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'Those numbers are crazy': MSNBC hosts stunned by Harris efforts in battleground states
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Michael Steele is commenting and was a former RNC head, so he probably has some kind of idea of the scale of this being impressive. Would have been better to have some sort of past numbers published for comparison though as you say.
It's still kind of shocking that Michael Steele was head of the RNC. He was there when it went completely bat-shit insane (more than it already was, that is).. He was eyewitness to it. 2009 through 2011, he got to watch his political party become the "Tea Party" and embrace bonkers conspiracy theories like birtherism in real time.
I wonder what that was like for him? Near as I can tell, he was a genuine Republican true believer, then got a ring-side seat to the utter collapse of anything even resembling a political party, to be replaced by the foundations of today's rabid "Republican" cult.
To be fair, the RNC normally just talks to a couple rich assholes and a bunch of preachers and sits back while tv, radio and church does a bunch of fear mongering on their behalf. They might not have a great take on real grassroots numbers needed.