Axios had bad news this morning for Democrats: abortion won't save you this year because Ron DeSantis just made illegal aliens the campaign issue.
The outlet said, "Americans' Google searches and story interactions around crime and immigration are eclipsing abortion and the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, according to the Axios midterms dashboard powered by Google Trends, as well as new data from NewsWhip."
Suddenly an issue that had failed to ignite public interest became a bonfire when DeSantis flew 50 illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard, an enclave of rich white liberals who largely were to the manor born. Their island was a sanctuary to illegal aliens -- until illegal aliens arrived.
Martha's Vineyard dropped the façade and called in the National Guard. The Guard shipped the illegals to a military base which is also a Superfund site.
Thus, DeSantis not only made illegal aliens an issue but he succeeded in highlighting liberal hypocrisy. Liberals don't want those people in their neighborhoods except to clean their toilets and mow their lawns.
Timing is everything in comedy and politics.
Axios said, "Why it matters: With elections seven weeks away, some topics more likely to favor Democrats have been losing ground to those that may favor Republicans."
The site also said, "searches related to immigration and the border vaulted into the top 10 last week, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis grabbed national attention by flying asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard."
Democrats are spooked. Their open borders policy is about as popular as Putin's war.
Border R+36
— Bruce Mehlman (@bpmehlman) September 19, 2022
Crime R+23
Economy R+19
Immigration R+17
Cost of Living R+14
Protecting Rights R+9
Bringing Country Together R+6
Getting Things Done R+6
Protecting Democracy D+7
Education D+11
Health Care D+20
Abortion D+22 pic.twitter.com/xk4Zua8aLU
DeSantis framed the issue as Democrat duplicity. They want illegals in your neighborhood but not theirs.
Busing illegals to Chicago, New York and Washington did not click with the public. Those are big cities and unless you live in one, no one cares. Even then, the people of those cities don't care. If they did, they would have Republican mayors.
But flying illegals to the summer home of the super elitists worked. Things are so bad for Democrats that George Soros got into the act.
Fox reported, "The activist group at the center of a class-action lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials for migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard has received nearly $1.4 million from George Soros’ Open Society network.
"Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas, according to a press release Tuesday that described the latter group as "a network of migrant-led organizations supporting immigrants across the United States."
"Alianza Americas has received a total of $1,383,947 from George Soros' Open Society Foundations between 2016 and 2020, OSF's records show.
"The grants came from three of his nonprofits: Open Society Institute, Open Society Policy Center and Foundation to Promote Open Society."
Liberals bestowed upon DeSantis the coveted Worse Than Trump award. I can see why they are concerned.
Forbes reported, "Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has raised over $218 million in his reelection campaign, according to campaign financial disclosures filed Friday, seen by the Financial Times, shattering an all-time gubernatorial fundraising record and further suggesting a likely 2024 presidential run."
People who are willing to give him $218 million for re-election to governor surely will be willing to give him even more money should Trump bow out of the 2024 race.
Thus, the drones of the Fourth Estate have attacked him.
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote on Saturday, "Well, you might say, Donald Trump is a bully, too. Yes, he is. But Donald Trump is also a lifelong celebrity with a public persona that is as much about ‘The Apprentice’ and even ‘Home Alone 2’ as it is about his political career. What’s more, Trump has the skills of a celebrity. He’s funny, he has stage presence, and he has a kind of natural charisma. He can be a bully in part because he can temper his cruelty and egoism with the performance of a clown or a showman. He can persuade an audience that he’s just kidding — that he doesn’t actually mean it.
"Ron DeSantis cannot. He may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actual Donald Trump."
Meanwhile, Biden just sent the FBI to Mar-a-Lago to seize presidential mementos for the National Archives. These items are so Super Duper Top Secret that the archive will make them accessible to the public. NYT won't speak out against real fascism, just the imaginary kind because the imaginary kind will not raid your publisher's home at 4 AM.
But Mar-a-Lago now is outside the public's interest. People have Martha's Vineyard on their minds. And Martha's Vineyard beached Democrat hopes in November.
That’s a heck of a chart. One MAJOR concern: Democrats +6 on protecting democracy?
ReplyDeleteGive me a break.
And yes, we are a republic, but many of the idiot voters don’t know that.
Randy says: And Dems +11 on education??? They must have polled teachers and folks with no kids, because anyone with a kid or grandkid in school knows Democrats and teacher’s unions are destroying their kids’ minds.
