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Person of Interest

(367 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 07:05 PM Jan 2023

Scott Walker Advocates For Flagrant Suppression Of Young Voters



It's a known fact that Republicans haven't polled well with young voters for years. This has grown to the point that young voters have really carried the 2020 and 2022 elections. And there are millions of Generation Z voters coming of voting age just in time for 2024. And these future voters are pissed!! Things like overturning Roe vs Wade are not sitting well with them.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/01/scott-walker-proposes-flagrant-suppression
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elocs

(22,609 posts)
12. Scott Walker was also the 1st GOP primary candidate to drop out in 2016
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 09:30 PM
Jan 2023

and advised other candidates to do the same in order to stop Trump, something the others disregarded because their egos were so big that they all thought they would beat Trump and become president, but he picked them off one by one with plurality primary wins. I could see the same thing happening next year.

EarnestPutz

(2,123 posts)
14. Now that;s a scary thought. You just know that many of those idiots from the great clown car.....
Tue Jan 17, 2023, 02:24 AM
Jan 2023

.....of Repub candidates from 2016 are just itching to declare again, bringing the same baggage and big egos for another try. Just think for a moment about Jeb, Ben, Mike, Ted, Marco, Rand, Chris, Bobby, Lindsey and Carlie for a minute. (Extra credit for the two Ricks). Tell me that they aren't thinking about another run but hesitating, hoping Trump goes to jail.

elocs

(22,609 posts)
15. A foreshadowing of things to come: In 2016, Cruz beat Trump in the first primary, Iowa,
Tue Jan 17, 2023, 06:34 AM
Jan 2023

and Trump couldn't bear being a loser so he...wait for it...declared it to be a stolen election and tried to get it overturned.
Say what you will about Trump, and we've all said it, he pulled off perhaps the greatest con in history with his very first run for any office in getting elected President of the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,581 posts)
4. Who is surprised by this?
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 07:14 PM
Jan 2023

The GOP has been busy alienating young voters while the GOP base is in the process of dying off due to old age and COVID

ColinC

(8,333 posts)
8. If Democrats win this next supreme court seat, it may very well be over for Republicans in the state
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 07:25 PM
Jan 2023

Overruling the gerrymandered maps, I imagine, could put the Democrats in power in the legislature.

Takket

(21,632 posts)
16. So does he think the age for military enlistment should also be 21?
Tue Jan 17, 2023, 08:44 AM
Jan 2023

Because “please be willing to die for your country even though you get no say in who decides to send you to die until your 21” is one HELL of an anti-troops position for a politician to take.

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