I don't see in that text why they couldn't send the data to both though. That's been my main question mark on this story; in theory, you just tell whatever administrator is currently sending this stuff in to the CDC to make copies/forward/CC/etc... the stuff to this other thing. Boom, compliant.
Is loyalty to Trump really going to be the most important factor in 2024 if he gets blown the fuck out in 2020?
There's no silver bullet answer on this. In some races, Trump will be forgotten and people will actively avoid his candidate. In other races, loyalty to Trump is going to be the single issue that drives enough primary turnout to guarantee that anyone
disloyal to Trump can't make it to the general. And it's not immediately clear which places will be which. Virginia is a state where the voting base exerts a pretty massive pressure on the GOP to be more moderate, but their last gubernatorial candidate ran most of his ads saying Ralph Northam was gonna let MS-13 come in and rape your kids.... and he was the more moderate one coming from the primary! And then the lesson they took away from that was that they should have run the crazier one all along, so they put him up the next year against Tim Kaine (where he got blown the fuck out even worse). It's a state that screams "moderate, suburbanite GOP" on paper, but the inmates are running the asylum there instead. When people like Corey Stewart are clearing primaries for statewide office, you know they've got a cult problem. In their minds, Trump is popular. They think candidates who pucker up to his orange asshole will be a big hit! Huge crowds! Stick it to the libs!
This is exactly the kind of thing that polarization can lead to though. When you get into a bubble so hazy like that, you lose sight of the fact that the most pivotal voters in this country are suburban residents who would generally prefer to not think about politics most of the time. They do a political thing twice a year just like they go to church twice a year. They buy into the Boogie, Rogan, both-sides junk. I'd argue the voting pattern nationally that fits these folks is Clinton voter who flipped to Bush, who flipped to Obama, who might've flipped to Romney or stayed with Obama, and then just didn't vote in 2016 (didn't like either candidate). It's a rational move to play to this crowd. So you'd think that Trump loyalty would stop being a thing the GOP has to do if he gets blown out. But that hasn't happened in various races across the country, and I don't think it'll happen after he's not POTUS. Every GOP candidate will go into their primaries wondering if their district likes Trump or not. And they won't know until they pick a side and see what happens.
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