In The GE's Next 100 Days, Watch the Paramilitary Misdirection Away from Battleground States [View all]

[ancianita]

from Crooks & Liars' https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/if-deploying-stormtroopers-meant-get-trump?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=33777

"If Deploying Stormtroopers Is Meant To Get Trump Reelected, It Doesn't Seem To Be Working"

... In the race for the White House, 45 percent of voters support former Vice President Joe Biden, while 44 percent back President Trump. That compares to early June when the race was equally tight and voters backed Trump 44 percent to Biden's 43 percent. In today's survey, Democrats back Biden 94 - 3 percent, independents back Biden 51 - 32 percent and Republicans back Trump 89 - 6 percent.

Biden has gone from -1 to +1 in Texas -- a state that's increasingly purple, but is also full of self-aggrandizingly macho Republican voters. The poll was conducted July 16-20, after Trump's Portland operation had begun, yet the deployment didn't help Trump consolidate his base:
-- 6% of Republicans said they were voting for Biden in a Quinnipiac poll of the state released June 3, and the number is still 6%,
-- whereas Biden lost 5% of Democrats in the earlier poll and loses only 3% now.
-- Biden got 45% of independents in the earlier poll and gets 51% now.
-- Trump got 61% of white men in the earlier poll and doesn't get any more in this poll.

Maybe this will change -- in Trump's favor or against him -- when the stormtroopers go national, which seems inevitable. And maybe the deployment to states where Trump has little chance of victory is an act of misdirection, and the real intent of this is to deploy armed intimidators to Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and other big cities in swing states just before the election, to tamp down the Democratic vote.

The real issue is the General Election. Is it really going to go for Biden?

As C & L points out here, the polls holding or improving are not the material issue anymore, are they.

The only thing he's got, is to create such brutal drama on our fellow Americans that Democrats and Independents, and engaged non-voters either
-- forget to vote,
-- are too injured to vote,
-- are too pissed off to deal with poll delays and intimidations in their states to vote,

so that all anti-Trump voters are too distracted to closely monitor Russiapublican operatives rigging vote counts in the battleground states.

This is the scenario that's coming, or at least one worst case (of several) we should prepare for.

The days ahead are the time to warn everyone we know of worst case probabilities.

The days ahead are the time to stay clear. Focused. Not after the dust has cleared.

To that end, here is the ACLU's app site for each state.
Scroll to your state's link and get your state's ACLU app.
They should be more than helpful, because if the Republic ends, the ACLU's very raison d'être will cease.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct