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Democrats Prepare a Mid-Term October Surprise to Influence the Election
https://redstate.com ^ | By Bonchie | Jul 12, 2022 10:30 PM ET

Posted on 07/13/2022 6:03:28 AM PDT by Red Badger

Democrats are facing their worst political environment in over a decade heading into November’s mid-term elections. Republicans lead the generic ballot and hold a solid structural advantage in competing for the House of Representatives. And despite concerns about candidate quality, the GOP is also favored to take control of the Senate.

The correlation between presidential approval and their party’s mid-term prospects also can’t be ignored. Joe Biden has hit the lowest poll numbers of his term, with a recent Times/Siena poll showing him at just 33 percent approval with only 13 percent believing the country is on the right track.

In response, Democrats have desperately tried to change the narrative by focusing on abortion and guns, but that’s gone over like a lead balloon because ultimately, those aren’t issues that affect the vast majority of Americans in their everyday lives. The economy and inflation are still at the top of any list of concerns.

In short, the fundamentals are just awful for the Democrats. That means they need to do something to influence the election that goes beyond actually enacting good policy, and if you listen closely, you’ll discern exactly what they are preparing.

What evidence is there that we’ll have a massive, deadly COVID spike in the Winter? There isn’t much except the fact that we know the coronavirus is largely seasonal now. But even then, the virus is showing itself to be far less deadly than in the past due to a combination of weaker variants and widespread immunity (both natural and vaccine-induced).

Still, the administration is sounding the alarm, going so far as to extend the state of emergency again.

Then there’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been a ghost for the last few months. He popped back up on Tuesday to let Americans know that we can’t just “put the pandemic behind us.”

If you’ve read this far, you probably see where I’m going with this. Prior to the 2020 election, Democrats used the threat of COVID as an excuse to push through election law changes in a variety of states. That included swing states like Pennsylvania. Mail-in balloting became common, with unmonitored drop boxes being placed around cities. Things like so-called “drive-thru voting” also became popularized as well as extensions that allowed ballots to be returned well after election day.

What that all added up to was a chaotic free-for-all of an election with very few guardrails, and that’s exactly what Democrats want to see again in November. You can even put aside the discussion over fraud. The fact is that Democrats benefit from ballot harvesting and mass mail-in voting. There’s a reason they wanted to federalize those practices while eliminating election security provisions like voter ID.

The White House is clearly rolling out a plan to try to push more COVID hysteria as we head into the fall. That hysteria will be used to justify a push to change election laws again. Democrats need something to change the game because their actual governance isn’t going to cut it.

Republicans simply can not allow themselves to be run over by the same truck again. As the administration begins to push the COVID narrative more and more, the GOP should respond by making it clear that there will be no changes to election laws no matter what happens. Not at the federal level, and not at the state level where they have the power to dictate. In 2020, many red states lined up to do the Democrats’ bidding on this front. This time, things must be different.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; election; hysteria; voting
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1 posted on 07/13/2022 6:03:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections/


2 posted on 07/13/2022 6:06:52 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Red Badger
Wherever possible, election laws should become stricter with regard to mail in ballots and phantom voters. MAGA people need to man the polls, and use whatever excuse is necessary to actually count the votes by hand on election night, like "Oopsie, the machine broke!". To quote the famous line from The Who, we Won't Get Fooled Again !
3 posted on 07/13/2022 6:10:18 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Red Badger

NYC just started running a “what to do in a nuclear attack” PSA ad.

Timing seems suspect.


4 posted on 07/13/2022 6:11:06 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: Red Badger

The average citizen will not tolerate that crap a second time. They are wiser now. BUT, never underestimate the ability of the GOP to snatch defeat from the laws of victory. My expectations for November are very tempered. I expect widespread fraud and the GOP utterly failing to do anything about it.


5 posted on 07/13/2022 6:13:00 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Red Badger

Fascist Fauci to close down the US; no elections?


6 posted on 07/13/2022 6:14:27 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Red Badger

If I comment on what I think should happen to those that continue to threaten us with covid restrictions, I would likely be banned.


7 posted on 07/13/2022 6:14:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger

Dems like to turn funerals into political rallies.
Double state funeral for Bill and Joe who die in sleep of natural causes on same night.
Jill and Hill headline event begging for dem turn out.
Body double who can read teleprompter is new first black woman president.


8 posted on 07/13/2022 6:14:47 AM PDT by Purpleperson
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To: Red Badger

Dems like to turn funerals into political rallies.
Double state funeral for Bill and Joe who die in sleep of natural causes on same night.
Jill and Hill headline event begging for dem turn out.
Body double who can read teleprompter is new first black woman president.


9 posted on 07/13/2022 6:14:48 AM PDT by Purpleperson
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To: Dr. Franklin
Wherever possible, election laws should become stricter with regard to mail in ballots and phantom voters.

Election laws need to be updated so that mail-in ballots that were not personally handed in by the voter to election officials lose their right to ballot secrecy.

Mail-in ballots need to be barcoded to the voter in such a manner that only election officials can marry up a specific ballot to a specific voter, but there is a means of recourse if it is later determined that the "voter" was not eligible, or it was an outright fraudulently cast ballot.

Being able to later go back and find these ineligible ballots and remove their votes from the totals would greatly improve the accuracy of the count.

10 posted on 07/13/2022 6:16:16 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

The GOPe will do nothing. Cocaine Mitch will just repeat his “live to fight another day” speech for the umpteenth time.


11 posted on 07/13/2022 6:17:01 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: bk1000

They won’t get away with Covid excuses a 2nd time...................


12 posted on 07/13/2022 6:17:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

No doubt it’s China that will be surprising us with a major outage, or some such thing.


13 posted on 07/13/2022 6:17:31 AM PDT by ryderann
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But a fake COVID spike would not be a surprise.

Arresting Donald Trump on October 31st would be the kind of surprise they want. By the time the shock wears off and the public realizes they have nothing on him, the election would be over.

14 posted on 07/13/2022 6:19:01 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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No, the real surprise is a last- minute indictment of Trump by the Jan 6 committee.

They’ll use it to dirty up all the candidates Trump is supporting.


15 posted on 07/13/2022 6:19:48 AM PDT by 5by5 (ad)
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To: Red Badger
Whatever the nature of the Democrat/Communist's "October surprise" may be is a matter of conjecture, with a new "public health panic" -- as irrational as was (is) the last one -- leading the pack. But you can be absolutely, beyond-any-doubt certain of one thing: The Democrat/Communists will do whatever it takes, at whatever the cost including the deliberate killing of millions of innocent -- although ignorant -- American citizens if need be, to hold onto power

There is simply nothing -- nothing! -- Democrat/Communists won't do to hold onto power as power over others is the primary -- above all else -- reason for their very existence.

16 posted on 07/13/2022 6:23:43 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: Red Badger

The feeb/DS must be actively planning a really big false flag in order to have dopey Joe declare “becuase of this event, I hereby declare marshlaw and an cancel the erections. End of quote. Repeat the line.”


17 posted on 07/13/2022 6:25:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

Fauci, still getting $400,000 a year for saying what the administration wants him to say.


18 posted on 07/13/2022 6:27:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: glennaro

“... The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984


19 posted on 07/13/2022 6:28:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I am expecting a terrorist attack of some kind.

They won’t get away with Covid excuses a 2nd time...................


20 posted on 07/13/2022 6:29:58 AM PDT by Dacula
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