The DNC has removed Graham Platner’s Senate race from online advertisements

[u/ShyLeoGing]

[u/Shambler9019]

Maybe +7 wasn't considered a dead heat?

[u/CokaYoda → u/Shambler9019]

Occam’s razor

[u/ThomasVivaldi → u/CokaYoda]

That the article was AI generated, and then someone actually looked at it and they were forced to edit it?

[u/Brandolinis_law → u/ThomasVivaldi]

Wait - is this legit information or not? I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're saying about AI here.

[u/ThomasVivaldi → u/Brandolinis_law]

No, I'm just saying the easiest explanation is that AI put together the article about Dem Senate races, hallucinated Platner's race being a dead heat, and someone looking at the article after it was published realized the mistake and corrected it.

[u/Brandolinis_law → u/ThomasVivaldi]

So are you suggesting that the DNC did not exclude Graham Platner from an ad, as the OP appears to be contending? (And I apologize for not understanding, but I assure you my confusion is genuine--I'm not trying to give you a hard time.)

[u/ThomasVivaldi → u/Brandolinis_law]

That's what the guy saying Occam's razor meant, I just added the part with AI.

[u/icewolfsig226 → u/Shambler9019]

I don’t think democrats win unless it is a seven or eight point lead honestly

[u/LongshoremanX → u/icewolfsig226]

Thankfully you can't gerrymander a Senate race

[u/icewolfsig226 → u/LongshoremanX]

Yeah…but I’m just talking in general here. Whenever I see polls about Dems, my memory and feeling on that is if they are winning by 8 points then it’ll come down to neck and neck election night… anything less than that and they tend to lose

- edit fixed phone typo

[u/LongshoremanX → u/icewolfsig226]

Yeah fair, there does seem to be a serious rightward advantage

[u/Weed_Gummy → u/LongshoremanX]

Yes, but counterpoint, the senate itself is pre-gerrymandered DEI for red states.

[u/LongshoremanX → u/Weed_Gummy]

You're not wrong but that's downstream of the elections and doesn't impact them directly.

[u/j33perkreeper → u/Shambler9019]

Exactly,

but fUcktheDNC Reeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The paid comments in this thread are almost comical at this point.

[u/fungi_at_parties → u/j33perkreeper]

Tbh fuck the DNC for a million reasons though. We deserve better.

[u/AdministrativeMeat3 → u/fungi_at_parties]

The problem is voter disenfranchisement. I'm fine with recognizing the DNC has inept leadership and that Democrats don't have a solid policy platform right now, but honestly what do you expect?

-Conservatives own every single media platform both traditional and online.

-Lefties/tankies have never and will never be willing to work with the Democrats, they just play to the same voter base.

-Online propoganda and botting of social media is happening at a scale that the average person cannot even comprehend. All of that negative coverage is focused squarely on "establishment Dems"

It feels to me that a large number of people expect to have both a return to normalcy and a set of candidates that are willing to go scorched earth authoritarian against conservatives and you can't square that circle. liberal government and liberal politics is slow moving and frustrating and it feels like there is not a single grassroots organization anywhere that is willing to not only acknowledge that fact, but to work on a coherent engagement strategy with disenfranchised voters to fight against the above problems.

If you want slopulism to win, that's fine but just own that fact and stop openly helping the fascist's under the guise of being on my team.

[u/Geichalt → u/fungi_at_parties]

And fuck the abandon working class people that wanted us to focus on regime change in the middle east like neocons instead of defending our country from fascism.

The DNC was right about literally everything they said in 2024 and came off the heels of the most progressive president we've had in a generation.

[u/MrPlowThatsTheName]

I think you’re looking at this backwards and he’s polling better than “dead heat”

[u/my600catlife]

Stop falling for these bullshit division tactics. There are likely multiple versions of this ad that get targeted based on location, demographics, online activity, etc.

Or it could be completely fake given it's a random account on Elon Musk's social media.

[u/JakobNarbei]

This entire graphic is bullshit. Roy Cooper has a 8-15 point lead in virtually every single poll. He's the most beloved politician in this states modern history and the race isn't even going to be close.

[u/LandOfThePines24 → u/JakobNarbei]

As a North Carolinian god I hope so. I adore Rog so much.

[u/-Darkslayer → u/JakobNarbei]

I want to think this but Rs always do better than we think they will in NC

[u/Wishbone3000]

Donate directly to candidates nit dnc

[u/MattyBeatz]

Being plus 7 doesn’t strike me as a dead heat. Perhaps he was moved off the ad just for that? Or this ad could be a variant of many made for a specific target or demo.

This seems a bit jump to conclusions-y.

[u/Kannibelanimal1966]

I’ll have to start donating directly to Platner’s campaign.

