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From a political strategy standpoint, it's hard to overstate how terribly @SenatorLankford has handled the events of the past few weeks. He's spent the last four years developing his "reasonable Republican" credentials by occasionally voicing dissatisfaction with Trump and...
establishing real credibility on issues like election security. Whether he is weighing a run for the WH in 2024 (which there is some clues to) or is just worried about reelection, he would also need the support of Trump supporters, which is at odds with...
his "reasonable R" persona. So he decided to support efforts to not certify the electoral college votes on 1/6 in what he thought was a meaningless effort to court the conspiracy theory-riddled base that he would need. And then the consequences of his own actions caught...
up with him when domestic terrorists who make up the group of supporters he was trying to court with his challenge stormed the capitol as he was giving fuel to their conspiratorial beliefs. He called for a commission to audit the votes that had already been audited...
by the states. After the capitol had been cleared, and Senator Lankford had heard from the voters he was trying to court, he decided against his previous objections. Now, strategically speaking this is literally the worst streak of decisions the Senator could have made....
Lankford has lost his credibility as a "reasonable R" by giving fuel to baseless claims instead of showing any political courage. This is made clear by this @NRO piece which calls his actions an abdication of responsibility... https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/james-lankfords-abdication-of-responsibility/
You know something is screwy if I'm agreeing with the National Review. But Lankford has also most likely lost any credibility with the Trump block because he changed his mind. He did not follow through on his ridiculous claims....
As we've seen with other Pols and Fox news, once they see you as failing their cause the Trump world has no more use for you. So Lankford has engineered himself into the worst of both worlds because he has lost the respect of the anti-Trump right and failed to gain the respect..
of the Trump right. Subscribers of the Senator's newsletter will have already seen his long-winded attempt at explanation where he equates instances of actual voting irregularities in the past with the public belief in irregularities in 2020. What consequences will he face?...
Probably none because very little matters in politics anymore and a sizable chunk of voters are detached from any meaningful reality.
