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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dems propping up bad republican candidates actually worked [View all]
Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @RobillardAnd with this race call, every single Republican who won their primary with help from Democratic meddling has lost in the general election.
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BREAKING: Democrat Hillary Scholten wins election to U.S. House in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District. #APracecall at 1:55 a.m. EST.
Democrats Elevation Of Election Deniers Worked
Throughout the late spring and into the summer, Democratic operatives made a series of risky choices to elevate Republican candidates who wholeheartedly embraced former President Donald Trumps cornucopia of lies about the 2020 presidential election.
In Republican primary after Republican primary, Democrats aired ads serving two purposes: promoting seemingly unelectable candidates to the GOP base while attacking them for a general election audience. The ads noted how close the Republican candidates were to Trump, played up their support for strict restrictions or bans on abortion and other things the GOP base loved but general election voters hated.
On election night, those risky bets paid off. All six of the election-denying candidates on the ballot whom Democrats boosted ― three gubernatorial candidates, two House candidates and a Senate candidate ― lost, most of them resoundingly.
read: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-elevation-of-election-deniers-worked_n_636b5108e4b04925c8929fcf
Throughout the late spring and into the summer, Democratic operatives made a series of risky choices to elevate Republican candidates who wholeheartedly embraced former President Donald Trumps cornucopia of lies about the 2020 presidential election.
In Republican primary after Republican primary, Democrats aired ads serving two purposes: promoting seemingly unelectable candidates to the GOP base while attacking them for a general election audience. The ads noted how close the Republican candidates were to Trump, played up their support for strict restrictions or bans on abortion and other things the GOP base loved but general election voters hated.
On election night, those risky bets paid off. All six of the election-denying candidates on the ballot whom Democrats boosted ― three gubernatorial candidates, two House candidates and a Senate candidate ― lost, most of them resoundingly.
read: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-elevation-of-election-deniers-worked_n_636b5108e4b04925c8929fcf
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I remember many talking heads were really worried and wondered if it backfired on us n/t
Claustrum
Nov 2022
#1
I didn't have a problem with it. As far as I am concerned, anything necessary to win
tulipsandroses
Nov 2022
#7
See my post below. Their ads told the truth about those candidate. They did not "normalize" them
emulatorloo
Nov 2022
#17
This ad spending has been mischaracterized, at least regarding the House race in Michigan...
DemocraticPatriot
Nov 2022
#30