Republicans plot blue-state invasion in November if Sanders is nominee

[RandySF]

National Republicans are launching a multi-million-dollar field effort in four blue states, a move that comes as Democrats express mounting concern that a Bernie Sanders nomination could doom them in critical down-ballot contests.

The Republican National Committee is deploying dozens of field staffers to California, New Jersey, New York and Illinois. While none of the four states is remotely in play at the presidential level, each has numerous competitive House races and played a critical role in helping Democrats capture the chamber in 2018.

The committee is also dispatching staff to Nebraska. While the state is certain to go for President Donald Trump in November, it is home to the district where endangered Republican Rep. Don Bacon is seeking reelection.

The RNC plans to spend at least $4 million on field deployment across the five states by Election Day, according to an aide briefed on the decision. It's an unusual investment, since the committee typically focuses its field resources exclusively on swing states in presidential election years.

Republican officials say they've been planning the blue state effort for months — long before Sanders emerged as a Democratic frontrunner — and insist the Democratic primary had no bearing on their decision. The RNC's massive, seven-to-one financial advantage over the Democratic National Committee, aides say, has afforded them the luxury of investing in states that aren’t in play in the presidential contest.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/republicans-blue-state-invasion-november-118336

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Seven to one financial advantage?

Foreign money anyone’s guess???

[dware]

2. This is exactly what I've been saying,

if Bernie is the nominee, then we stand a very real chance of losing the House and zero chance of retaking the Senate.

[jimfields33]

3. They would not be running articles like this if they were afraid of bernie

Why give out their plans now? Before even tomorrow? They are petrified to run against Bernie. They know they’d lose the congress and presidency. They are transparent!

[dware]

6. OMG

This is just too funny.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. What? Makes no sense to me

They're not afraid of Bernie. They know they'll win swing states and can focus on Congress in reliably Democratic states that will be in play because of Bernie's candidacy.

[jimfields33]

11. They know if they write articles like this people will flock to Biden

Could that be who they really want to run against?????

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Get on their mailing lists and waste their resources

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Republicans smell blood or they wouldn't be doing this

Weakness makes them salivate and they know their PR Machine can twist anything to advantage

[RandySF]

12. They're trying to take back congressional districts.

[jayschool2013]

8. Nebraska

Remember, Nebraska also doesn't do winner-takes-all in the Electoral College. Winner takes both votes of the Senators, but the electors are chosen by Congressional district. In 2008, Obama won NE-2 and its electoral vote. Trump won NE-2 in 2016 by just 2 percent.

[empedocles]

9. hard to believe how the BS types keep denying these mountains of evidence

that BS is trump's best hope!

[abqtommy]

13. Y'know, it has occurred to me that if the reTHUGS spent all the time, money and energy on

supporting the well-being of all aspects of our country instead of on plotting their treasonous ratfucking then the U.S. would be the Greatest Country in the World for real and a Shangra-La too. They're the reason we can't have nice things and that's why they have to go...