{"id":37862,"date":"2019-12-30T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37862"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:08:08","slug":"the-search-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37862","title":{"rendered":"The Search Continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Hinderaker posted an article at Power Line Blog<\/a> about a story The New York Times ran about a disgruntled Trump voter. The article in The New York Times was posted in October. It was about Mark Graham, a real estate appraiser in Erie, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported:<\/p>\n

Mark Graham, a real estate appraiser in this faded manufacturing hub [Erie, Pennsylvania], sat with friends at a gym named FitnessU on the morning after the Democratic debate in mid-September. He had voted for Barack Obama, but in 2016 he took a gamble on Donald Trump.<\/strong>
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\n\u201cThings have changed in the last couple weeks: More stupidity has come out,\u201d Mr. Graham, 69, said in a telephone interview last week. He hopes Democrats nominate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., but he is not particular. \u201cI\u2019d vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who it is at this point,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, voting records are public. It turns out that Mr. Graham did not vote in 2016.<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line Blog continues:<\/p>\n

Fast forward a month, to November 12. Now the Times reports<\/a>, excitedly, on a new anti-Trump ad campaign being undertaken by David Brock\u2019s disreputable organization, American Bridge:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Democratic group unveiled a $3 million advertising campaign Tuesday featuring people who supported President Trump but now regret it, the first wave of a yearlong effort to reclaim some of the voters in the industrial Midwest who helped tip the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group, American Bridge, will air commercials in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that are first-person testimonials from residents of each state explaining why they backed Mr. Trump in 2016 and why they will not do so again next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Times proudly noted its own role in tracking down anti-Trump converts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The disaffected Trump voter who appeared in the Pennsylvania spot \u2014 Mark Graham of Erie, Pa. \u2014 was featured in a New York Times article last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is reasonable to assume that American Bridge found Mr. Graham via the Times article.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, neither American Bridge nor the Times thought to check the Erie, Pennsylvania voting records to confirm Mr. Graham\u2019s claim that he voted for President Trump in 2016. It turns out he didn\u2019t<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

An allegedly regretful Trump voter in Pennsylvania, highlighted in videos by a Democratic political action committee and by The New York Times, never actually voted in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News organization JET 24, an ABC affiliate, found after checking county voting records that Mark Graham of Erie County, Pennsylvania, did not vote in the presidential election three years ago.<\/strong>
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\n[T]he Trump campaign noted Friday that American Bridge has yet to take down its ad or apologize.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times has run a correction:<\/p>\n

After this article was published, local news media reported that Mark Graham did not vote in the 2016 election. The Times has confirmed that Mr. Graham did not vote in the election. While Mr. Graham acknowledged misspeaking about his voting record, he said the article accurately reflects his feelings about the 2016 race and President Trump\u2019s performance in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess that’s sort of an apology for their lack of research. It gives me hope that the mainstream media is having so much trouble finding everyday Americans who regret voting for President Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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