NC-SEN 2020: Tar Heel Tillis

[President Johnson]

I don't understand how these politicians can still think that they can get away with sending compromise material through text or email. The records of these messages never go away, you'd think everyone would know that by now.

That's my question as well, although I wouldn't care as voter as long as the relationship is consensual.

I'd at least use a separate mobile phone with a prepaid card and never use my real name, similar to Frank Underwood in Season I and II in House of Cards.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

If it was consensual who cares?

The wife he cheated on didn’t consent to this.

[SnowLabrador]

Lean D -> Tilt R.

[Podgy the Bear]

Great job, Cunningham!   Your libido and stupidity have really screwed this up.

[WD]

Lean D -> Tilt R.

L M A O.

Anyone who cares about this was already voting for Tillis. Cunningham sent some flirty texts, so what? This is a non-story.

[Woody]

The fact that he swapped messages with the wife of another veteran, will quite frankly tank his poll numbers.

He's John Edwards 2.0

Lean R

[DaleCooper]

I'd be shocked if this wasn't completely lost in the news cycle before election day. Though being revealed to be a scumbag on a personal level is never good for a candidate so I could see low personal favorability seriously endangering him if 2026 is a Democratic midterm.

[MillennialModerate]

Sympathy for Tillis and these texts legitimately likely allow Tillis to survive.

I’m notoriously pessimistic but... I feel like this is a pretty reasonable take.

[MillennialModerate]

Lean D -> Tilt R.

L M A O.

Anyone who cares about this was already voting for Tillis. Cunningham sent some flirty texts, so what? This is a non-story.

That’s wishful thinking.

This is the south we’re talking about. And yes I know the Trump hypocrisy ... that doesn’t matter sadly. He gets away with sh**t he shouldn’t.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

If I had to guess, Cunningham still wins and this just effects it a tiny bit at the margins.  However, this adds some uncertainty to what’s been a pretty stable race with ~30 days to go and I don’t like that one bit.

[fluffypanther19]

a normal year and this would be a big problem for cal, but i think he can escape this due to the multitude of other news and problems on voters' minds.

its his personal life, but still a very stupid thing to do.

[Lemmiwinks]

The people who care about this weren’t voting for him anyway. And those are the tamest sexts I’ve ever seen.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Didn't someone mention that Charlotte Observer would make a big deal out of this incident?
Or did it come out too late for the front page to change?

[Gass3268]

Didn't someone mention that Charlotte Observer would make a big deal out of this incident?
Or did it come out too late for the front page to change?

Probably too late.

[Podgy the Bear]

Cunningham may be able to get away with this because of the overwhelming media emphasis on the Trump hospitalization.  The timing of the revelation by the right wing group was a dumb move.

[Woody]

"If he can't stay faithful to his wife, what makes you think he will stay faithful to you?"

[MillennialModerate]

I just realized this literally might have stopped a Democratic majority.

Even if they add Iowa - They aren’t winning Georgia or GeorgiaS. So this might have kept Mitch in charge. My god.

[Gass3268]

"If he can't stay faithful to his wife, what makes you think he will stay faithful to you?"

Trump paid off a pornstar, who cares.

[Lemmiwinks]

I just realized this literally might have stopped a Democratic majority.

Even if they add Iowa - They aren’t winning Georgia or GeorgiaS. So this might have kept Mitch in charge. My god.

Enough, Chicken Little

[KaiserDave]

This is not as bad as I thought it was


It will make it closer though
But it’s far from a campaign ender

[Woody]

"If he can't stay faithful to his wife, what makes you think he will stay faithful to you?"

Trump paid off a pornstar, who cares.

Trump is a different animal, he's taken on literally 100s of scandals and controversies, and he's still fighting.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Yikes, adults can be stupid.

Strong Lean D -> Weak Lean D, which isn't that bad on face value, but considering how likely this is to be the tipping point seat, that isn't great news.

Overall though, none of these "scandals" has really had impacted on any down ballot races, like Hickenlooper with the ethics scandal still seems in a position to win handily and only slightly underperform Biden

[Perlen vor den Schweinen]

Wow, you all are doomering over a bunch of light "sexts". This is a nothing burger; as jdb said, the worst this will do is eat a little away at the margins by making Cunningham look like a bit of a dope.. We're past the era where any degree of unfaithfulness is a hugely damaging issue.

[RogueBeaver]

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1312386499300798464

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

This could be bad for Cunningham, but how many people have voted already?

"Will you shut up, man?"

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