Iowa Democrat will challenge election results with House

[AleksS]

29. Eh. Optics shmoptics.

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The best optics is winning. Everyone loves a winner.

Repubs will attack no matter what, and they’ll make stuff up if they want to.

Nothing will restrain Trump.

So basing a course of action on trying to appease them and not give them a “field day” is an exercise in self-flagellation and that only helps them.

There may be other reasons for this IA pol not to fight, but bad optics and republican reactions are not good ones.

It’s not like a single repub will say “Oh you know, that person in IA didn’t fight for their seat, so we shouldn’t either.” Or Trump will suddenly have an epiphany: “Oh, I’ve been so wrong. I’ll stop now.”

I wish Gore would have fought a little harder in 2000. There’s a reason many people are ashamed to associate with Democrats/liberals. We’re seen as weak and capitulative. People like fighters and they like winners. If we roll over and show our bellies when we could fight then A). We’ll lose. And B). No one will care.