abolish primaries

Xerox of a Xerox

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

One of these things are not like the other

[Dhaaruni ✨👑📊🗡️🐉 @dhaaruni]

Fox News shouldn’t have called Arizona at 11pm on election night 2020 but in doing so, inadvertently saved the Republic because the media and everybody else didn’t immediately accept Trump’s declarations that he won the election

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

That’s also what it looked like in 2016

[Grace Ryan @nycgraceryan]

I’m becoming a Blohio truther
📸: @lexi_vriaja

[Rachel Janfaza @racheljanfaza]

The takeaway here is not that young voters are suddenly all Democrats. It's that Gen Z is swingy. This is a generation raised on instant gratification, frustrated by the status quo and rising cost of living. They want change. It's that simple.

[OSZ @OpenSourceZone]

Michigan share of early votes in Republican counties have increased compared to the same time in 2024 Per @petebray

2024:
🔵 52.6%
🔴 47.4%

2026:
🔵 51.9% (-0.7)
🔴 48.1% (+0.7)

[Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC]

His entire primary campaign was about Haley Stevens having dual loyalty to Israel because of AIPAC!

And El-Sayed has family members in MB, he’s written in support of MB, and he’s taken a ton of money from MB-affiliated donors

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

That's the logic here. That's how Trump survived every scandal. If you make it a GOP vs. Dem thing you will most of the time break even. Political backlash now-a-days only exists if you enable it. At least for Republicans, the Democratic coalition is far less unified in purpose

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

Here's the thing though, most people don't pay attention to politics. Most people do not know Amy Acton's life story. Most people will not bother to Google it. And most people will not hear the news controversy about this.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

ok. this is an actual endorsement of the Vivek ad, unlike his earlier line that he was upset that republicans were upset with the ad. Can't really believe that they're attaching themselves to this thing.

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

If you agree that it's a scandalous ad, then more people will hear about it & backlash will ensue. If you plow forward, Dems will think worse of you but Republicans will rally around the flag. For most voters all they'll see is Amy Acton's mother telling you not to vote for her

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

Here's the thing though, most people don't pay attention to politics. Most people do not know Amy Acton's life story. Most people will not bother to Google it. And most people will not hear the news controversy about this.

That is what they are betting on.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Vance *defends* Ramaswamy's reprehensible ad 👇

Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away from that. Do you think that ad was appropriate?

JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest with you. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. My concern is who is gonna govern. I have to admit I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans who are whining more about that ad than they are about what the Democrats want to do.

[Walrus in a Top Hat @Red_Roscoe]

Bloomberg is an unapologetic Zionist and AIPAC donor. Exactly the type of Dem donor El-Sayed has railed about all year. Exactly the type of Dem donor who keeps the lights on in the Democratic Party. Y’all complain about the donors but love to spend their money.

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

I gave money to a Federal Republican for the first time in my life this year. Abdul El-Sayed must lose.

[Bobby LaValley @Bobby_LaVallley]

New York Times national reporter: Lifelong Jewish Democrats in Detroit suburbs say they’re voting Republican for the first time.

"That’s a big deal. I don’t know of any other marquee race in the country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats."

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

How was Trump winning good for Muslim American interests?

Or are they perfect little angels with no agency and how dare you say they're responsible for their own choices.

[Rowan Fornow 🚵🚉🏙️🦣🇵🇸 @rowanfornow]

My stance on Jews shifting right is kind of a reflection of Muslims shifting right in 2024:

1. Losing coalition partners based on immutable characteristics is bad

2. I do judge individual Jews for voting against their interests (GOP rule is worse for American Jews than D rule)

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

Most people aren't going to google the story though.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Surprised that folks think the Amy Acton mother ad will work. My immediate reaction (which i suspect will be other's) was: wait, is that her mother? Then I searched for the backstory on Acton's family. And then, well...

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

Intellectual diversity of the right

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

Graham Platner also got away with it for a long while. But Democrats at least have some lines

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

What Trump taught in these situations is to never back down, it’s only a scandal if you back down. If you blaze full speed ahead you’ll likely get away with it. (At least if you’re a Republican)

[Alex Isenstadt @axiosalex]

SCOOP: Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on the explosive ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother attacking her daughter, putting $4 million behind it despite fierce bipartisan backlash

More >>

https://t.co/cLphxyc8z8

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

That's just A+ campaign work.

They knew that Ramaswamy's team would do something uproariously stupid, and had an ad in the can ready to go.

[autumn! @auautumntumn]

Eric Pratt, the republican running for Angie Craig's open seat in MN-02, left the AI restating his prompt on his website.

"The President is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs."

lmfao

[abolish primaries @dittopolis]

Well he can kiss any Presidential hopes goodbye

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in.

In France, students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes.

In Spain, for affordable rent and housing.

In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption.

@JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south.

He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment.

The is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.

This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future.

In America, let us listen to our young.

We need an economic and political transformation.

America's Next New Deal.

[jeremysenderowicz @senderowiczj]

Approximately 100% of the people saying it’s “racist and Islamophobic” to ask AES about his sympathies for Muslim Brotherhood & terrorism would talk about nothing else if a Republican had a fraction of AES’ connections to racists & white supremacists. And everyone knows it.