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The Hopium Chronicles: CNN Townhall Tonight at 9pm ET, Elon The Dancing Dipshit, Working Hard And Closing Strong
The Hopium Chronicles - CNN Townhall Tonight at 9pm ET, Elon The Dancing Dipshit, Working Hard And Closing Strong
Come Phonebank For Harris-Walz and Derek Tran (CA-45) Thursday!/Welcome New Subscribers!
Simon Rosenberg
Oct 23, 2024
Happy Wednesday all. The Vice President joins CNN for a townhall tonight at 9pm. All of us should watch. Will be a big night for the campaign, and as she has been bringing it these last few weeks, am sure it will be a good one.
A central reason I’ve remained optimistic is that I’ve believed our financial advantage and superior campaign would allow us to close stronger than Trump. Our ads are reaching more people. Our muscular grassroots is touching more voters. But one other way the campaign is reaching more voters is through the many, many events they are putting on across the battlegrounds each day. In the home stretch you are seeing us everywhere, with powerful and popular surrogates, in front of large and enthusiastic crowds, getting loads of coverage in local media that our target voters watch, listen to and read as early vote really takes off. The organization required to execute these events each day is incredible and could only be pulled off by an ably led, deeply experienced and well-funded campaign. One place your money has gone is in producing the extraordinary spectacle we see each day - Obama, Clinton, the spouses, Liz Cheney, Gov. Walz, Bruce Springsteen and of course the barnstorming, hardest working person in showbiz, the Vice President herself - graceful, eloquent, confident, and powerful in every appearance, every day.
I’ve been talking about how the lack of a late October Presidential debate to help engage the American people meant that the campaigns were going to have to carry a heavier burden at the end to persuade and energize voters. A normal tool that would wake folks up and get them vote isn’t here this time, and the absence of that tool would become a serious test of the two campaigns in the close. So far, we are doing a much better job at filing that void and creating the energy and intensity required to win a close election. The campaign leadership team deserves a lot of credit for understanding all this and executing the exciting daily spectacle they are now producing each day.
This more compelling spectacle also drives a very clear contrast with him, his profound ugliness, his scorching burnt orange, his slovenliness, his unhinged rants, his extremism, his fascistic isolation. Needing to create noise and excitement at the end has meant that the Trump campaign has really had to lean on him in the close - and that, my friends, as we’ve seen with our own eyes, is not going so well. I did a private briefing yesterday where my Republican counterpart said internal GOP tracking polls are finding the race moving towards Harris because Trump’s buffoonery and lunacy is breaking through to voters now. At this critical time our campaign is soaring. And theirs is Trumping along with their broken down band of Star Wars bar allies.
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Come Phonebank For Harris-Walz and Derek Tran (CA-45) Thursday!/Welcome New Subscribers!
Simon Rosenberg
Oct 23, 2024
Happy Wednesday all. The Vice President joins CNN for a townhall tonight at 9pm. All of us should watch. Will be a big night for the campaign, and as she has been bringing it these last few weeks, am sure it will be a good one.
A central reason I’ve remained optimistic is that I’ve believed our financial advantage and superior campaign would allow us to close stronger than Trump. Our ads are reaching more people. Our muscular grassroots is touching more voters. But one other way the campaign is reaching more voters is through the many, many events they are putting on across the battlegrounds each day. In the home stretch you are seeing us everywhere, with powerful and popular surrogates, in front of large and enthusiastic crowds, getting loads of coverage in local media that our target voters watch, listen to and read as early vote really takes off. The organization required to execute these events each day is incredible and could only be pulled off by an ably led, deeply experienced and well-funded campaign. One place your money has gone is in producing the extraordinary spectacle we see each day - Obama, Clinton, the spouses, Liz Cheney, Gov. Walz, Bruce Springsteen and of course the barnstorming, hardest working person in showbiz, the Vice President herself - graceful, eloquent, confident, and powerful in every appearance, every day.
I’ve been talking about how the lack of a late October Presidential debate to help engage the American people meant that the campaigns were going to have to carry a heavier burden at the end to persuade and energize voters. A normal tool that would wake folks up and get them vote isn’t here this time, and the absence of that tool would become a serious test of the two campaigns in the close. So far, we are doing a much better job at filing that void and creating the energy and intensity required to win a close election. The campaign leadership team deserves a lot of credit for understanding all this and executing the exciting daily spectacle they are now producing each day.
This more compelling spectacle also drives a very clear contrast with him, his profound ugliness, his scorching burnt orange, his slovenliness, his unhinged rants, his extremism, his fascistic isolation. Needing to create noise and excitement at the end has meant that the Trump campaign has really had to lean on him in the close - and that, my friends, as we’ve seen with our own eyes, is not going so well. I did a private briefing yesterday where my Republican counterpart said internal GOP tracking polls are finding the race moving towards Harris because Trump’s buffoonery and lunacy is breaking through to voters now. At this critical time our campaign is soaring. And theirs is Trumping along with their broken down band of Star Wars bar allies.
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