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Posted on 10/17/2020 1:34:11 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
In the regularly blue state of Oregon, voters in a purple district near the city of Portland are turning away from long-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Peter DeFazio in favor of a young Republican challenger.
Army veteran Alek Skarlatos, 27, gained international fame for halting an extremist attack aboard a Paris-bound train in 2015. He's also one of House Republicans' best recruits this year, outraising DeFazio by $1.2 million and outspending him by over $900,000 in the most recent quarter.
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Or can they vote their way to remission?
He won’t be my congressman but I keep sending him money anyway. Here in Portland I’m stuck with a rat.
Sometimes being a hero pays off :)
I would love to see him win.
We already know a bit about his character by his actions that day.
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See Clint Eastwood's "15:17 to Paris", the movie about this man and his 2 friends ending a terrorist attack!
Defazio was once outed as a member of the Democratic Socialist of America.
Sometimes being a hero pays off :)
There IS hope!! I hope that kid in the wheel chair in Pennsylvania wins too. So many up and coming young Conservatives coming to the front to serve their country. That’s the one’s I’ve been talking about to get rid of the old career farts in the Republican Party and send them packing. I see good things happening.......please Lord.......
I don’t doubt this. I was in the Portland area back in February, stayed in a suburb called Hillsboro. 90% of the people seemed normal politically. Took a drive downtown, and it was a hell hole, even before the riots.
And they didn’t expect to have to waste fake ballots to hold this district either.
A district near Portland? I live 80 miles away from Portland, and I voted for Skarlatos.
Defeating a congress critter from any party who’s been around since the 1980’s is a major unclogging of the swamp.
The fourth isn’t anywhere near Portland—in fact, IIRC while the majority of the second are certainly much farther from Portland than the extreme parts of the fourth, the parts of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th that aren’t actually Portland are all pretty well closer to Portland than the closest parts of the fourth, and a decent chunk of the second is way closer to Portland than the closest portion of the fourth.
(Most of my family is in the fourth, and it’s where I was raised. I remember Weaver, who DeFazio worked for before he rightly calculated that the Eugene Dems would be enough for him to carry the primary to succeed Weaver, and the people in the district who still voted Dem because Lincoln was a Republican would join him in the general to give him a secure job). My first vote for a congressman was against DeFazio in his first run as an incumbent.
As an American living overseas, I rely on FR and other conservative websites like thedonald.win for a decent pulse of how our country is doing. Since you live in Portland, can you shed some light on the tiresome idiot antifa riots there? How does the average Portlander see them? Is support high for them or are people getting fed up? Any patriots there pushing back?
The ongoing liberal violence is making people vote conservative / law and order for their literal safety.
Omar Wasow of Princeton University wanted to measure the impact of the violent protests following King’s death on white voting patterns in the 1968 election.
He found a remarkable swing of up to 8% among white voters against Nixon’s Democratic rival, Hubert Humphrey, where there had been violence.
Will protests help Donald Trump as they did Richard Nixon in 1968?
History suggests that Republicans benefit from street violence, whereas Democrats gain from peaceful protests
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/06/08/will-protests-help-donald-trump-as-they-did-richard-nixon-in-1968
A cousin of mine is a 70-something, old hippy liberal lawyer living in Portland. How hippy/liberal is she? Well, she has two “husbands”. When we visit, we try not to talk politics, law or religion.
She tries to make light of the Portland riots by saying that they occur only in a fairly small area downtown.
IMO most people are cowering and don’t want to disrupt the accepted dictates. OR...they’re afraid to speak out. I don’t have Trump stickers on my car because I don’t want it to be keyed. I worked at Nike and learned to keep my mouth shut - lots of liberals there. I have neighbors I really like who won’t vote for Trump because they think he’s awful but they hate the riots also. How they reconcile that I don’t know. I blame the media.
I think the election will tell us everything about the tolerance for riots here. I drove through downtown yesterday - think Beirut. Horrible to see what has been done to a once charming downtown. We have 2 candidates for mayor on the ballot - pro-antifa and antifa whose manager is a self-declared communist. I had to write in someone.
However, I’ve been getting my home worked on and so far have 3 workman here who support Trump. One said he was a democrat but no more - and he is really proud to have taken the red pill. But they’re careful who they reveal this to...just as I am. So we will see.
He chaired the House Progressive Caucus. I saw him sitting outside a restaurant in Eugene, a long time ago. It was his suit that got my attention. Mind you, I was probably 75 yards away. Up the street was a Rolls Royce. Not sure who Pete was dining with, but they weren’t regular folks. Any time he deigns to come to the coast, he drives his ‘60s vintage beater.
Sure they can but they can't guarantee their votes will be counted.
A plus in his district, but maybe that will change this year.
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