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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Lincoln Project raised $16.8m this quarter.
NEWS w/ @AshleyRParker: The Lincoln Project raised $16.8 million this quarter and will soon expand to include ground operations. They plan to next target GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). https://t.co/ZDXveFQU8i
mucifer
(23,367 posts)Are they planning on doing that?
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Where you don't have to necessarily be in the same space with others or knocking on doors.
Just a guess though - I'd LOVE to volunteer with them if was safe to do so.
mucifer
(23,367 posts)and they probably have a better chance of getting through to them.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)I hadn't thought of that - I suppose they'll have to recruit callers who are also Never Trumpers who'd be willing to have discussions with fellow Republicans.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Getting a team together in CA.
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denem
(11,045 posts)Finish them off !
Midnight Writer
(21,540 posts)I don't care what they want.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)I have a Ring doorbell, and I still don't speak to anyone..
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)I'm wondering what these people are up to, their long term goals. We need a rational, functional opposition party to make this system work. After the democrats sweep the elections, and I believe they will, there is going to be big changes in the GOP.
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)crazy conservative party. However, that will mean marginalising the batshit crazies, and moving their political center to the relative left from where they are now. That of course will mean a longer term battle for those on the right of the Democratic Party. This is a better battle for democracy.
MyMission
(1,845 posts)Copied this from the Lincoln project website:
OUR MISSION
Defeat President Trump and Trumpism
at the ballot box.
We do not undertake this task lightly nor from ideological preference. Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain. However, the priority for all patriotic Americans must be a shared fidelity to the Constitution and a commitment to defeat those candidates who have abandoned their constitutional oaths, regardless of party. Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.
I would say that in any group you find a mix of people. I tend to believe that all repugs are evil, but know that a small portion are not. They have ideological differences that I don't approve of, but this small portion wants to restore the party to something they can be proud of; they know he's a Russian asset, a traitor, and want him and his cult 45 members gone.
I wish them luck, and am grateful they are really attacking the problem (45 and his cult).
betsuni
(25,121 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)This makes me smile
Link to tweet
Advisers to the Lincoln Project, which they say has about 30 employees and raised $16.8 million this quarter, will soon expand to include ground operations. They are coordinating over 2,500 volunteers in Michigan and plan to next target Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who they see as vulnerable after his challenger, Jaime Harrison (D), pulled in a staggering $13.9 million since April.
But most of the projects efforts so far have been centered squarely on Trump evidenced by their surgical strike ads airing on Fox News in Washington, which are aimed not at persuading disaffected Republicans but simply at needling the president.
One 45-second spot focuses on Trumps health, featuring footage of the president walking haltingly down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, with a narrator warning, Somethings wrong with Donald Trump. Hes shaky, weak, trouble speaking, trouble walking.