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Herschel Walker Gets Trolled With ‘Astonishing’ Campaign Ad That Uses Donald Trump’s Praise Against Him 

A campaign ad released this week by Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) against his GOP opponent, Herschel Walker, is generating lots of attention and may wind up being a turning point in the upcoming runoff election scheduled for December 6 in the Peach State.

CNN reports that the ad masterfully uses former president Trump’s praise of Walker against the Republican candidate.

The ad opens on Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential announcement earlier this week – and specifically his support for Warnock’s Republican opponent in the Georgia Senate runoff, Herschel Walker.

“We must all work very hard for a gentleman and a great person named Herschel Walker, a fabulous human being who loves our country and will be a great United States senator,” Trump says.

As Trump continues to speak, six words appear on screen to close the ad: “Stop Donald Trump. Stop Herschel Walker.”

And that’s it. That’s the whole ad.

Simple, to the point, and incredibly effective, CNN’s Chris Wallace noted.

“It is just playing Trump’s endorsement of Walker and clearly, the Warnock campaign feels this is, as you say, an albatross. This is a liability for Walker, not a plus.”

Why is the ad such a problem for Walker’s campaign? Because Trump isn’t exactly the most popular person in the country. Matter of fact, his endorsement in close races has been shown to increase Democratic turnout and suppress the number of Republicans who decide to cast a ballot. So tying Walker to Trump is meant to make it clear the two are joined at the hip, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains.

Warnock’s decision to nationalize this race around Trump tells you that he believes the former president is a net negative in the state, and will function as an anchor on Walker’s attempt to get a majority of the vote.

Trump may wind up destroying the Republican Party completely. It would be the first positive thing he’s ever done in his life.

 

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Lauren Boebert Claims Her Razor-Thin Reelection Was Fair After Saying The 2020 Election Was Rigged

Today’s entrant in the category of Biggest Hypocrite of the Year is none other than our favorite clueless congresswoman, Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who declared Thursday (and again on Friday) that she had been reelected, even though a mandatory recount will be done because the race between her and her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, was separated by just a few hundred votes.

On Thursday, Boebert released this statement:

“I’m told that there are less than 200 votes outstanding, which makes me so happy to announce, we have won this race!…Past recounts in Colorado have resulted in far fewer votes being adjusted than anything that could affect the current outcome we’re seeing tonight.”

She’s claiming victory even though she raised holy hell when Joe Biden was declared the victor over Donald Trump in the 2020 election. She has even suggested that the violence on January 6, 2021 was justified because Trump had the election “stolen” from him. He didn’t, of course, but Lauren didn’t want to miss a chance to kiss Trump’s fat ass in order to prove her undying loyalty to the Orange Menace.

After Frisch conceded the race on Friday, Boebert posted this:

Work? Is that a damn joke! Lauren Boebert has done nothing over the past two years except tweet, whine, hold press conferences, and manage to lose her failing restaurant, Shooters Grill, which has gone under and was heavily in debt when it closed.

Shooters was Boebert’s pride and joy, because she claimed it was proof that hard work pays off in the United States and you don’t need a college degree to be successful. Success, however, is a foreign concept to this woman. She had never succeeded at anything, and the fact that she barely won a second term in a district that has voted Republican since 2010 is a damning indictment of her first term in office.

Lauren Boebert is a grifter and a failure. No wonder she worships Donald Trump.

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The MAGA Conspiracy Theories On Why Kari Lake Lost Have Begun – And They’re BEYOND Batsh*t Crazy

A couple of weeks ago, Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was asked if she would accept the results of the 2022 midterm election, no matter the outcome.

The New York Times reported at the time that Lake sounded supremely confident that she would be victorious and refused to even entertain the notion that she might not.

“I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” Ms. Lake said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The host, Dana Bash, then asked, “If you lose, will you accept that?” Ms. Lake, who is running against Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, responded by repeating, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result.”

“The people of Arizona will never support and vote for a coward like Katie Hobbs,” she added, setting up a framework in which, if Ms. Hobbs were to win, Ms. Lake could present the result as evidence of election fraud. That is one of the arguments Mr. Trump made, suggesting that the 2020 election must have been fraudulent because the idea of President Biden receiving majority support was unbelievable.

But a week after voters went to the polls, it’s now clear that Lake has lost to her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, who will be the next governor of Arizona.

98% of the ballots have been counted in the Grand Canyon State, and here’s where the race between Hobbs and Lake stands:

But to hear Lake’s supporters tell it, the fight has only begun, because their candidate is being cheated out of an election she won.

Sound familiar? It’s the same tired old bullshit that the MAGA faithful have been spouting ever since Donald Trump got curb stomped by President Joe Biden back in 2020.

So, as you’d expect, the conspiracy theories regarding Lake’s failure have also begun, and some of them are downright goofy.

Let’s go to Twitter for a sampling of the craziness.

https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1592455641192226816?s=20&t=0yraN6TAOuxutUSkGmG5qA

Clearly, it never ends. They lose, but all they do in the aftermath is whine. It’s pathetic and infuriating.

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Liz Cheney Only Needs Two Words To Masterfully Troll Kari Lake On Her Arizona Election Loss

On Monday evening, a projection was made in the Arizona gubernatorial race featuring Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Kari Lake: Hobbs will be the next governor of the Grand Canyon State.

HuffPost notes:

Lake has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election and has said that as governor she would not have certified the results. That was enough for Democrats to worry that Lake was a legitimate threat to democracy, while Lake dismissed their concerns as politically motivated and overblown. To audiences of voters, Hobbs frequently referred to Lake as “that Trump-endorsed, election-denying, media-hating, conspiracy-loving GOP nominee.”

Lake has been fond of trolling Republicans who supported Hobbs, even thanking Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for not endorsing her:

“Thank you for your generous in-kind contribution to my campaign. Enjoy your forced retirement from politics.”

After the race had been called for Hobbs, Cheney did some trolling of her own.

Other Republicans then joined the fun, piling on with their mockery of Lake’s failed bid.

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Washed-Up Actor Kevin Sorbo Is Angry That 63% Of Gen Z Voters Voted For ‘Socialism’ In The Midterms

You probably remember Kevin Sorbo from the “Hercules” television series, which ended in 2000, leaving the actor struggling to find work because he’s not very good at his craft.

Sorbo is also an extreme right-wing activist who often posts controversial crap on social media that gets him heavily mocked by others and results in him being laughed at instead of being taken seriously, which he desperately longs to be.

And now Sorbo is weighing in on the results of the 2022 midterm elections, which were a disaster for Republicans.

According to the actor, the reason the GOP lost so badly is because young voters from Generation Z (18-29 years old) voted for “socialism.”

“According to exit polls, 63% of voters ages 18 to 29 voted for the left in the 2022 midterm elections. That means a majority of Gen Z support destructive left-wing policies, such as socialism, open borders, student loan forgiveness, higher taxes, and late-term abortion. Clueless”

So because Sorbo disagrees with the voting preference of younger voters, that makes them “clueless”? The same could easily be said for any woman who casts a ballot for a Republican candidate who is eager to make laws about having the government regulate women’s bodies and reproductive choices.

Other Twitter users also slammed Sorbo for his comments.

https://twitter.com/ctbrayart/status/1591760669208199168?s=20&t=O935ai7ps0I5qTu6wPRK0w