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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEd Rollins Says 'the Race Is Over'
Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins, who is the chair of the pro-Donald Trump Great America PAC, told John Avlon: Im afraid the race is over.
Said Rollins: What happened after the first presidential debate is every Senate race saw a 3- to 4-point drop for Republican candidates across the board. So campaigns are panicking and its the first time in a long while that they are being outraised. The potential is there to lose not only the presidency but the Senate as well
and to see the kind of wipeout we havent an experienced since the post-Watergate year of 1974.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/opinions/republican-politicians-self-interest-leaving-trump-avlon/index.html
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Cha
(297,447 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, I'm also expecting Trump to immediately start inciting violence across the country in his supporters, shriek tweeting about millions of illegals voting, threatening to sue everybody but himself, etc.
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
MAKE their worst fears come true!
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LaMouffette
(2,039 posts)Republicans are pulling out every trick in the book at this point (that book being titled: Everything You Wanted to Know About Voter SuppressionAnd Were NOT Afraid to Ask), including hoping to get some voters to stay home and not vote, thinking that Biden would win for sure.
tavernier
(12,395 posts)And chasing you in your worse nightmares!!
iluvtennis
(19,865 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Get everyone you know out of their chairs and make them VOTE!!!!
Joe & Kamala are ready. Vote 'em in.
Dems everywhere are ready. From Dog Catcher to President, Vote 'em in.
Sogo
(4,989 posts)He infiltrated Ross Perot's campaign in 1992 to try and destroy it and was largely successful.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I read his book years ago. It had plenty of good stuff. There are a handful of GOP advisors like Rollins and Mike Murphy who can do one thing behind the scenes but be reasonably balanced and blunt on camera.
Cheviteau
(383 posts)Who knew?
Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,689 posts)This is the time to beat the proverbial dead horse.
mahina
(17,685 posts)Owl
(3,643 posts)These stories have a purpose. To convince people they donn't have to bother voting.
orangecrush
(19,587 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Also, as far as I'm concerned, you should never trust an R.
Overconfidence is the biggest mistake we can make.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)People WANT to vote for a winner and will turn out for Biden if they think they're voting for the winner.
People DO NOT WANT to vote for somebody that is way down in the polls because they see it as hopeless. That's why every time a negative poll comes out, Donny shriek-tweets that they're fake "voter suppression" polls.
Statistical
(19,264 posts)As Lindsey Graham tweeted in 2016: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it."
It took four years but it looks like he was right and they do absolutely deserve every bit of it.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)as well as Trump's a kook, unfit and whatever else he said back then.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He has been aiding and abetting that destruction, as well as his own.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)It has been more than a decade since I was actively involved in a close race, but I still have the vivid memory of our poll watchers calling in to update call lists 10 minutes until poll closing tie. Also relocating vans of volunteer door knockers to neighborhoods which had the highest number of + voters who hadn't voted yet.
Another huge benefit to early voting is that every person who early votes is one more name that comes off the reminder call lists. In the olden days I would get multiple calls both before and during election day. So just imagine, if 100,000 vote early that is 100,000 calls which don't need to be made. Campaign volunteers are able to target only those who haven't voted.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)and spend time and $ on down ticket races that can flip the Senate and increase our lead in the House.
As Jim Carvel says, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Thanks for posting. I don't think we are on a different page.
Looking at the total picture and the down-ballot races, campaigns should be (and I think are) putting the resources where they can do the most good. Who ever thought Arizona and Texas (yes, TEXAS) could be in play this year, both for the presidential and the Senate races. The Biden-Harris team (and fellow travelers) were very smart to divert money to these places rather than throw money at an increased margin of victory in places like here in Illinois.
KS Toronado
(17,290 posts)We should be helping to flip the Senate. If we don't Moscow Mitch to block everything he can.
Walleye
(31,032 posts)Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)But honestly if anyone is complacent it is MAGATS ...
