Remember that old MAGA yarn about “Soros-paid rallygoers”? Well because every accusation is a confession, Iowa Starting Line reports that a text blast reading “Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here. I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you’re able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that’s $500,” was sent out to an unspecified number of contacts on an unspecified list in his network prior to the Tuesday afternoon rally starring the hillbilly novelist-turned-Numero Dos.
The fact that he was paying them $100 each to show up doesn’t exactly scream that they were friends or at least warm-enough acquaintances who would do Jakey a solid. Nor does it scream that the rally would be well-attended by regular Iowans who wanted to see their beloved Veep.