Way too early to judge. 14 months is a long time in a closely divided country. However, if those over 50 are hurt by inflation, Medicare and Medicaid changes Cooper should be an easy winner. Watch out for those noxious attack ads, especially form the elephant herd
The Republicans are already scared. I take a lot of surveys, so when I received a link to a survey in my texts, I went to take it. Turned out it was a Repub. attempt to make Cooper look terrible. They know it's going to be an uphill battle to beat Roy, but they're already working on it. (Nope, didn't finish the smear survey!)
I think Cooper, and Democrats generally, would do well to emphasize competence in governing. He can credibly say he worked with and around a hostile legislature. In DC, there’s a lot of sensible legislating to do, and Republicans have shown they’re not up to it.
I'm glad Roy Cooper is ahead, but I really thought it would be by 20 points instead of 8. We have to get behind him and make sure Gov Cooper becomes Senator Cooper. We can take nothing for granted.
Cooper will have the added advantage of being unburdened by scandal, and very little if any baggage from his time in Raleigh. He's homegrown, bullish on NC and probably the best liked governor since Jim Hunt (maybe more than Hunt, truth be told). The 2026 midterms have been billed as a reprise of 2018, but there's a significant potential for them to look more like 2006. And for similar reasons. Tangerine Cthulhu is trying as hard as he can to become a millstone around the necks of every down ballot Republican everywhere, and here in NC he's been aided and abetted by the morally bankrupt and corrupt Republican majorities in the NCGA. NC Goopers in general -- and at every level -- have largely thrown their constituent sunder the bus, and the goal is to (a) get them to recognize this, and (b) realize they have the power to return the favor in November. Even ELECTED Republicans are starting to find today's GOP a thing they don't even recognize anymore. Adam Kinzinger is the most visibly disaffected, but TIL that Joe Walsh -- yes THAT Joe "You Lie!" Walsh -- traded in his R for a D a couple of months back. There is a LOT of inertia to overcome, but if we can get movement from guys like these, all this extreme gerrymandering may not be able to save the GOP from electoral purgatory. I even (also today) started wondering about my favorite target for revulsion, Thom Tillis. I still figure he's headed for a K Street gig after he leaves the Senate, but now I'm wondering which SIDE of K Street. But it does seem like all but the most rabid MAGA Cult members are starting to get "outrage fatigue", and just can't get up for it anymore. And if that is true, Trump and his goon squad are cooked.
I believe the strongest defense we have against Trump’s hyperpartisan MAGA power grabs expanding to Democratic cities and moves to upend November 2026 elections would be to target Republicans in “safe” districts, threatening their reelections. Political survival is their only consideration that’s stronger than their loyalty to Trump. This will take unity and money - two things woefully lacking in the Democratic Party, but that’s only because rank and file Democrats are idle observers. I’m moderately optimistic this will change.
I did not realize what a blessing it was when the author was in vacation mode, far removed, traversing the mountain West. Did you have to return? And if it was inevitable, it’s regrettable that you became more deranged while breathing in the fresh air. Ending elections? Snatching people off the streets? What parallel reality do you occupy?
Link below plus the articles includes reference links to sources. "Several notable deportation cases involved children who hold U.S. citizenship and their non-citizen parents, including a child undergoing brain cancer treatment, and a California-born man who was illegally deported twice in 1999, which the Trump administration began attempting to deport again in 2025. Other high-profile detention cases included New York City officials, members of Congress, a disabled military veteran who had chemical weapons deployed on him, a United States Marshal, and the detention and questioning of Puerto Ricans and Indigenous people in the American Southwest—all of whom were U.S. citizens wrongfully held by immigration authorities." From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_and_deportation_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration
Trump is a child raping, draft dodging criminal with 54 felony convictions who violated the espionage act. He also committed sedition by instigating 1/6. Birds of a feather flock together. I know exactly what Stephen Woodward is. Congratulations Thomas! You’ve pissed off the Russians, the child molesters, felons, seditionists and vicious morons. HOME RUN with the bases loaded!
