Sunday, June 18, 2017

NYT: High-Stakes Referendum on Trump Takes Shape in a Georgia Special Election

"Taking the stage in a half-filled airplane hangar to rally supporters of Republican candidate Karen Handel, Health Secretary Tom Price could not help but point to the record-shattering surge of liberal money that has flooded into the special House race here."
“The out-of-state money is crazy,” said Mr. Price, whose vacated congressional seat is up for grabs on Tuesday.

Following Mr. Price, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, the former Georgia governor, was even more direct. “I know some of you out there, some Republicans may even be turned off by our president,” said Mr. Perdue, before making the case for his boss.

The two Trump cabinet secretaries, both Georgia Republicans, had unwittingly revealed the twin hurdles standing in Ms. Handel’s path heading into Tuesday’s election: Democratic enthusiasm is soaring across the country while the sort of pastel-and-Polo-clad Republicans who reside in this district are uneasy about what they see in Washington and have decidedly mixed views of President Trump.
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9 comments:

chickelit said...

Just the latest _NC proxy war being fought at a local level. A victory for either side will be infused with national import no matter.

Happy Father's Day!

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I hope voters in that district do the right thing and vote for Handle.

Rabel said...

Watch how quickly those "pastel-and-Polo-clad Republicans" transform into bitter-end Confederate racist slavers if Handel wins.

edutcher said...

This SOP for the Demos.

Every election is national. FWIW I don't think it's paying the dividends they want.

YMMV

Amartel said...

Three ways for Dems to get votes: (1) buy them; (2) fake them; (3) fool them.

ndspinelli said...

Amartel, They also "lose" the oppositions votes.

Amartel said...

Ooopsie, gosh darn it! I lost the vote that I previously disenfranchised from you.

Amartel said...

One year in San Francisco a box of votes was "found" well after the election floating around in the ocean. Or possibly in someone's car. (This was a while ago.) Learned about it by reading the newspaper. Now I bet they don't even publish such unhelpful alternative facts.

edutcher said...

Amartel said...

Three ways for Dems to get votes: (1) buy them; (2) fake them; (3) fool them.

You forgot make several for themselves. Demos voting multiple times or being registered in multiple states is all the rage, you know.