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ProfessorGAC

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12. A Couple Thoughts On That

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 06:05 PM

Dec 2022

During the campaign, they were still playing to their precious "base". They let him loose on the campaign trail because the "anti-woke" tone was more important than any policy message.
Concession speeches aren't delivered to the base. It's intended for everyone else, especially for those that held their nose & voted for him.
I think for this they wrote the speech and coached him to follow the script, which he seems to have done.
The real Walker was the one we saw campaigning. In one small defense, he athletic background might have created a resistance to being a sore loser.

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