One hardly has to be a political junkie to know that midterm elections rarely turn out well for the party that holds the White House. It has happened only once this century, when the Republicans picked up 8 House seats and one Senate seat during the first midterm election of George W. Bush’s presidency. There are two factors at play this year, however, which may allow the GOP to duplicate that feat. First, the leader of the Republican Party has built his political career on defying history. Second, the Democrats have recruited a very large number of truly weird candidates—even more than usual. The corporate “news” media has ignored their oddities but the word is getting out.
Meanwhile, the ‘New York Post’ reports that the Democrat nominee for the 15th District of Texas starred in his own bizarre music video where he played a pervert.
The most prominent exemplar of these strange Democrats is Texas Senate nominee James Talarico. The Lone Star Liberty PAC released a new ad featuring videos of Talarico saying things that all but guarantee his loss in November regardless of which Republican he faces. For example, when asked to name something he loves other than friends or family he answered “I love the trans children.” He is also shown saying, “There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.” Speaking about immigration policy he says, “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” Talarico is now posing as a populist, but it’s unlikely that this masquerade will fool many Texans.
Another faux populist nominated by the Democrats is Graham Platner, who hopes to unseat longtime Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Like Talarico, however, Platner is hoping the voters will overlook liabilities like his Nazi tattoo and highly offensive online comments, including posts “insulting the U.S. Army, mocking a Purple Heart recipient, using slurs and expressing support for political violence.” And it gets worse, including posts about crude acts in portable toilets and obscene bathroom graffiti. This creepy stuff doesn’t fit very well with the “everyman” image he has attempted to cultivate. When he was asked about this growing catalogue of controversial statements and behavior, Platner told The Advocate,
People are digging through my entire life because I, frankly, am running for Senate on an anti-establishment platform … I have not been living a life under the assumption that I was going to run for Senate someday. I’ve lived a normal life, fighting in wars, working jobs, and being online like anyone else. We need a politics that reflects that normal people make mistakes and grow. Most people in this country have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the people in power. If we want a politics for regular people, we have to accept that regular people evolve.
It isn’t clear that Platner is “normal” or that he is a “regular” person. Yet, he and Talarico are by no means the worst of the Democrats running in this year’s midterms. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has made his fervent opposition to Israel a cornerstone of his campaign. Inevitably, that includes denouncing U.S. involvement in Iran: “You know what benefits [from the war]? It benefits Israel, who has captured too many of our politicians through AIPAC contributions.” The Free Beacon continues, “The Senate candidate was a featured speaker during an online progressive rally Saturday night that also included popular streamer Hasan Piker, who has said the United States ‘deserved 9/11.’”
Abdul El-Sayed is, of course, just one of many Democrats running anti-Semitic campaigns this year. According to a report in the Washington Post, “A Democratic House candidate in Texas who said she wanted to turn a local immigrant detention center into a facility to imprison and castrate “American Zionists” has Democrats scrambling.” Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and activist, finished first among four in the March Democratic primary for the 35th Congressional District. Predictably, the Democrats insisted that Galindo is being financed by the Lead Left PAC, which is allegedly funded by the Republican Party. Galindo said she had “zero idea about the PAC.” She subsequently issued a press release in which she offered the following claims:
Maureen NEVER said that she wants anyone in internment camps!! She never said ‘internment camps’; that was a very unethical journalist desperate to take her down through a screenshottable article title … She does want Karnes ICE facility to be turned into a prison for the billionaire zionists who have profited off genocidal prison state materials and trafficking. Prosecution has nothing to do with religion … It’s also true she wants a whole department and TV channel of exposing pedophiles and yes, sending them for castration at Karnes Prison, then moved to prisons with violent criminals.
Well, that should set the minds of the voters at ease. Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that the Democrat nominee for the 15th District of Texas starred in his own bizarre music video where he played a pervert: “Tejano singer Bobby Pulido won the Democratic primary earlier this month in the state’s 15th Congressional District as the moderate in the race who has taken nearly $1 million in contributions from the Blue Dog Coalition and focused on voters’ economic concerns, border security and local issues.” This character is a two-time Latin Grammy winner, and presumably planned on exploiting his notoriety in this heavily Hispanic district to defeat Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz. It’s unlikely that this video helped.
There has been a lot of speculation concerning President Trump’s oddly insouciant attitude about the upcoming midterms. He really doesn’t seem very worried about them. He certainly knows that history doesn’t favor the Republicans, even with the recent redistricting wins. Perhaps he is simply resigned to defeat, but it’s more likely that he doesn’t think the normal rules apply to the GOP as long as he is its leader. Or maybe James Blair, the White House deputy chief of staff who is now running the GOP’s political operation for the midterms, is simply keeping the President apprised of the dismal quality of the Democrat candidates they face in November.
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