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‘Burned to the ground’: Anti-Trump Republicans set new goal of defeating the GOP Senate
mcclatchydc.com ^ | July 02, 2020 | By David Catanese and Alex Roarty

Posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:10 AM PDT by ransomnote

A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.

The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.

“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”

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But the Lincoln Project has nonetheless placed six-figure ad buys against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, as well as Sens. Joni Ernst in Iowa, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Martha McSally in Arizona, as Republicans try to hold onto their narrow three-seat majority.

“They are the only ... human beings who had the authority and the ability to keep this president in check constitutionally and politically, and every one of them made a conscious decision to not do so,” said Jennifer Horn, a former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman who now advises the Lincoln Project.


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To: ransomnote

The America-hating Bushes, McCains, etc lost their minds when Trump delayed their fever dream of ending the USA in favor a borderless open zone.


61 posted on 07/05/2020 11:42:27 AM PDT by Dagnabitt
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Part of the Problem.

Time for THEM to GO

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62 posted on 07/05/2020 11:44:35 AM PDT by elbook
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To: ransomnote

SPJNK.


63 posted on 07/05/2020 12:35:29 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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“They are the only ... human beings who had the authority and the ability to keep this president in check constitutionally and politically, and every one of them made a conscious decision to not do so,” said Jennifer Horn, a former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman who now advises the Lincoln Project.

So your solution is to hand unlimited power to communist leftists with no checks at all. That's like stabbing yourself in the chest to spite your face.

The Booth Project are either not serious people, or they are absolute stooges of the Deep State.

64 posted on 07/05/2020 1:52:11 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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“Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”

Well I think we found one of the sources behind this. Apparently even Murkowski or Collins aren't even good enough for this group? Only Romney?
65 posted on 07/05/2020 5:11:42 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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Cutting off your own Johnson to prevent rapes?
Sounds like the gelding strategery of Romney or Bolton...??of the Bush family.


66 posted on 07/05/2020 6:27:55 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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