DeleteYes. Whenever, I hear the Democrats say they want to protect democracy, I think they're talking about protecting mob rule...think BLM & Antifa.
DeleteThanks a lot for lumping some of us with the lefties Randy . Get your head out of your butt before making statements about which you obviously know nothing about .
DeleteLet's hope
ReplyDeleteMy last month paycheck was 11000 dollars… All I did was simple 0nline work from comfort at home for 3-4 hours/day that I got from this agency O10 I discovered over the internet and they paid me 95 dollars every hour.
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People have Martha's Vineyard on their minds. ""
ReplyDeleteNot for long. The stock market will continue to collapse dramatically. The economy is always #1.
DeSantis is a reformer. He is the darling of Fox News and is ok with McConnell. Trump will drain the swamp, not DeSantis.
All aboard the Trump Train!
Trump was on Hannity last night. First time on Fox since April. Let DeSantis finish up in Florida. I am still skeptical of him on the national stage and of his backers.
Delete-The economy is always #1.
DeleteIf that was the case, Trump would've won in a landslide in 2020.
Oh wait, he did, except the e1ekshun wuz stollun (just ' the censors off your back, Don)
by a bunch of mules financed by a nazi sympathizing billionaire and a social media android.
-lg
Just keeping the censors....
DeleteJust remember Scott Walker of Wisconsin. He was conservative USA’s rising star until he stepped onto a debate stage.
DeleteRandy says: By the time 2022 voting starts, the stock market will have collapsed even further, and gas prices will have resumed their upward climb. But people can hold more than one thought concurrently. They’ll also be thinking about crime, illegal immigration, and if a parent, their kid’s education. The trick is to swamp them with bad Democrat policies… all of the above, plus grooming, COVID vax deaths, green disasters, foreign policy blunders, and more communist/ socialist/ fascist/ totalitarian policies that the administration hasn’t even thought of yet. Midterm voters need to know that, regardless of who is running or for which office, Democrats make every aspect of their lives worse.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Trump v DeSantis goes, that’s a Republican primary decision that will be made two years from now. Dems don’t get to choose the Republican nominee. By the Fall of 2024, we should all be behind “our guy,” regardless of who it is. Bashing one to promote the other two years before it matters is counterproductive.
Randy adds: This was supposed to be a reply to TrumpTrain, not a stand-alone comment. Oops!
DeleteRandy, you remarked, “Dems don’t get to choose the Republican nominee.” Apparently you haven’t been focused on “jungle primaries” and “ranked choice voting.” Slowly but surely the Dems will in fact be choosing the Republican nominees too and all their names will have a “D” at the end.
DeleteRandy says: Our Republic did just fine with “one person, one vote” before Dems started this “one person, 3 or 4 votes” crap. I’m hoping this problem will be addressed by the Republican Congress before the 2024 voting starts.
DeleteDammit. Is it 48 or 50 Venezuelans flown to Martha's Vinyard? I keep seeing both. I figure it's probably 48 but reporters are too lazy to deal in exact numbers.
ReplyDeleteI expect better of Don though.
So who knows for sure? 48 or 50?
It was 48 until a 3am recount jumped it up to 50.
Delete-lg
Good LG
DeleteAs Hillary would say, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
DeleteDid a couple Martha's Vineyard residents begin identifying as immigrants?
DeleteRFLMAO at Bouie and the rehabilitation of Trump from Neo-Hitler to "he's not so bad." Same as with HW Bush, and more recently, Cheney. D's/Progs are idiots.
ReplyDeleteIt's all because they fear loss of their brute force power.
"How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico". Eisenhower, one of the US best generals, was appalled by the "breakdown in law enforcement" and "relaxation in ethical standards" at the local and federal level that accompanied the surge in illegals crossing the border - then about 1 million per year.
ReplyDeleteIn 1954 appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing head of INS and deported 3 million illegals. They didn't just drop them inside the border but took them deep into Mexico to release. This stopped illegals for 10 years - until LBJ who supported the illegal influx all his career.
History has buried this historical fact but it's recounted in a 2006 article here: https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Randy says: I hadn’t heard of “Jumping Joe” Swing, but I’ve always said it’s ridiculous to bus illegals back to the border. Drop ’em off one day, and they’re back in the U.S. the next. INS should fly them to Cancún on a troop transport and drop them off there. Maybe they’ll decide it’s not worth spending several weeks walking back to the U.S. border, only to be caught and dropped back off in Cancún again the next day.
