“What we’re seeing this time around is next-level mental and rhetorical gymnastics.”
This week, Axios revealed that Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan is part of a national trend they dubbed the “big scrub,” where GOP candidates around the country are trying to “disappear the hardline anti-abortion stances they took during their primaries.”
Yesterday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” zeroed in on the controversy, dubbed “the big scrub.” Axios reporter Alexi McCammond joined Mika Brzezinski to discuss this alarming trend in Oregon and around the nation.
Key points from McCammond’s comments:
“This is really a trend we’re seeing happening across the country and in critical battleground states like Pennsylvania, like Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon, North Carolina, Nevada, Washington state, the list goes on.”
“What we’re seeing this time around is next-level mental and rhetorical gymnastics. These folks, as you have pointed out, have had these hardline positions on things like abortion, saying they have no exceptions for anything, they are very pro-life. And then when they’ve won their primary their websites have suddenly been scrubbed, they’ve either been changed completely or language that is more harsh and serious has been removed.”
“It’s clear based on how these Republicans are acting that they don’t plan to continue to talk about this issue much on the trail, so I think they’re hoping that voters won’t really pick up on it or necessarily ask them about it – though we know that won’t be true.”
“There’s now new data about voter registration across the country – in battleground states, in red states – where we’re seeing more and more women register to vote after that [Dobbs] decision. We’re seeing organizing, you know, and fundraising skyrocket after what happened in Kansas.”