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The Washington [Com]Post is reporting the shift from the White House to disparage their political opposition with the terms âMAGAâ, âUltra-MAGAâ and President Trump as the âGreat MAGA King,â came from a six-month poll study led by Anita Dunn, the latest senior advisor in the White House.
Keep in mind, a few days ago White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said the terminology âultra-MAGAâ was an âorganic utteranceâ from Joe Biden. Whoops.
WASHINGTON DC â [âŚ] Bidenâs attempt to appropriate the âMAGAâ brand as a political attack was hardly accidental. It arose from a six-month research project to find the best way to target Republicans, helmed by Biden adviser Anita Dunn and by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal group.
The polling and focus group research by Hart Research and the Global Strategy Group found that âMAGAâ was already viewed negatively by voters â more negatively than other phrases like âTrump Republicans.â
In battleground areas, more than twice as many voters said they would be less likely to vote for someone called a âMAGA Republicanâ than would be more likely. The research also found that the description tapped into the broad agreement among voters that the Republican Party had become more extreme and power-hungry in recent years. (read more)
On May 5th the White House announced Anita Dunn would return to the JoeBama administration as senior advisor. Dunnâs specific expertise is using pressure, blackmail and political leverage to control information distribution by media organizations. Apparently âultra-MAGAâ was Dunnâs first branding effort for the White House.
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The reappearance of Anita Dunn aligns with the expressed intent of the DHS âdisinformationâ board. Dunnâs professional political skillset surrounds being a paid media fixer. She has done this for multiple democrat politicians including Obama. It was Anita Dunn who used her position in the Biden campaign to demand that media stop allowing Rudy Guiliani to explain the Biden family âpay to playâ financial system of selling influence.
Anita Dunn also advised Harvey Weinstein how to remove media stories of his Hollywood rape issues. Dunn reappearing makes sense, as the U.S. government objective to control information is now in full swing.
Last point. The group that spearheaded the six month study, Hart Research, is the same outfit who does all the polling for NBC and CNBC. Partisan much? lol
Ultra-MAGA
Biden Effort to Turn Ultra MAGA into a Disparaging Epithet Came from Six Month Study Headed by Anita Dunn
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Did you know that Doctor OZ is part of the WEF?
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MAGA World Melts Down as âUltra-MAGAâ Barnette Blows Up in Pennsylvania
thedailybeast.com/maga-word-melts-down-as-ultra-maga-kathy-barnette-blows-up-in-pennsylvania
May 12, 2022
Elections
PEAK MAGA
âI think I see it as a badge of honor. Theyâre actually paying attention to me,â Senate candidate Kathy Barnette said.
HANNAH BEIER
The two main contenders for the Republican nomination in Pennsylvania took a short break from savaging each other this week to train their collective fire on an unexpected rival who is experiencing a surge in popularity in the eleventh hour of the high-profile contest.
In fact, on Wednesday afternoon, it seemed like anyone with a Fox News show or a follower count in the six-digits on MAGA Twitter is speaking with the same voice: if Kathy Barnette wins the primary Tuesday, she is going to lose the Senate seat to a Democrat.
But for Barnetteâa previously little-known author whose only other political credit is a landslide congressional defeat in 2020âall the attacks just showed that leading candidates David McCormick and Mehmet Oz think of her as a threat.
âI think I see it as a badge of honor,â Barnette said. âTheyâre actually paying attention to me.â
McCormick and Trump-endorsed Oz werenât the only ones startled by Barnetteâs sudden rise.
Sean Hannity took time on his show to slam her attacks on Muslims, including her claim that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Newsmaxâs Greg Kelly called her a ârace card playing scammer.â Former Trump acting intelligence director Ric Grenell called her âunfit for office,â highlighting a 2015 tweet in which Barnette said âpedophilia is a cornerstone of Islam.â Pro-Trump accounts have circulated a misleadingly edited video meant to portray Barnette, who is Black, as a radical Black Lives Matter supporter.
