Posted on 12/28/2015 5:37:53 PM PST by doldrumsforgop
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that the GOP might have a "tough" time holding on to its majority in the Senate in next year's elections but that he was confident that the party would hold onto Congress.
"The Senate is important," Priebus told John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970. "It's very critical and it's always tough to hold the Senate, but I think we're doing everything we can do to that."
Priebus' interview, which will air Sunday, was reported by The Hill.
Democrats lost the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections — and the party will have to defend only 10 seats next fall. By contrast, the Republicans will have 24 seats up for grabs, according to the Hill.
Priebus said that he believed Republicans will beat Democrats in several battleground states, including Ohio, Illinois and Florida.
"Our candidates are good in the battleground states that they're in, and that's the key — having candidates that are in tune with their states and that are unique to their states so you can win in a tough environment, you win in a presidential year, which is always harder because when turnout is through the roof, it's always a little bit more unpredictable," he told Catsimatidis.
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Another “threat” ..... losing the Senate if we don’t go along with GOPe candidates.
My word to GOPe .... tough. Shut up, roll up your sleeves and get to work. I’ll take my chances with a non-establishment candidate - you’ve had many, many chances and blown it every time so don’t come whining to me and expect me to eat yet another cr@p sandwich.
They could have held the senate easily if McConnel had decided to fight. Alas, re-establishing “Regular Order” was more important to him than the nation. Hey pubbie elites... It is all your fault!
It is going to be tough to hold the Senate. Probably half of the repubs up for re-election may get primarried.
Bill Frist was a hell of a lot better than McConnel.
Translation:
“Give us more money so we’ll have enough RINOs in the Senate to block Trump/Cruz!”
In the famous words of Hillary Rodham Clinton: What difference does it make now?
They have the Senate and what have they done with it?
Well said-— we can’t keep going the way we are now-— It is not even a close call— things need to change-—
Simply unbelievable.
Then Trump wants to fight like hell and he is the bad guy. Simply staggering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg22rjzYo4w&feature=youtu.be
So Reince, stop spending all your time and effort defeating conservative insurgents in the primaries so you can preserve your GOPe house of senile lords.
FU, Priebus! I say Primary them ALL! Let the chips fall where they may.
What could be worse than what we have NOW thanks to YOU? Grrrrr!
One wonders what possible difference it would make to Priebus if he lost control of the Senate or House.
The RNC has done absolutely nothing with the majority the voters gave them. He has one of the largest Republican majorities on record and they’ve done nothing with it except cave to Obama over and over.
Hey dumbbell... if you would EMRACE the tidal wave that is Trump you would have huge coat tails...
How in the hell is this guy still boss of the GOP??? I sure didn’t vote for him
Good.
They deserve to lose it and the house as well.
“Funny, we have the Senate now, but then again we don’t do we? If we lost the Senate, how would we be able to tell other than the name of the majority leader?”
The “we” you refer to is not conservatives.
Getting Wisconsin GOPe to run the House and the RNC is the problem.
With few exceptions, conservative leadership must come from the South.
When is the GOP going to ditch Prancing Preibus?
He is the worst face anyone could put on the Republican Party.
The big difference would be all the bills that get past cloture for a full vote. The Democrats don’t mind tying up legislation they don’t like, the Republicans will give the Democrats enough votes to get bad legislation to the floor and then vote against it to prove they are “conservative.”
Dirty rotten bastard.
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