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Virginia Witmer's avatar

Yet where are the people of the Lincoln Project? Haven’t seen Steve Schmidt in months. We need to have them with us, then reforming in every sense, the Republican Party minus the money is all part.

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HulitC's avatar

Steve Schmidt thinks Biden is too old & has convinced Dean Phillips to run against Biden. He’s lost a bunch of Substack subscribers over his stance on deriding Biden.

The Lincoln Project had a re-organization but is still putting out videos about TFG.

Rick Wilson has a Substack and a podcast.

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Michael Heyerman's avatar

I see Lincoln Project ads all the time on Threads. I dumped Schmidt's substack over his Biden stance (he's also no longer with the Lincoln Project)

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HulitC's avatar

I was never a paying subscriber, but dumped him anyway. I knew he was no longer at LP.

Great piece in Daily Beast by Matt Lewis (a Repub with whom I almost never agree):

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-schmidt-was-always-a-hack

Rick Wilson agreed that Matt is 100% right about Steve Schmidt!

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Tom High's avatar

All about the grift. Lot of money to be had for the never Trump GOP crowd.

All about maintaining a facade of being ‘reasonable’.

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Carole Berkoff's avatar

He had some great NW native art tho

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MLMinET's avatar

Reed Galen has a podcast too; it’s very good.

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Virginia Witmer's avatar

I see Rick Wilson fairly regularly on MSNBC. Sorry about Steve Schmidt’s lack of judgment. He should be reminded of Konrad Adenauer, “Der Alte.”

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D4N's avatar

I have Virginia; he writes a substack column (if it's the same guy) called "The Warning". Have a look and let me know if that's they guy you reference. He last wrote on 12/29.

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Virginia Witmer's avatar

Thank you. I will check that out. Undoubtedly it’s the same guy and you’re all explaining why he hadn’t been on MSNBC lately.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

MSNBC cycles through most of their guests I noticed. I miss Phil Rucker and Ashley Parker. Phil is now the national editor for WAPO, but I'm not sure where Ashley's been. There are many others that you don't see any more.

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Virginia Witmer's avatar

I think I’ve seen both fairly recently on MSNBC. As an “addict” I watch that channel daily. It’s simply the best for someone who wants the details and is highly critical since 2015 when I started really watching TV news post Walter Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, etc.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

That's good that they are still guests. If I'm not mistaken they both have won awards for their journalism.

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JDinTX's avatar

He signed on to third party cretin. Lost his mind

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Kathy's avatar

Rick Wilson/Lincoln Project

“ The miracles in politics are the ones we make. They come from work planning, preparation, organization, and focus.” ⬇️

https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/ten-rules-for-2024

He also explains LP’s newest “ stinky” Trump ad. ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-4M85B3HNg

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Tom Dabney's avatar

The Lincoln Project was timely, led by George Conway, who has joined with former federal court of appeals judge Luttig to bring conservative lawyers together as a counterweight to the Republic-destabilizing efforts of the financially super-endowed Federalist Society. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/anti-trump-conservative-lawyers

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Linda Hanson's avatar

Here’s where he is now:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/steve-schmidt-advising-dean-phillips-1234864257/amp/

We haven’t seen him because he’s, IMHO, gone off the rails.

Sorry to say because he had been a righteous indignant against tfg--now he’s delusional supporting someone like Dean Phillips against Joe Biden.

I’ve been seeing other Lincoln Project members in his place on MSNBC: I spend way too much time watching it--mostly on with the captions on and the sound muted until I see something important (not the rehashed crap on tfg--nauseating 🤬).

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MLMinET's avatar

Virginia, the LP is very active and working hard to preserve democracy. Schmidt broke with them after the scandal of the sexual abuser in their midst broke. Schmidt is now advising Dean Phillips, who is running against Biden.

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Virginia Witmer's avatar

I am horrified at anyone who hopes to preserve American democracy by running against the most experienced democrat and Democrat we have, namely President Biden.

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Marge Wherley's avatar

And tell me one Bill or speech he has made while in Congress. Leader of the free world? Many of us in Minnesota thought he was a shallow, pampered, arrogant man-child

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Jim Brown's avatar

Steve Schmidt is active on SubStack, to which I subscribe, and posts strong stuff several times a week on youtube. He is strongly engaged.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

I receives their emails almost daily. I give them a small donation a couple of times a year and the emails never stop.

Thanks goodness for their anti-Trump efforts in 2020. Steve Schmidt claims their goal is to turn 3% of the voters for a candidate and that's enough to win.

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Martyrita (MA, NY, CA, VT, NC)'s avatar

I believe it was Rick Wilson not Steve Schmidt.

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