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“Democrats are not prepared to take on the pressing issues of the day”
Democrats’ very bad debate night
Tuesday night’s debates were an unmitigated disaster for Democrats across the board.
In Michigan, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer resorted to misrepresenting her COVID record when pressed ever so slightly on the issue of school closures. Over in New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul floundered when confronted about her state’s rising crime rates. And in Pennsylvania, Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke earlier this year, struggled to put together a coherent thought.
Each of these candidates held comfortable leads over their Republican opponents until very recently. But as the races begin to tighten and Election Day closes in, it has become clear that Democrats are not prepared to take on the pressing issues of the day. Worse, many of them can’t even recognize what the pressing issues of the day are.
Eastside Republican Club Endorsements
I saw this on Gab so wanted to share it.
SOS Jocelyn Benson Asks To Ignore Election Law
Michigan Secretary of State Flouts Court Order on Election Integrity
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is asking her state Supreme Court for permission to ignore election law during the upcoming midterms.
Last week, 4th District Judge Brock Swartzle ordered Benson and Director of Elections Jonathan Brater to revise or rescind a manual they published in May that contains guidelines for poll watchers and challengers.
Swartzle detailed five directions in the manual that clearly violate state election law.
In his decision he noted that an “executive-branch department cannot do by instructional guidance what it must do by promulgated rule,” and enjoined Benson and Brater from “using or otherwise implementing the current version of the May 2022 Manual.”
The officials immediately appealed the ruling, but on October 28, Benson also filed an emergency application to leapfrog that appeal, requesting “expedited relief… no later than 3:00 p.m. on November 1.” Should the Supreme Court grant her request, her illicit manual will continue to be used during the midterms on November 8.
“If Benson is successful in obtaining her desired relief, the 2022 election would literally be conducted in an unlawful manner thus bringing into question any election results,” states a press release from the Michigan Grassroots Alliance. This outreach is part of MGA’s Operation Election 2022 Overwatch, a program the group launched in September to proactively “ensure lawful elections.”
Whitmer: “Do you really think books are more dangerous than guns?”
Another Democratic governor has a ‘Terry McAuliffe moment’ — and could lose thanks to parent power
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe put the nail in his own campaign coffin last year when he said in the final debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In a state that President Biden won by 10 points the year before, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated the former governor on the issue of parental rights in education.
Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had a “Terry McAuliffe moment” of her own Tuesday night — a couple, in fact. They might just lead to her own defeat.
In the Great Lakes State’s final debate, Whitmer addressed parental concerns about sexualized materials in schools that her Republican challenger, Tudor Dixon, raised by asking — after a chuckle — “Do you really think books are more dangerous than guns?” She wrote off the worries as a diversion, saying Dixon “is trying to distract us” by “waging these fights.”
Democrats Offering $500 To Content Creators For Slotkin Endorsement
Democrat-linked marketing firm offers $500 for online endorsement of Elissa Slotkin
A Democrat-linked, progressive marketing firm is offering $500 to content creators to give online endorsements to Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., as she runs for re-election.
Slotkin, one of the many vulnerable Democrats running for re-election in 2022, is on the beneficial end of progressive digital marketing firm People First’s offer to online content creators in the Great Lake State.
The firm is offering half a grand to content creators to give Democrat Slotkin an online endorsement as the midterm elections head into their final stretch.
Michigan Voters Frustrated With Energy Prices
‘We’re All Struggling’: Michigan Voters Head To Election Day With Winter On Their Minds
Nobody watched the January 6 hearings because they don’t care or don’t believe them. People also are much more conservative on abortion than the Democrat Party is. People are more concerned about not freezing this winter or going hungry.
Democrats in competitive districts throughout Michigan have struggled to respond to voter frustrations with energy prices, instead focusing on abortion rights or former president Donald Trump’s conduct during the Jan. 6 riots. Rising energy prices uniquely impact Michigan, which is the top residential consumer of petroleum in the entire United States. Electricity prices in the state are already nearly 17 percent higher than the nation’s average. As a result, Republicans see Michigan as a huge opportunity in their hunt for a congressional majority as statewide polling shows inflation and cost of living as the top issue on the minds of voters there.
Kari Lake Endorses Tudor Dixon
This is interesting. I don’t ever remember a candidate endorsing other candidates. Lake also cut a video for Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania.
Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake cut a pair of video endorsements for her counterparts in Pennsylvania and Michigan as election day nears.
Lake, a former news anchor who has rapidly turned into a MAGA star, released the ads for Tudor Dixon and Doug Mastriano, the GOP gubernatorial nominees in Michigan and Pennsylvania, on Friday, as Politico first reported.
In her video to Michiganders, Lake slammed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and gave Dixon her “complete and total endorsement.”
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