{"id":46916,"date":"2023-12-05T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46916"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:41:47","slug":"ok-im-taking-a-cheat-day-from-my-political-junk-food-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/ok-im-taking-a-cheat-day-from-my-political-junk-food-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I\u2019m Taking a \u201cCheat Day\u201d from My Political Junk Food Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 So far, I\u2019ve been pretty good at ignoring the Keystone Kops operation over at the Nevada Republican Party during my \u201cPolitical Lent\u201d fast, which I originally set to expire the first week in February.
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I mean, I didn\u2019t even write about how some of the Nevada GOP\u2019s top leaders are being investigated by the attorney general over actions they took following the 2020 election (which I broke several weeks ago in Muth\u2019s Truths PLUS+ before the mainstream media caught up).
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But recent developments mean I\u2019d be doing you all a disservice by not weighing in.\u00a0 So here goes\u2026
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First, leaders of the Nevada GOP have been telling people\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0to vote in the official Nevada presidential primary election on February 6 and only participate in the party\u2019s separate \u201ccaucus\u201d on February 8.\u00a0
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But here\u2019s something many of you need to know about doing that\u2026
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Many of us take great pride in the fact that we\u2019ve voted in every election \u2013 both primary and general \u2013 as a sign of true civic engagement.\u00a0 And voting history records confirm our stellar citizenship.
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But since the caucus is a rogue internal election conducted by the party, your participation in that activity will\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0be recorded in your official voting history.
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On the other hand, failure to participate in the state-run primary\u00a0WILL<\/u>\u00a0be recorded on your voting history.\u00a0 So if you skip it, that will become part of your permanent voting record.
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Now, here\u2019s the problem\u2026
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With Mike Pence and Tim Scott dropping out of the race, though their names will still appear on ballots, the only viable Republican candidate who will be on the primary ballot is Nikki Haley.
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So she\u2019s going to win the primary even though she won\u2019t get any convention delegates \u2013 unless \u201cNone of the Above\u201d ends up coming in first.\u00a0 Which is a real possibility.
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Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy were banned from filing in the primary by the rules established by the Nevada GOP.\u00a0 The party forced the candidates to pick one or the other even though there was absolutely no reason to prevent them from participating in both.
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All of which led Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks to tweet a couple days ago\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cClark County sent out a flyer telling voters to look for their NV Presidential Primary ballot soon.\u00a0 Expect much fury from GOP voters when that ballot doesn\u2019t contain Trump or @RonDeSantis.\u00a0 That\u2019s the fault of @NVGOP, not election officials, but most voters won\u2019t realize that.\u201d<\/em>
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He followed up with this\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHow many NV GOP voters will decide NV elections are rigged and be less likely to vote in November? I\u2019d guess many.\u00a0 In their rush to rig the process for Trump, @NVGOP officials made it harder for Trump to win Nevada in November 2024. How hard is it to think one move ahead?\u201d<\/em>
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When it comes to the Nevada GOP, it\u2019s not hard.\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible.
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That said, the Nevada GOP responded to Joecks\u2019 tweets thusly\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cActually @VictorJoecks any confusion about the caucus is in the hands of the @NVDems that forced AB126 with zero Republican support. Presidential caucuses are the traditional way both parties have chosen their nominee for decades.\u201d<\/em>
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Um, nice try.\u00a0 But no.
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First, while caucuses have, indeed, been used for a long time in the past, Nevada was one of only three states that still used a caucus instead of a primary.\u00a0 So we were an outlier.
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It\u2019s like saying, \u201cBut we\u2019ve always gone to church on Sunday in a horse-and-buggy.\u00a0 We\u2019re not going in this new-fangled \u2018automobile\u2019 thingy.\u201d
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Secondly, the primary was established in law in 2021 (AB126).\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to like it \u2013 I didn\u2019t \u2013 but the Legislature passes a lot of laws we have to follow that I don\u2019t agree with. As Joecks wrote in response\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe @NVGOP opposed AB126. Fine. So did I. But you have to react to how things are, not how you wanted things to be. GOP voters are going to be confused, furious and less likely to turn out in Nov 2024, because of this NV GOP decision.\u201d<\/em>
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Again, as noted earlier, the\u00a0ONLY<\/u>\u00a0reason DeSantis, Trump, and the others who are participating in the party caucus won\u2019t have their names on the primary ballot is because the Republican Party \u2013\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0the Democrats or election officials \u2013 banned them from filing to have their names on the primary ballot.
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The Nevada GOP could have allowed candidates to participate in\u00a0BOTH<\/u>, but only award convention delegates from the caucus. It chose not to because it\u2019s widely known the party has been trying to rig the election in favor of Trump, which is why the primary ban was put in place.
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That and the $55,000 shakedown the party charged campaigns to put their candidate\u2019s name on the caucus ballot.
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But let\u2019s get back to the \u201cconfusion\u201d thing\u2026
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In response to Joecks\u2019 tweet, @47Cardiff – a self-described \u201cmillennial constitutionalist\u201d who is all in for Trump \u2013 wrote back at Joecks\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cTrump not on a Republican primary ballot in Nevada?? No, sir. You\u2019re mistaken.\u00a0 @JosephMLombardo will call on the military after a million voic emails by morning.<\/em>@NVSOS will be recalled by a super-majority. The Lawyer watch dogs will encircle every enabler.\u00a0 Crazy talk VJ. NUTS.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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He followed up on his ignorance by demanding\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cLot\u2019s to unpack here, Victor. Is there a video confirming with evidence that @realDonaldTrump didn\u2019t file and so won\u2019t be listed on the Republican primary ballot?\u201d<\/em>
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Derp.\u00a0

Now, this guy isn\u2019t your average voter.\u00a0 This is a guy who regularly pontificates about politics on Twitter and fancies himself a political Svengali who loves to share his \u201cbrilliance\u201d on social media.
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So if he can be so wrong and so off-the-wall about this fuster-cluck, imagine how less-informed voters are going to feel when they see their primary ballot without Trump or DeSantis being on it.
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This is a public relations disaster just waiting to happen.
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And with that, I\u2019m going back to my \u201cfast\u201d from the Nevada GOP\u2019s political junk food.\u00a0 \u201cCheat Day\u201d is over.
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However, I\u2019m shortening it \u2018til the end of the holidays rather than extend it into February.\u00a0 The Nevada GOP is putting out so much disinformation and misinformation that I just can\u2019t bring myself to leave readers in the dark once the spit hits the spam in early January.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cBill Cosby Joins Hamas So Feminists Will Stop Condemning Him For Rape.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Babylon Bee<\/em><\/strong>
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\u201cTrump says everything he did in COVID was right\u2026including elevating Fauci\u2026 Would you still do the same things? His answer to that question is yes. And to me, that is disqualifying, because this can never happen to our country ever again.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/em><\/strong>
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\u201cName one thing Trump is campaigning on doing that he didn\u2019t have an opportunity to do in his first term\u2014and didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019ll wait.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Jenna Ellis<\/em><\/strong>
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\u201cAs crooked as the Democrats are, at least they get things done. Mostly horrible things – open borders, child mutilation, exorbitant taxes, ballot fraud – but they know how to fight.\u00a0 Republicans are just useless. Honestly they wouldn\u2019t know what to do with power, if they had it.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Actor James Woods<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 So far, I\u2019ve been pretty good at ignoring the Keystone Kops operation over at the Nevada Republican Party during my \u201cPolitical Lent\u201d fast, which I originally set to expire the first week in February.\u00a0I mean, I didn\u2019t even write about how some of the Nevada GOP\u2019s top leaders are being investigated by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46918,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46916\/revisions\/46918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}