Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

security challenge. The consequences of the next elections are enormous and the stakes could not be higher. The debate must elevate. It must become about the big things that really matter in this moment. What type of country do we want to live in? That is what the next election — PolitiTweet.org

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something they feel procession over from being taken away. No one ever votes as a thank you for the things they just received. It is the ultimate what have you done for me lately world. The ‘22 elections are not going well for Democrats and that is America’s greatest — PolitiTweet.org

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from a Democratic Congress. It is an exceedingly errant proposition that should be discarded. Voters respond to promises of benefits. Voters respond to the idea of punishing the other side. They can be motivated by a lesser of two evils argument and be activated to defend — PolitiTweet.org

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infrastructure package was historic, bipartisan, overdue and urgently necessary. Our children and grandchildren will benefit from it in the way we benefited from the Interstate Highway Act. No one will be voting on this issue as an expression of gratitude for a gift received — PolitiTweet.org

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in the fools gold of empty slogans and easy lies. The moment requires a commitment to finding a way to Better than what we have. Understanding what 2024 is about is the first step in denying Trump a second term. The moment has come to settle on a message for 2022. The — PolitiTweet.org

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The hustlers and conmen are always at the ready to exploit pain and suffering. Where people sit and suffer; unseen and unheard, they become easy prey to the false attentions, scapegoating, blame gaming and demagoguery of sinister men and women who see profit, power and gain — PolitiTweet.org

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of America and the story of us against a malicious cause that repudiates Americanism in the name of a new creed and dogma that venerates a man over the Constitution and political power over duty and patriotism. It is a cause fueled by anger, resentment and betrayal. — PolitiTweet.org

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be about him in 2024. There is no new discovery to be made about Trump. There is no new low, no depravity, no cruelty, no anything that will teach anyone anything new about Trump. The next election will be about us, as a people, a nation, a society. It will be about the idea — PolitiTweet.org

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parties that grow calcified and bureaucratized in approaching an electorate that is evolving under the weight of dysfunction caused by increasing radicalization and extremism in the political system. Trump will start the race as the presumptive GOP nominee but the race will not — PolitiTweet.org

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history with his last minute interventions. The person the race was about was the person that lost the Presidency in 2016 and 2020. Generals, it is said, are inclined to fight the last war in their imaginings and preparations. The same is true for political organizations and — PolitiTweet.org

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.@POTUS won the election by 45000 votes across three states. Four years before that victory, Donald Trump won the Presidency by a margin roughly a third of that size (electorally). He was losing the election until James Comey changed the trajectory of the conversation and thus — PolitiTweet.org

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besides the point. The main point was that everything @ProjectLincoln did was premised on the belief that the election was about TRUMP. The strategic core of the effort was the conviction that the primary issue and next 50,000 that followed in ranked importance all were TRUMP. — PolitiTweet.org

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the first time in years and changed the narrative from who Trump was attacking and bullying to who was attacking Trump. This made Trump angry, volatile and defensive. The fruits of this were seen in deranged performances like Trump’s Tulsa comeback. The list could go on but is — PolitiTweet.org

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that contributed to Biden’s victory by being the first organization that effectively attacked Trump since his arrival into Presidential politics by escalator. The @ProjectLincoln took the fight to Trump, profoundly destabilizing him and his campaign. It put him on defense for — PolitiTweet.org

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What will the election be about? This is the essential question and it will determine the outcome of the next Presidential election. @ProjectLincoln was built on a strategic premise that was correct from the conception of the organization and instrumental in shaping a narrative — PolitiTweet.org

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Any time I see a picture of @tedcruz, watch a video of him or hear his voice, I have the same instant recurring reaction which always lingers in a way that is intense enough to distract from whatever it is I am doing. Its simply the thought that he should wear a long black cape. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meet the Texas Secessionist Movement: Brought to You by Russia https://t.co/okFKhOxT4L via @BulwarkOnline. Must Read at @BulwarkOnline — PolitiTweet.org

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Merci. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cecileprieur: « Avec Zemmour, Bolloré et Facebook, vous avez en France l’équation qui a porté Trump au pouvoir ». Le stratège américain… — PolitiTweet.org

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My first joint op Ed in France with my friend @Feleaks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Always great to join @NicolleDWallace on @DeadlineWH on @MSNBC — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m incredibly sad to learn about the death of American hero, Major Ian Fishback. His letter to Senator John McCain about detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is below. Please read it. It is a love letter to the concepts of duty, honor any country. https://t.co/6xrb3XYqfs — PolitiTweet.org

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👇 please read the below from @sarahkendzior about Steve Bannon. It is the most concise explanation of who he is and how dangerous he is that I have ever read. I can’t recommend @gaslitnation podcast more highly. It is essential listening at this moment of autocratic rising — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a must watch for the National Political Press Corps in the Acela corridor. This Colorado Television Journalist gets it-deeply. @KyleClark Bravo. — PolitiTweet.org

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Democracy was weak. — PolitiTweet.org

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Churchill said the Second World War could have been called the unnecessary war. Explaining how the war came in his memoirs he said this, “The malice of the wicked was aided by the weakness of the virtuous”. Fascism rose 100 years ago not because it was strong but because — PolitiTweet.org

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@techsavvysupt Share it. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is essential reading for anyone who cares about the global retreat of democratic values. ⁦@anneapplebaum⁩ is one of the most important writers in the world chronicling this moment of autocratic ascendency. There are no wiser observers than her https://t.co/LDxtA0zD7I — PolitiTweet.org

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The people Brooks is writing about are American fascists. Period. That is what this is. It matters not if their degrees are from Princeton or if they were in the young conservative de Tocqueville club at Yale before checking the McKinsey or Heritage boxes. Disturbing. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The problem in America, Hazony continued is that LGBTQ activists today, like American Jews of the 1950’s are trying to expel Christianity from the public square.” This is from the man David Brooks calls the intellectual architect of National Conservatism” https://t.co/kT9T6HvSpe — PolitiTweet.org