Conservative media outlets have stirred up murky questions about her military service. Even Trump got in on the action on Thursday, putting out a vague press release claiming Barnette would lose a general election because of âmany things âin her past which have not been properly explained or vetted.â
But Barnette said she isnât concerned about the questions about her background.
âAs some people say, Iâve got receipts,â Barnette said.
Trump Supporters Canât Stop Booing Dr. Oz
NOT WELCOMED
Tuesdayâs Republican primary was expected to come down to McCormick, a businessman, and Trumpâs pick, Oz. But a pricey ad battle between the two leading candidates and a viral video about Barnetteâs life story have created an opening for the little-known author and failed House candidate who now polls roughly equal to her rivals.
A Fox News poll conducted between May 3 and May 7 put Barnette at 19 percent, McCormick at 20 percent, and Oz at 22 percentâa three-way tie in the pollâs 3 percent margin of error.
Itâs the second time in two election cycles Barnette has been on the ballot. In 2020, she lost a general election bid for a House seat by more than 20 points. That loss and her thin political experience appear to have convinced Republican operatives that she would struggle in the Senate primary. But her sudden rise has upended the GOP race, which for months has been a brutal one-on-one cage match between Oz and McCormick. The two have spent at least a combined $28 million to dateâwith associated outside groups dumping another $25 million in adsâmaking this the most expensive congressional race so far in this midterm election cycle.
Republican operatives from Washington to Pennsylvania quickly mobilized this week in a mad scramble to dig into Barnetteâs record for potential lines of attack. By Wednesday night, a pro-Oz super PAC was running ads on YouTube attacking Barnette for once circulating a petition to create a statue for Barack Obama, part of an oddball compromise Barnette once proposed to save a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. In a Wednesday appearance on Fox News host Laura Ingrahamâs show, McCormick pointed to Barnetteâs 2020 defeat as proof that sheâs a guaranteed loser.
âSheâs been tested,â McCormick said. âEven the last two years, she ran for Congress and lost by 20 points."
Trump, himself, weighed in on Thursday in a statement, saying she âwill never be able to win the General Electionâ and reminded his followers that Oz was his pick.
Barnetteâs recent rise has been powered in the primary in part by a video in which she lays out her background as the product of her then 11-year-old motherâs rape to argue for sweeping restrictions on abortion, including in cases of rape. But Barnetteâs story may have inspired Republican voters, her hardline stance against abortion even in the case of rape might not play so well in the general election. Other potential general-election weaknesses included her ties to Jan. 6, her attacks on Muslims and LGBT people, her campaignâs unwillingness to discuss her background, and her flirtations with QAnon.
Barnette refused to concede her 2020 congressional defeat to Rep. Madeleine Dean (D), hiring an amateur election fraud âexpertâ only to fire him after the man failed to find compelling proof that she had been cheated. She chartered three buses to take people to the Jan. 6 protests in Washington, claiming in a Dec. 22, 2020 Facebook video that the country was being stolen from Trump supporters.
âFight, fight, fight,â Barnette said. âThis is our country. This is not their country. This is our country.â
Later in the video, Barnette blended a reference to Christmas family dinners with a militant call for Trump supporters to use a âswordâ and prepare for Jan. 6.
âWe will enjoy our families with our sword drawn,â Barnette said.
Barnette, who was in Washington the day of the riot but claims she didnât enter the Capitol, has since tried to distance herself from the violence, calling the riot a âhoaxâ on Twitter. But in an April 2022 interview with a Pennsylvania TV station, Barnette insisted she didnât call the riot a hoax after all.
âI donât recall ever saying that,â Barnette said.
âIt was a tweet,â one local TV reporter said.
âI donât recall â no, January 6 was a day, and what happened, happened, on that particular day.ââ
Barnette has also dabbled in the QAnon conspiracy theory. In her 2020 congressional campaign, she embraced âSave the Children,â a QAnon front movement that hijacked the Facebook hashtag âSave the Childrenâ after moderators started banning hashtags related to the conspiracy theory. In her 2020 campaign, Barnette posted frequently about Save the Children, putting her campaign logo on stock photos of children bound with rope or with their mouths gagged to suggest that her opponent was weak on child trafficking.
