{"id":83716,"date":"2022-10-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83716"},"modified":"2022-10-31T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:23:06","slug":"coattails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83716","title":{"rendered":"Coattails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As polling results (and, I suspect, internal polling) show the GOP statewide slate is showing promise, two things are happening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First: The DFL is throwing everything they can find against the wall. Look for a raft of abstruse “Campaign Finance Board” accusations – the political equivalent of “Karen” demanding you wear a mask while out walking. It’s impossible to run a campaign without violating some <\/em>rule or another, and everyone involved knows it; the charges are there purely to logroll the gullible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second and less predictable? Donald Trump, looking to burnish his record as a kingmaker, has bungee-corded into the state with a raft of endorsements. Earlier this week he endorsed Kim Crockett and Scott Jensen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad news? It gives the DFL another framing point to use to try to seize control of the message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jensen’s campaign is reacting, I think, appropriately<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…ultimately, we only care about one endorsement: the support of Minnesota voters. We are continuing to barnstorm this state, engage in meaningful conversations, and work every day to earn the votes of Minnesotans by fighting Walz-Biden inflation, ending our crime epidemic, protecting parental rights, and funding students, not broken institutions,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A source close to a statewide candidate told me yesterday that it was not <\/em>the news they were hoping for: they were just starting to get the conversation in their statewide race focused on issues rather than personalitymongering; Trump’s endorsement may have complicated that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news, maybe, possibly, if you’re a GOPer who’s forgotten what contending in an opinion poll, much less winning an election feels like? Trump, burned by a couple of bad calls in primaries, is likely saving his last-minute bungee endorsements for candidates who’re going to burnish his record. Which means – I’m guessing here, but not without some reason – that the GOP’s internal polling is looking more like Trafalgar and less like Survey USA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As polling results (and, I suspect, internal polling) show the GOP statewide slate is showing promise, two things are happening: First: The DFL is throwing everything they can find against the wall. Look for a raft of abstruse “Campaign Finance Board” accusations – the political equivalent of “Karen” demanding you wear a mask while out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,2,72,13,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-minnesota-politics","category-mngop","category-republicans","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83736,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83716\/revisions\/83736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}