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TXPaganBanker

(210 posts) Wed Jun 10, 2020, 02:21 AM Jun 2020

Does anyone else think it's odd that Jo Jorgensen is popping up all of a sudden?

She's raised a grand total of $31,648 for the Presidential race per OpenSecrets.org. All of a sudden, after polls start showing Biden up by a double digit lead, I'm seeing memes spring up touting her as the perfect candidate (with disparaging and debunked claims against Biden for comparison). It may just be me, but I'm paranoid enough to remember the alternate party candidates that were discovered to be funded by the GOP in prior races.

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Does anyone else think it's odd that Jo Jorgensen is popping up all of a sudden? (Original Post) TXPaganBanker Jun 2020 OP

who is she nt msongs Jun 2020 #1

Libertarian candidate sakabatou Jul 2020 #5

Is she a real person or just a Russian bot?? nt mitch96 Jun 2020 #2

She's the Libertarian Party candidate for President. SharonClark Jun 2020 #3

Here's an example of the memes I'm talking about. TXPaganBanker Jun 2020 #4

msongs

(70,178 posts)

1. who is she nt

Reply to TXPaganBanker (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 03:41 AM

Jun 2020

sakabatou

(43,064 posts)

5. Libertarian candidate

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 5, 2020, 04:32 AM

Jul 2020

mitch96

(14,658 posts)

2. Is she a real person or just a Russian bot?? nt

Reply to TXPaganBanker (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 04:54 AM

Jun 2020

SharonClark

(10,323 posts)

3. She's the Libertarian Party candidate for President.

Reply to TXPaganBanker (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 08:03 AM

Jun 2020

My guess is that she'll pull a few young white males from the GOP.

TXPaganBanker

(210 posts)

4. Here's an example of the memes I'm talking about.

Reply to TXPaganBanker (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2020, 11:45 AM

Jun 2020

It compares her to Sanders and Biden, in an effort to draw all the Sanders votes. I'm sure that if they did a comparison to Trump, it would draw votes away from him, but that doesn't seem to be the goal.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223289306045789&set=a.2023042500564

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