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Republicans look to avert humiliation in Florida special election
The Hill ^ | Julia Manchester

Posted on 03/30/2025 3:40:14 PM PDT by lasereye

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To: ncalburt; SmokingJoe

He asks when you were going to stop lying. Apparently you are not going to.


41 posted on 03/30/2025 5:25:57 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: lasereye

The Hill may as well be Media Matters.


42 posted on 03/30/2025 5:26:52 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: LS
The Hill is a Democratic Party disinformation and propaganda outfit.
They pushed that fake Ann Selzer Iowa “poll” for Harris last year too in an effort to push Harris over the line.
Harris lost Iowa by a very wide margin.
43 posted on 03/30/2025 5:27:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Robert DeLong

You pretty much covered it.


44 posted on 03/30/2025 5:29:18 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: jacknhoo
Hard core paid Democrat activists like “ncalburt” never stop lying, even after they are caught.
45 posted on 03/30/2025 5:32:49 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Reminds me of my ex wife, she is a Democrat too. But she would have her story and stick with it, no matter how busted she was.


46 posted on 03/30/2025 5:37:07 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: kaktuskid
I'm just adding information, something freepers commonly did once upon a time. Not all Gaetz voters are MAGA, and I'm neither predicting a loss nor "clutching pearls". Here's what Gaetz's hopeful replacement says:

“She’s even chasing Republican potential voters depicting herself as being tough on China, standing up for Social Security … helping people with their gun rights. They’ve got so much money that this is what they’re doing in order to change the balance of power in Congress,” Patronis said.

‘Too close for me’: Jimmy Patronis says he’s in trouble against Gay Valimont

Basically, she's trying to convince voters she's conservative.

Quite possible the polls are garbage and Patronis is saying this to get more money and other help.

47 posted on 03/30/2025 6:02:06 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jane Long

He’s horrific. A terrible endorsement. This is a layup election for any half decent republican. Fine is a left of center anti-conservative. Bought and paid for.


48 posted on 03/30/2025 6:29:30 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: ilgipper

FL MUST get out the vote and MAGAtize this guy!!


49 posted on 03/30/2025 6:30:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Skwor


"Doe snot mean they won’t cheat it away."


Been awhile since I've seen doe snot.. How's she doin'?
50 posted on 03/30/2025 6:40:48 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Skwor
Anytime that there is a Democrat is in a political race, you can bet the farm that there will be cheating. One may not know how they will cheat, but one can bet their life there will be cheating. It is in the Democrat's DNA.

Democrats are intrinsically wicked and evil. For proof of that look no further than Congressional Democrats.

51 posted on 03/30/2025 6:51:57 PM PDT by sport
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To: SmokingJoe
Teacher's unions huh? Don't make me laugh.

You don't know anything about Florida, and even less about the impact of public employee labor unions.

Last year, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the largest public employee labor union in America, armed with a high-dollar high-powered law firm, rolled over DeSantis, the Hillsborough County School Board, and the Hillsborough County Commission, ramming the union's agenda through the courts here. Paving the way for it to place on the ballot in Hillsborough a phony Referendum worded as though it was intended to "Help The Children".

Only it wasn't.

That was a propaganda piece the union saturated the County's parents with the entire year before election day rolled around.

Instead, the Referendum was a bald-faced heist perpetrated on 717,000 County property tax-paying homeowners who got stiffed with the bill for a $6,000 a year 4-year annual pay hike for every one of the teachers in the County, $24,000 annual pay hike for each teacher. Cost to the taxpaying homeowners? Over $414 million.

At the exact time when Floridians including retirees on fixed income are facing some of the highest costs in the nation for electric power, home and auto insurance, and groceries.

This is for a "pay hike" for teachers who were already in the top percentile of income earners in the County, a County whose students test below the minimum standard for math and reading comprehension at both grade school and high school levels.

Are you laughing yet?

52 posted on 03/30/2025 6:55:03 PM PDT by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Sweet Liberty Valens! Thank God for Guns! --Denny Crane)
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To: Fledermaus

They are. But they work on idiots. That is why the Democrats want a dumbed down population versus an intelligent population.


53 posted on 03/30/2025 6:56:49 PM PDT by sport
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To: 4Runner
Yes.
Laughing harder than before.
Where were this “all powerful teacher's unions” when DeSantis won by a massive close to 20%, and President Trump totally crushed it in November 2024?
Bring it!
54 posted on 03/30/2025 7:06:06 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Laughing harder than before.

Fine is not DeSantis.

And, mirabile dictu, Fine is not Trump.

Do you understand the difference?

I doubt it.

You're just what the Democrat Party wants as the final product coming out of its schools.

55 posted on 03/30/2025 7:36:06 PM PDT by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Sweet Liberty Valens! Thank God for Guns! --Denny Crane)
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To: lasereye

Mt vote will be for Fine. The alternative is a nothing burger.


56 posted on 03/30/2025 8:30:02 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: mbrfl

All we need is R-voter unity around a candidate.

I agree that it means leaning on Trump’s endorsement to actually unify for any hope of a win in these close races.


57 posted on 03/30/2025 8:34:26 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. For Greater Glory. )
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To: lightman

The data says the opposite

https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=PA

Interesting


58 posted on 03/30/2025 9:25:00 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: 4Runner
Building constituencies one issue at a time. And corraling them all together.

It's what Democrats do best.


Most Dems are single/double issue voters. If you say what they like there, they'll vote for you no matter what. Easy to collect a large diverse group.

Most Repubs are single/double issue voters. If you say what they don't like there, they'll vote against you no matter what. Very difficult to collect a large diverse group.
59 posted on 03/31/2025 7:58:31 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: ncalburt
FL CD 6 Update:

It is at R +20.05% now. Likely around a R +22% finish tonight.

Fine will win by Double Digits, overperforming his expected underperformance (see what I did there? 😂).

https://x7com/earlyvotedata/status/1907165122575118754?t=cCZXx3CtITeP3cgE5gO93Q&s=19

60 posted on 04/01/2025 3:07:40 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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