Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Ohio Democrats say talking about Mueller's probe is not the way to win in 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Washington elites are fixated on Robert Mueller, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party is doing everything he can to prevent his activists and candidates from becoming distracted by the special counsel and his next moves.
“Let me just put it this way: We don’t spend a lot of time around here talking about Vladimir Putin and James Comey,” David Pepper said in an interview here Sunday. “I’m as frustrated as anyone by what Comey did and that Putin interfered, and Congress should get to the bottom of that, but if that’s what we talk about … we will lose again.”
Pepper has spent a year now trying to figure out how Democrats can win again in a state that Barack Obama carried twice but Hillary Clinton lost. An open governorship and a competitive Senate race in 2018 have added to the sense of urgency.
What is that message? In short: It’s still the economy, stupid. Democrats feel like they can both galvanize their own base and win over people who voted for Barack Obama but defected to Donald Trump by prosecuting the case that the president has not delivered on his populist promises.
Nearly a thousand of the Democratic faithful came to a convention center down the street from the state capitol last night for the state party’s annual dinner. During a three-hour program, in a dark ballroom on a frigid night, no one referenced the Russia investigation. Activists didn’t broach it during interviews, and I didn’t hear it come up in side conversations during a reception before the event. Instead, the biggest applause came whenever a politician had the good sense to celebrate Ohio State’s 39-38 win over Penn State on Saturday.
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Governor John Kasich (R) participates in a discussion on bridging
partisan divides with former vice president Joe Biden earlier this
month. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
To give you a taste of how it played out: Nan Whaley . . . . . .
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You have no idea what Mueller has and who is cooperating with the investigation. Papadopoulos was secretly arrested four months ago, and has since confessed to using his position with the Trump campaign to collude with the Russian government during the election. In the process he sold out two key Trump campaign officials likely to flip on Jeff Sessions.
ReplyDeletePapadopoulos admits that he met with a Kremlin-connected professor in the hope of getting emails stolen from Hillary Clinton. This is a first-hand formal confession that the Trump campaign did indeed collude with the Russian government to try to influence the outcome of the election, thus striking down Donald Trump’s months of public denials. In his confession, Papadopoulos spells out that two Trump officials knew what he was doing and went along with it, making them criminally complicit. They’ve now been revealed as Manafort and Sam Clovis. Clovis was the direct supervisor of Papadopoulos, which is why Papadopoulos ran the collusion past Clovis. But the overall supervisor of the team in question was Jeff Sessions. Sessions isn’t merely a guy who had a series of suspicious meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign and then lied about it. Sessions signed off on his underling’s collusion with the Russian government.
A. I know as much as you know, and understand far more that seem to be able to intellectually grasp.
DeleteB. Papdopoulos was very low level. He never went to Russia, attended only one meeting with the Trump staff, was not paid a dime, personally knew no one in Russia, and whose ideas and plans were roundly rejected by the Trump[ Campaign.
I just picked up my new red M.A.G.A. baseball hat.
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Men Are Getting Arrested
Very funny. (Actually it is a little humorous).
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