Dubious text messages received by voters in Pennsylvania came from out of state—and may have done the GOP more harm than good.
show the Phoenix-based Turning Point PAC, a fundraising arm of the conservative re-education machine Turning Point USA, shelled out big bucks to send a barrage of last-minute text messages to voters. But they weren’t targeted at locals choosing between incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly and fringe conservative challenger Blake Masters in Arizona.
The last-minute spending spree is yet another example of Arizona’s rising presence on the national stage and its bizarro politics’ influence in battleground contests across the country. But it may also offer fresh fodder to“Charlie Kirk was working overtime with annoying texts for Oz,” Pat Hayburn, a Havertown, Pennsylvania, voter whoThe PAC tied to Kirk, the Phoenix youth leader who has emerged as one of the nation’s premier MAGA mouthpieces, paid $250,000 to Arizona Republican Rep.
The messages asked voters to cast ballots for Oz, a longtime television personality who hawked dubious medical supplements and spouted COVID nonsense. A quote attributed to Kirk falsely The hail-mary attempt failed spectacularly, as Fetterman racked up a better than four-point margin in a state whereon Election Day. And it wasn’t just Fetterman’s supporters who found the text messages vexatious.
“We were at a time when it’s good for Republicans for the race to be about President Biden, who is not popular, whose policies have failed,” Toomey told CNN. “And instead, President Trump had to insert himself, and that changed the nature of the race and that created just too much of an obstacle.”Hoffman’s company—he declined to answer questions from The Daily Beast—missed the mark in other ways.
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