TURLEY TALKS
It looks like Republicans are finally ready to beat Democrats at their own game, and President Trump is leading the way! You’re not going to want to miss this!
-Trump is about to BEAT THE DEMS AT THEIR OWN GAME!
-The SoCal Ballot Harvesting model is PROVEN AND EFFECTIVE!
-This could seal the deal for 2024
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump’s team is now ALL-IN on ballot harvesting strategies to counter Democrat advantages in early and mail-in voting! According to the Journal, Trump’s staff are actively reviewing state laws on absentee and mail-in voting and ballot harvesting so as to maximize the Republican vote in 2024! Ballot harvesting is the practice in which political operatives collect absentee ballots from voters’ homes and drop them off at a polling place or election office. And every state has their own laws regarding ballot harvesting; so for example, in California, you can come to the polls with as many ballots as you want, as many as you can personally carry, and drop them off, no questions asked! It’s that insane! And so, what the Trump team is doing is they’re studying the various state laws, and constructing an overall plan to exploit those laws to Trump’s own advantage! In a fundraising email this week, President Trump announced, “The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back.” The email added, “Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”
Now, the model strategy that everyone in the Republican party is talking about right now it’s what’s known as the SoCal Ballot Harvesting strategy; it’s a strategy coming from Shawn Steele, the Republican National Committeeman from California. He’s a very savvy political tactician, his wife Michelle Steele won her House race in California’s 48th district, which if you don’t know, is a plus-5 Democrat district! It’s a northwest Orange County district that Biden carried by 6 points! But the Republican, Michelle Steele, won by utilizing this ballot harvesting tactic, which effectively neutralized her Democrat opponent’s early mail-in vote advantage and she’s not alone! Remember, Republicans control the House right now precisely because of all these wins in California, where ballot harvesting is the legal norm! It was in fact Kevin Kiley, the winner of California’s 3rd District, who put the GOP at 218 seats and in control of the House! And the reason why California is key here is because they were the first state to make mass ballot harvesting legal. We have to remember that back in 2018, that was the first election, a midterm election, where California Democrats used the strategy of ballot harvesting, and they absolutely clobbered the Republicans. They picked up a whole host of seats that ended up making Pelosi speaker, and back then, like now, the Republican establishment was whining that it was all Trump’s fault!
But California Republicans didn’t go there; they recognized that they got crushed NOT because of a person, but because of the lack of a plan! They realized it wasn’t Trump, it was tactics that beat them in the end! So they adapted, particularly Southern California Republicans, that’s why it’s called the SoCal strategy; and began to employ the same tactics that Democrats use with their constituencies but now with Republican constituencies so as to maximize their vote! So what is it? What are they doing to win these elections across the board?
California Republicans have been beating the Democrats at their own game by making conservative evangelical churches their absentee ballot-centers. Drop boxes are being placed in the middle of churches throughout the districts, the parishioners are instructed on how to sign the ballot, and church administrators take the drop boxes directly to the register of voters! So the whole process is streamlined; there are clear instructions as to how to fill out the ballot, and because it involves church staff and administration taking the ballots to the polling centers, there’s a great deal of confidence among parishioners that their votes are being handled responsibly and counted, with a clear chain of custody protocol being followed! BUT, drop boxes aren’t just being put at the center of churches, it’s gun shops, it’s sporting and hunting shops, it’s any and all kinds of places where patriots hang out! One republican strategist reported that back in 2020, Republicans used a drop box to collect over 12 thousand ballots from one single church alone in Southern California! Keep in mind, Kari Lake lost by 17 thousand votes! One church could have largely rectified that! This is the SoCal Ballot Harvesting strategy, and it’s worked two elections in a row!
In the 2020 election, California Republicans flipped 4 House seats and by BIG margins too! And they did it again in the 2022 midterms! And this is because, we have to remember that Evangelical voters, depending on how you define ‘Evangelical’, but generally speaking, evangelicals make up anywhere from a quarter to a third of the national vote which is HUGE! White evangelicals make up the bulk of that percentage, and the AP VoteCast survey found that 80 percent of White evangelicals voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020. So we’re talking about a HUGE voter base that with ballot harvesting can be maximized to its fullest! So whoever the GOP nominee is for 2024, I think it’s going to be Trump hands down, but whoever it is, strategic ballot harvesting tactics are going to be key to taking back the White House; who would ever have imagined that it would be California Republicans showing us the way to do it!
