Posted on 11/05/2022 8:48:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former President Donald Trump speaks loudly about the Republican candidates he's backing for the midterm elections. His money isn't always where his mouth is, however, at least not to the same level as Senate Minority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell.
With Election Day just four days away, Republicans are fighting to flip the Senate in their favor. Many Trump-endorsed candidates are neck-and-neck in tight races against their Democratic opponents. Every dollar counts this close to the election and despite last minute fundraising pushes on both sides, many races remain tight. In the meantime, Trump is directing his attention toward McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, blaming him for allowing Democrats to "blow up the debt ceiling." The former president also said that Republicans should impeach McConnell rather than choosing to funnel more money into races supported heavily by his political action committees (PAC).
"It's crazy what's happening with this debt ceiling," Trump said Thursday during an interview on John Fredericks' Real America's Voice. "Mitch McConnell keeps allowing it to happen. I mean they ought to impeach Mitch McConnell if he allows that. Frankly, Mitch McConnell—they have something on him."
Instead of criticizing or impeaching McConnell, an opinion piece by conservative and former White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen published Thursday in The Washington Post, said Republicans should thank the Senate minority leader if the GOP wins the Senate come Tuesday.
The newspaper reported that Trump has raised a whopping $161 million for campaigns this year, but his Make America Great Again (MAGA) super PAC has spent a measly $14.8 million in Senate races as opposed to McConnell's super PACs, which have funneled $238 million into Senate races to "bail out" Trump-backed candidates.
Thiessen used Republican J.D. Vance's campaign as an example.
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John Kerry and Obama are completely. I weight a lot higher standard for people who supported them. The fact that you can't tell the difference between Reagan and Obama makes you look ignorant.
Kari Lake was an adult when she switched parties and supported Kerry and Obama. And I have never seen her say or write anything to revoke that support. I don't see any track record of conservatism for her. How many times do conservatives need to be burned before they learn their lesson?
I totally oppose this "Reagan, bad - Obama, good," meme.
The ignorance is stunning.
No border wall. No more opposition to ACA. Anthony Kennedy clerks on the Supreme Court. Woke mobs, Antifa, BLM being given the country. Transgender takeover.
My posts are about Reagan only.
I don’t know any details about Kari Lake except that I really like watching her speak when I’m sent to her videos by posters.
I can see any and all arguments during a primary but Kari Lake is the candidate and the only chance to defeat a leftist Arizona Governor, why would you be campaigning against her now?
But, I'm not going to lie, and say it's pretty disappointed in the Republican crop. I have never seen a Republican primary season were the GOP swerved this far to the left. Not every single primary, but a majority. I do not support a single Democrat, but I don't know how we can expect much with the Congress we are going to have. I'd like to be surprised by being wrong, but it's unlikely.
Someday soon, Romney will one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress, and that is a pathetic development.
>>I totally oppose this “Reagan, bad - Obama, good,” meme.
I completely don’t know where that came from, don’t think that at all, don’t know where you got that from what I wrote, but I understand the rest.
There have been a lot of Democrats who have been red-pilled in the last few years. We’ll see if Kari Lake was really one of them once she’s elected. And if you look at Republicans prior to Trump, there were a lot of reasons to not like the top leadership going a good ways back. Romney? McCain? Dubya? H.W.? Yeah, I voted for all of them, but for the first two I was really holding my nose.
In any case, we can’t afford to turn away anyone who has ever supported a Democrat, which is where I’m coming from on all this.
Trump appears to have supported Obama in 2008 and left the democrat party in 2009, becoming a republican, he left republicans and then rejoined the party in 2012.
I’m guessing that Kari Lake has made a real switch and may be very interesting to watch, I anticipate her being a firebrand governor.
But, I do know she's running on the right platform and is INFINITELY a better orator and debater with far charisma than DeSantis, who has about as exciting as watching a plant grow.
There another good one, but I can't find it now.
Trump wasn't always purely conservative. But, he is the best President and, by far, the most conservative since Reagan.
I can't find ANYTHING online that says Kari Lake voted Kerry or Obama. She's absolutely running on the right principles and I see no evidence whatsoever that she's not sincere.
And, she is infinitely a better speaker, debater and communicator than DeSantis who is an incredibly bland candidate. Having the it factor makes a huge difference and Kari Lake has has the it factor.
The Republican establishment is way, way too comfortable with DeSantis for my taste. And, that is huge red flag.
Even Jeb Bush looked conservative as governor of Florida so governing as one there doesn't tell me if DeSantis will sellout to the GOP establishment.
He'll get slaughtered, though, if he runs against Trump.
She was 34 when she though Kerry was great and 38 when she started supporting Obama, it wasn't a youthful indiscretion.
Read my posts, they make clear that I am not the guy to ask to fill you in or argue with you about her positions.
Two days before the election is not the time for you to be campaigning against the republican candidate though.
But I definitely put all you people on notice that you supported nominating all these lefties, I doubt you'll be holding their feet to the fire when you get nothing for it. The reality is , whoever the House majority leader is will be less powerful than Pelosi or her successor. Biden might get more of his agenda passed in the next two years, than he did in the first two years.
We are 40 hours away from people voting and you are going nuts against the republican candidate, really, obsessively nuts against her, and now for some reason against freepers in general.
Why don’t you want her to win?
LOL. You are funny. I do not want the Democrat to win. I would not tell a single person to vote for Hobbs. You’d have to be stupid to vote for her. At the same time, I don’t agree with you I should be happy about the left wing takeover of my country. And all the Reagan bashing.
“”I don’t agree with you I should be happy about the left wing takeover of my country.””
Now, that is a real example of someone typing out a lie.
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