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LA Riots Hand Republicans Script for Midterms
RealClearPolitics ^ | 12 Jun, 2025 | LA Riots Hand Republicans Script for Midterms By Philip Wegmann & Susan Crabtree

Posted on 06/12/2025 6:35:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.

Republicans will replay the clip again and again in campaign ads ahead of the midterms.

“This lawlessness is exactly what Americans rejected in 2024,” said Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee. “While Democrats sow chaos, Republicans stand as the party of law and order.” President Trump is delivering on his campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration, Whatley told RealClearPolitics, and ahead of the midterms, his party “will continue to run on this winning message and finish the job for the American people.”

As National Guard were being deployed to quell violence in California, Republicans were mobilizing to capture and catalog video of looting, rioting, and violence. One RNC official told RCP they were struggling to capture the flood of content coming across cable news.

“It was just non-stop,” they said. “There was so much.”

That content from the LA riots will soon provide fodder for the contrast Republicans hope to paint in November of next year, illustrating the failed immigration policies they allege California Gov. Gavin Newsom now embodies. For his part, Newsom blames Trump for inflaming an already “combustible situation.”

Los Angeles became ground zero for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown Saturday when ICE agents launched a series of raids across the city. Protests followed. Some of the demonstrations have been peaceful. The ones getting wall-to-wall news coverage, however, were not. Demonstrators hurled rocks, firework shells, and Molotov cocktails at police. Vandalism and looting ensued, prompting Trump to order 2,000 National Guardsmen to the city without the approval of the California governor.

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1 posted on 06/12/2025 6:35:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

So much damaging video just dropped into their laps. Could Republicans possibly botch this?


2 posted on 06/12/2025 6:35:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.

He is the far-left equivalent of the Tank Blocker of Tienanmen, meaning he embodies everything that is wrong about the God-only-knows-what-color revolution the Marxist/Jihadi/Maoists are trying to cook up in our country.

3 posted on 06/12/2025 6:39:49 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Democrats will be highly motivated. If our side is apathetic, they will win.


4 posted on 06/12/2025 6:40:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

YES!!!


5 posted on 06/12/2025 6:43:05 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: MtnClimber

We’ve still got 2 long summers — and election reform — to go in order to get there.


6 posted on 06/12/2025 6:46:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dfwgator

If what has been going on doesn’t get our base out to vote, we deserve to lose.


7 posted on 06/12/2025 6:47:42 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: MtnClimber

First time?


8 posted on 06/12/2025 6:49:32 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: MtnClimber

So much damaging video just dropped into their laps. Could Republicans possibly botch this?

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The Republicans have a record of doing just that. but this time they had better not.


9 posted on 06/12/2025 6:50:41 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“election reform”

Which will be immediately blocked by some minor dem appointed judge, and ignored by the sc, if recent history is any indicator. I hope I am wrong.


10 posted on 06/12/2025 6:51:15 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: MtnClimber

It will be a test if Californian’s wised up or stay a stooge.


11 posted on 06/12/2025 6:53:15 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I think a better picture is the shirtless guy standing on a burned out car waving the Mexican flag. Framed perfectly to show whom the Democrats support.


12 posted on 06/12/2025 6:56:00 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: MtnClimber

Until the democommies goal is achieved. Which is, sacrificing some dumbass to be the next “innocent” martyr who was merely using his first amendment peaceful redress to the govt. Bets?


13 posted on 06/12/2025 7:02:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: dfwgator

Some people are motivate by the price of eggs and person ecomomic experience

Some are motivated by emotion on seeing extremism.

Some by ideology.

To maximize turnout it is necessary to recognize and build a coalition. A one issue campaign only brings out those energized by that single issue.


14 posted on 06/12/2025 7:03:38 AM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: Vaduz

It’s too late for California to wise up. Demographics has insured that. You are just now seeing the result of it full blown. We Californians have been watching the march toward this for years. No one listened.


15 posted on 06/12/2025 7:11:29 AM PDT by sheana
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To: rktman

I would not be surprised to see a DUmmie with a Palestine flag jump in front of a tank at the Army 250th Anniversary Parade.


16 posted on 06/12/2025 7:13:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Owwwww! Another pancake breakfast to be named after ‘TBD” coming soon to an IHOP near you.


17 posted on 06/12/2025 7:22:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: spintreebob

20% of the population want a Revolution. They may be small in number, but they are determined.

Only 2% of the Russian population supported the Bolsheviks in 1917, it didn’t matter.


18 posted on 06/12/2025 7:43:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
20% of the population want a Revolution. They may be small in number, but they are determined.

The new "red-green-lavendar-blue " color revolution ...


19 posted on 06/12/2025 7:53:29 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: sheana

“We Californians have been watching the march toward this for years. No one listened.”

Of course people listened...and watched. FReepers have been prescient in saying that the Mexicans would take over California. Now we’re about to enter a low-key Mexican civil war to determine whether or nor the pro-American Mexicans can crush the low-IQ, brainwashed Marxist Mexicans.


20 posted on 06/12/2025 8:01:33 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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