DESPERATELY SEEKING REGRETFUL TRUMP VOTERS

https://www.powerlineblog.com/...ful-trump-voters.php

On October 7, the New York Times published an article about a 2016 Trump voter who changed his mind and now intends to vote Democrat:

Mark Graham, a real estate appraiser in this faded manufacturing hub [Erie, Pennsylvania], sat with friends at a gym named FitnessU on the morning after the Democratic debate in mid-September. He had voted for Barack Obama, but in 2016 he took a gamble on Donald Trump.

Things have changed in the last couple weeks: More stupidity has come out,” Mr. Graham, 69, said in a telephone interview last week. He hopes Democrats nominate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., but he is not particular. “I’d vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who it is at this point,” he said.

Fast forward a month, to November 12. Now the Times reports, excitedly, on a new anti-Trump ad campaign being undertaken by David Brock’s disreputable organization, American Bridge:

A Democratic group unveiled a $3 million advertising campaign Tuesday featuring people who supported President Trump but now regret it, the first wave of a yearlong effort to reclaim some of the voters in the industrial Midwest who helped tip the 2016 election.

The group, American Bridge, will air commercials in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that are first-person testimonials from residents of each state explaining why they backed Mr. Trump in 2016 and why they will not do so again next year.

The Times proudly noted its own role in tracking down anti-Trump converts:

The disaffected Trump voter who appeared in the Pennsylvania spot — Mark Graham of Erie, Pa. — was featured in a New York Times article last month.





Unfortunately neither American Bridge nor the Times thought to check the Erie, Pennsylvania voting records to confirm Mr. Graham’s claim that he voted for President Trump in 2016

It turns out he didn’t:

An allegedly regretful Trump voter in Pennsylvania, highlighted in videos by a Democratic political action committee and by The New York Times, never actually voted in 2016.

News organization JET 24, an ABC affiliate, found after checking county voting records that Mark Graham of Erie County, Pennsylvania, did not vote in the presidential election three years ago.

then this:

NYT now writes:

After this article was published, local news media reported that Mark Graham did not vote in the 2016 election. The Times has confirmed that Mr. Graham did not vote in the election

While Mr. Graham acknowledged misspeaking about his voting record, he said the article accurately reflects his feelings about the 2016 race and President Trump’s performance in office.

“Misspeaking”! Since the whole point of the Times story was that Graham was a Trump voter who now repudiates his 2016 choice, that “misspeaking” is rather significant. But the Times has long been satisfied with a “fake but accurate” standard for its reporting.

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“fake but accurate” news media

Hilariously pathetic!

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While Mr. Graham acknowledged misspeaking about his voting record, he said the article accurately reflects his feelings about the 2016 race and President Trump’s performance in office.

“Misspeaking”! Since the whole point of the Times story was that Graham was a Trump voter who now repudiates his 2016 choice, that “misspeaking” is rather significant. But the Times has long been satisfied with a “fake but accurate” standard for its reporting

Someone who didn't vote for Donald Trump is disappointed with Donald Trump.

I smell a Pulitzer! Yessir!

Instant commercial, if the RNC had the gonads to make it. Show a brief synopsis of the leftist commercial, complete with the pouting picture of Graham. Then put in bold type on the screen that Graham didn't vote at all in the election, with the catch-phrase: "Lying. It's what they do."

And the New York Times insists it is not FAKE NEWS. In fact, they get indignant, and huffy about the characterization of their "news" organization.

They are the epitome of fake news.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Hey Smudge...did you get an e-mail from me? Sent it to the address in your profile.

Hey, I am really bad at checking my email. I got it, I'll get back to you soon.

Ah misspeaking - a cover word used by liars and leftists. Of which this guy and the corrupt media are members in good standing of the compulsive liars club.

Re Pipe Smoker’s post about Mike Pompeo staying on:

He and Trump have been an incredible team, Pompeo complements Trump in his experience, expertise and wisdom.
It was a close call, because he’s very popular in Kansas and the likely GOP candidate, Chris Kobach, is not.

Of all Trump’s cabinet appointments, Pompeo is by far the best and the most essential given the importance of the Secretary of State position.

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US forces launch air strikes against Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria in response to killing of US contractor.

Federal Judge Plans to Block North Carolina Voter ID Law MATTHEW VADUM

EPOCH TIMES >

>> https://www.theepochtimes.com/...-id-law_3187742.html

"A federal judge is preparing to grant the NAACP’s request to block a North Carolina law requiring that voters use photo identification to prove who they are before voting in elections.

With 15 electoral votes, North Carolina was a key battleground state in the 2016 presidential election, and there’s every indication that it will retain that status in the 2020 election. Republican Donald Trump won 49.8 percent of the popular vote in the state in 2016, compared to the 46.2 percent won by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The injunction in the case cited as NAACP v. Cooper will be issued against S.B. 824, now known as Session Law 2018-144, which the General Assembly approved Dec. 5, 2018. There’s at least one other lawsuit that’s currently pending in challenge to the law. A previous voter ID law in the state was struck down in part in 2016.

