{"id":276782,"date":"2025-06-06T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/thursday-evening-open-thread-repub-influencers-in-disarray\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:40:48","slug":"thursday-evening-open-thread-repub-influencers-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=276782","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Evening Open Thread: Repub Influencers in Disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nMeanwhile, we can but hope this is a harbinger. Will Sommer, at the Bulwark<\/em> — MAGA World Starts Turning on Trump\u2019s Star Vote Getter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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EVERY RIGHT-WING INFLUENCER needs<\/a> a shtick. Scott Presler\u2019s is that he registers tons and tons of new Republican voters. Whenever there\u2019s a crucial election coming up, there\u2019s a good chance Presler will be in the area, registering scads of new voters for the GOP\u2014and posting about it. A lot.<\/p>\n

Often, Presler advertises how he targets unique demographic groups, like truck drivers or the Amish. This has made him into a heroic figure on the right and earned him more than 2 million followers on X<\/a>. Every time the RNC chair seat is open, Presler\u2019s fanbase demands that he be appointed to run the party. The president\u2019s daughter-in-law Lara Trump nearly did hire Presler to work for the RNC last year, until the resurfacing<\/a> of an unsavory incident from Presler\u2019s past in which he had sex in a Republican office, then posted the pictures on Craigslist. Presler is also gay, which made the incident a bit harder to land in GOP circles.<\/p>\n

That colorful backstory hasn\u2019t dimmed Presler\u2019s star much, though. Last year, Elon Musk gave $1 million<\/a> to Presler\u2019s voter-registration PAC. Presler criss-crossed <\/a>Wisconsin ahead of the state\u2019s much-watched Supreme Court election in April, vowing that \u201cthe cavalry is on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the cavalry failed to prevent a 10-point Republican defeat in that race. And since April, Presler has faced a growing chorus of Republican critics who say he is overstating the value of his voter-registration work, particularly in the battleground state of Pennsylvania…<\/p>\n

Presler\u2019s most prominent critic on the right has been Brandon Straka, a former friend of his who made his own name on the right as the head of the \u201cWalkAway\u201d movement, which encourages traditionally Democratic groups like LGBTQ people and racial minorities to \u201cwalk away\u201d and become Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Presler and Straka have a lot in common. They\u2019re both gay, they both have hairstyles that are unusually dramatic for operatives of the staid GOP, and they both claim to have brought new demographics into the Republican party…<\/p>\n

They were also both in Washington on January 6th. But while Presler spent the day hugging his fans on the streets of D.C., according to his social media posts, Straka egged on the mob at the Capitol and was sentenced to three years of probation for it.1<\/p>\n

Now the recipient of a presidential pardon, Straka has become an outspoken critic of Presler, claiming that he inflates his importance in a way that weakens Republican get-out-the-vote efforts. Straka calls it the \u201cScott Presler Early Vote Action delusion.\u201d…<\/p>\n

THE CLASH BETWEEN PRESLER AND HIS CRITICS is bigger than personalities. It\u2019s about the fevered world of right-wing influencers seeking to position themselves as key to the party\u2019s future\u2014and whether anyone beyond Trump can take credit for GOP victories.<\/p>\n

The 2024 election had seemed to quiet these debates. But they\u2019ve revved back up with remarkable speed after Musk\u2019s failed attempt to influence the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by flooding money into it. It raised the question of how valuable high-profile voter registration efforts actually are\u2014or, more importantly, whether it\u2019s election tactics or just Trump himself being on the ballot that is key for the GOP\u2019s success…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the question of whether Don TACO’s unique apathetic-voter appeal has an ongoing legacy is not new. But I think this relatively niche bottom-feeder brouhaha might be an indicator that Elon Musk’s current public tantrums might be a leading indicator. To which I can only pray: As below, so above! <\/em><\/p>\n

The post Thursday Evening Open Thread: Repub Influencers in Disarray<\/a> appeared first on Balloon Juice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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