2020 Election
September 24, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Busy week, with a LOT to catch up on. Stay tuned; I will. In the meantime, two important videos about California and Texas. First up, the great J.P. Sears. The COVID-19 lockdown is probably bad for his touring act, but it has meant that he’s producing more videos for us to enjoy. Although he lives (I think) in Colorado, he turns his attention here to California, or as he puts
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September 21, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Collin Peterson is the closest thing to a conservative Democrat in Congress. He has represented Minnesota’s 7th District, the Northwestern and West Central portion of the state, since 1991. He is currently Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. At one time Peterson was an icon in the district, but his enthusiasm for campaigning has waned and in recent cycles, as his district moved farther away from the Democratic Party, his
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September 21, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Andy McCarthy points to a wrinkle that seems to diminish the likelihood the Senate will confirm President Trump’s selection to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the event that Joe Biden wins the election. Right now, Republicans hold the Senate by a 53-47 margin. This means that a nominee can be confirmed even if three GOP Senators refuse to go along. Barring exceptional circumstances, there would have to be four defectors
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September 13, 2020 — Scott Johnson
We have come to a sorry pass when vows to respect the American flag, to despise socialism, and to stand up for the sovereignty of the United States are — if not incendiary acts, as they are in the Twin Cities and other left-wing urban strongholds — but politically useful. I therefore conclude that we have in fact come to a sorry pass. In the ad below, North Carolina Eleventh
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September 2, 2020 — John Hinderaker
I have gone out on a limb and predicted that President Trump will carry Minnesota this year, while our friend Jason Lewis will win his Senate race against faceless incumbent Tina Smith. Tonight, poll data became available that suggest the Democrats’ hopes in Minnesota are fading fast. The survey was done by Harper Polling and covered 501 likely voters, reached by a combination of land lines and cell phones between
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August 31, 2020 — John Hinderaker
I have gone out on a limb and predicted that President Trump will carry Minnesota in November, and my friend Jason Lewis will win the state’s Senate seat against the lazy, faceless incumbent, Tina Smith. In recent days, a number of others have written that Minnesota will be in play in November. Today, the liberal site FiveThirtyEight weighed in with a surprisingly fair account of what is going on here:
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August 30, 2020 — John Hinderaker
That is the theme of this nuclear ad by Tom Cotton, which is going live in Minnesota and Wisconsin tonight. The violent mobs of Antifa and BLM need to be hung around the neck of the Democratic Party, and this ad goes a long way toward that end: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 NEW Tom Cotton ad going live in Wisconsin and Minnesota tonight pic.twitter.com/SVv6J4nVPI — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 30, 2020 Note, too,
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August 27, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The riots, looting and arson that have broken out across America, with tacit or open support from many Democratic politicians, have radically changed the outlook for November’s elections. I wrote last night about the organized assault on civilization that reigned last night in Minneapolis. Utterly incompetent governance at the state and local levels, combined with a sympathy for violent Marxists like those associated with Black Lives Matter, have led to
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August 27, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I’m guessing the Democrats’ internal polling on the current rioting and protesting is looking really bad, because the New York Times this morning declares a five-alarm fire with this new story (I’ve bolded some revealing bits of the reportage): How Chaos in Kenosha Is Already Swaying Some Voters in Wisconsin . . . [S]ome voters who were less sure of their choice said the chaos in their city and the
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August 20, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats finished off their convention on Tuesday (I think) with a rendition of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” by Billy Porter, who is actually pretty good. 60s nostalgia will never die on the Left, apparently. But the song’s lyrics don’t exactly apply to 2020 America. “What a field day for the heat”? Not quite. Someone named Brandon Morse, associated with RedState I think, created this excellent video that
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August 20, 2020 — John Hinderaker
That phrase is President Trump’s, and it sums up today’s Democratic Party very well. This highly effective ad focuses on the Democrats’ tyrannical efforts to control every aspect of our lives: This is a very powerful ad. Watch it and then retweet it: pic.twitter.com/pwhgPQuOGw — Ned Ryun (@nedryun) August 18, 2020 I am becoming increasingly optimistic about this year’s election. It seems obvious that the Democrats have gone far overboard,
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August 18, 2020 — John Hinderaker
In a year in which there has been much to criticize, one positive development has been the growing rebellion among African-Americans against one-party rule. This instance comes from Baltimore, where Congressional candidate Kim Klacik released an ad that has gone nuclear: Democrats don’t want you to see this. They’re scared that I’m exposing what life is like in Democrat run cities. That’s why I’m running for CongressBecause All Black Lives
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August 15, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Everyone knows that rural America has gone deep red. That trend came last to the Upper Midwest, but it has arrived in Minnesota with a vengeance. Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, home to the state’s mining industry, is heavily unionized and was long a Democratic Party bastion. No longer: the 8th, along with the rest of Greater Minnesota, is now Trump country. It is represented by Republican Pete Stauber, a former
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August 13, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I’m not sure whether I’m up for the tedium and torture of reviewing Joe Biden’s long sorry record and statements from 50 years in politics, let alone sharing this pain with readers, but one statement from Biden’s past illustrates well his total opportunism and sliminess. In 1986, Biden told this to a reporter: “Say the administration sends up Bork, and, after our investigation, he looks a lot like another Scalia.
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August 5, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Kim Gardner, the incompetent and corrupt Soros-funded St. Louis prosecutor, won the Democratic primary yesterday. She defeated Mary Pat Carl, 61-39. I believe that one day, rampant homicides and other serious crimes will cause voters in cities like St. Louis to toss out far left prosecutors like Gardner whose policies favor criminals. But that day has not arrived — certainly not in St. Louis. The good folks in that city
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August 4, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Roger Marshall is running well ahead of Kris Kobach in the Republican Senate primary in Kansas. The AP projects that Marshall is the winner. Kobach, Kansas’ former Secretary of State, is something of a conservative hero for his positions on immigration and his tireless work in opposition to voter fraud. However, many Republicans harbored doubts as to whether Kobach could hold the seat for the GOP, considering that he
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July 24, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The Minneapolis Effect is easily measurable: in the wake of the George Floyd riots, law enforcement has pulled back, with police stops down by as much as 90 percent. In this anti-police environment, criminals have taken over the streets. Violent crime has spiked. (Non-violent crime is way up too, but no one has time to worry about that.) This map shows gunfire activity in the City of Minneapolis during 2020:
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