tweet of the afternoon

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼K&R👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[rickyhall]

2. They won't ask because they already know the answer.

[calimary]

8. Doesn't matter! They need the soundbite!

Get the soundbite! So it can be played over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Again, again, again, again, again, again, and again!

So it's DRILLED into the American psyche, and into EVERYONE within earshot.

Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!

Repeat BECAUSE it's necessary.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. +1,000,000. Although we've been saying this for years!!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. They may as well try nailing Jello to the wall!

[Skittles]

4. LOL

we'd get 100 answers which would all amount to the same thing:

WE DON'T WANT BROWN PEOPLE TO VOTE

[Retired Engineer Bob]

5. They are just smart enough

To somehow avoid the whole overt “let’s kill them all” rhetoric, but still able to deliver the racist message, using dog whistles per se.

It looks to me that what is accepted into our collective speech is becoming more and more racist. We are regressing.

[Skittles]

6. Trump gave racists permission to be proud of themselves

they feel emboldened I know they are outnumbered, we need to become more aggressive too

and that dog whistle became a blow horn with Trump

[Wounded Bear]

7. Alter is a reporter. Why doesn't he ask?

[Hoyt]

9. Answer is obvious. But I don't believe Democratic voters are as stupid, unmotivated

as GOPers, and some others, believe.

[Silent3]

11. This sort of exchange has happened before

The next step is for the Republican to say that the voters nevertheless have concerns about election integrity.

The reporter, if good, next points out that it was Republicans themselves, and their rhetoric, that created that concern by telling lies about election integrity.

At this point the Republican might squirm a little, but general just changes the subject or engages in some other evasive technique, and I have yet to see a reporter keep pursuing the issue after that.