Walker warns GOP 'at risk of a #BlueWave' after Democratic win in Wisconsin court race

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The Democratic-backed candidate won a seat Tuesday on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, another warning signal for the GOP that led Republican Gov. Scott Walker to tweet that the party is "at risk of a #BlueWave" in November.

Liberal Rebecca Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock in the race for a 10-year term on the state's high court. Screnock conceded the race, and results continued to trickle in late Tuesday showing Dallet with a double-digit lead.

The candidates did not run with party affiliations. The state Democratic Party machinery worked to help Dallet win and reveled in her victory. It was the first time a liberal candidate who wasn't an incumbent had won a seat on the seven-member court in 23 years.

On the heels of a major swing in Democrats' favor in a state Senate race in Wisconsin earlier this year, it's the latest indication that the political ground has shifted since President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson won there in 2016.

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"Tonight's results show we are at risk of a #BlueWave in WI. The Far Left is driven by anger & hatred -- we must counter it with optimism & organization. Let's share our positive story with voters & win in November," he tweeted.

Read more: https://us.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-democrats-win/index.html

[strangedaysindeed]

1. The people have spoken Wanker

and will continue to speak.

Better start looking for a new place to live.

[riversedge]

10. #🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT has spoken!

[Renew Deal]

2. Walker is running for reelection this year

Throw him out

[riversedge]

11. a big chant for Parkand student March was--#votethemout

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Funny Walker thinks the GOP has a positive story to tell

If voters are angry or hateful it is because they want change. GOP policies generated voter disgust. You can't counter disgust with optimism and organization. Those are party internal measures. In other words, Walker still doesn't understand how his policies have affected voters. This is not a problem of ideology, radicalism, anger, or hatred. It is about right wing power and control of people, their minds, their bodies, their futures - all in the service of fascist power.

There's only one remedy. We know what it is. VOTE.

[cstanleytech]

4. "Funny Walker thinks the GOP has a positive story to tell" He does not but to admit

otherwise would certainly not help him so he is going to keep proclaiming it does even as the ship he is on sinks kind of like the captain on a doomed ocean liner.

[marble falls]

6. The captain doomed the liner.

[riversedge]

9. I know, I had a big laugh over that comment

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Better throw some more Rubles at it, Scotty

money can fix anything, right?

[strangedaysindeed]

5. He's very optimistic indeed

if he thinks he's going to survive on his record.

[IronLionZion]

7. Any chance Russ Feingold or any good Dems will run against Wanker?

He needs to be thrown out this November

[33taw]

15. Feingold is not running. There are about a dozen other candidates. I think 2 or 3 of them

Will have a good shot at beating him.

[IronLionZion]

16. It would be great if the blue wave knocks him out

[33taw]

27. Indeed it would. I think people are finally seeing the light!!

[riversedge]

8. Wish I had the money to construct HUGE billboards with#🌊🌊🌊 Blue waves on them! Walker seems

to get his panties in a wad with BlueWave

[bronxiteforever]

12. Next they will target me. In the GOP,it is all about me.

Never were truer words written about the GOP’s reason for being. The I me mine party. If a party is all ego, and their party leader is a giant ego, people will see you stand for nothing but yourself.
Walker could give two farts for anyone else. He is just worried about himself.

[DBoon]

29. it's all based on Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness"

They have a whole political worldview based on I me mine

[old guy]

13. He said the same thing after Jarkoch got beat in the special election in Dist. 10.

Appears no one is listening.

[lark]

17. "Optimism and organization", my ass.

They will combat the left with theft of votes, with lies, disinformation, gerrymandering, voter suppression and hacking the vote. True information is the last thing in the world they'd do because facts are not on their side and they know it. Optimism - HA - they spew the total opposite pretending they are helping when their true aim is destruction of our democracy and implementation of russian style government.

[dembotoz]

18. while thrilled at the results, it is tempered with the knowledge that a whole bunch of trusty gop

counties got hit with a foot of snow yesterday.

traditional dem areas...not so much....

It IS a BIG win, but read a bit less into it as a glorious trend

[HelenWheels]

19. Democratic SIL won County Board seat in Wausau WI

He beat the incumbent in a conservative district. I know this is a low level victory but this is what the Dems must do. We have to take the little wins to win the big ones.

[Jimbo S]

20. In other words...

"donate money to my campaign."

[uriel1972]

21. Wouldn't it just break your heart....

[truthisfreedom]

22. We are certainly not driven by hatred and anger. Its

Love of our country, idiot walker. It’s saving it that’s driving us.

[pecosbob]

23. It's April, 1945 in Berlin and the Nazis can hear the Russian artillery over the horizon

and it scares them. Watch for more extra-legal attempts to derail the elections. Those carpetbaggers the Kochs won't go down without some sort of governmental idiocy first.

[DBoon]

30. and Trump/Hitler is in the bunker believing in a last minute victory

[SansACause]

24. "The Far Left is driven by anger & hatred "

LOL!!!

[apnu]

25. Too little to late.

Scott Wanker sounds the alarm bell what is the GOP supposed to do now? Their tax break is a dud, even among the dim idiots in rural America who will believe most cons the GOP tries. Republicans have nothing left but desperate fearful pleas.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Who has the video of Walker conspiring with the rich woman to destroy workers rights in WI?

skip ahead to 2 minute mark

Walker is a piece of human shit (I dont know how to get my anger out any other way, cuz I am fucking ANGRY)

Wake up you fucking LEMMINGS these people HATE you if you WORK for a living

[turbinetree]

31. Maybe it's time to take a boycott of Diane Hendricks and her ABC business

right alongside the Koch's

And yes Walker is piece of human shit and this is what Hendricks did for the orange hair asshole

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Eliot Rosewater]

32. To me this person is worse than a serial killer.

[turbinetree]

33. Never thought about that way, they all fit the profile

[workinclasszero]

28. The Governor's mansion in Wisconsin this morning...

[yellowcanine]

34. "The Trump Tea Party is driven by anger & hatred." There, fixed it.