California Democrats Defeat Trump - WSJ Editorial

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The first half is really by sore losers so will skip it, go directly to the second half

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Mr. Elder probably made a mistake in calling for rollback of Mr. Newsom’s vaccine mandates for nursing-home and state employees, which are popular in the left-leaning state. Mr. Elder’s argument about progressive ill-governance never had a chance to break through.

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Democrats think Mr. Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. They ran against him in 2018 and took the House, in 2020 and took the White House, and in January 2021 in Georgia and regained the Senate majority. They did it again in California, and they’re also running against Mr. Trump in the Virginia Governor’s race this year.

They figure, with ample evidence, that Mr. Trump won’t be able to resist injecting himself into the center of the 2022 campaign, demanding in particular that all GOP candidates claim the 2020 election was stolen. Democrats will use the former President as their favorite get-out-the-vote foil, and the media will pretend 2022 is a dry run for Mr. Trump’s revenge campaign in 2024.

The California rout ought to cause some hard Republican thinking about a 2022 message. They can’t win suburban seats running solely against vaccine and mask mandates. They also can’t win by joining Mr. Trump’s “I was robbed in 2020” tour. They need to make the case against the Biden-Nancy Pelosi agenda and offer their own ideas for the future.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-democrats-defeat-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-larry-elder-recall-election-11631739171 (subscription)

[kimbutgar]

1. Unfortunately we won't be able to get rid of Nunes or McCarthy as those are areas

That voted to recall our governor. Fresno/ Bakersfield is a hot bed of the American Taliban cult members.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Really the butt crack of this state.

[kimbutgar]

4. Yes I had a friend who grew up there

She moved back to care for her elderly mother when her mother died she said she sold the family home quickly and moved away from there. She said it is the most ignorant and racist part of the state.

[essaynnc]

2. "...and offer their own ideas for the future."

Surely you jest. Tell me the last good idea that the republicans have had in the last 2 years. OK, even a half-way good idea in the last 5 years! NOT !!!!

[Skittles]

5. WSJ opinion is right wing hacks

fuck them