Tim Alberta

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Agreed. The notion of a center-right country fizzled under Obama, when public support swung across the 50 on issues of gay marriage, marijuana, gov't role in health care, etc. Republicans have won power b/c of structural advantages, not b/c their positions have majority support. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@BenjySarlin @Taniel Bush's brand was incompetence; Trump's brand is bigotry and division and cruelty. One takes longer to cleanse than the other. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Not saying it's right or wrong or anything else. Just saying it's predictable. We know how Romney views politics, how he views America. This was not a hard call. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @BresPolitico: .@SenSchumer: "Leader McConnell has defiled the Senate like no in this generation, and Leader McConnell may very well des… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@Taniel Not if you believe Trumpism will poison the party's brand with key demos for years to come. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Don't overthink this. Romney is clearly expecting (and probably hoping) Trump will lose to Biden, Dems will dominate a tattered GOP for several cycles, and thus views a conservative SCOTUS as the bulwark against a progressive makeover of American life in the 2020s. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hollyotterbein: In a letter to GOP state leg leaders, an election official warns 100K PA voters could be disenfranchised b/c of a rulin… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

The man once assured me I was only hearing a fraction of his best stories — that if he sat down for a while, put pen to paper, they would come flooding out. This is gonna be amazing. https://t.co/x28S1wtiD2 https://t.co/VWdaZDnDWO — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@SPJAnnArbor @politico happy to help! just don't tell anyone in East Lansing. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @nancook: NEW: Trump met w/Barrett who has support inside WH + Senate including McConnell. Barrett is frontrunner, even tho their 1st… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @RiegerReport: Dan Crenshaw: “If you’re requesting the ballot and verifying yourself there’s much less space for that fraud" In 2016 an… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I appreciate @DanCrenshawTX saying, "We have to trust, at the end of this election, that we believe the other side won." Absolutely. To that end, we've all got a responsibility to know these rules. We must inform the public of what to expect in the weeks ahead, and why. /end — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Here are two clip-and-save links, to make sense of those rules 1) state-by-state policies on absentee voting, via @BrookingsInst ... https://t.co/PcaA9odJV1 2) state-by-state rules on ballot counting/processing, via my colleague @ZachMontellaro ... https://t.co/2vEpFZgoQl 11/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Crenshaw told me, "Journalists need to be more honest about this." Everybody does. With a patchwork of laws across states, it's critical to have our facts straight. Who's getting ballots, how, and where? What's the process for counting? How are they certified? Good Qs... 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

He responded by calling expanded absentee voting "extremely dangerous" and said America is "playing with fire." Crenshaw noted how his grocery store was packed. "Everybody can go vote. This is nonsense." He also cited Dr. Fauci's assertion that in-person voting is safe. 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

We got into this b/c states that allow no-excuse-absentee voting will get historic numbers of absentee ballots Some (MI/WI) can't count them until Election Day I asked Crenshaw how we convince people that delays in calling a winner 11/3 aren't due to "rigging" against Trump 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Crenshaw then cited PA re: "the truly bad stuff" where states send universal ballots Again, that's not happening in PA 5 states (CO, HI, OR, UT, WA) do it every cycle 4 states (CA, NV, NJ, VT) have allowed b/c of Covid-19 Nobody is receiving ballots in other 41 w/out applying — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

When I circled back—reminding him Trump had criticized mailing out *applications*—Crenshaw changed his tune "We're critical... because it's totally unnecessary and it's an attempt to get us to this universal mail-in ballot, so we see it as an unnecessarily provocative idea" 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

At first, when I raised the subject of voters receiving *applications* for ballots, Crenshaw said: "if you have to identify who you are, prove who you are, and request that absentee ballot, like we're doing in Texas, that's fine. I don't perceive a lot of problems with that" 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

We have 9 states (CA, CO, HI, NV, NJ, OR, UT, VT, WA) plus D.C. that automatically mail ballots to registered voters. Only one, Nevada, could broadly be considered a swing state. To be clear: It's not true that we're flooding battleground states w/ unsolicited ballots. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

There are states mailing out ballots, and states mailing out *applications* for ballots. Crenshaw conflated these processes in our Q&A, and I'm trying to distinguish them. He's right that Nevada is mailing ballots to all RVs. But Pennsylvania and 40 other states are not. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Pennsylvania is not universally mailing ballots to everybody. The state allows for *applications* to be sent to registered voters—something Crenshaw initially said he was OK with—but it does not send ballots unsolicited. This was a repeated point of contention in our Q&A. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

"The truly bad stuff is in states like Pennsylvania... where you're talking about universal ballots just being mailed to everybody. OK? Can we just report this correctly to the people listening?" - @DanCrenshawTX to me. Yes. The congressman was wrong. 1/ https://t.co/9xxh47xIYo — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Things got interesting. Tune in. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Reminds me of when that radical theocrat, Barack Obama, told voters, "My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work." — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @RonCharles: Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump’s list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has said we should always remember… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

didn't know the name. clicked his bio. naturally... https://t.co/Tzidwe90s7 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Last week, the Lions went up 17 points then gave up 21 unanswered. This week, the Lions went up 14 points then gave up 31 unanswered. Next week, by my calculations, the Lions will go up 11 points then give up 41 unanswered. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @StevenTDennis: Susan Collins chooses her words carefully. She says winner of the presidential race “should” be the one to pick RBG’s r… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @mkraju: Susan Collins: “In fairness to the American people, who will either be re-electing the President or selecting a new one, the de… — PolitiTweet.org