In this case though DeSantis sought out the limelight on his own.

True, but it makes me wonder if it couldn’t be weaponized more effectively. Deliberately start talking up someone that Trump would view as competition.

It’s almost as though the green party is a bunch of imbeciles and grifters.

More precisely, it is a Republican-funded honeytrap for left-leaning imbeciles and grifters.

I mean that tracks with the Green Party that I’ve observed (ie they’re generally wingnuts that get easily manipulated by others).

Lincoln Project has been doing that for a while now.

It’s incredibly transparent and yet still seems to work fairly often.

Sure, but everyone else is Saruman to Trump’s Sauron at this point. Who do you prefer?

I would love to see some PAC run ads that use Trumps own words against him.

Morgoth.

At least he was properly vanquished forever.

AFAIK, Hillary tried that. We all know what happened.

Here’s hoping he (and a bunch of other Trumpers) end up in the pokey.

I don’t think this play is working out the way Ron wanted it to.

I did my part. :)

Haha, that’s awesome. Even with the…slightly directive…wording he’s getting the opposite results he expected.

I dunno, ramming something until it 'plodes sounds fun.

I’m glad Schumer is moving this to a vote so everyone is on the record. The people who won’t make an exception to the filibuster for the sake of voting rights that will save the country can live with their publicly documented shame as the nation slides towards fascist autocracy, less than a century after being one of the leaders in saving Europe from a similar fate.

I too welcome the chance to spell things out clearly for Cockroach Herodotus. ;)

We have 5+ years of him saying contradicting things now, calling others including GOP flunkies (Sen & Congressman) abusive names and generally saying stupid shit.

The goal wouldn’t be to elect Hillary, or Biden for that matter, it would be to embarrass and disparage Trump.

That would be true if they had any shame. They don’t, and they’ll happily vote this down. We are in a post-shame world when it comes to politics.