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McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency
NY Times ^

Posted on 08/22/2017 4:25:01 PM PDT by springwater13

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To: springwater13

NOT happenstance!

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/mitch-mcconnell-trump-fake-news

McConnell undercuts Trump’s claim: ‘Most news is not fake’

08/21/2017

“What I do every morning — there a couple of services I look at that gives me a synopsis of articles,” McConnell said. “It is my view that most news is not fake. But I do try to look at a variety of sources.”

McConnell also said he reads a variety of sources that Trump has blasted, including the New York Times.


41 posted on 08/22/2017 5:00:10 PM PDT by maggief
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To: springwater13

McConnell can’t save his Senata chairmanship nor his party. i will not vote for these twits again nor will they get a dime from me.


42 posted on 08/22/2017 5:01:07 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: STJPII

It’s my impression that he uses his platform to exposed the entrenched establishment folks to us masses. No one would know twertle was bad mouthing out president if he didn’t have hos arrogant arse headlined on Drudge where everyone can see him.. He will now feel the heat from the voters.


43 posted on 08/22/2017 5:16:25 PM PDT by Craigon
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To: springwater13
More fake news by those who read the NY and love it or get paid to post their fake news crap.

Defund/defang/vote out the undocumented Democrat traitors in Congress!

Trump is flushing out all the Rino’s and Undocumented Democratic plants in Congress!

President Trump and we will get rid of Undocumented Democrats posing as Republicans in congress!


44 posted on 08/22/2017 5:17:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump to be our President, make 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Racists? Nah!!)
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To: springwater13

I don’t think the NY Slimes made anything up. McConnell and the GOP establishment are feeding them this stuff. It is what they do. They’ve hated Trump since Day 1 and would like nothing else to impeach him to send him and other outsiders a message.

The only thing Trump has are his supporters. Everyone. Republicans. Democrats. Media. Corporations. Deep State. Everyone else is against him.


It’s not so much impeachment as McConnell wanting to seize the agenda from Trump. The reason all the GOPe Senators pounced on POTUS after Charlottesville wasn’t really about that. They were waiting to pound him at the first opportunity because there are big issues coming up. Tax reform, budget, obamacare repeal, etc.

The Senate is a lost cause, IMO. I think the only thing Trump can do is try to turn Ryan. He needs to work with Mercer and threaten Ryan with well funded primary opponents for GOPe in the house if he does not follow Trump’s lead. If Trump can isolate McConnell it will be a whole new ball game.


45 posted on 08/22/2017 5:20:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: springwater13

McConnel needs to worry about his own re-election, which is looking extremely doubtful.


46 posted on 08/22/2017 5:21:13 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: springwater13

If Mr. Trump does not send Ivanka and Jared back to New York, his presidency won’t be worth saving.


47 posted on 08/22/2017 5:25:13 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: springwater13

What makes the Trump-McConnell feud even more hilarious is that Trump gave the Secretary of Transportation job to McConnell’s wife LMAO! So the McConnell household is pulling in double duty tax-payer funded salaries. That’s why the feud is hilarious.


48 posted on 08/22/2017 5:25:37 PM PDT by antonico
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To: springwater13

If true, Mitch had better pray to Almighty God that the Trump Presidency is successful and lasts until at least January 20, 2021 or he will get skinned alive by some unhappy Kentucky Patriots.


49 posted on 08/22/2017 5:30:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: springwater13

McConnell does not understand that Trump’s supporters are not going anywhere.


50 posted on 08/22/2017 5:37:00 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: springwater13

I’m a small bit surprised that no one here has mentioned the Awan brothers. I wonder if they could be the key to a lot of things including the Republicrats like McConnell and Graham and McCain?


51 posted on 08/22/2017 5:44:53 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: springwater13
Good grief Kentucky, please stop re-electing this guy.
52 posted on 08/22/2017 5:45:08 PM PDT by servantboy777
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If Mr. Trump does not send Ivanka and Jared back to New York, his presidency won’t be worth saving.

Based on what President Trump has done so far, your comment is absurd...

53 posted on 08/22/2017 5:51:10 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: springwater13; ARGLOCKGUY

Yeesh: McConnell’s approval in Kentucky down to 18%
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/21/yeesh-mcconnells-approval-kentucky-18/ ^ | 8-21-17
Posted on 8/22/2017, 5:48:28 PM by ARGLOCKGUY

After all of the GOP’s legislative successes this year, this is the thanks he gets?

See Also: Trump’s campaign pollster: McConnell’s favorability collapses among Republicans, now 17.

The man’s as popular in his home state as gonorrhea — if you trust PPP’s polling to be accurate, that is. Remember, they also had Jeff Flake polling in VD range in his own home state of Arizona. It’s unusual for an incumbent from a state dominated by his party to tank quite that badly absent a major scandal. But then, it’s also unusual for a party to tank quite as badly as the GOP has this year.


54 posted on 08/22/2017 5:53:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump to be our President, make 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Racists? Nah!!)
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To: springwater13

These words in this article made me brush it off : McDonnell and New York Times


55 posted on 08/22/2017 5:59:39 PM PDT by Lee25
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Dear Senator McConnell:

I have voted Republican in every election that I can remember.

If President Trump is torpedoed, I'll work AGAINST every Republican candidate from here on out.

And my votes in future elections will be cast to ensure maximum damage to the fake Republican party.

56 posted on 08/22/2017 5:59:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: springwater13

I’m doubtful Mc Connell can salvage his leadership position.


57 posted on 08/22/2017 6:20:44 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: springwater13; All

Be certain of this, this information came from McConnell’s Senate offices, one of his campaign Pacs, or McConnell himself.

He probably spoke to the Times himself.

This scumbag suspects Trump is vulnerable.

He is wrong. Every Republican Trump targets is dead.

Dead meat.

It seems Donald Trump took my admonition to heart:

“First, the GOP must die.
Everything else comes after that”.

Flake and Corker are the two must-have trophies.


58 posted on 08/22/2017 6:23:43 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: poinq

I guess McTurtle and Ryan did their job!!!


59 posted on 08/22/2017 6:28:03 PM PDT by bantam
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To: Grampa Dave

From the article:

“Mr. McConnell has fumed over Mr. Trump’s regular threats against fellow Republicans “

Now Trump needs to follow through and make them fear him. He must help unelect Flake and Corker, minimum. And unseat a few from the House in primary.

Politically kill them. And blatantly threaten the rest.

It’s the right and proper thing to do, and the healthiest thing to happen in the Republican party in 30 years, at least.


60 posted on 08/22/2017 6:36:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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