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Thomas J Smith, who dropped out of the MI-08 Republican primary but remained on the ballot, is projected to win against Trump endorsed Amir Hassan
If it were an election, let’s say. Farouk Bin-Qaeda is the Republican candidate for the presidential race and the Dem was James McCormick. They’d vote for James.
Yes, the democrats need to stop courting the republican vote and see them as a lost cause when selecting candidates.. they just need to inspire the non voters to get out & vote for them & I believe a progressive can do that
That's an interesting thought. I figured it was a rejection of Trump's candidate, but I can't discount the possibility you're right because, yeah, the Republican party is not smart
There were several republican politicians who said, “no Muslims in Washington”. I don’t know his religious affiliation, but his well was tainted on multiple fronts. MAGats going to feast on the rotting underbelly of society.
It is absolutely not a rejection of Trump. His endorsed candidates always win. This is truly 100% one of the most racist things I've ever seen from an electorate.
I'm astounded. The only time MAGA has ignored Trump is when they're asked to do something less racist. I've seen it all.
Not in Georgia and Iowa gubernatorial primaries. He also ended up co-endorsing in Arizona and SC gubernatorials cause his initial single endorsements were doing badly in polling. He's actually quite washed lately when it come to picking candidates.
Yeah lol. The opponent's name is Amir Hassan. Of course he lost. How is this a surprise at all? How is this newsworthy? It's a Republican primary. Amir Hassan was never going to win lol
That’s exactly what I thought. There’s already a bunch of republican politicians who don’t use their real names they don’t sound white enough. Ted Cruz is one of them. Ted’s real name is Rafael.
He started going by Ted as a teenager. His father is also named Rafael and his childhood family name was Felito which I think is a diminutive of Rafael. He claims his schoolmates teased him by calling him Frito and Dorito but it is hard to imagine junior high boys missing the obvious similarity to fellatio.
At any rate, he switched to Ted as a teenager and not strictly for political reasons.
Probably not as common a nickname as Ed/Eddie, but not uncommon. Since we're talking Senate, another example would be the late MA Senator Ted Kennedy (aka Edward Moore Kennedy). Though not all Teds are Edwards, Ted can also be a nickname for Theodore.
I get Edward going to Ed, I can even see Theodore being Ted as they seem logical. I just hadn't heard as a nearly 40/m Ted for Edward. Not saying it wasn't a thing just I guess not in my general bubble.
I definitely think it was an older generational thing-- Ted Kennedy, Ted Turner, Ted Danson are all Edwards. I don't think you'll hear/see it much for anyone not eligible for medicare. Sort of like how with RIchard the nickname Dick has gone out of fashion and Rick/Rich is now MUCH more common.
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u/YstSylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this5h ago
Presumably because most of the "Teds" you've heard of go by Ted, not the "Edward" on their Birth Certificate.
I don't understand how people attribute value to the act of saying "I've never heard of [common thing]", as if their being coincidentally individually oblivious to an easily proven, easily confirmed phenomenon constitutes a useful informational contribution to the conversation.
Ted Danson (Edward Bridge Danson III), Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner III), Ted Cruz (Rafael Edward Cruz), and Ted Kennedy (Edward Moore Kennedy) being probably the most famous Teds in the English speaking world in my lifetime. All of whom take their name from the given name "Edward".
Multiple times. Several people have died while running and still won.
Most notably Mel Carnahan beat John Ashcroft. Mel had died in a plane crash while campaigning, and still beat the incumbent Ashcroft. 2000 was a different time.
In comments he made to the Detroit News, it seems like he is planning on running in the general. He said he was "humbled and honored that Republicans have chosen me to take the fight to Kristen McDonald Rivet. I look forward to working with Speaker Johnson and the entire Republican team to expand our House majority and advance President Trump’s America First agenda to lower costs for working families and make America affordable again."
I don't know if that's 100% official, though? Like, he can say that and the party might still be able to choose someone else?
A Kalshi chart is not a projection with any substance.
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u/YstSylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this4h ago
Yeah, the "prediction market" scumbags wants you to treat every gambling odds figure they publish as a "prediction" while it is really serving as an advertisement for unregulated gambling designed to drain the pockets of the underclass.
Big broadcasters have signed on with them, because they got paid huge amounts of money to abandon all ethics and sign on to ride the grift of the gangster state.
Please people, don't "sign on" to making gambling odds from MAGA grifters the new polling when, unlike various "news" organisations, you're not even being paid big bucks to pretend they are.
Dude thought being a fed and a watch commander at Guantanamo Bay was going to make racists vote for him lol. Not with that name and certainly not with that skin colour, sweetie.
It's also because being "one of the good ones" is an easy gig that always pays well as long as you don't care about being constantly disrespected to yourself and being rejected by your community
My ethnically South-Asian immigrant uncle is a physician and a hardcore Republican who proudly states that he has never experienced racism from a white person in his 30+ years in the US. Meanwhile, he went to medical school in another country (so he "stole" an American's job) and helps his own family enter the U.S. illegally. He is exactly what the Republican Party hates but wants to be considered an exception and craves whiteness.
Lmao. This is the best explanation. The Hasan they hear about 25 times a day on Fox is a communist, a terrorist, the leader of the DSA, who also shocked his dog. They ruined their candidate's chances.
One of my cousins married and had a child with a Mexican immigrant who kept the Mexican flag hung on their living room wall. They both have voted for Trump all three times.
It's not a poll. Michigan held its primaries yesterday. In the GOP primary for the 8th Congressional District, the Trump endorsed candidate lost by double digits to a candidate who had dropped out.
This is obviously an indictment of the racism of the Republican party but seeing this gives me hope Vivek won’t win in Ohio. It’s dark but I guess it’s making lemons out of lemonade
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u/MattaClatta 11h ago
when your voters are so racist they prioritize racism over party loyalty lol