Posted on 11/26/2025 12:12:25 AM PST by RandFan
Over a dinner of turkey, ham and mashed potatoes, and after a keynote speech by an actual Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Golden noted that a 2 December special election to fill an open congressional seat has put his state at the centre of the American political universe - Democratic resources are pouring in.
Earlier this month, the Democratic Party Chair held a rally in the district. And last Tuesday, former Vice-President Kamala Harris visited campaign workers at a canvassing event.
"Why am I in Tennessee?" she asked the crowd. "Because I know the power is in the South."
The district at issue should be reliably conservative. Donald Trump won there by 22% in last year's presidential election. But both Republicans and Democrats are acting like the race is much closer - and political forecasters agree.
"Sources roundly agree that Nashville Democrats are ravenous at the prospect of an upset, while many Republican voters are unaware an election is even taking place," writes Matthew Klein of the Cook Political Report.
The election comes as cracks have appeared in Trump's grip over his party on a number of issues - culminating in conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene's surprise resignation from Congress on Friday night.
"No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman," she said in her resignation speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
“Voting the people who don’t show up to vote” is the favored form of massive voter fraud democrat prefer. All the FBI has to do is seed voter rolls with a few hundred fake names and see if those nonexistent people ‘voted’.
… cackle, cackle, cackle.
Why doesn’t Trump hold a rally to get out the vote?
Awaiting the anti Trumpers here to chime in, lol.
The Article sucks.
Total, NUTS!
Might be a bit early for that..
It’s one for them
But seriously, I didn’t even know about this. Haven’t’ seen it mentioned
You haven't heard of the chick running in Nashville who hates Nashville? C'mon.
(That, Aftyn Behn's greatest political vulnerability, is not even mentioned in this BBC "report.")
You are an op.
We wouldn’t have to put up with this crap if the incumbent hadn’t decided to quit out of the blue. Perhaps a campaign promise(or written) to pay a million bucks to quit like that.
They’ll to Trump to it if he loses but separate him from it if he loses. As always
He’s not losing the congress anyway. Nope
I am wary of the people in Nashville, not sure we can count on a win but have hope.
What is Trump’s RNC doing to get out the vote?
its BBC
They are foreign, state-controlled media for the rump British Empire. They promoted nonsense like Russia-gate and impeachment as strongly as the worst of them. They meddle in US politics more than any other foreign nation
We don't put up with it from Russia or China, and people scream about Israel's influence - why do we accept it from BBC and the UK?
| And last Tuesday, former Vice-President Kamala Harris visited campaign workers at a canvassing event. "Why am I in Tennessee?" she asked the crowd. "Because I know the power is in the South." * * * * Oh, PUlleeeeease! And... Woop Tee Doo Doo! Merely mentioning Kamala "Word Salad" Harris showing up proves the BBC reporter is clueless. British Fakes News organizations like the BBC, the Economist, and Financial Times are even worse TDS creatures than CNN... And BBC has a billion dollar axe to grind now that President Trump has launched a massive law suit causing two high level BBC leaders to up and quit on the spot. Can't wait for next year when the Trump team and Kentucky voters drop kick the Massie prima donna all the way home from Louisville to Haaavard Yard in Massie Chou setts. Hey, maybe Massie can team up with Elizabeth "Pocohontas" Warren. Such a pair of big-talking frauds deserve each other. |
“Why am I in Tennessee?” [Harris] asked the crowd.
Yes, ... I was asking the very same question. Apparently, she is looking for something to do, has plenty of free time on her hands. Campaign is desperate to bring her in.
“Might be a bit early for that..”
This isn’t about the 2026 midterms.
The upcoming special election in Tennessee is in 6 days.
Exactly why I came to this thread.
The RNC has done nothing since President Trump declared victory on Election Night 2024. Lara Trump and the RNC broke their arms patting themselves on the back for him winning the election and then put their feet up while the Democrats stole four Senate seats in Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada, and ten House seats, mostly in California.
In the recently concluded off-year election here in Virginia, the RNC did not help Winsome Earle-Sears against hard left Abigail Spanberger. It was easy to tell that Earle-Sears had no money because she barely ran any ads while Spanberger blanketed TV and internet with ads during every break making herself out to be a law and order moderate. I know that people call it a blue state and therefore write it off and with 13 seats going Democrat in the legislature after President Trump lost it last year, it's hard to argue with that. Fine, but none of that is an excuse for the RNC not even trying to help.
But don't worry, they tell us, we're going to go strong for the midterms. Bull! No they're not. The RNC is the same do-nothings they've always been and the only success they have had is not from them but from President Trump. He can only do so much and during these off-year elections, he was a little on the busy side elsewhere. Left to themselves, we saw the same dismal results we've always seen from the post-Lee Atwater RNC and the promise of more incompetence come next year.
And while I'm pointing out little emperors with no clothes, I'm going to say that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles hasn't done much better in my eyes especially given how we were told she was the driving force in the campaign and would bring that iron discipline to the White House. Like the RNC, it seems that Wiles focused on the campaign and then switched off. All the drama with DOGE and Bondi and this Epstein fiasco and, as well, the off-year elections, are all things the chief of staff is supposed to be in front of. And we were told that she was going to prevent the kind of infighting and sabotage that happened first time around, but again, it's seems like the extent of it is directly around the President.
Maybe I'm asking too much and not recognizing that protecting President Trump is numbers one through infinity on the priority list after everything that's gone with him including the assassination attempts. We do have better people in most cabinet roles and that should mean a lot of the mess from the first term will not be happening, but the chief of staff has to also be on top of those departments or, if the President is going to be her sole focus and she isn't going to look much beyond him at the rest of the executive branch, then she needs to have her team doing those things.
The President has accomplished amazing things and done it non-stop because he hasn't switched off since November 5, 2024, but it seems like it's too much him and not enough the rest. We cannot lose the midterms and we cannot make the strategy that President Trump will campaign as the only path to victory.
Thank you for the truth ... Especially about Lara ...
Trump, like every GOP president, is effectively the head of the RNC. If he wants to effectively govern during his last three years he’d better crack some skulls asap.
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