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McConnell warms to Herschel Walker as primary war with Trump fizzles (power has shifted)
Politico.com ^ | 9/24/21 | BURGESS EVERETT

Posted on 09/24/2021 3:04:07 AM PDT by cotton1706

Republicans are hand-wringing over former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate Herschel Walker entering a critical Senate race. Surprisingly, Mitch McConnell isn’t one of them.

After vowing earlier this year to tangle with Trump if necessary to nominate electable GOP candidates in must-win Senate primaries, the Senate minority leader is tacitly blessing many of Trump’s endorsements. As McConnell surveys Trump’s picks in Senate battlegrounds, he's concluded that “I don't believe they're troubling.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: burgesseverett; elections; herschelwalker; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; politico; turtlemcrino
Burgess Everett is basically Mitch McConnell's stenographer at Politico.

Apparently the threats to depose McConnell hit their mark.

McConnell is now attempting to get on candidate's good side...to secure his own position later.

1 posted on 09/24/2021 3:04:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
IIRC Rat Party Headquarters is trying to slime him...I can't recall how. But of course that's what they're gonna do. Assuming he's an honorable man (an assumption I'm willing to make) then he's *surely* better than that filthy pig he's up against.
2 posted on 09/24/2021 3:09:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: cotton1706

China Mitch and the GOPe who aided and abetted the Rats’ in Election Theft 2020 is losing.

They are still fundraising for Lizard Cheney but they’re flaming out.


3 posted on 09/24/2021 3:18:51 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: cotton1706
Trump challenges the turtle and the turtle caves.

Mitch maybe old but he ain't stupid and knows that Trump could and would sink the turtle and his choice if he balks.

Go, go Bulldawgs {and I don't even like them}.

4 posted on 09/24/2021 3:43:06 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sure they will but they will really lose a huge chunk of the black vote when they do. Herschel is really loved in Georgia.


5 posted on 09/24/2021 3:50:54 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president)
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To: romanesq

The NeverTrump GOPe think battles. Trump think in terms of all out no holds barred war. Trump is bringing in warriors to his side. The GOPe’s days are numbered. In winning the battle with Trump, they lost the war. Trump will be back at the helm, and this time with an army of his own making unleashing hell upon both the GOPe and the Dims.


6 posted on 09/24/2021 3:51:45 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: cotton1706

This is pretty interesting but i will never trust Chyna mitch.


7 posted on 09/24/2021 3:58:55 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: cotton1706

Its much more like the Turtle realizes he’s getting his ass kicked and decided to try to save face by pretending to back Trump’s candidates who were assured of trouncing his candidates anyway.


8 posted on 09/24/2021 3:59:25 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

I curse obama for his two quotes about mitch and graham. Every time they pull a stunt i am reminded how obama was spot on about them in his book


9 posted on 09/24/2021 4:14:05 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: McGavin999

Trump’s backing candidates who represent ‘the people’... McConnell usually backs candidates who support RINO elites...


10 posted on 09/24/2021 4:33:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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To: GOPJ

Bttt


11 posted on 09/24/2021 4:39:29 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: GOPJ

What a concept, representatives who actually represent the people! I want to see more men and women who stand at Trumps side. He has been fighting this battle alone ( I know he has millions more of us behind him) he needs to have some who will help carry the load.


12 posted on 09/24/2021 4:44:18 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president)
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To: GOPJ
Trump’s backing candidates who represent ‘the people’... McConnell usually backs candidates who support RINO elites...

McTurtle is thinking "Once they come to D.C. I can turn them to the dark side. Yes....yessss...."

And recent history with so-called "Tea Party" candidates (Remember Mia Love?) shows that he will do it again.

13 posted on 09/24/2021 5:53:46 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
I like your thinking, Midget! TRiUMPh with President TRUMP! Go Dawgs!

On the football field, Herschel had enough leverage from his magnificent training and self-discipline to bowl over opponents. 

In the 2022 Senate race, he's got Trump and his Georgia hero status to leverage for the win.


14 posted on 09/24/2021 7:45:53 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: cotton1706

McConnell is a back-stabber. I hope Herschel Walker remembers that. Don’t trust any Congressional office holder with an R behind their name.


16 posted on 09/24/2021 11:01:33 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“The GOPe’s days are numbered.”

Maybe, maybe not. Money talks. President Trump is leading the fight to clean out the party but he has plenty of resistance.


17 posted on 09/25/2021 9:46:46 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: cotton1706

Likely McConnell’s team ran a poll and liked what they saw for a general election matchup, and also looked at a poll for his standing in the primary and acknowledging reality.


18 posted on 09/28/2021 9:38:18 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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