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[LeMon @ZeLemonLord]

@CantEverDie Both were bad candidates

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@xandra_spud47 @CantEverDie Nobody said you have to perform like Abdul or Zohran every interview. But if your defense of a candidate’s communication skills is “well, it was a tough interview,” you’re proving the point. Good political communicators are supposed to handle hostile questions and environments

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@CantEverDie This interview was what pushed me into thinking she was gonna lose, nothing charasmatic happening here and seemed very low energy

Plus the background and mic quality was awful, I hope her team never works again

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@ostonox Additionally, denying that it didn’t have an impact at all is also stupid

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@RealPhilycheese @souljagoyteller A bad candidate can absolutely almost win, just like a good candidate can lose. There’s lots of outside factors that goes into this stuff. “She almost won, therefore she couldn’t have been bad” is just circular logic.

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@journalistish Circling back to this

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@RealPhilycheese @souljagoyteller “Most politicians are bad candidates” is such a meaningless cop-out. If everyone is bad, then apparently there’s no such thing as candidate quality at all. Communicating and persuading voters
Is literally part of the job.

Hong was bad at both

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@RealPhilycheese @souljagoyteller Yea and he’s winning, that’s how bad of a candidate Hong is

We have to recognize when our own candidates are bad, it’s okay to admit that

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@souljagoyteller She just isn’t memorable and doesn’t have the personality

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Francesca Hong is probably going to lose because she’s a terrible candidate, that’s the story. She clearly wasn’t ready for prime time, didn’t know how to maneuver through the limelight, and did the stupidest idea of all: no TV ads. Candidate quality matters

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@CantEverDie Wanted her to win, but when are we all gonna agree that Hong was a bad candidate

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@Zack_James94 Because, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, she is not a good candidate

I want a progressive to win, but there is nothing memorable about Hong. Whole campaign seemed low energy

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@CantEverDie Don’t get me wrong hope Hong wins but lmao

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@CantEverDie

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@wizardwilly_ @CantEverDie @naaycoqui Ok? So this whole conversation was pointless then 😊

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@wizardwilly_ @CantEverDie @naaycoqui “We” as in election Twitter in general. Come on, it’s absurd to pretend people weren’t looking at those polls and acting like this was going to be a 10-point race before the night of. You can’t rewrite history

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@wizardwilly_ @CantEverDie @naaycoqui You’re literally making my point now 😭 You’re assessing her electability based on fundraising, messaging and swing voter appeal instead of whether you personally like her. I never argued Stevens was more electable, I said electability isn’t just personal bias.

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@neeratanden GOP has all three branches of government yet here you are arguing with your own party than focusing on the problem

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@neeratanden Can you shut up for once