressional Republicans are in complete denial about the multiple constitutional crises that Trump will engender. He is already flouting established law, and it's only week 1. IGs are supposed to have bipartisan backing in the Senate; will Thune and co. actually do anything about this? Probably nothing but exhibit endless Susan Collins-esque "concerns" to the Tigerbeat Beltway press as Trump walks us right into a Hungarian dictatorship.
Walks? Seems more like a mad sprint to me.
Our saving grace in this is that he's so old and unhealthy that sticking around unconstitutionally would be physically difficult for him. Which is not the same as impossible, unfortunately.
What makes you think that, except for a couple, any of the 273 Republicans care.
Exactly, most probably agree with it and the few that oppose are gonna keep their yappers shut in order to not get a primary opponent with the Orange furors endorsement.
Agreed. It's not being "unaware" or "unprepared" - most just give zero fucks. Those who do DGAF actively LIKE (or even love) it.
It's not Thune etc. who will do anything here, but the courts might. DC circuit is where all this would be heard, and it's full of some extremely pissed-off judges right now thanks to those Jan. 6 pardons.
That's assuming this Administration will adhere to judicial rulings.
If they don't, which I think is possible even though they haven't before, they'll make an enemy of the court system, even this conservative one. SCOTUS likes conservatives but also likes its own power. And if we get in a posture of full-on defiance of all court orders, I don't think they have the ability to sustain the kind of repression it would take to win that fight.
Trump can pardon every right-wing terrorist who attacks people.
Real question: Who in America is going to enforce court rulings when (not if) the Trump regime decides to ignore them?
That's why it comes down to the Senate. They have to insist that no agreements can happen in that body if the Admin is simply going to withhold mandated disbursements or just ignore statutes willy nilly.
Both of which the Trump regime is already doing.
If Republicans overall do NOTHING because they're terrified of Trump, 2026 midterms should be EASY for Democrats:
"The government is broken. Checks & balances are nonexistent with terrified rubber stamps and blank checks. This Congress is blindly loyal to Trump, Musk and the ultrawealthy while average Americans are paying the price and suffering everywhere. 2 years single-party rule has been an unmitigated disaster, worse than anyone thought"!! 💙🇺🇲
In other words, Let Trump Be Trump, and the 2026 election will be huge for Democrats
Trump also pardons the Silk Road guy.
Looks like he’s making good on his promise to reduce crime - by making it so that nothing is a crime anymore.
No he isn't. Being present in the country without the assent of Republicans is a crime.
Trump slaps a 25% tariff on Colombia in anger, because they refused to take a plane full of deported immigrants.
Colombia is the largest supplier of coffee & flowers into the U.S. and Valentine's Day is coming up. Costs will go ⬆️ and hopefully voters turn their anger to him and end this honeymoon period of approval ratings?! 😢🇺🇲
Coffee might take a hit that people feel. I think the bigger question is if this escalates quickly into a large tit-for-tat with random countries all over the world which seems likely and even if it doesn't happen there are more tariffs planned for next month. if prices increase drastically we need to hammer it relentlessly and ensure Trump owns it all. I think the perceptions of inflation alone were worth the <2% differential in PA + MI + WI.
We’ll see how big of a reaction the market has to this tomorrow - a lot of the upside the last few days was based on the (relatively) muted tariff tone coming out of the inauguration
I'd say the prices of coffee will be far more affected at coffee shops and coffee chains like Peet's, Philz Coffee and Starbucks. It depends on where it's being sourced.
I've had coffee at 7-Eleven locations and by contrast pay much less. I don't think coffee will go up that much there but I also am not aware of where the grains get purchased from.
Jeez, if the price of coffee keeps going up, my Irish friend will have to put even more Jameson and whipped cream in his Irish coffee!
Actually, Columbia is #2 but your point is correct either way. (I always love to learn a little trivia looking something up.
"In 2023, about 80 percent of U.S. unroasted coffee imports came from Latin America (valued at $4.8 billion), principally from Brazil (35 percent) and Colombia (27 percent)." https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=110079#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20the,Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean.
Willingly making coffee more expensive has to be among the dumber options on the list of things to make more expensive. There's dumber ones out there, but coffee has to be near the top of the list. Americans love coffee and buy it frequently. It's exactly the kind of price hike that can be easily noticed and easily assigned.
Dems just need to make noise about it.
This definitely seems to be an application of the adage
"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
It's not like there's much of a domestic coffee industry that would benefit anyway, aside from a few growers in Hawaii. Also coffee trees take 5 years to start bearing fruit and by then Trump's temper tantrum, (and his presidency), will be over.
Cut flowers, on the other hand, were not always grown abroad, so a protectionist policy could in theory revive the industry. However it would have to be thoughtfully and consistently applied and just biased on day-to-day caprice.
bottom line though is price increase
Yes that's true of pretty much all protectionism and it's the probably the biggest argument for free trade. We get more goods and services than if we made them all ourselves.
Biden has an industrial policy focused mainly around national security and climate change. Trump's is focused around coercion and vendettas. There's no logic to how his actions in terms of how it will make the US economy more resilient in the long run to justify his choice. Just Colombia did something I don't like, therefore tariff. He's threatened a bunch of other countries with similar measures.
My point is that if you decided that cut flowers were an industry of national importance, tariffs on Colombian imports would be part of that strategy, not that Trump's action was at all reasonable or well considered.
Has Trump even had much of a honeymoon anyway? I saw a poll recently that had his disapproval at 55% already.
Is anyone paying attention to the Iowa state senate election (SD-35) on Tuesday?
No but now Im intrigued
What kind of district is it, politically speaking in recent statewide races? 🤔
Likely R. Election on Tuesday. Chance to see if Dems turn out in a special above what we would expect.
can you update us(checking margins is important atm)
What's everyone's thoughts on the new Executive Director for the DSCC? Is this someone who brings in credibility to it?
https://www.dscc.org/news/dscc-announces-devan-barber-as-executive-director-jessica-knight-henry-andrew-piatt-as-members-of-the-senior-leadership-team/
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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced today that veteran Democratic strategist Devan Barber will serve as the DSCC’s Executive Director for the 2026 cycle. Additionally the DSCC announced Jessica Knight Henry and Andrew Piatt will return to the Committee with expanded roles. Knight Henry will serve as Deputy Executive Director and Chief Diversity and Inclusion officer, providing strategic guidance on the DSCC’s political, finance and operations work. Piatt will serve as Director of Campaigns and Paid Media Strategy, leading the Committee’s work on media expenditures and advising campaigns.
“Devan, Jessica and Andrew are among the most talented, smart and tenacious strategists I have ever met. They have shown time and again that they know how to win the toughest campaigns,” said Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. “This team will guide our Senate campaigns to success and ensure Democrats regain the Senate majority so we can deliver on the priorities that matter most to hardworking Americans.”
“I also want to thank Christie Roberts for her amazing leadership of the DSCC through multiple campaign cycles,” continued Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. “Her steady, strategic guidance has contributed to some of our most important wins, and she is handing off the DSCC in the best possible position.”
I'm unfamiliar with these people.
I actually could care less about who they are; the important part is what they do, and frankly the DSCC over performed in the 2024 cycle, so bringing them back is good news for our party
How did they overperform?
winning in Trump won states except for Pennsylvania
Is there a Dem political figure who could be a MEANINGFUL leader going forward to combat trump's power grab?