Ohio Special Election: Democrat Turnout 87% of 2016 Total — GOP Turnout Only 40% of 2016 Total
Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft August 7, 2018
Voters in Ohio’s 12th district chose a replacement for the former Republican Representative Pat Tiberi in a special election on Tuesday.
Republican Troy Balderson ran against Democrat Danny O’Connor in the US congressional race.
The poor GOP turnout for Balderson may have been largely due to the fact that Balderson had reportedly tried to distance himself from Trump (initially, at least), and only pretty aggressive endorsements of Balderson by the White House saved his bacon. If those reports are correct, I would assume that a lot of GOPers still did not like Balderson's waffling RE: our POTUS.
On the flip side, there is perhaps another (and completely opposite) reason for the poor GOP turnout: There really are a lot of GOPers who do think Trump is "non-Presidential" and therefore cannot get enthused about voting for a Republican when it's
Trump's political life that is at stake in the District election. These are the folks that Balderson may have been initially trying to
woo (again, if the initial reports from the campaign are correct), but it backfired to the point that the NeverTrumpers just stayed home when the White House endorsed Balderson.
I think the rhetorical math (the election outcome) suggests that all GOP candidates this year need to go ALL IN for Trump. Dan Bongino recently said on Levin's show that we need to have a meme #IDon'tCare (regarding Trump's past sins and present crassness). This is the only way to clear the decks for a battle in which we hit the libs HARD AS POSSIBLE. #IDon'tCare will change the narrative from Trump's "non-Presidential" image to the fact of the WAR against lying, anti-American Progressives. (Go see D'Souza's latest movie,
The Death of a Nation. Tell everyone you know to see it, and tell them to tell everyone they know.)
The #IDon'tCare meme will enthuse Trump supporters for high turnout among them, and it will get a lot of NeverTrumpers off their butts. (I wish the NeverTrumpers would figure out what Trump is doing through Q, by the way.)
Yeah, I declared myself as a NeverTrumper when he was running against a much better man. But since he is now our POTUS, and trying to do what is needed to protect our Republic against the Deep State (yeah I am a Q follower!), I will be as supportive as possible. In other words, right now #IDon'tCare.