âI will not forget about the children,â Barnette wrote in one post. âWe cannot continue to ignore this evil that is being perpetrated on our children.â
Barnette also has a history of making anti-gay comments. In 2013, she led a group called Truth Exchange Ministries that appeared at anti-gay marriage protests. In a blog post, Barnette called being gay a âculturally degenerate lifestyle.â
âCan we, as a nation, co-exist with the Homosexual Agenda?â Barnette wrote. âNo, we cannot and will not for long.â
Barnette went on to compare LGBT people to ârobbersâ and âextortionists,â and claimed the âhomosexual movementâ has a goal of âdomination.â
âMake no mistake about it, homosexuality is a targeted group in the Bible, right along with cheats, drunkards, liars, foul-mouths, extortionists, robbers, and any other habitual sin,â Barnette wrote.
Barnette even appears to have posted online about not wanting to fly on the same plane as a lesbian woman.
âPlease PRAY for my babies and me,â Barnette wrote in a March 2013 tweet. âWe are about to board the place (sic) to California and there's a homosexual femaleâŚâ
Barnette has also joined a growing Republican movement to restrict the voting rights of people who move out of blue states as some kind of punishment. In a Dec. 23, 2020 Facebook post, she wrote that California and New York transplants âshould lose your voting privileges for a minimum of 2 years.â
âItâs only fair that you should suffer the consequences of your voting habits,â Barnette wrote.
As Republicans look to undermine Barnetteâs bid, right-wing media outlets have stirred up questions on a key part of her resume: her ten-year service in the military. Conservative news outlet The Washington Examiner published a story this week noting that Barnetteâs campaign refused to answer basic questions about her life, including her hometown and her military career. The Washington Free Beacon, another Beltway right-wing site, followed up and reported that Barnetteâs campaign manager hung up on a reporter when asked about her military record.
For now, though, it appears Barnette was telling the truth about her service. Late Wednesday, Barnette provided The Daily Beast and other outlets with documents that purport to show she served in both the Army Reserves and the Alabama National Guard in the 1990s. A spokesperson for the U.S. Army confirmed the National Guard service to The Daily Beast, though the military office responsible for verifying the Army Reserves information did not respond to a request for comment.
In an interview, Barnette blamed the kerfuffle over her military service on the fact she was in Pennsylvaniaâs rural Elk County on Wednesday and unable to get cell phone service to provide campaign staffers with her military documents.
Though there may be plenty of material to work with, even the well-funded front-runners may not have enough time to air the entire oppo book to voters before Tuesdayâs primary.
With the influential conservative group Club For Growth fueling Barnetteâs late surge with a $2 million spending commitment, thereâs a sense that she could vault into the top spot. If that were to happen, Democrats and many Republicans agree that Barnette would be uniquely positioned to turn Pennsylvania from a top-tier battleground into a likely flip for Democrats. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, a prolific fundraiser, is likely to win the Democratic nomination.
Barnette could be a headache for Senate Republicans even if she wins. In a recent appearance on Glenn Beckâs show, Barnette said she would support Beckâs calls for top government officials to be arrested, and suggested she wouldnât back Sen. Mitch McConnell as the partyâs Senate leader.
The only Democrat who knows what itâs like to run against Barnette is Dean, who defeated her easily in 2020. Dean watched as Barnette embarked on her quixotic crusade to prove, somehow, that rampant voter fraud was the reason she lost, and she has been paying attention to her previously longshot campaign for Senate.
âIf somehow she wins the nomination, we will see through the course of the campaign, she simply doesn't have ideas that match our state's values,â Dean said. âShe just doesnât.â
Other Democrats are salivating at the prospect of facing Barnette in the general election.
âIâm sure many of us are hoping she sustains it and wins,â said T.J. Rooney, the former head of the state Democratic Party. âBecause sheâs certainly â [it] would be very tough to elect her.â
-Additional reporting by Ursula Perano