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"I'm a very lefty leftist, I hate fascism, that's why this election season I am voting exactly the way the furthest right party wants me to."

I'm pretty sure we can convince a significant portion of the MAGA crowd to vote third party, by informing them it's impossible for Trump to win without a large turnout for third parties. 🤔

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The next day, with the deadline to qualify for the Arizona ballot just hours away, Brett Johnson, a prominent Republican lawyer, and Amanda Reeve, a former GOP state lawmaker, made house visits to each as they tried to persuade both to sign new paperwork to serve as West electors.

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This will always stand out to me, in 2016 Trump Directs RNC to soften position on Ukraine support

MAGA types are the 'fall in line' type, so it's really hard to run candidates that appeal to them. Their Preacher and AM Shock Jock tells them 'vote for the Republican or the Devil wins and America dies' and they don't entertain anyone but the Republicans. It'd be wasted resources. It's far more effective to appeal to moderates, because the GOP has basically forsaken that entire group of voters to entertain their MAGA base, and we have over 200 Republicans on our side saying "we don't agree with the Dems on policy, but we're still voting for them because we aren't MAGAts." That's a more effective strategy, IMO, than trying to prop up Libertarians or Constitutionalists.

The way to deal with the 'backwater toothless bigots' is to turn out for November. Get your vote locked in, then do your damndest to get as many Left-Wingers to the polls as possible. I don't care where you are. Turn out and vote. That's how we fucking deal with them.

Because it costs money. It’s hard enough getting liberals to vote for one candidate, libs have an habit of seeing the flaws in the system and will vote Green Party or whatever as a protest vote, and these days it’s the candidate with the most money winning. So when you prop up a sabotage candidate you’re taking away from the candidate you actually need to win. Plus, Dems just kinda don’t like playing dirty like that.