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Sarah B's avatar

Team! We subscribe to the Bulwark because we care so much about the election. Well, the election has started, and we win or lose it over the next 4 weeks. So, if you're going to DO SOMETHING, do it now! Lock in a weekly donation, sign up for a phone bank, knock doors. And crucially, think through your relational organizing. We want to win this in October. Think through everyone you know in the crucial early voting swing states (VA/Minn/SD started voting Friday). I mean everyone! Friends/family/co-workers/former neighbors who moved there/ex boyfriends/ex girlfriends :) ). And actually CALL THEM or TEXT THEM and spread the word that they and their networks should REGISTER and VOTE ON DAY ONE and tell their other networks to do the same and so on and so on. This is how we win, period. The election has started, LFG.

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Susan D's avatar

The day Democrats run a candidate like Mark Robinson is the day I stop being a Democrat.

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Jenny Y.'s avatar

The fact that it has to go THIS extreme, to sort of probably tank his campaign is insane. There are videos of this asshole saying women shouldn't have birth control but should just "get this under control" while waving his hand at his crotch should be disqualifying. All the other stuff that came out even before he won the primaries should be disqualifying. Where has the conscience of the GOP gone?

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Tara's avatar

Thank you for the clear view into the Trump supporters. You have confirmed my opinion that Trump voters are delusional.

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Sarah B's avatar

Team Harris! I'm phonebanking at 11 a.m. PST today (Sept 21) through Field Team 6 to register Dems in AZ. It's a Zoom call w training first. Now is the time, team! This is a great strategic way to bring thousands of new Dems into the fold in crucial swing states, if we work together. Join me!

https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?q=phone%20banks&tag_ids=20038

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A Boy Named Pseu(donym)'s avatar

"Is talking about being a black Hitler not an effective closing message? 'It’s not what I’d lean on,' said Heye."

Insights like these are why David Heye makes the big bucks.

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James Kirkland's avatar

In a race still too close to call I would not be willing to bet the farm on the outcome of a single gubernatorial contest. Hopeful, yes. And there is much work yet to be done.

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Peter Summers's avatar

How stupid does Robinson think people are? How did Trump endorse Robinson? On second thought who cares! Make them pay Dems!! MAKE THEM PAY!!

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Sarah B's avatar

Team Harris! The election has begun. VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA, and SOUTH DAKOTA start voting TODAY! We want to win this thing in October! Running up early numbers is crucial: it's hard to overcome, and it lets the Dems clear their rolls to focus on lower propensity voters.

So, please please think through EVERYONE you know in Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota and get them to submit their ballot TODAY. And tell them to tell all their friends, family, and neighbors in those states to do the same and to keep spreading the word.

Please spread this far and wide with your networks! It has BEGUN. This is how we win, LFG!!!

#voteondayone #LFG

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David J. Sharp's avatar

It’s now apparent that the MAGA movement, fronted by Donald Trump, has moved from his (and its) being a showman to show off.

MTG, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Chip Roy, racist Sen. Kennedy—they shout because their message is nonsensical (and perhaps that’s why Jim Jordan talks so fast). No more adults in the room, just loud children screaming, “Look at me!!”

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T Jefferson Snodgrass's avatar

"News of Robinson’s pro-Hitler remarks was particularly poorly timed for Trump, who hours later headlined an event denouncing antisemitism." Where, of course, Trump complained more about ungrateful Jewish voters than about the scourge of antisemitism. You couldn't make it up. On his best day, Twain, Heller, Vonnegut, Sinclair Lewis--not one of them could invent this malign idiot.

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David's avatar

The gentleman who actually DID invent this malign idiot was Isaac Asimov. In the books, "The Foundation Trilogy" there is a character, "The Mule" who is an unpredictable mutation that pretty much takes over / destroys the galaxy. Drumpf to a t.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I will laugh myself silly if Trump, the racist now courting black men to take down the black woman, is himself taken down by a black man.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

Still paid the bucks for the fine. It's the money that counts.

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Carolyn Phipps's avatar

You're new here, aren't you?

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KO in LA's avatar

The worst fact about Robinson is that Republicans in North Carolina knowingly and definitively nominated him as their candidate for governor. They can't run or hide or wash their hands of him - he was their clear choice and we see exactly who and what they are.

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Jeff S.'s avatar

As a North Carolina resident, I just need him to drag down two other candidates (and they know who they are). The rest...meh.

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Rajeev's avatar

What he said about Martin Luther King & Barack Obama sums up everything you need to know about this horrific human being:

“Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.

“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer K—-!” Robinson responded.

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Aggman's avatar

The black Nazi who hates gays, Jews, liberals, immigrants, and loves transgender porn, is proudly Trump's "Martin Luther King on steroids." Trump's hatred has bloomed in North Carolina and around the country and will hopefully demolish his election chances in NC as well as much of America. I am one of those "Jews who hate Trump" and love that Josh Stein, a Jew, will whip Robinson, and I for one will be happy to vote against Trump and every other extremist in Michigan.

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