Talarico’s begging video

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The Talerico campaign has released a series of obnoxious begging videos from the Texas messiah in which, among other things, he asks everyone watching to send him five dollars. Just fi’ dolla. That’s all. When he gets that fi’ dolla, he gonna buy him a lottery ticket, and then when that hits, he’s gonna pay y’all back. Straight goods.

Actually, it’s more like:

“$5. That’s how much I’m hoping you’ll contribute to our campaign…
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“$5 to defeat the billionaire megadonors and their puppet politicians who are trying to defeat our movement.

“$5 to win a Senate majority. So that we can hold the people in power accountable. $5 may not sound like a lot, but if you give $5, and the next person watching this video gives $5, it adds up real fast, and then all of a sudden, we have the resources we need to win.”
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Standard Democrat boilerplate, in other words, all delivered in his customary gay robot style.

In truth, there’s something of a mystery here, because if there’s one thing Talarico does well, it’s fundraising. He raised close to seven million before the primaries, that was spent beating his fellow Democrats. Since then, he’s continued his fundraising streak, reaching 27 million as of April. This is a lot more than Ken Paxton has pulled together, but then again, he doesn’t really need to.

So why the tone of panicky near-desperation in these ads? It’s a mystery to me. But the key point here is that he’s trying to raise money not just from Texans, but from lefties across the country, a recent innovation that seems to have evolved into standard practice for the Dems. Traditionally, of course, fundraising for state-centered campaigns was limited to the state in question. But that appears to have gone by the board for the Democrats, even though it might well threaten fundraising in other states. If they’re funding little Jimmy, that’s less money they have for their own home candidates. This method of funding has its own built-in limiting factor which the Dems don’t seem to have figured out yet

Does it work? There’s no sign of it. It has been attempted on a number of occasions – in fact Beto tried it while running against Ted Cruz -- but I can’t recall it ever actually working for them. At best, it simply gives the Donk candidate more money to throw away. Which is good.

In between Talerico in Texas and Standartenfuhrer Platner in Maine, it really does look as if the Dems have put the Senate out of reach by their own actions. Nicely played.