The court ruling is expected incoming days from U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs of North Carolina’s Middle District, whom then-President Barack Obama appointed in 2014.

North Carolina NAACP President, the Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, lauded Biggs, claiming without evidence that the new law was “the latest bad-faith attempt in a string of failed efforts by the General Assembly to impede the right to vote of African Americans and Latinos in this state, and to blunt the force of the true will of the people.”

In fact, Session Law 2018-144 came after voters expressed their will at the ballot box Nov. 6, 2018, approving by a vote of 55.5 percent to 44.5 percent an amendment to the state constitution to require voter ID.

Spearman is known for his bitter anti-Trump rhetoric. In a 2018 interview with The News and Observer in Raleigh, he said he can’t even refer to President Donald Trump by his name.

“I have not yet been able to get to a place where I can call the president of the United States by his name. I still call him 45, number 45, because that to me is what he is. He’s a number because he doesn’t represent me, and he doesn’t represent my people.”

North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore, a Republican, said he hoped the state elections board would appeal “this last-minute attempt by an activist federal judge to overturn the will of North Carolina voters.”
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"“There is not now, and never has been, any demonstrated need for voter photo identification in North Carolina,” the complaint stated. But a 2014 report by the North Carolina State Board of Elections found that massive voter fraud may have taken place in North Carolina. According to the Raleigh-based Civitas Institute, the report stated that 35,750 voters with the same first name, surname, and date of birth were registered in North Carolina and another state and voted in both states in the 2012 general election.

To issue an injunction against one of the nation’s most lenient voter ID laws—which 34 states already have—without providing an opinion is an outrageous affront to due process, the rights of North Carolina voters and the rule of law."

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
Ah misspeaking - a cover word used by liars and leftists.

Yep. Misspoke is Orwellian double-speak for lied.

Yet another word thrown down the memory hole by libs.

I just turned on the TV to touch base with the news (FOX) both FOX and FOX Business were talking about the growth of the economy (the Dow lost a little ground today...but the stock market does that) Charles Payne said the economy is still doing good...all positive news ...

Just for shits and giggles I checked CNN and MSNBC and guess what...all the talking heads were fixated on the impeachment of the President and his “crimes”...Rudy Giuliani and his involvement in Trump’s (crimes”)...Bolton “knows things” and he will spill the beans on Trump and Giuliani, the attacks in NY and TX are Trumps fault, Yada, yada, yada...I lasted about one minute before going back to FOX! I can truthfully say this is one of the few times this year I have visited the Fake News channels...

President Trump and his impeachment/guilt is ALL they can talk about...all gloom and doom...Democrats are some of the most unhappy people in the world! A pox on each and every one of their houses...especially that douch bag Jake Tapper

I will take great pleasure when Trump waxes their ass in November MAGA!

I know the Forum frowns on polls (ok, hates polls)

But this is too good to pass up.

Donald Trump, the President the DEMs want to impeach because they don't like him. Because they fear him.


Well,

https://news.gallup.com/poll/2...dmired-man-2019.aspx

Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019

Barack Obama and Donald Trump are tied this year as the most admired man. It is Obama's 12th time in the top spot versus the first for Trump

The people nominated get spread over a number of folks.

Trump and obama each got 18% of the adult vote.

After Obama and Trump, no other man was mentioned by more than 2% of respondents. The remainder of the top 10 for men this year includes former President Jimmy Carter, businessman Elon Musk, philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pope Francis, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Dalai Lama, and investor Warren Buffett.

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So the DEMs think it is a good idea to attempt an obviously partisan coup of the 2016 elected president. The president who is tied w wonderputz obama for "most admired man" in 2019

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Originally posted by sdy:
Jimmy Carter, Pope Francis, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Adam Schiff....

These nitwits actually made the top ten? We're in seriously big trouble if so. Wow.

The last Joey D for 2019. Thanks to Para for allowing me to do this. If you guys still want Joey D in 2020, and Para is cool with it, I'll keep it up.


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INTERVIEW: Joe DiGenova - legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia

TOPIC: Joe Biden backtracks, says he would comply with impeachment subpoena

If Para's good with it, I will say I surely appreciate it and would enjoy it if you would continue.

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Originally posted by Cliff:
TOPIC: Joe Biden backtracks, says he would comply with impeachment subpoena

Yeah. Once someone on his legal team told him his ass would get kicked between his shoulders and then handed to him on a S/S platter if he ignored a Senate subpoena, he backed up faster than a Louisiana crawfish.

What a spineless, bloviating piece of fecal matter...

And why wouldn't sleepy joe lie and say he would comply. He knows damn good and well that more then likely will never happen and if by slim chance it did he would crawfish again and never testify or truthfully answer any question asked so why not lie hus ass off now to look good.

Cliff - I'd appreciate it if you'd continue with your Joe Digenova posts. Thank you.