Posted on 05/26/2017 10:03:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Montana Republican businessman won the state’s U.S. House seat after being charged with assaulting a reporter on the eve of the election, a victory that may temper Democrats’ hopes for a massive anti-Trump wave next year. […]
The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Steve Stivers, issued a statement hailing Gianforte’s win, as well as his apology. “Now he needs to resolve his legal issue so that he can start off on the right foot serving his constituents,” Stivers said. […]
The assault allegation didn’t seem to faze voters. Shaun Scott, a computer science professor at Carroll College in Helena, voted for Gianforte despite the assault charge, saying it was barely a factor in his decision.
“If you have somebody sticking a phone in your face, a mic in your face, over and over, and you don’t know how to deal with the situation, you haven’t really done that, you haven’t dealt with that, I can see where it can … make you a little angry,” Scott said. …
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Townhall ^ | May 26, 2017 | Wayne Allen Root
The latest poll numbers are out. Rasmussen (the most accurate poll of the 2016 election) has Trump at 48 percent approval. It’s important to note that’s just about the exact same place he was at when he was elected president- just under half the country supports him. Since we come out to vote in much higher numbers...and we have an electoral edge in Midwest battleground states...48 percent is all Trump needs to win re-election again. Keep in mind that’s after the two worst weeks in the history of modern presidents. That’s after two weeks of the most biased, vicious, negative...history. That’s after firing the FBI Director.
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It’s Montana, for goodness’ sake. What did the Dems expect? I wouldn’t be surprised if he gained a point or two in the polls after the ‘assault’ tape was released.
Blip? Blip?!!!! AP just trying to apply the salve, when they are really throwing salt in the wound!
The big losers in this election?
The press.
The Democrat candidate was so rotten that even the Democrat newspaper monopoly in Montana couldn’t support him.
Electrons are beating ink.
According the media the polls were tightening after their 24/7 “body slam” lie.
Um, okay Ass Press. Whatever you say.
Tis only a flesh wound!
“Blip”?
It’s been the new normal since 2010, ya leftoid numbskulls.
Or hadn’t you noticed that the Dems have lost over a thousand elective seats since then?
Body slam
A ‘body slam’? OMG, the “reporter” got off lightly. What a baby “mama’s boy”. To see him lassoed, hog tied and sold by the pound should be his sentence for obtrusive behavior (this before, moving on to the lies coming out of his mouth).
The liberal snowflake mediots don’t understand how their whining about this, increases our support of our Alpha Males.
If the lib had won, it would have been a “watershed” event. But since the sane guy won instead, it’s a “blip.”
The body slam probably put Gianforte over the top, in the eyes of Montana voters.
The real women in America not the shreikers wearing Vagina hats, nor the Clinton harpies, nor the snowflakes will probably appreciate the return of Alpha males to lead America.
Give us more John Wayne, and less Dana Carvey. That would make me happy :-)
Amen!
Seriously????
With “Republicans” like Stivers, who needs Democrats?
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