Because no is trusting the polls after 2016
CousinIT
(9,252 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,741 posts)With Rs largely voting in person this year, and many, many Dems voting by mail because of COVID, it's unlikely results will be known for several days.
It's important to get that expectation out there. That it's normal this year for results to take days to come in but every voter can expect to have their vote counted.
As the League of Women Voters is saying, Democracy is worth the wait.
Duncan Grant
(8,272 posts)For your own well-being, your family, your community and your country.
murielm99
(30,754 posts)My children have mailed their ballots.
underpants
(182,854 posts)Voted Thursday.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,564 posts)C Moon
(12,219 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)and 24 days with Donald is an eternity. Would be so nice if comparisons to past elections would soothe worried souls, but we are not the same country we were back then.
stopdiggin
(11,336 posts)for the purposes of fund raising. The Republican party does it every election cycle. "Looking into the face of disaster! Desperately need your help!"
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)Even if you are in a safe state/district, vote anyway and repudiate these motherfuckers. Send them back under the rocks from whence they came! Make it better than 60% for Biden! Get 53 seats in the senate and 250 seats in the House!
Once in government, always assume everything they do is in bad faith. It always is. Destroy them.
ProfessorGAC
(65,117 posts)County went HRC and Duckworth, but R rep, dem state senator and R state rep.
But, we're going to a county site week after next.
It's in a big fire station, loaded with EMTs & paramedics. Also, all trained in hazchem.
I have a feeling it will be safe!
We both just vote D, D, D, D, etc.
Biden & Durbin are winning whether we vote or not. But, we're voting.
Gore1FL
(21,141 posts)My concern is that pilot Trump will "land" us in Shanksville before we arrive at our scheduled stop.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)and double down on the stupid.
I say Good Plan!
Initech
(100,093 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,399 posts)a racist, bigoted, traitorous, ignorant, incompetent bloviating malignant narcissistic sack of $hit.
Boo hoo.
Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)"If you want to see me smiling, take us into the 9th inning with a five run lead. That way, even if they hit a grand slam on us, we still win.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Guessing they can't get any donations for national ticket and is trying to get Republicans to shift to Senate candidates.
safeinOhio
(32,711 posts)of this century.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...You and every rethuglican "strategist" is going to have to find a new way to pay for your scotch, cocaine and whores. The GOP* is not only dying, but the rotting, fetid corpse of GOP* conservatism will remind others for years of your sins.
Vote. Every. Republican. Out. Of. Office.
None of them deserves re-election.
All of them are guilty of subverting our democracy.
Nothing will ever get better in the United States until the GOP* is gone!
#VoteEveryRepublicanOut #DeleteTheGOP
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)We have military for that.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)and that is going to be a hard fought battle to the death.
keithbvadu2
(36,858 posts)Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no responsibility at all."
And/or an appropriate statement.
orwell
(7,775 posts)...they are all projectile bullshit machines!
This is starting to come out from butt plugs like Ed Rollins to depress Dem and pro Biden/Harris independent turnout.
Candidates run like you're 10 points behind!
Vote like your life depends on it...because it does!
Get all your (Biden/Harris) friends to vote!
If you have friends on the dark side encourage them to see the light.
These assholes can still pull this off, especially with all the levers of power they have at their disposal.
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)DBoon
(22,385 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)along with a couple of planets (including Pluto which was unfairly demoted).
AdamGG
(1,293 posts)and the Presidency. Puerto Rico too. The Rethugs pull blatant manipulation with stalling judicial appointments when there's a Dem President. DC/Puerto Rico statehood is an issue of legitimately franchising unrepresented citizens and the 4 more Democratic Senate seats it would create would give us a longstanding majority.
Expanding the Supreme Court would have repercussions because Republicans would just retaliate if they control the Senate/White House and add still more justices. But, they can't pull additional states out of their ass and we'd have 4 more Senate votes to stop them from even trying.
