Sabina Matos

Obviously, the polls suggest that it's a really interesting race.

And I think that there is, you know, you talk to people in Democratic Party circles, people who are supporters of Sabina Matos, And they don't love the way this race shapes up.

On one hand, they say, look, Democrats have massive advantage when it comes to the early vote, to mail balloting, the organization, all that stuff.

So that is in her camp.

Yeah.

And so, you know, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna vote for Helena folks at the top of the ticket, but sure, why not do a little bit of checks and balances? And the worry is, you know, if it becomes, I don't know, seven, eight, 10% of people that are willing to go from Helena folks to John Laughlin, then you've got, you know, then John is nearing that 50%, that magic number that he needs.

You know, if it doesn't happen that way, if, you know, the old saying, if Democrats come home, very good chance that, yeah, you end up seeing, you know, a 52-48 kind of Sabina Matos race.

But there is definitely fear in Democratic circles that money hasn't come through for Sabina Matos the way they had hoped.

Obviously, the polls suggest that it's a really interesting race.

And I think that there is, you know, you talk to people in Democratic Party circles, people who are supporters of Sabina Matos, And they don't love the way this race shapes up.

On one hand, they say, look, Democrats have massive advantage when it comes to the early vote, to mail balloting, the organization, all that stuff.

So that is in her camp.

And so, you know, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to vote for Helena folks at the top of the ticket, but sure.

Why not do a little bit of checks and balances? And the worry is, you know, if it becomes, I don't know, seven, eight, 10% of people that are willing to go from Helena folks to to John Laughlin, then you've got, you know, then John is nearing that 50%, that magic number that he needs.

You know, if it doesn't happen that way, if, you know, the old saying, if Democrats come home, very good chance that, yeah, you end up seeing, you know, a 52-48 kind of Sabina Matos race.

But there is definitely fear in Democratic circles that money hasn't come through for Sabina Matos the way they had hoped.

Yeah.

Governor McKee's supporters made a point to me afterwards and others, not just to me, but I remember someone saying it to me and I hadn't thought of it, that, you know, he and Sabina Matos got about the same amount in the primary.

But when he only had one opponent, it wasn't nearly enough.

When she had plenty of opponents, it was enough.

You know, if Governor McKee had five rivals, maybe he breaks through at 38% as well.

So I think that's the flip way to look at that one, which is, once again, you saw a lot of people looking for change, but not in agreement on the change.

And I think You know, some of that was cancer, but you do have to say for Tsai Kamsa-Vorvong's campaign, did they have a rationale beyond just you don't want Sabina Matos and I have the most money, so I'm most likely to beat her? You know, I heard plenty of people who voted for Sue Anderbois, not really thinking she was going to win, but they knew exactly what she stood for, a different way of looking at some of these issues.

And they wanted that.

But make no mistake about it.

The fact that, and if you check out dipetro.com, the fact that Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos the sitting Lieutenant governor who is up for reelection right now against John Laughlin, the fact

that she is using her office

to threaten ice, make threats against ice, telling people not to cooperate with ice.

And just so you understand, for instance, with Governor McKee, when, well, he's no longer running, but anyone, you know, James DeOsa, the general treasurer, he doesn't post on his official general treasurer account that he's out canvassing, you know, running for reelection, blah, blah, blah.

It's all official business of the general treasurer.

With Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, she put out that video that you can see on dipietro.com. She put that out on her Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island account.

Folks, that is, anyhow, let me circle back here.

And the polls show it's a close race this year.

Who are you supporting for lieutenant governor, Sabina Matos or John Laughlin? Sabina Matos all the way.

Yeah.

Colonel Lawful.

Lieutenant Governor's race is the one that actually might where Republicans might actually have a chance.

John Laughlin in the latest poll looks a little bit ahead of Sabina Matos.

But again, she surprised people before.

Don't count her out.