Leaked email shows North Carolina GOP panicking over Pennsylvania upset

[octoberlib]

The GOP’s failure in the Pennsylvania special election has Republicans across the country quaking over a monumental shift in power come November.And that includes Republicans in North Carolina, who currently control the state assembly and fear that might not be the case come November.

A fundraising email leaked by conservative North Carolina blogger Brant Clifton shows just how panicked the party is. Matt Bales, political director for the North Carolina Republican House Caucus, warned that if the Pennsylvania result were applied to the state assembly, Democrats would wipe out the Republican majority.

Bales calculated that after November, the North Carolina General Assembly would have 74 Democrats and 46 Republicans. Republicans currently hold a 75-45 majority.

It could be even worse than Bales realizes. Democrats in North Carolina crunched the same numbers including the state senate, and concluded that 39 seats would flip, giving Democrats majorities in both houses.“And – like every single district in NC – every single one has a Democratic challenger,” wrote Robert Howard, communications director for the North Carolina Democrats. And according to Howard, the momentum is certainly on Democrats’ side.

https://shareblue.com/leaked-email-north-carolina-gop-panicking/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I will never get used to how we have to spend billions of dollars, millions of hours

and endless discussions to get half of this country to NOT vote to harm themselves.

Maybe the GOP needs extensive psychological counseling, isnt there something for people who self inflict harm on themselves? Cut themselves, etc?

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Throw in the amount...

That the regressives have spent to ensure that our government is barely functioning, so that they can claim that government doesn’t work.

Meanwhile, they stuff our tax dollars into their own pockets.

Maybe a new nationwide democratic majority will show them the error of their ways.

March On, Democrats!

[oxbow]

6. Just wean them off RW media

Make faux news actually have to
Include news and you’re halfway there

[workinclasszero]

9. Brainwashing works

Hitler knew it and so do the Koch bros and Fox "news".

When lies are allowed to be broadcast 24/7, its going to have an effect which we see today.

This crap didn't happen under the Fairness doctrine and when monopolies were not allowed in TV, radio and print.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. It's funny you mentioned Hitler and Koch

I believe Hitler made it to Argentina in 1945

I believe he communicated with powerful right-wing families in North America

[not fooled]

21. Even if it wasn't from Hitler

the kooks et al. clearly got the message. Weren't they on board with Nazis before the inconvenience of WWII? And A-OK with the whole Nazi philosophy?

Just another little-known aspect of American history that has had major consequences for governance.

[louis-t]

2. Instead of being more inclusive or softening their rhetoric?

Repugs will concentrate on cheating more, shrieking and screaming lies about how unfair it all is, and making up stories about what Dems "intend" on doing.

[crazycatlady]

3. That would be a great scenario

Donate to the NC Dems to make it happen.

[scarytomcat]

20. yes. let's make it a reality

not a show

[RandomAccess]

5. Wonderful. That state needs a SERIOUS makeover,

from to to bottom, and the sooner the better.

[wishstar]

7. Even if NC can elect enough legislators to end the Repub supermajority, that would be great

Right now, Dem Governor Cooper can't even veto any of their extremist legislation without Repub supermajority overriding his vetoes.

[octoberlib]

8. I know . Sen. Jeff Jackson said last year their goal was to flip enough seats so Cooper had

veto powers over shitty bills. After Virginia and the fact that Dems are contesting every seat, they've upped their chances.

[MrScorpio]

11. What do they have to worry about?

All they have to do is go back to basics and everything will be fine.

Just propose bigger tax cuts and smaller government, support for gun dealers and against immigrants, unions and the LGBTQ and invite Trump to stump for their candidates and everything will be just hunky dory (Voter suppression and gerrymandering.)

Nothing to worry about at all.

[Squinch]

13. Please proceed, NC GOP...

[MrScorpio]

15. Please proceed, indeed.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Every GOP candidate should be paired with a picture of Trump.

Every GOP candidate should be paired with a picture of Trump.

Maybe Donald with his porno squeeze Stormy for the 'family values' angle?

[Gothmog]

14. One effect of gerrymandered districts is that they will flip in a wave year

The NC GOP should be concerned

[Dopers_Greed]

16. Re-capturing state legislatures is critical to stopping Chump and the GOPee

Gerrymandering and voter suppression at the state level are key for them maintaining their power

[C Moon]

17. So the GOP will now probably try to screw up the economy like they did under Bush II's exit.

...hoping to blame it on the Dems.

[PatrickforO]

18. Well, what do these people think? They lied, cheated and stole, and elected

the traitorous, con-man p**sy-grabber Trump president. He then proceeded to rip apart everything that has made this nation great, with the help of Turtle McConnell, Punk Ryan, the so-called 'freedom caucus,' and a bunch of incompetent misfits he appointed to his cabinet. He's left literally hundreds of key jobs vacant and it is clear he has no clue about how to even be the president. He even has to have crib notes to help him fake empathy.

The fucking sociopath.

He has brought SHAME upon this republic and upon all of us.

All the independents who wanted an outsider and voted for him are turning blue.

The Dems have awakened into a nationwide resistance. The kids in Parkland are pushing back HARD and have begun a national movement. Black Lives Matter is a national movement. #Me Too is a national movement.

And you know what? The billionaire parasites that own the GOP are SCARED TO DEATH of us. We. The People.

NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET'S DO THIS THING!

[lindysalsagal]

19. It seems to me, going back to the 70's, most politicians knew to keep their

machinations within an acceptable enough level so as not to blow up the entire game board. That ended with the donald.

[Lucinda]

26. I think it ended before him....the festering has just come to the surface since his arrival.

[ooky]

22. Nice. I look forward to throwing them out and

making our state kind again.

[IluvPitties]

23. We are coming to take our country back, bitches!

[Blue_true]

24. I am starting to believe that lots of traditional republican voters that are still sane.

Have concluded that they are better off voting for democrats and then get back to settling their legitimate policy differences with democrats once democrats have cleaned up the mess the GOP is making.

[Lucinda]

25. Good. n/t

[W T F]

27. Hopefully, we'll be able to shrink the Republican party down to a size so small...........

That we'll be able to drown it in a bath tub.

[zentrum]

28. Not sure they are

…..actually panicked. Though they got an unexpected message from PA for sure. But our side also sends constant fundraising pleas based the rise of this or that Repug.

The way $$$$$$$$$$ works in our politics is corrosive.

Not counting any of our chickens until they're actually cooked.