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)two votes just now mailed in against your Slug of a candidate.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,246 posts)Act like we're several points behind, keep pushing, maybe we can make it better than 1974
marble falls
(57,137 posts)kairos12
(12,865 posts)Go shit in your MAGA Hat.
Dont believe a word of his spew.
Le Drunkard Thomas
(36 posts)The hell does that mean, Eddie???
jorgevlorgan
(8,305 posts)JCMach1
(27,562 posts)JI7
(89,259 posts)AdamGG
(1,293 posts)that they will do to reduce the vote. We need turn out every swing state vote we can and not let up. Hopefully, there will be enough of a margin that the media calls the race on election night, so that Trump has no moves left.
oldsoftie
(12,581 posts)Because then what can he say about mail in ballots? Will he change his tune and start screaming "we havent counted all the votes!" all of a sudden?
Vote in person & finish him early
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)'Nearer My God to Thee.'
The Trumptanic.
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)... and you badger your friends into voting...
and you keep doing that until the deadline to vote has passed in your state.
And trump concedes, or Biden is sworn in, whichever comes first.
Only at that point is the race over.
C Moon
(12,219 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,433 posts)If it looks like a 10% blowout, make it a 20% blowout.
VOTE, EVERYBODY. VOTE.
BainsBane
(53,038 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)niyad
(113,496 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)He's just saying this to manipulate Biden voters to stay home. Instead, treat it like you're behind, and get out and vote.
cp
(6,649 posts)dchill
(38,514 posts)We'll just keep on campaigning, if you don't mind.
Gothmog
(145,439 posts)Keep on working on GOTV and other efforts. We are gearing up for voter protection efforts
Turbineguy
(37,360 posts)now I won't have to bother voting!
Everybody knows what a pain in the ass that is. You have to read the stupid little book, then you have to mark the stupid little boxes next to the candidate, then you have to put the ballot in the stupid little secrecy envelope. Then you have to sign your stupid little name and the stupid date and then then you have to send the fuckin' thing off.
No thanks! I'll just trust that this Ed Rollins guy is telling the truth!
Kid Berwyn
(14,934 posts)Keep talking, Dumpy.
BumRushDaShow
(129,266 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,934 posts)Thank you, BumRushDaShow!
If you like Surf Guitar you may enjoy...
BumRushDaShow
(129,266 posts)Definitely blues but using that type of guitar makes it like a fusion sound.
bluestateboomer
(505 posts)It's not over until tRump is electorally ground into the dirt and Rethugs are defeated. No complacency! Rollins and his ilk are just trying to get us to relax.
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Many Dems will probably sit out thinking that we have this in the bag. It's all just an excuse to be lazy really. We can't let overconfidence cheat us from winning this. We can't be like the haré. We need to be tortus and win this with our brains n not feelings
CozyMystery
(652 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)SunSeeker
(51,611 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Trying to lull you to sleep!
Blue Owl
(50,458 posts)applegrove
(118,734 posts)We need an overwhelming win. Sush Rollins.
Hekate
(90,758 posts)fuck cares what that jerk says, just vote and say
in your mind fuck them and what they say.
That is a technic to make you think well he's
going to win so my vote is not really needed.
And when you vote, vote Biden and Harris
and when you leave the polling place
your going to feel better.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)bring out enough voters to rid the government vicious traitors to this country .
bucolic_frolic
(43,246 posts)Seems to me I recall him weighing in during past races, always to try to dampen opposition momentum. Old irrelevant Reagan worshiper
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)appmanga
(577 posts)I moved away from my previous state a year and a half ago. I still have what are ostensibly phone numbers from that state. I've gotten dozens of calls from pollsters (after getting none for the over 20 years I lived there -- how does this stuff happen?) this cycle. With most polls sampling under 1000 people, ten calls answered by people who are no longer valid to the survey can skew it. Portable phone numbers makes this very possible.
All I'm trying to say is don't trust the polls. The only poll that counts is the election. Take nothing for granted.
Vote.