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Republican leaders forced to rely on Democrats to govern (again) – MSNBC
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Steve Garvey is running for Senate in California as a Republican but don’t ask about Trump – POLITICO
He said he would absolutely vote for a candidate for the opposing party, depending on who else is on the ballot.
Ive voted for Democrats, Garvey said Wednesday as he made his first statewide tour as a candidate for the seat previously held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
His apparent willingness to cross party lines and neither endorse Trump nor seek the former presidents support would be heresy for a Republican in much of the country. But it makes sense in California for a general election, where the party now claims only a quarter of the electorate and where a GOP candidate hasnt been elected to a statewide office since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor in 2006.
The strategy also makes sense because of the states primary system, in which the top two candidates, regardless of party, advance to the runoff in November. Garvey, who is running against three veteran Democratic members of Congress, needs every Republican vote he can get, along with independents and moderates.
His unwillingness to embrace Trump, however, risks alienating passionate supporters of the former president who are expected to turn out for the primary in March.
Republican math is basically impossible in California, so if youre going to break through you have to create a new formula, GOP strategist Rob Stutzman said.
As Stutzman sees it, Garvey pretty much needs every Republican voter, some moderate Democrats and to dominate independents to stand a chance.
Garvey said he was not consciously distancing himself from Trump, noting that he likes some of the former presidents policies but does not always agree with how he gets his message across.
He said he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Do I think that the most dangerous disease next to Covid is Trump syndrome? Yes, Garvey added, a reference to the medias coverage of the former president.
At a Thursday meeting with Jewish leaders in the Bay Area city of Pleasanton, Garvey said he was not expecting a Trump endorsement but wouldnt say whether he would accept one either.
Im more concerned about the single most difficult race in America right now for a conservative moderate like myself, Garvey said. I dont have time to worry about him.
While Stutzman says Garvey has the chance to ride his Trump agnosticism through the March 5 primary, hell have to pony up more policy positions and ad money to stand any chance in the general.
He needs to keep a distance from Trump. But he cant vote for Biden. And that could work for the primary, Stutzman said, adding that Garvey needs to spend around $4-6 million in advertising to cushion his chances in March.
Beyond the spring, the road gets rockier. If he can make the runoff, I think itll be very difficult. Theres a lot about Mr. Garvey that we dont know yet. Hes not being specific about issues yet, but will have to be in the general, Stutzman said.
Pressed on the presidential primary, Garvey dodged the question, saying hes only interested in his own race.
Im going to vote for Steve Garvey, he said. The former president is not on my ballot. Joe Biden is not on my ballot.
Garvey will go head-to-head with his Democratic rivals, Reps. Katie Porter, Barbara Lee and Adam Schiff, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday in Los Angeles. The first California Senate debate will air live on FOX 11 in Los Angeles, KTVU FOX 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area and will be livestreamed on POLITICO.
Lara Korte contributed to this report.
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It is not Democrat or Republican – The Highland County Press
By Jim Thompson HCP columnist
It is not Democrat or Republican nor liberal or conservative. It is the elites versus the rest of us.
Back when I was in high school, it was called the in crowd, and there was even a hit song about it. No matter when you were in high school, you remember the crowd that was in the know, and then there was everyone else. In the adult world, it has become the elites versus the rest of us.
There are elite conclaves around the world. Here in the United States, it is Washington, D.C., with minor outposts in each state capital. In Europe, it is the EU. Annually, it is the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, whose annual meeting just concluded this past week.
How can you tell the elites from the rest of us?
They are the ones who do all the things they tell the rest of us not to do. They tell us to walk to save the planet while they take their private jets. The elites control us (if we let them) by selling us hysteria. All the elite schemes have hysteria as the foundation principlethe idea if we dont immediately change our behavior, treasured items will become scarce, the earth will die, something along these lines.
Can I give you examples of this hysteria? Most certainly. The characteristics of all these forms of hysteria is that they have some redeeming elements; yet, when taken to the level the elites push on us, they have no basis in fact.
Things that come to mind include recycling, climate change, DEI (I discussed here a few weeks ago), carbon dioxide, gas powered cars, banning fossil fuels, Covid 19 precautions and on and on. All of these have a noble element to them, but when taken to the extreme, become hysteria. Some would include eating meat, other animal products and other such matters.
These are how the elites control us and separate us, from each other and our money (mantra "we must all must make sacrifices to achieve these vitally important goals).
Another trait of these hysterias is that voices who question such ideas are shouted down and ostracized. The elites are the authorities, the rest of us cant possibly know what we are talking about.
Then, there is the perpetuity of these programs they never end. We never achieve the vital end points of any of the hysterical subjects, they just go on and on and on. Get close to the goal, and the goalposts get moved.
One can always count on new hysterias being developed, too. Again, like high school, there must always be fresh subjects too lord over the masses.
Is there any hope of shedding the shackles of these issues? Yes. The new president of Argentina is a bright spot. So is Elon Musk, who gets it that freedom is more important than socialism. On the populist level, the farmers of the Netherlands and Germany have risen and demanded an end to the onerous dictates being put on them for the sake of climate change. More power to them.
What can you do? Quit automatically believing what you see on television and in the mainstream channels on the internet. Test what you hear against your own street-smart common sense. One of the problems today is that the media comes to us in many varied ways with the assumption of authority just by means of the forum in which they reach us.
Think about the days before radio, television and the internet the elites could not as rapidly disseminate their silly ideas with near the rapidity nor pretense of authority that they use today.
Think for yourself, and challenge everything you hear. You dont have to follow the in crowd.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press. He may be reached at jthompson@taii.com.
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