This seat will not flip. Gibbs is no fool and has the Youngkin calibration down. And unless you have actually been in West Michigan recently, you can have no idea how vicious and angry the red areas are.
Meijer did not lose because the Dems (immorally and stupidly) wasted money pushing Gibbs. He lost because the people have alrea…
This seat will not flip. Gibbs is no fool and has the Youngkin calibration down. And unless you have actually been in West Michigan recently, you can have no idea how vicious and angry the red areas are.
Meijer did not lose because the Dems (immorally and stupidly) wasted money pushing Gibbs. He lost because the people have already seceded in their hearts from the America of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan. They want the America of Trump and Berlusconi and Orban. And they will not be denied.
I should also mention, in 2020 Meijer pretty convincingly defeated the same Dem challenger (Hillary Scholton) by 53 to 47. A little more than 53. The district is a little different today, but despite Grand Rapids and Muskegon county, the out county areas are redder than Lady MacBeth's hands, and the base out there has a guy on the ballot who is talking their walk, and has Sauron's endorsement. And the strategy for Hillary (who is by no means a good smash-mouth politician, more like the very nice principal you want running your kids' elementary school) is going to have to be to get Trump on the ballot to gin up the blueish discomfort with fascism of the ill-mannered sort -- but Trump on that ballot will also fire up the rural hoi polloi.
We will see. Hope I'm wrong and you are right. Hilary is pretty liberal for West Michigan. She's going to be tarred with the brush of wanting open borders because she wanted to reform immigration. She is going to be hit as a groomer because she has supported LGBT rights. and uses terms like "LGBT+" on her website. The gun lobby is going to go crazy on her. She was crushed by Meijer last time, 53 to 47.
On the plus side, I haven't heard any defund the police foolishness. But that she doesn't say it or believe it won't stop anyone from painting her as having said it.
It also used to be the state where Moderate republicans and Democrats managed to both push their own political programs and still work together for a set of broadly shared goals.
This seat will not flip. Gibbs is no fool and has the Youngkin calibration down. And unless you have actually been in West Michigan recently, you can have no idea how vicious and angry the red areas are.
Meijer did not lose because the Dems (immorally and stupidly) wasted money pushing Gibbs. He lost because the people have already seceded in their hearts from the America of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan. They want the America of Trump and Berlusconi and Orban. And they will not be denied.
I should also mention, in 2020 Meijer pretty convincingly defeated the same Dem challenger (Hillary Scholton) by 53 to 47. A little more than 53. The district is a little different today, but despite Grand Rapids and Muskegon county, the out county areas are redder than Lady MacBeth's hands, and the base out there has a guy on the ballot who is talking their walk, and has Sauron's endorsement. And the strategy for Hillary (who is by no means a good smash-mouth politician, more like the very nice principal you want running your kids' elementary school) is going to have to be to get Trump on the ballot to gin up the blueish discomfort with fascism of the ill-mannered sort -- but Trump on that ballot will also fire up the rural hoi polloi.
It's a +8 Biden district. Gibbs isn't winning.
We will see. Hope I'm wrong and you are right. Hilary is pretty liberal for West Michigan. She's going to be tarred with the brush of wanting open borders because she wanted to reform immigration. She is going to be hit as a groomer because she has supported LGBT rights. and uses terms like "LGBT+" on her website. The gun lobby is going to go crazy on her. She was crushed by Meijer last time, 53 to 47.
On the plus side, I haven't heard any defund the police foolishness. But that she doesn't say it or believe it won't stop anyone from painting her as having said it.
It's our job to deny them.
It also used to be the state where Moderate republicans and Democrats managed to both push their own political programs and still work together for a set of broadly shared goals.