DeleteDropping them off at the nearest cartel mass grave would deter most of them.
DeleteThese days it isn't safe to land a plane in Mexico... parachute extraction like they are resupplying a fire base.
DeleteI remember this gem from 2015: Former "Fashion Police" host Kelly Osbourne is in hot water for remarks she made on "The View" Tuesday regarding Latinos.
ReplyDeleteDuring a discussion about the front-runner status of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Osbourne said that "If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?"
Osbourne then quickly backtracked: "No, I didn't mean it like that! Come on! I would never mean it like that! I'm not part of this argument."
This seems to be the first time the illegal immigration issue has actually stuck to the DNC and liberal elite like glue.
Suzq22- Trump’s soft edges? LOL. I voted for mean tweets.
ReplyDelete- had bad news this morning for Democrats: abortion won't save you this year
ReplyDeleteAs long as Graham shuts the fuck up.
-lg
I think Graham is involved in some sabotage
DeleteGraham (and the rest of the rino party), would rather be in the minority party. It's easier for him to cry "Reelect me so I can beat those darn liberals (and send me lots of money, too)" than it is to actually stand up and commit to something when he is in the majority party.
DeleteI find Graham in particular, to be especially sleazy and far less trustworthy than a used car salesman in the bad side of town.
-lg
Lindsey is a deep state
ReplyDeleteshill I don't trust anything her says.
Can't wait to see the Award Show where the 'worse than Trump' statuette is handed out each year to the Republican that the news democrats proclaim is worse than Trump.
ReplyDeleteI hope DeSantis will cost the Dems the midterms, but I don't think the cheating has been factored in yet.
ReplyDeleteI'd say gas prices helped a lot, but Maatha's was the icing on the cake.
ReplyDeletePS When Jim Bowie says Trump is a bully what she really means is he fights back. Nice Republicans don't do that.
Just a reminder that Obama deported more people than Trump.
ReplyDeleteObama may have because his border was wide open, too. Trump built a wall that kept the illegal aliens from crossing the border. It’s too bad the illegitimate squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue didn’t finish it.
DeleteBecause President Trump got Mexico to enforce its own immigration laws and kept many of the central American people away.
DeleteFor the life of me, I do not understand how the democrats can be+11 on education when their education policies are pronouns and pedophiles.
ReplyDeleteI think their three strongest attributes are graft, guilt tripping and giving away our wealth.
Deletestill better to just deport or take back to the border, btw guess what well known dirtbag consultant is running dirty tricks for desantis... TURD BLOSSOM - https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/22/atwater-styled-shenanigans-surface-in-desantis-national-political-campaign/
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate the vicious Dems. They know timing is everything. They’re chomping at the bit to play their “Trump” card…to pounce…& indict DJT. 🤬
ReplyDeleteI don't know, the Dems have special machines and mail-in ballots. They can get dead people to vote 100% for hem at will. They hard to beat. Who ever thought PedoPeter could get 81M votes, 12M more than Barry O!!! They seem more powerful than God.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, maybe not. I applaud DeSantis for his commonsense, but I doubt it will make a huge difference. Did Dems backdown and change their attitudes after the last set of riots over policing? No, they doubled down. Have Dems backdown from the Green New Deal even as California and other states reel from power shortages and record high fuel costs as a result of shutting down drilling? No, not one bit. Have Dems shown anyone they realize their resident in the WH is keeping the border open intentionally? Nope. So why would they suddenly change course now simply because a few elites got their panties all bunched up over a hundred illegals dropped off in their gated communities? The illegals were promptly shopped off to a location closer to us commoners right after the left was done using them for a photo-op. Democrats are not rational and they are becoming increasingly more so. They will double down on their stupidity and pretend to only see what they want to see and keep voting for more government corruption, simply because it makes them feel powerful to control others. After all, you don't have to debate anyone or sell your ideas if you have the ability to just jam them down everyone's throats with no repercussions.
ReplyDeletePutin's war!!!! your no different than pedo Joe. Russia is finally finishing the Great Patriotic War the Red Army won in 1945 but the London/Wall st backers of the Third Reich were never brought to justice. Now the Fourth Reich will be defeated.
ReplyDeleteLiz Cheney's bill allowing voting for 5 days after election day means democrats will win every election forever. It just passed the House and is expected to pass the Senate
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