Gifted from Nikki Haley to boot.O Really wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 12:31 pm
That would be the Senator Tim Scott who got his job as a gift, right?
I continue to be totally amazed that so many people don't see all the impossible things that would have to occur for their "beliefs" to be true.
They are handed scripts by their state and national GQP. This is not just helpfulness. The scripts must be adhered to if they want party support. Hence, "Border, Border, Border, Inflation, Inflation, Inflation".Whack9 wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 10:48 amSometimes I wish I could get inside these people's heads to see what their true intentions are. Do they believe the bullshit they say? I'm sure some do. Others it's likely as simple as a raw desire for power and nothing more, and whatever they can spew to achieve that no matter how outlandish is fair game. Example: Senator Tim Scott when asked whether he'd accept the results of the 2024 presidential election no matter who the victor is. He refused to simply answer "yes".
No other explanation. The way they skirt very simple, straightforward questions drives me nuts. Absolutely zero integrity.Vrede too wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 12:50 pmThey are handed scripts by their state and national GQP. This is not just helpfulness. The scripts must be adhered to if they want party support. Hence, "Border, Border, Border, Inflation, Inflation, Inflation".Whack9 wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 10:48 amSometimes I wish I could get inside these people's heads to see what their true intentions are. Do they believe the bullshit they say? I'm sure some do. Others it's likely as simple as a raw desire for power and nothing more, and whatever they can spew to achieve that no matter how outlandish is fair game. Example: Senator Tim Scott when asked whether he'd accept the results of the 2024 presidential election no matter who the victor is. He refused to simply answer "yes".
That's been deemed irrelevant in trump's Republican party.
Whack9 wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 10:48 amSometimes I wish I could get inside these people's heads to see what their true intentions are. Do they believe the bullshit they say? I'm sure some do. Others it's likely as simple as a raw desire for power and nothing more, and whatever they can spew to achieve that no matter how outlandish is fair game. Example: Senator Tim Scott when asked whether he'd accept the results of the 2024 presidential election no matter who the victor is. He refused to simply answer "yes".
As you say.Whack9 wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 7:41 pmNo other explanation. The way they skirt very simple, straightforward questions drives me nuts. Absolutely zero integrity.Vrede too wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 12:50 pmThey are handed scripts by their state and national GQP. This is not just helpfulness. The scripts must be adhered to if they want party support. Hence, "Border, Border, Border, Inflation, Inflation, Inflation".
Jordan Klepper Has Video Evidence Of How 'Humiliating' It Is To Be A Trump Stooge
"The Daily Show" correspondent spots bizarre moments from some of the former president's VP hopefuls.
“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper spotted a bizarre moment on TV over the weekend as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) took election denial to a new level.
Scott, who is on the shortlist of Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential picks, didn’t just deny the 2020 results. As Klepper pointed out, he pre-denied the 2024 vote count during a wild interview in which he repeatedly refused to accept the results, saying only that Trump will be the next president.
“This is how humiliating it is to be on Trump’s team: Normal questions become trick questions,” said Klepper, who is hosting “The Daily Show” this week. “This is not a hard question. It’s like when the band comes out and says, ‘Are you ready to party?’ Just say yes and enjoy Imagine Dragons like a responsible adult.”...
Nttawwt. Fingers crossed. GoMAGA crazy Republican RFK JrGoEx-Republican congressman calls RFK Jr. a ‘MAGA crazy Republican’ who will take votes away from GOP, Trump
Former Rep. David Jolly (Fla.), who served in the House as a Republican but later left the party, ripped into independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a “MAGA crazy Republican” who could take votes from the GOP this November.
“I still think RFK Jr. could take more from Republican, and I think that’s why Donald Trump’s attacking him,” Jolly, an MSNBC political commentator, told host Jonathan Capehart on Saturday. “He is a MAGA crazy Republican; he’s a vaccine denier. He denies science, he flip-flops on the issue of abortion and even his own VP candidate can’t keep up with where he is day to day on the most important issue going into November.”...
Preemptive 
White supremacy, figures... Lake added that she’s “absolutely, one thousand percent” sure the idea is intended to let noncitizens illegally living in the country vote in the 2024 election. Alleged schemes of noncitizens voting have consistently been tied to the “great replacement theory,” a white supremacist conspiracy theory. There are no records of noncitizens voting in any significant quantity in recent elections....
We'll accept it if we win.Vrede too wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:01 am Wingnut Kari Lake is not alone.
Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question.
MAGAt wimps include:
Sen. Uncle Tim Scott (SC)
SINO Mike Johnson the johnson (LA)
Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY)
Rep. Byron Donalds (FL)
Sen. JD Vance (OH)
Sam Brown, candidate for Senate in Nevada
And so far they haven't actually needed one.O Really wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 10:29 am And yet, nobody has come up with even a plausible hypothetical as to how this massive election-rigging feat could have been pulled off.
It's not good news if NC is no longer a battleground.Battleground Polling Shows Ticket-Splitting Pattern
We have a new set of polls for you in the battleground states, including New York Times/Siena College polls of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and the inaugural Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll in Pennsylvania.
Ut-oh.The results in the presidential race would have been surprising a year ago, but it’s hard to call them surprising anymore. Former President Donald Trump leads in five of the six states among likely voters, with President Joe Biden squeaking out a lead among likely voters in Michigan.
Voting for xenophobic White supremacy, great.Trump’s strength is largely thanks to gains among young, Black and Hispanic voters.
Phew, silver lining.What’s more surprising is the U.S. Senate results. This is the first time we’ve asked about Senate races this year, and the Democratic candidates led in all four of the states we tested: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada.
Not only do Democrats lead, but they also seem to do so in an entirely customary way, with ordinary levels of support from young and nonwhite voters, even as Biden struggles at the top of the ticket.
But but, TRE45QN and his fundie base are even more blindly pro-Israel.... Overall, Trump led, 57-25, among Middle East, North African or Muslim voters in the poll. Those who say they voted in the 2020 election reported backing Biden by a similar but opposite margin, 56-35.
When we asked Arab or Muslim voters who didn’t back Biden about their most important issue in the race, around 70% cited foreign policy or the war in the Gaza Strip.
Could be, but the writer tries to make the case that the split-ticket results make the polling something to pay attention to - lower odds of partisan biasGoCubsGo wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 3:06 pmPolls six months out are nothing but fodder to give the talking heads something to do.
See 2016 and 2020.
As if that matters for Auditor. 
Have I mentioned lately that this is gonna be a strange election year?Vrede too wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 10:11 am Takeaways from primaries in Maryland, West Virginia and Nebraska