Way too early to judge. 14 months is a long time in a closely divided country. However, if those over 50 are hurt by inflation, Medicare and Medicaid changes Cooper should be an easy winner. Watch out for those noxious attack ads, especially form the elephant herd
The Republicans are already scared. I take a lot of surveys, so when I received a link to a survey in my texts, I went to take it. Turned out it was a Repub. attempt to make Cooper look terrible. They know it's going to be an uphill battle to beat Roy, but they're already working on it. (Nope, didn't finish the smear survey!)
I think Cooper, and Democrats generally, would do well to emphasize competence in governing. He can credibly say he worked with and around a hostile legislature. In DC, there’s a lot of sensible legislating to do, and Republicans have shown they’re not up to it.
I'm glad Roy Cooper is ahead, but I really thought it would be by 20 points instead of 8. We have to get behind him and make sure Gov Cooper becomes Senator Cooper. We can take nothing for granted.
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Cooper will have the added advantage of being unburdened by scandal, and very little if any baggage from his time in Raleigh. He's homegrown, bullish on NC and probably the best liked governor since Jim Hunt (maybe more than Hunt, truth be told). The 2026 midterms have been billed as a reprise of 2018, but there's a significant potential for them to look more like 2006. And for similar reasons. Tangerine Cthulhu is trying as hard as he can to become a millstone around the necks of every down ballot Republican everywhere, and here in NC he's been aided and abetted by the morally bankrupt and corrupt Republican majorities in the NCGA. NC Goopers in general -- and at every level -- have largely thrown their constituent sunder the bus, and the goal is to (a) get them to recognize this, and (b) realize they have the power to return the favor in November. Even ELECTED Republicans are starting to find today's GOP a thing they don't even recognize anymore. Adam Kinzinger is the most visibly disaffected, but TIL that Joe Walsh -- yes THAT Joe "You Lie!" Walsh -- traded in his R for a D a couple of months back. There is a LOT of inertia to overcome, but if we can get movement from guys like these, all this extreme gerrymandering may not be able to save the GOP from electoral purgatory. I even (also today) started wondering about my favorite target for revulsion, Thom Tillis. I still figure he's headed for a K Street gig after he leaves the Senate, but now I'm wondering which SIDE of K Street. But it does seem like all but the most rabid MAGA Cult members are starting to get "outrage fatigue", and just can't get up for it anymore. And if that is true, Trump and his goon squad are cooked.
I believe the strongest defense we have against Trump’s hyperpartisan MAGA power grabs expanding to Democratic cities and moves to upend November 2026 elections would be to target Republicans in “safe” districts, threatening their reelections. Political survival is their only consideration that’s stronger than their loyalty to Trump. This will take unity and money - two things woefully lacking in the Democratic Party, but that’s only because rank and file Democrats are idle observers. I’m moderately optimistic this will change.
I think you are going to get a pleasant surprise.
I did not realize what a blessing it was when the author was in vacation mode, far removed, traversing the mountain West. Did you have to return? And if it was inevitable, it’s regrettable that you became more deranged while breathing in the fresh air. Ending elections? Snatching people off the streets? What parallel reality do you occupy?
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From what I can see on his page, he's not worth the time to reply to. Block him.
Link below plus the articles includes reference links to sources. "Several notable deportation cases involved children who hold U.S. citizenship and their non-citizen parents, including a child undergoing brain cancer treatment, and a California-born man who was illegally deported twice in 1999, which the Trump administration began attempting to deport again in 2025. Other high-profile detention cases included New York City officials, members of Congress, a disabled military veteran who had chemical weapons deployed on him, a United States Marshal, and the detention and questioning of Puerto Ricans and Indigenous people in the American Southwest—all of whom were U.S. citizens wrongfully held by immigration authorities." From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_and_deportation_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration
Trump is a child raping, draft dodging criminal with 54 felony convictions who violated the espionage act. He also committed sedition by instigating 1/6. Birds of a feather flock together. I know exactly what Stephen Woodward is. Congratulations Thomas! You’ve pissed off the Russians, the child molesters, felons, seditionists and vicious morons. HOME RUN with the bases loaded!
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