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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]JohnSJ
(96,798 posts)supporters unfortunately didn't. It was a minority, 10%, but it contributed to what happened in 2016, and in 2020 most came home.
My point being simply that in an election supposedly this close according to polls, and with perhaps as much as 10-20% of republicans and Haley supporters, who are either republicans or "undecided", to utilize whatever it takes to try and convince them to not only NOT vote for trump, but vote for Harris/Walz, and in fact the Harris campaign is airing campaign ads on various programs USING republicans in those ads to do just that, where these republicans are saying they will vote for Harris this time because trump is too dangerous and cannot be trusted.
Will it help? I don't think it will hurt, and I cannot remember anytime that so many prominent republicans publicly came out to endorse a Democratic candidate.
What I see is the Harris-Walz campaign reaching out to ALL groups trying to utilize the. Howard Dean 50-state strategy.
Governor Walz is actually going on fox to do a solo interview on October 6. Of course you have such jackassed reports criticizing Harris-Walz for not doing more interviews, because "people don't really know them", which is bullshit in my book. On the issues people absolutely do know where the candidates are on the issues, and that the illustrious press try to push a false narrative that they don't know where Harris-Walz are on the issues, highlights just how inane the MSM is. They have been for sometime, and their lazy and inept coverage has demonstrated that.
For some reason they also seem to hold Democrats to a much higher standard than republicans.
The most recent example was the Jack Smith preliminary evidentiary report. Within 24 to 48 hours it was no longer a news event, unlike the overblown "Hillary email scandal", which went on for months, and after Comey released a letter to the republicans in congress 11 days before the general election saying they were investigating another laptop for additional information, the media almost universally reported that "the email investigation had been reopened", WHICH WAS A LIE, and the news outlets paraded every right wing pundit across their outlets perpetuating that lie for the next week 24/7.