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Breadbassket said:
Sounds like some possible shenanigans could be afoot if Robson has friends with the state GOP. Making sure to supply less material to polling stations in areas favorable to Lake would be quite the scheme. Logistical blunders aside, the de facto end result is voter disenfranchisement.
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Whether this is the result of incompetence or malice, the state GOP in AZ needs to be purged of the RINOs.
 
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notafederalagent said:
Two top House Dems decline to say Biden should run in 2024
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Michelle L. Price
2022-08-03 01:00:12GMT

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two powerful House Democrats from New York each declined Tuesday to say that President Joe Biden should run for the White House again in 2024.

Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, two of the party’s establishment liberals who chair powerful committees and are competing for a Manhattan-area House seat, shied away from supporting the president when they were asked in a televised debate whether Biden should seek a second term.

Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary committee, said: “Too early to say. Doesn’t serve the purpose of the Democratic Party to, to deal with that until after the midterms.”

Maloney, who chairs the Oversight committee, said, “I don’t believe he’s running for reelection.”

Their comments follow West Virginia moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who declined Sunday to endorse the president for a second term, saying he wouldn’t get into it.

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is more progressive than Nadler, Maloney and Manchin, also demurred when asked in a June CNN interview to say whether she would support Biden running in 2024.

Last month, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips said in a radio interview that he didn’t believe Biden should run again and that “the country would be well-served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up.”

His Minnesota colleague, Rep. Angie Craig, earlier Tuesday told MinnPost that Democrats “need new leaders in Washington up and down the ballot” when asked if she would support Biden if he runs.

Biden, 79, has said he plans to seek reelection. But as the oldest person to have ever assumed the presidency, Biden has faced persistent questions about whether he will run for a second term.

While Maloney and Nadler each declined to encourage a Biden reelection bid, the third candidate in their primary, 38-year-old attorney Suraj Patel, backed the president. Patel, who has cast his campaign around a need for fresh voices in politics, said simply, “Yes,” when asked if Biden should run again.
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Two dems declining to endorse Biden isn't a lot, but I would say that it's a good peek behind the curtain. I have yet to see the democrats rally behind another potential candidate in terms of suggesting X should run as president, however.

I can see a large chunk of Americans voting for Biden again, even if inflation keeps rising and the definition of recession had to be changed to prevent people from panicking. It won't matter how many times he or his administration fumbles international relations (such as the speech conference regarding supporting Taiwan today, or last year's Afghanistan withdrawal) - the Vote Blue No Matter Who mindset is deeply ingrained after Trump's term.
 
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Richard Baris thinks Gibbs is heavily favored to win, says Meijer is running out of votes.

Huge vote dump coming in Arizona, according to Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk, their inside info is saying in the next 10-15 minutes Kari Lake is about to get a massive boost, says the race could be within 2 points. Take with a grain of salt. Gibbs down less than 100 votes in Kent County, that is nuts. All the votes counted in Arizona are early votes.
 
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CharlesBarkley said:
I’ll never understand lefties and why nationalism is bad.

“America should quit being a world cop and focus on minorities suffering here due to racism and poverty. So please vote anything but MAGA for forever wars, nonstop migrants fucking over black people, and racist IDpol policies that not only fuck the poor and uneducated, but also the vast working class.”
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>Collectivism good
>Borders bad

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I have literally never heard of a Libertarian terrorist group.

What's next, is the American Flag a terrorist symbol?
 
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Breadbassket said:
Some info on Pinal County Elections Director David Frisk in Arizona

3 facts about him:
1. Worked in the banking sector for 25 years and retired.
2. Relatively new arrival to Arizona, actually seems to be from the state of Washington.
3. Just started his job as Elections Director this year.
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Eyes on him. He's a transplant from the PNW and that is a hotbed of election fortification.
 
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LUNEKO said:
They believe in the entire world living in a collectivist utopia where everyone plays nice, simply put they are retarded megalomaniacs and control freaks
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I was recently told that you can't have strong borders without a managerial state because the taxes required for it would be tyrannically coercive. Apparently the opposite side is equally unsustainable. It's either tyranny or chaos, apparently.
 
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MrJokerRager said:
Looks like the Senate passed the PACT act.
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Another dignified defeat. The Republicans didn't really do themselves many favors here, I didn't really see much of an effort to explain their position or if they did it was drowned out by the media. Oh well I guess the current set of politicians on Capitol Hill are used to courteously bowing as their opposition beats them over the head on a legislative level so what does it matter.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I was recently told that you can't have strong borders without a managerial state because the taxes required for it would be tyrannically coercive. Apparently the opposite side is equally unsustainable. It's either tyranny or chaos, apparently.
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That's fucking absurd to anyone who isn't an anarchist.
 
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The Big O said:
Eyes on him. He's a transplant from the PNW and that is a hotbed of election fortification.
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Honestly election directors (the people who oversee registration, voting and election activites in a county) only having to live in a place to get their positions while candidates who run for the office of governor need to of have lived in a state for a number of years to even be able to run for office seems like a glaring weakness in the electoral system.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
On a scale of one to ten, how expensive would you say effective border control would be?
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If you actively discourage immigration and convince people not to go to a certain country anymore while also proactively punishing people who violate the rules, its probably cheaper then a lot of social program (welfare, free medicare, etc.) in the long term. If a person from the start thinks their trip to enter into a country will be in a vain they will not attempt it to begin with if they have a say in the matter.
 
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