@Felix
It wasn’t doable. He wasn’t elected as president of Russia, he was elected as president of America. Consequently, his priorities were reflective of his office, just as it was limited by it. The same Americans who elected him to office chose to elect the craven content of the Congress, and thereby provided a block on Trump achieving the legislative successes which America needed. As a consequence, he ruled, in large part, by executive order, but there was a limit on what he might achieve by doing so, and the power of the purse in the US lies with the US Congress and most specifically with the US Speaker of the House. The corruption being exported from Ukraine to the US via Pinchuk’s wallet was immense, and there was no way for the president to block the congressional will to be bought and paid for by a foreign mafia state which would not also damage the US.
Peloni he couldn’t hack it
Mearsheimer also noted this. He was overwhelmed by the state
Ritter is even more condemnatory. He can change nothing.
Basically he blew his chance
@Felix
Trump did sign the bill, and authorized the aid to Ukraine, but context matters and the context is fairly obvious that Trump had little choice but to accept many compromises included in the 2018 Omnibus bill, including the funding for Ukraine, in order to avoid the US military fall further and further behind Russia and China, something which would have been a complete dereliction of the responsibilities of the office he occupied.
No, it was 2018, and it is important to understand why your presumption that the Reps would pass a budget in 2017, having control of both the presidency and the congress, was in error. The civil war which Trump led in taking the White House was never settled, and instead of the RINOs accepting their defeat, they quietly joined the Dems in establishing an insurrection against Trump on many levels, and the budget debate was but one of these ongoing struggles in which Trump grappled with his Rep-Dem opposition in pursuing his own agenda, while having no control over the Republican-controlled Congress.
The consequence of this is that there was to be no budget agreement during all of 2017, and there nearly was none in 2018. Instead, there were 5 stop gap bills passed in 2017 simply to keep the govt floating til the deep divisions between the agenda set by Trump and that demanded by Congress might be resolved, but far too few were ever resolved as the parties were aligned on far too few issues.
In addition to this, recall that it was during this time that Paul Ryan specifically saddled Nunez with an ethics investigation, despite him being both innocent and a fellow Republican. This was done to shut down Nunez’s investigation into the fake Russia Hoax. Recall further that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was actively leaking false stories regarding its own investigation into the Russia Hoax at this same time in support of the Mueller witch-hunt. In fact, Trump was faced with daily acts of insubordination and insurrection from the Rep party which he never really led.
In addition to this, the Rep controlled congress was taking massive donations from none other than Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian Oligarch who was funneling massive sums from Ukraine’s oligarchic system to purchase support from both sides of the aisle for Ukrainian arms. Hence, the pressure to support Ukraine’s demand for arms within the Congress was quite significant. Despite this, Trump refused Pinchuk’s offers of aid, and he also forbid his entire cabinet to have any contact with Pinchuk, financial and otherwise.
Also, Ukrainian aid was only a single piece of pork in the over fattened pork filled Omnibus bill which contained a litany of measures which Trump openly opposed, which is why Trump was initially poised to veto the bill.
If he had vetoed it, however, it would have cost Trump every opportunity of rebuilding America’s military, and this was no mystery to him. The successful coordination between the RINOs’ and Dems in undermining his presidency had led to the anticipation of the House being passed back to the Dems six months later, which is exactly what took place, and Trump was aware that he would have even less success in negotiating with Pelosi than he had with Ryan.
Additionally, it is important to consider Trump’s statement when he finally acquiesced to signing the bill to gain an insight into the surrounding circumstances in which he signed this bill:
It should hardly need mentioning, but Trump is not one to support foreign wars, and his presidency spoke loudly to this trend, save for the single instance of funding to the Ukrainians thru the contentious Omnibus bill. Also, recall that following the passage of this bill, it was Trump who actually delayed the funding to Ukraine, something for which we all became quite well aware.
Had Trump earnestly supported the funding to Ukraine, he would never have delayed the funds, nor would he have spurned the Ukrainian donations thru Pinchuk. Your assertion that he ‘sent’ the aid to Ukraine is taken out of context in which the aid was sent.
Trump sent massive arms to the Fascists in Ukraine. In 2017 if I remember.