Posted on 09/25/2018 10:41:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman (Colo.) says in a new interview that he tries to "tune out" President Trump whenever possible.
“I try and tune out the president whenever I can, in terms of his tone and saying things that I think are inappropriate,” Coffman told BuzzFeed News for a story published Tuesday.
"Unfortunately ... it takes a lot of oxygen," Coffman added.
Coffman, who has previously criticized the Trump administration, is facing a difficult reelection bid in November's midterms against Democratic challenger Jason Crow.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a "toss-up," while FiveThirtyEight projects that Coffman has less than a 20 percent chance to hold the seat.
Coffman also told BuzzFeed News that he doesn't want anyone from the Trump administration to campaign for him ahead of the election.
“My strategy in this race is to localize it, not to nationalize it,” he said.
Coffman previously promised to "stand up" to Trump in an ad from 2016.
"People ask me, 'What do you think about Trump?' Honestly, I don't care for him much. ... If Donald Trump is president, I'll stand up to him," he said in the ad.
Coffman's Democratic challenger argued in an interview with BuzzFeed that the five-term GOP lawmaker hasn't lived up to that promise.
“He’s had two years to fulfill that promise, and he’s broken it," Crow said.
Coffman contested a FiveThirtyEight calculation that he has voted with Trump about 96 percent of the time.
“That is just so ridiculous; it’s off some blog. I mean, the only time the president reached out for me personally and asked for something, I said no. That was on the health care bill,” he said.
Buh-Bye, Mike.
What a freaking jerk!!
The President has the support of approximately 90% of Republicans. Any Republican who makes nasty comments about President Trump is dooming himself to failure.
Sounds like Jeff Flake writ small.
What passes for party allegiance in The Swamp.
Front hole.
I’ve got a local state Senate election where the GOP candidate is sending flyers around touting his ability to reach across the aisle to the Dems. It is complete with photos of Bush and Mrs. Obama hugging each other. Apparently, this is the kind of thing that Republicans think will get them re-elected in a tough year.
He’ll lose by double-digits.
Who needs him?
Since he doesn’t support our President, he has no business being in Congress.
Why bother? A Democrat is more honest.
Another Republican Hussein Head falling on his sword for his god, or hoping to get re-elected by our domestic enemies.
“Coffman’s 2018 Democratic opponent will be Jason Crow, an attorney and Iraq War veteran, who beat Levi Tillemann in the primary by a 66 to 34 margin.
On July 2, 2018, the New York Times ran an article about the fact that a district populated by Somalis, Japanese, Koreans, Latinos, and other minorities has continued to be “a scene of frustration and failure for Democrats, who in a series of expensive elections had been unable to unseat Mike Coffman.” The Times explained that Coffman had “kept winning in part because he has sought to show he embraced the needs of his newer constituents,” and had become “a renegade Republican on immigration issues.””
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Coffman
Looking to fill Mav’s shoes in the eyes of Big Media.
I’ll be interested to see if he does. Our state senate district has been trending to the left in recent years. I voted for his opponent in the primary, but she wasn’t the perfect candidate either. I suspect the guy who beat her is actually a former Democrat. It seems that is a common problem with Republicans.
Make him watch the u.n. speech from today repeatedly.
The alternative is Levi Tillemann:
“Too many Democrats have become too soft,” Tillemann said in formally announcing his campaign, lambasting President Donald Trump. “They’ve become too gentle. They have forgotten how to fight. And we need to fight.”
In a June interview with The Denver Post, Tillemann said his campaign will focus on smart policies that will improve the lives of Coloradans, whether it’s making sure people can earn a living wage and afford health care, or stopping polluters from “wrecking the planet.”
So Coffman may not be a pure Trump supporter and may have disagreements, he is far better than the alternative.
The CO GOP really has no clue what they are doing.
I suspect they have been infiltrated up to their ears.
Dem-lite only ends one way....one party rule.
Screw Coffman, we’re better in the long run getting the scum out of the party.
Primaries, people... up here we have to wait until 2020 to primary the dishonest fellow who got as far as he did as a Republican, and waited until after this year’s primary to confess to being a Libertarian. We’ll see how that plays out!
Funny, when I made that exact point about other more conservative candidates than Candidate Trump and how he supported universal health care, even posting a video, I was punished with a 7 day ban.
“Coffman, who has previously criticized the Trump administration, is facing a difficult reelection bid in November’s midterms “
Maybe kiss up to the Dems a bit harder.
Seems to be working really well, retard.
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