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Demsrule86

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24. That is exactly right. Hey, I hope it works. Of course, I am one who wants to win and I am

Tue Aug 2, 2022, 09:40 AM

Aug 2022

not hampered by the desire to remain 'pure'. So my response is yes let's be the third midterm where the President's Party-Biden's party won because we saved the house and the Senate. That is my only goal.

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Democratic Lawmakers Blast Their Own Party for Boosting Election Deniers in GOP Primaries [View all] babylonsister Aug 2022 OP

Undemocratic. Kid Berwyn Aug 2022 #1

Spending Dem donor dollars on Repugs is repugnant. It especially hurts down-ballot races where allegorical oracle Aug 2022 #2

+++ JohnSJ Aug 2022 #13

I would never donate to anyone that boosts election deniers, including Democratic organizations. femmedem Aug 2022 #3

I can't donate to the DCCC while they do this. I'm sad and pissed about it n/t Tom Rinaldo Aug 2022 #4

Then I guess you are OK with GOP types winning? Trying to get an opponent you can beat is Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #8

"I hope Trump wins. He'll be so easy to beat in November!" Sympthsical Aug 2022 #12

This isn't a presidential election. And he would have been easy to beat if the 'but Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #17

You can make whatever excuses you please Sympthsical Aug 2022 #25

Make no mistake about it though, it's a form of cheating Polybius Aug 2022 #38

I don't consider it cheating. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #45

I agree that's it's not illegal Polybius Aug 2022 #50

There is very little polling on the house...I think we will hold the house due to Roe. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #51

I think we lose 20 Polybius Aug 2022 #53

I choose the option of directly donating to Democratic candidates over allowing the DCCC Tom Rinaldo Aug 2022 #16

That is all very well and good...but some candidates do not receive sufficient amounts Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #19

The DCCC made it's choices. Individual donors make their choices also. Tom Rinaldo Aug 2022 #28

+1 SunImp Aug 2022 #35

Of course it is your choice where your money goes....And I merely point out we would Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #41

Make your choice but I consider it a bad choice. We could lose elections based on this choice Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #47

Thanks for your good work in Ohio, Demsrule Tom Rinaldo Aug 2022 #54

You know, I'm just going to go ahead and bookmark this Sympthsical Aug 2022 #55

Tom's right. Nt BootinUp Aug 2022 #29

That's as insane as the MAGAts. Fucking traitors. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #5

They are trying to field Republicans who will lose. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #9

Yeah, as if GOPers won't elect unfit idiots Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #10

I remember when they elected a certain Senator from Missouri and a Senator for Alabama. It Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #14

I use ActBlue. I don't donate to radicalized Republicans. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #18

Independent/Swing Voters won't though Mad_Machine76 Aug 2022 #21

That is exactly right. Hey, I hope it works. Of course, I am one who wants to win and I am Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #24

Personally, I prefer to purge Republicans...but he that's just me...a yellow dog Democrat. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #20

Purging Republicans does not begin by donating to their campaigns, IMO. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #22

Sometimes it does...this tactic was use in Claire McCaskill's election. This has been done before. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #26

Sometimes it does exactly that. Mastriano is going to lose...for example. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #42

$44 million dollars to republican campaigns--WTF? CrispyQ Aug 2022 #6

There is no mention of the DCCC in this article...where does that come from? Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #27

The OPs article mentions the DCCC. -nt CrispyQ Aug 2022 #31

Send your money directly to the candidates you want to support. CrispyQ Aug 2022 #7

+++ JohnSJ Aug 2022 #15

Some of these people will win Sympthsical Aug 2022 #11

I was looking at the candidates who were helped...and one caught my eye...Mastriano. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #23

No one can demoralize the democratic base like the democrats. CrispyQ Aug 2022 #34

I'd be pissed if it went to a MTG or Gaetz clone SunImp Aug 2022 #36

This quote from the Mother Jones article nails it: CrispyQ Aug 2022 #44

Support your own candidates Baggies Aug 2022 #30

That is not true...the the side pays Greens to help them win to cut down our vote...there was a Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #46

You misread my post. Baggies Aug 2022 #48

Attacking Republicans is not funding Republicans...and getting the candidate you want has bee used Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #52

I get why they're doing it but Elessar Zappa Aug 2022 #32

STOP! Stop giving Democratic party dollars to the repugs, period. Send them bootstraps. nt Hotler Aug 2022 #33

If they ads are calling out GOP extremist candidates, I really don't see the problem LymphocyteLover Aug 2022 #37

Yeah, I'd like more detail Novara Aug 2022 #39

they call Gibbs "too conservative for West Michigan" & he was "handpicked by Trump" LymphocyteLover Aug 2022 #40

These are ads against their opponents...and it does two things...maybe we get a candidate who Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #43

Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2022 #49