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I mean “something suspicious is afoot” is factually true. Because it’s abnormal to take 9 days off the last few weeks of a major election. Even if burned out and legitimately tired you can sleep 16 hrs and make an appearance at some famous Texas bbq place in the evening for 2 hours. So suspicious isn’t a conspiracy theory because he was conspiring to do something.
I don’t even know what the GOP is crazy thing is about. A few people tweeted speculation? People do that all day on Twitter.
If polling and prediction markets are correct then the last thing he would want to do is a high variance strategy like concocting your theory of the crime. You would be doing the football equivalent of playing prevent defense which would be to do nothing odd, but maybe cut down on appearances to limit the chance of making a mistake like saying something stupid.
Polling isn't correct, though. I'm not saying republicans are favoured... I'm saying there's lots of warning signs of a blue mirage, and Talarico almost certainly has advisors who are accustomed to the idea enough to try something high-risk variance, on the basis that the median voter hates ads enough to just vote on a party line basis, Greg Abbott will steal the election on the spot in a way that carries Paxton over the top, etc.
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