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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
There’s potential incentive bc
@ProjectLincoln
is def in scam territory w these results. It’s a pretty bad rep even tho GOP has a thing for failing up. Come clean, say “listen, we thought it’d work, it didn’t,& in good faith we’re gonna raise X mil for these ppl who deserve it”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
And for folks who think it persuaded Republicans, I’d be interested to see data on how effective their videos and NYC billboards were at persuasion. Especially data that justifies $67,000,000. It’s not that persuasion doesn’t work, it’s a Q of if this was persuasion at all ⬇️
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Replying to @AndrewBeatty
It’s not the general “Never Trump” message that’s a failure per se, but the kind of videos they made are pretty well shown to not be persuasive for a Never Trump message. Explicitly insulting anti-Trump content isn’t what gets people to move. If anything it digs their heels in.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
BTW I’m definitely happy to be proven wrong. If we can get independent data that
@ProjectLincoln
’s videos and billboards were directly responsible for really effective R ➡️ D persuasion - $67 million of it - I’ll publicly apologize. But we just haven’t seen any.
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Patricia Suflita Wilson
@pilarwish
Replying to
@AOC
They didn’t fundraise for this purpose - they are political advocacy. Which is a big deal by attorney generals. You cannot fundraiser for one purpose - then change. Donor intent. No matter whether we think better use of funds.
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Rahul Sood 🐔🐴🦄∞/21m🚀
@rahulsood
Replying to
@AOC
Why attack
@ProjectLincoln
? They helped switch so many life-long republicans, some I know personally. This was no easy feat, and their ads were pretty awesome (most of them - not all). Instead of bashing them, how about working with them to finish off Georgia in the run-off?
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