GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card (Kathy Barnette)

https://www.axios.com ^ | May 12, 2022 | Jonathan Swan, Lachlan Markay, Andrew Solender

[sauropod]

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[Leep]

K,you are on the list.

[Leep]

Platinum member

[Vigilanteman]

You may recall that the Fake News pushed Trump initially for the GOP nomination because they thought he would be the easiest one for their historic chosen woymn to beat.

[LS]

Nobody is panicking.

I, however, do urge people to vet this woman. NO the videos of her praising BLM are NOT ACCURATE.

But yes, she did on multiple occasions say that “systemic racism” is a problem in this country, and so far she has refused to produce the DoD form detailing her military service. She supplied a lesser form that did not answer questions that were raised by the Washington Examiner.

She may be a great candidate. But she may also be a Christine O’Donnell, and she has limited time to address these issues because no one had given her a chance.

But people like Rick Grenell jumping on her in highly edited videos are 100% wrong.

[PTBAA]

“She’s had virtually no money but gotten traction with the GOP base by relentlessly hyping Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election.”

Please, we prefer being referred to as the Ultra-MAGA Base.

[so_real]

This makes me smile. Gives me hope to believe that folks are actually reading past the propaganda and thinking for themselves. Of the three republican choices, Kathy Barnette is the only one that is totally pro-1stAmend, pro-2ndAmend, pro-life, pro-MAGA, and anti-WEF. If more folks were sane, there wouldn't even be a debate and Kathy would be the defacto candidate. The only reason they are still neck-and-neck is Trump's Oz endorsement. When MAGA folks stop scratching their heads about that, remember that Trump endorsed Mitt Romney, and endeavor to protect him from repeating that mistake and getting stabbed in the back again, Kathy will win.

[lightman]

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

I’m listening to Hannity now. He’s not being fair to Kathy. His good buddy, Mark Levin, was also against Trump in 2015. I’ve met Kathy many times, and the media is distorting her views. Shame on Hannity. He’s not condemning Levin for his anti-Trump Tweets. Turning off Hannity now. He should be ashamed.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

You’re right.

[PA Presbyterian]

“Three Republican choices?” There’s another candidate in the race whose name is Carla Sands. She was Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. She did an excellent job in both debates affirming her pro-life, pro-gun positions. She’s articulate and attractive. She and her wealthy husband were early Trump backers contributing big bucks to his election. She is not a recent Trump backer and I very much doubt she’s a backer of BLM or systemic racism.

I will not vote for Barnette. She hasn’t been vetted. Sands has or she would not have been appointed as ambassador. She worked hard to increase trade with Scandanavian countries and, as she has said, she especially worked to block China’s influence there.

Look at Sands, please. I don’t want Republicans to lose this seat as we surely will if skeletons fall out of Barnette’s closet just as she’s up against Fetterman in a debate. Believe me, we are in for a real fight against a Pittsburgh suburb mayor and former lieutenant governor.

[so_real]

I take your point. I too was impressed with Carla Sands during the debate. She is intelligent and articulate. The reason I referenced just the three is that they are neck-n-neck at just over 20% in the polls, where Sands (and Bartos) trail at a fourth of that. If Sands surges, I have no problem supporting her. She needs to punch up and hit the World Economic Forum candidates (Oz and McCormick) a bit harder to gain traction.