Missouri is, everyone guessed it, one of the most safe R states as you can find in many Southern, Great Plains or general rural states. MO has not been a competitive state since 2008.
In an interview on *The Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air*, he said Democrats needed to stop ignoring red states like **Missouri** if they were going to get out of their electoral funk and he said National Dems would send tangible help into MO Dems in the comming months.
>“We want to make sure we’re getting out to red, purple and blue states.”
In Missouri, Trump and GOP have regulary reached 80% in places like southern and northeast MO, which leaned Democrats for generations.
One of the big reasons that he ran for DNC chair was building more momentum on rural parts of the country.
>We have 3,244 counties in this country right now, and *a lot of them* **don’t have Democratic Party leadership**, and so, we have to just *get back to basics* of **building organization** in **all parts of our country,** not leaving any ZIP code or area behind.”
>”Look at the end of the day, you *can’t turn* a **red area** to a **purple area** to a **blue area** *unless* you **spend some time, energy and money there,** and that’s true of red states and blue states, right? What we’ve seen is: When you don’t invest in red states, they just continue to be red. You don’t invest in blue areas, they start to lose vote share.”
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Refreshing to hear some common sense from the national party. We need to boost our messaging but we also need to figure out what that messaging is. There’s probably an uncomfortable reason that these people, who leaned democrat in the past, don’t voter that way any more. Dem candidates in these places will have to fight against their own party as much as they’ll need to battle their republican opponents.
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Jason Kander where you at?
InternetGoodGuy on
Missouri is a weird state. We’ve voted down right to work twice. We just voted to allow abortion. We voted to legalize marijuana. We voted to raise minimum wage. We voted down an amendment to use fees to pay for police retirement funds.
But at the same time we keep voting for the people who publicly say they are trying to overturn those votes and are trying to make it harder for ballot measures to get on the ballot and harder to pass.
Missouri is so entrenched in MAGA they would vote for Trump if he said he raise Missouri residents’ taxes to pay for everyone else’s tax cuts. It wasn’t long ago we had Senator McCaskill and Governor Nixon but it feels like a lifetime ago.
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**Debrief…**
Missouri is, everyone guessed it, one of the most safe R states as you can find in many Southern, Great Plains or general rural states. MO has not been a competitive state since 2008.
In an interview on *The Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air*, he said Democrats needed to stop ignoring red states like **Missouri** if they were going to get out of their electoral funk and he said National Dems would send tangible help into MO Dems in the comming months.
>“We want to make sure we’re getting out to red, purple and blue states.”
In Missouri, Trump and GOP have regulary reached 80% in places like southern and northeast MO, which leaned Democrats for generations.
One of the big reasons that he ran for DNC chair was building more momentum on rural parts of the country.
>We have 3,244 counties in this country right now, and *a lot of them* **don’t have Democratic Party leadership**, and so, we have to just *get back to basics* of **building organization** in **all parts of our country,** not leaving any ZIP code or area behind.”
>”Look at the end of the day, you *can’t turn* a **red area** to a **purple area** to a **blue area** *unless* you **spend some time, energy and money there,** and that’s true of red states and blue states, right? What we’ve seen is: When you don’t invest in red states, they just continue to be red. You don’t invest in blue areas, they start to lose vote share.”
Refreshing to hear some common sense from the national party. We need to boost our messaging but we also need to figure out what that messaging is. There’s probably an uncomfortable reason that these people, who leaned democrat in the past, don’t voter that way any more. Dem candidates in these places will have to fight against their own party as much as they’ll need to battle their republican opponents.
Jason Kander where you at?
Missouri is a weird state. We’ve voted down right to work twice. We just voted to allow abortion. We voted to legalize marijuana. We voted to raise minimum wage. We voted down an amendment to use fees to pay for police retirement funds.
But at the same time we keep voting for the people who publicly say they are trying to overturn those votes and are trying to make it harder for ballot measures to get on the ballot and harder to pass.
Missouri is so entrenched in MAGA they would vote for Trump if he said he raise Missouri residents’ taxes to pay for everyone else’s tax cuts. It wasn’t long ago we had Senator McCaskill and Governor Nixon but it feels like a lifetime ago.