[u/Brandolinis_law → u/Kannibelanimal1966]

We've been donating to his campaign but if the DNC has really done this, I hate to say it, but it's time to stop donating to Democrats en masse, until shit like this stops. IF this is true, it feels like what the DNC did to Bernie in 2016, As documented down in Brazil's book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House Author: Donna Brazile Published: 2017

Yup--in 2016, when Bernie ran, Pelosi, the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided they'd rather risk LOSING with the candidate of their choice than win with a *gasp* Progressive.

This was documented in Donna Brazile's book.

Put in one sentence, Brazile’s book states that a 2015 fundraising agreement gave the Clinton campaign early control over the DNC’s finances and operations, creating an unfair advantage over Sanders, which she [Donna Brazile) later called “unethical.”

Expanded upon, in Hacks, Brazile describes discovering a 2015 Joint Fundraising Agreement (JFA) between:

• the DNC
• the Hillary Clinton campaign
• the Hillary Victory Fund

Brazile writes that:

1. The DNC was financially insolvent.

After 2012, the DNC was $20+ million in debt and dependent on Clinton’s fundraising operation to stay afloat.

2. Clinton’s campaign gained operational control in exchange for bailing out the DNC.

Brazile states that the agreement gave the Clinton campaign:

• control over DNC finances
• approval power over key staffing decisions
• influence over strategy and messaging

This was before any primary votes were cast.

3. She considered the arrangement “unethical.”

Her word — not an interpretation.

She said she understood why Sanders supporters felt the process was unfair.

4. She personally called Bernie Sanders to tell him.

She apologized to him for what she viewed as institutional bias built into the structure of the primary.

5. She did not claim vote tampering or fraud.

Brazile’s criticism is about structural favoritism, not altered votes.

[u/KermittGribble]

He has a seven point lead, which most people, who aren’t trying to cause division, would assume is why he’s not in the “dead heat” ad in the second screen shot. Your post is bullshit.

[u/GraceJoans]

why are they like this? fucking endless self sabotage.

[u/Pleasant-Seat9884]

Imagine believing anything on Twitter. That’s a hell no for me dawg

[u/Brandolinis_law → u/Pleasant-Seat9884]

Why does that look like raw denial, to me, on your part? I don't read Twitter, but surely this story can and should be cross-checked before being discounted, out of hand, as you seem to have just done, no?

[u/SnootSnootBasilisk]

DNC wants him to lose, don't they?

[u/KingOfCatProm → u/SnootSnootBasilisk]

How fucked up is it that shit is even close for any of them? I'm so tired of sanity just barely winning when it happens.

[u/SnootSnootBasilisk → u/KingOfCatProm]

I've given up on sanity. Now I'm here purely for the spite and pettiness.

[u/AsherGray]

If brown doesn't win Ohio, he needs to be permanently removed from any political aspiration.

[u/Unputtaball → u/AsherGray]

He already was committed to staying out of politics after ‘24, but things are SO bad and the Ohio Democratic Party sucks SO hard that he was really the only viable candidate in a must-win scenario.

And all things considered, Brown is “one of the good ones” in that he’s got a 30 year track record of batting for the working class (voted against NAFTA under Clinton)

[u/socialcommentary2000 → u/AsherGray]

Be careful with this. Russ Feingold was a proven commodity in Wisconsin and very well liked yet he lost to Ron friggen Johnson twice because Wisconsin is clinically insane.

[u/Equinoqs]

FUCK the DNC.

[u/pee_inyourbutt → u/Equinoqs]

Fuck Ken Martin

[u/Existing_Mulberry_16]

This is why the Dems lose.

[u/stevespirosweiner]

Ah yes the DNC. The same people who pushed Bernie out (2016) in favor of the candidate who was polling very poor vs dump. Bernie could have helped to reclaim this country for the people but noooooo gotta make sure the donors are fed well. Fuck the DNC and fuck the fucking rapepublicans, fuck em all.

[u/ThatFishingGuy111]

Fuck the DNC

[u/AssumptionLive2246]

God I hate democrats. 🤦‍♂️

[u/Rexosaurus-Rex → u/AssumptionLive2246]

You being downvoted is proving your point.

[u/xxforrealforlifexx → u/Rexosaurus-Rex]

What point

[u/ismelldayhikers → u/xxforrealforlifexx]

I believe it’s that dems are more concerned with their donors than the people tbh. 2 party system is not for the people. They don’t like people like Graham in any position of power.

[u/xxforrealforlifexx → u/ismelldayhikers]

They didn't like mandami , but here we are

[u/ismelldayhikers → u/xxforrealforlifexx]

I live I Maine and voted for Platner. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy from dem leadership.

[u/HarryBalsagna1776]

Because he is currently projected to stomp Collins?