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Matt Fleming

@FlemingWords

Free market + California: @pacificresearch Opinion columnist: @SoCalOpinion & Sac Bee Mass communications: @williamjessup Email: flemingwords at gmail dot com

Joined April 2010
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It's worth remembering that in 2014 Leland Yee dropped from the CA SoS race after being arrested for trafficking missiles, among other things. He still got 380,361 votes. Will @Ericswalwell exceed that number? Call it the Yeeline™
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Dave: “So you purchased a $1M home using a conventional mortgage with 30k?” Mark: “Yes.” Dave: “Where did you get the other 17%?” Mark: “The State loaned it to me.” Dave: “So, now you have 2 mortgages and owe 970,000 on a 30k purchase?” Mark: “Yes, that’s correct Dave.”
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The Assembly (@InTheAssembly) profile pictureThe Assembly
@InTheAssemblyNov 6
BREAKING: California voters just passed Prop 37. Buyers of newly built homes can now put down 3% instead of 20%. How: the state lends you the other 17% as a second mortgage, funded by up to $25 billion in bonds. On an $800,000 home that's $24,000 down instead of $160,000.
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No lessons learned.
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Replying to @OKnox
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihanNov 5
Trump ran on draining the swamp. Instead, a whole new group of swamp dwellers has brought a new level of corruption to Washington. Republicans need an honest postmortem on the allegations of people monetizing access to the president.
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Ron Nehring
@RonNehringNov 5
TARIFFS ARE TAXES.
Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) profile pictureStephen Moore
@StephenMooreNov 4
One silver lining from election night? Free trade was the biggest winner.  Voters hated tariff policies, especially in the South and in rural America.
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Matt Rexroad
@MattRexroadNov 5
The Sacramento Bee asked for my thought on the election yesterday. "A party that will not learn from voters gets taught by them. Republicans have now been taken to school by voters twice in eight years. The lesson is painful. Let’s not do this again. Let’s stop being crazy." sacbee.com/opinion/article31…
A Republican political expert on why the GOP got thrashed in California and nationwide

A Republican political expert on why the GOP got thrashed in California and nationwide

A party that will not learn from voters gets taught by them. Republicans have now been taken to school by voters twice in eight years.

sacbee.com
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Daniel Lippman@dlippmanNov 4
SCOOP: Jennifer Hegseth, the wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a former longtime Fox producer, last year was paid by the top Trump-connected DC consulting firm Watchtower Strategy that also did work on behalf of Lockheed Martin the same year (!). politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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In other news, the nominal US trade deficit (goods & services) remained at near-record levels, while the inflation-adjusted merchandise-trade deficit was the largest since March 2025 (then caused by pre-tariff stockpiling). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Tim Alberta
@TimAlbertaNov 4
National exit (sample: 79,668) -- Importance of issues to your vote: GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION Crucial/Major - 90% Minor/No factor - 10% COST OF LIVING Crucial/Major - 89% Minor/No factor - 11% IRAN WAR Crucial/Major - 74% Minor/No factor - 26% IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT Crucial/Major - 73% Minor/No factor - 27% AI & DATA CENTERS Crucial/Major - 56% Minor/No factor - 44%
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Take note @BrandonRichards …
Rob Pyers (@rpyers) profile pictureRob Pyers
@rpyersNov 4
With CA23's Jay Obernolte up by 2.7% after his district was redrawn to shift 3% to the right, we have to consider the possibility that California House Republicans might be in worse shape were it not for Gavin Newsom's push to pass Prop 50.
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Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatchNov 4
Yes. It was his boring stability and conservative respect for norms that hurt Trump. If only he rocked the boat more, he’d be super popular. And Trump isn’t to blame, his domineering Chief of Staff whose iron willed imposition of stability at all costs is the author of this Republican woe. This is the sanest, most grounded in fact and reality, and flat out bravest take ever.
John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) profile pictureJohn Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonradNov 4
Fine, I’ll say it. Susie and everyone else who advised Trump to listen to the people afraid to rock the boat need to go. Time for a complete White House shakeup, starting with PPO. @SergioGor brought in way too many staffers and not enough hitters who DGAF..
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Rich Lowry
@RichLowryNov 4
On prices, it’s not just that Trump failed to deliver on his 2024 promise to bring them down, he pursued policies (tariffs, Iran war) that served to increase them across the board. This was the equivalent of, say, pledging to close down the border and then doing multiple things to make the border more porous. Then, he either denied his policies were having this effect, promised miraculous relief at some point TBD, or said he didn’t care. And this was the issue that has the most direct impact on people’s everyday lives. So, the scale of the rebuke is stunning, but that there was a rebuke is not surprising—it’d be hard to do more to elicit just such reaction.
Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) profile picturePatrick Ruffini
@PatrickRuffiniNov 4
Not that complicated.
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Phil Magness
@PhilWMagnessNov 4
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Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) profile pictureMary Margaret Olohan
@MaryMargOlohanNov 4
National GOP operative tells me: "People will try to overcomplicate this, but its really simple: This is 100% because of Iran. It's all in the data and has been since a week after the war started. The economic anxiety is directly correlated with the war. We got our asses kicked because of it."
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Exit polls show that 65 percent of voters thought the trade war hurt the economy.
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Nikki Haley
@NikkiHaleyNov 4
The biggest lesson is that when Republicans stay close to our policies of economic freedom, lower taxes, and smaller government, we win. We need to return to that, stop the distractions, and get back to work for the American people.
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Erick Erickson
@EWEricksonNov 4
The American constitutional system worked as designed and worked so well and so thoroughly that the party that lied to itself in 2020 that it had lost only because the election was stolen is now lying to itself that it lost only because of gas prices and war.
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Marc Short
@marctshortNov 4
Republicans are right in many cases to cast Democrats as socialists. Many DSA candidates will wash ashore in this blue wave The problem - President Trump’s administration just took its 41st stake in a private company. Harder to make that contrast
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Marc Short
@marctshortNov 4
Populist economics failed
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Daniel Bunn
@danieldbunnNov 4
Reminder
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Dan McLaughlin
@baseballcrankNov 4
If you supported the tariffs, you never really acted on the belief that affordability was a real problem.
Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) profile pictureMatt Walsh
@MattWalshBlogNov 4
The conservatives who said: 1) The war in Iran is catastrophically stupid 2) Affordability is a real problem 3) America First Were exactly right on every point.
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Erick Erickson
@EWEricksonNov 4
It was gas prices. It was the war. It was also the corruption. The incompetence. The tariffs. The playing nice with Russia. The impression of cruelty. The overly aggressive deportations. The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic. The arrogance. The ballroom. The reflecting poll. The golf courses. The arch. The Qatari 747. The aggressive redistricting push. The threats against enemies.
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