For those analyzing Steve King's defeat tonight, I hope they will give due credit to @JDScholten, who arrived in summer of 2017 as a political nobody and campaigned King into the ground in what should have been a solid red district. (Disclosure: I have fundraised for Scholten)
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Back in January, I also did a Twitter thread from a Steve King town hall in Storm Lake. I invite you to read it to see just how big a victory we won by having this guy out of government.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1220373334480736258 …
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Ultimately, this is a normative victory in Republican politics. You can be a white nationalist, but you can't be an overt white nationalist. I know this sounds cynical, but it is not! The line of what was acceptable before tonight included Steve King; now he is over the line
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He was one of your Great Slate, right? Feels good to know that we did something, if indirectly!pic.twitter.com/CZyDFWvPyo
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He was, and is! Thank you for that!
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