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Re Rob Sand's town hall events - I attended his July 9th appearance in Guthrie Center. It was the last of five hourly stops for the day. He has really honed his messaging and was never flatfooted. He made it plain that he would not discuss partisan politics and delivered on that when he didn't take the bait from an obvious Republican plant who was filming him.

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There was a Republican tracker at the Osceola town hall as well. Clearly the GOP expects him to run for higher office in 2026.

Democrats should have trackers following Republican politicians around the state but they usually don't.

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Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I forgot the most prescient thing, with the good governance and quality policy diatribe…

Nominate legitimate candidates. I don’t understand the democratic party constituencies love affair with corporate donor class water carriers. I wish they would stop it.

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I am remiss. I learned that at lunch and I honestly was meaning to get in touch with you and totally spaced it. My bad.

Concerning your assessment of what the party should be doing, I must disagree. Democrats should not pay a damn bit of attention to what the GOP says or does. Their constituents are not going to be swayed no matter the narrative.

What democrats need to do is hold their own party accountable for good governance and quality policy Hell, if that were the case, they would’ve lost an election since Reagan.

The Chi dynamic here on a state and federal level is completely ignored by both parties because it would entail a bit of accountability to make it happen. It is the number of registered non-voters. That’s the only demographic you need to be concerned with on any election. It’s not that “swing voters” or “independents.”

Motivating a statistically significant percentage of the registered non-voters which, can be as low as 8%, is African-American man became president of his racist shit hole.

You’re not going to motivate either “illusion of choice” crowd to switch their tribal allegiance.

The swing vote, isn’t is a numerically relevant.

2020 was the first federal election that the register non-voter total was not higher than the winner of the popular vote since World War II.

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Where do SS get & for a Rolex?

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“I was struck by how many political figures immediately praised law enforcement, despite the obvious security lapses that made this attack possible. Why didn’t the Secret Service have an agent on that roof? Why wasn’t Trump pulled from the stage immediately after bystanders warned local law enforcement they saw a man with a rifle? Senator Chuck Grassley and Representative Ashley Hinson did say Americans need answers”

Far to many coincidences to be coincidental……

Easy “ injury” to fake.

Shooter missed by an inch, then hits and kills a spectator 12-25 feet away?

Locate, crosshair and successfully engage shooter in less than 2 seconds?

No SS on rooftop with line of sight to podium.

Complete NON PROTOCOL after supposed ear notch. Standing around subject not moving? NO

EVERY DYNAMIC from looking to his extreme right, injury location such that when prone, blood flows to face, SHORT PEOPLE in front, photo op…

Outside venue. Evidence in a secure and TRANSPARENT chain of custody, in a very important state?

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Conspiracy theories are attractive but there's no way this was staged. You think they placed a 20-year-old on a roof with live ammunition, confident that he would miss Trump?

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He missed by 15 feet. At least. The person behind Trump was killed. He was an obvious patsy. The only outsider involved massage present. Stone, Manafort, Flynn, Giuliani, Steve Bannon , Alex Jones, Charlie Kirk, Dan Bonobo on and on and on Endless characters that would pull it off and not lose a winks sleep.

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There’s no way that was legitimate. Nothing of that was Secret Service protocol. A bullet far too risky. The Teleprompter narrative impossible since his ear was on the other side of his head from the Teleprompter. A tiny detonation device was all that would’ve taken. Everything about that was staged.

I have tons of circumstantial evidence. You have no evidence whatsoever.

My biggest and most incriminating is, look at the people involved here. As if you have any credibility, you suck Chuck Grassley ‘s cock for a living….

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You obviously know nothing about my work. I've covered Chuck Grassley critically for many years. His staff do not allow me to participate in his press and won't even add me to their press distribution list.

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“Of course we began with Iowa reaction to the assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania on Saturday. We didn’t have time to read through all of the official statements, but I compiled them at Bleeding Heartland;”

It was a PRODUCTION! Get a grip.

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