Sorry 2 be debbie downer of the current Twitter/media groupthink, but Trump saying Russia "helped get him elected" doesn't make it so. I covered campaign on the road for a year. What elected Trump was the Rust Belt that had been decimated for three decades through job offshoring
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de-investment, gentrification, union-busting, and corporate greed. If you go through each state's exit polls in 2016 (WI, MI, PA, OH), trade and immigration were the top issues for Trump voters. As I always said, Trump had them at repealing NAFTA. This derangement about Russia
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as if Putin was standing behind mid-west voters with a crowbar in the voting booth...is cable news-created narrative to try and rationalize or surmise a reason someone like Trump can win. Of course, this doesn't mean Russia didn't try to interfere-they did....
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just like the U.S. has directly interfered in elections around the world for decades (including in Russia in 1996). If Dems want to pretend if not for Russia,
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notion that Russia got Trump elected is predominately held by Dems living on the east or west coast—which are the predominate folks who live in a bubble not directly seeing and feeling the economic despair everywhere else (I live in NYC and most people I talk to acknowledge this)
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THERE IS NO EMPIRICAL DATA that shows Russia or
@wikileaks Podesta or DNC email releases were a major factor in the general election. If you read the actual exit polls (I did)---trade and immigration were biggest issues in the pivotal Rust Belt states. Of course, this is not as15 replies 28 retweets 138 likesShow this thread -
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Even if it didn't help, we shouldn't tolerate it. We shouldn't tolerate Trump, who accepted it, and didn't report it. We shouldn't tolerate foreign money being spent in our elections in the same way we shouldn't tolerate large doners spending in elections.
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Of course not---100% agree. That's why I don't understands never covers the growing cybersecurity threats. On the subject of foreign money, we also shouldn't tolerate foreign money from Saudi Arabia flooding political think tanks and foundations.
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Yeah, or UAE, or China, or whoever. Trump is the physical embodiment of corruption and our inability to react to it. One party is too scared of him, and one is to scared of the polls.
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