The Iowa caucuses are seven weeks from today. While AFP Action says it will deploy “the largest grassroots operation in the country and a presence in all fifty states” behind Haley, it’s hard to imagine her beating Trump. It feels like another exercise in political delusion: a powerful mainstream Republican force pretending Trump doesn’t control the party.
There’s also deep irony here. As the major financial and political force behind the reactionary, anti-Obama Tea Party movement, AFP helped create Trump, the man it is now trying to defeat.
Part of me hopes it’s real.
“Hey boss, I’ve figured out exactly what we need to do to get our supporters to give us money! It’s something they fall for every day already!”
The part of me that reported it as spam also hopes it’s real.