I’m sorry, can you still call him left wing if he is fully funded by the right?
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The right is funding him in an effort to split the vote on the left in an effort to boost Trump. They're especially desperate to split the Democrat and Independent votes since it's become very obvious that RFK Jr has been fragmenting the voter base on the right. The libertarian votes that Trump just assumed would be his have a very good chance of going to Master Brain Worm.
Yes, because if he WASN'T left wing, the right wouldn't be funding him
he is not fully funded by the right.
It’s an effort that West himself apparently knows nothing about. His campaign did not immediately respond for comment Friday evening.
You'd think that, even if he knows nothing about it, his campaign would immediately respond to the Associated Press asking about it.
Seems more like an "I don't want to know about it" situation.
Or it could be his campaign wanted to look into it before giving a quote.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
I never suggested it was a conspiracy.
True. It just seemed to me that wanting a quote right away wouldn't give the campaign time to research it themselves. Which is fair, especially in light of what the AP found.
All I can say is that, in my experience, they give these places a good 4-6 hours at minimum to respond. In general it was a good 12.
For one thing, it takes time for these articles to pass from writer to editor to "print." Less time now that it's all digital, but we're not talking 10 minutes.
How many hours is "immediately"?
I literally just told you.
Half a workday is "immediately"?
In journalistic terms, yes.
That's code for "we sent an email right before publishing and didn't instantly get a reply".
Not in my experience working in TV journalism. And I doubt the AP is less professional than the local TV shitshows I worked for.
They say 'Friday evening', presumably this Friday evening, after all businesses are closed. I'm assuming West hired some third party to get all this done, and there's no way they're going to get to the bottom of this over the weekend.
The West campaign has been a bit of a shitshow from the start, and while he's a brilliant academic, he's not an experienced politician and he hasn't exactly hired the best campaign managers (also partly because you get blacklisted by the big parties if you ever work on a third party campaign).
I'd be more surprised if they had an answer ready to go. That's, like, proof they knew.
A denial would be a ready-to-go answer...
Yeah, but you'd need to think in your campaign room "What if someone asks why we're certifying fake electors?" which, admittedly, in a sane world seems like an insane thing to worry about.
We're not in a sane world but "Well, we don't have a comment at this time but we're looking into the matter." could be construed as "didn't immediately respond to our question."
Generally when someone gives a response but an ambiguous one like that, it is reported as something like, "when contacted, we were told they did not have a comment at this time, but were looking into the matter."
Because in that case, claiming they did not respond would be a lie. They did respond, they just didn't give an answer. There's a difference.
Don’t let the details slow you down.
What even is government? 🙄