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Because this strategy worked so well with cheetoh-boy. Couldn't read it. Paywalled. Oh well.
Site is cancer anyways.
Trump's preferred candidate just won the Ohio GOP Senate primary — and Democrats are thrilled
Bernie Moreno, a former car dealership owner, won the GOP Senate primary in Ohio on Tuesday.
It's a victory not just for Trump, but for Democrats, who spent $3.1 million in the final days of the race on TV and digital ads designed to boost Moreno's profile with GOP primary voters.
It was the latest example of a tried-and-true tactic that Democrats have employed in recent years, meddling in GOP primaries to try to elevate the candidate who they believe they're most likely to beat.
Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican who endorsed Dolan, called Moreno the "weakest candidate" in the race after the Democratic spending became public.
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Moreno scored Trump's endorsement months ago, but had faced tougher than expected competition from State Sen. Matt Dolan, a more Trump-skeptical candidate. Frank LaRose, the current Ohio Secretary of State, came in third.
It was enough to convince Trump to travel to Dayton for a rally, where he made the now-infamous "bloodbath" comments.
In the final days of the race, Moreno and Trump's allies relied primarily on the former president's endorsement in making his case to GOP primary voters.
"President Trump wants Bernie," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told rally attendees on Saturday, saying the endorsement "should be enough reason" for them to support Moreno. "You're gonna want President Trump in Ohio a lot. He's gonna come here a lot if you get Bernie to be the victor on Tuesday."
But Moreno is emerging from the contentious primary with potential vulnerabilities.
In the final days of the race, the Associated Press reported that Moreno's work email was linked to a short-lived profile that sought "Men for 1-on-1 sex" on an adult dating website in 2008.
Moreno's campaign has blamed the incident on a prank by an intern, and his high-profile supporters have largely dismissed the story as a smear.
The former car dealership owner has also faced several lawsuits stemming from his time in the industry, including being sanctioned by a Massachusetts judge for shredding documents that may have been relevant to a wage theft lawsuit he was facing.
Most of the people trump has endorsed have fallen face first, the orange pissant won due to an archaic election system that doesnt exist for any other office. Not to say there arent other problems mind you.
Good people of Lemmy, news is news.
Stop down voting news. Please.
Don't force Lemmy to become the echo chamber that led to the great MAGA divide
I upvote news. I downvote when someone attempts to post the same article 3 times within a few hours (edit: okay, 3 posts over 6 hours, but that’s still a lot in one community about the same topic)
You mean that down arrow isn't an "I don't like this so I don't want to see it" button?
/s
If a news article gets downvoted hard enough, the event in question gets cancelled. Trust me bruh.
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.
But yes, it's turning into Reddit's politics echo chamber where any bad Trump news is at the top and anything critical of the actual party that can do something for us gets downvoted to hell.
If it helps, the votes are completely irrelevant outside of that post
Moreno's work email was linked to a short-lived profile that sought "Men for 1-on-1 sex" on an adult dating website in 2008.
Sounds on brand with Republican males.
Where have I heard this pied piper strategy before?
Two years ago, the party spent money on ads propping up MAGA chuds like this, then gleefully cut the funds of progressive candidates like Michelle Vallejo in the general.
Democrats' leadership prefers the hard right fringe of the opposing party to progressive candidates within its own.
Yeah, there's totally no risk with this strategy and I can't think of any time this went horribly wrong in the past.
You can think of a couple times it went horribly wrong, but if we’re objective and look at the track record, it worked pretty well for dems in ‘20 and ‘22
It also worked extremely "well" in 2016 where the Hillary campaign was able to position Trump as the GOP nominee and leverage that vulnerability to lose an election. DNC political consultants ah wicked smaht.
Two big differences though: 1. Right now the practical benefit of having a moderate instead of an extreme GOP senator from Ohio are very small. In the end, all GOP senators will vote with the crazies. That’s of course completely different for the presidency. 2. Dems are very unlikely to win Ohio and need every advantage they can get.
I think in this case the risky strategy is completely warranted whereas in 2016 it was just stupid.
it was the best strategy. the absolute best.
So much better than any strategy that has ever come before.
(excuse me while I bleach my keyboard)