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Top Trump donor ponies up to take out Flake
Politico ^ | 8/9/17 | Alex Isenstadt

Posted on 08/09/2017 1:56:15 PM PDT by cotton1706

One of Donald Trump’s most generous political benefactors is providing a six-figure donation to a super PAC devoted to unseating Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who has been fiercely critical of the president.

Robert Mercer, a reclusive hedge fund billionaire who was intimately involved in Trump’s rise and helped to bankroll his 2016 campaign, is contributing $300,000 to a super PAC supporting former state Sen. Kelli Ward, who is challenging Flake in a Republican primary next year.

It’s the latest sign that Trump’s political machine is preparing to take on Flake, whose persistent attacks have angered the president. The White House has met with Ward and two other Republicans who are mulling primary challenges to the Arizona senator, state Treasurer Jeff DeWit and former state GOP Chairman Robert Graham.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: antitrump; arizona; elections; flake; mercer; trump
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To: gibsonguy

I would take it they were meeting to decide whom to back?


21 posted on 08/09/2017 2:23:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cotton1706

That sounds like a fabulous idea; I might just drive out to Arizona for a week or two and work on the campaign of who*ever* is running against Flake!


22 posted on 08/09/2017 2:23:54 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: cotton1706

Would like nothing more than to see Flake taken down, but not sure if Kelli Ward is the one to do it.


23 posted on 08/09/2017 2:25:40 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: cotton1706

Thank you Mr Mercer.


24 posted on 08/09/2017 2:27:52 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Intolerant in NJ
"if they’re not knocked out in the primaries a large part of the Republican base will stay home on general election day - that should give the party apparatus the choice of assisting in removing these under-cover-Democrats in the primary or losing the seat in the fall election."

Trump is flushing out all the Rino’s and Undocumented Democratic plants in Congress!

President Trump and we have to get rid of Undocumented Democrats posing as Republicans in congress!


25 posted on 08/09/2017 2:28:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Don’t leave Tillis off that list whether he’s for amnesty or not. He’s scum.


26 posted on 08/09/2017 2:30:13 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: cotton1706

Kelli Ward should be able to beat Flake: McCain only got 51% against her in the 2016 primary, his poorest performance ever.

Trump beat Hillary by 4.1% in Arizona, with Johnson and Stein combining for another 4.1% - there’s apparently a large whackjob population there...


27 posted on 08/09/2017 2:30:26 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

McCain will be replaced next year. Arizona will have 2 new Senators.


28 posted on 08/09/2017 2:40:32 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: Intolerant in NJ
I'm in District 1 in Maine (northern Maine), Collins is District 2..I will donate to a worthry Republican who would run against her. No...if we can get a decent candidate here in district 1 to take on Angus King haha
29 posted on 08/09/2017 2:41:31 PM PDT by Bottom_Gun (Crush depth dummy - proud NRA member & Certified Instructor)
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To: Williams

Tillis is for amnesty, he just wasn’t there for the last one.


30 posted on 08/09/2017 2:41:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Williams

Tillis is for amnesty, he just wasn’t there for the last one.


31 posted on 08/09/2017 2:41:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Defiant

The time is NOW to go get ARIZONA in the R column.

How far to the right our candidates can go, in AZ, and actually be successful and win, is a question, but this is our chance!


32 posted on 08/09/2017 2:47:29 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: cotton1706

33 posted on 08/09/2017 3:02:22 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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To: cotton1706

Excellent!


34 posted on 08/09/2017 3:22:21 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: LS

Well, well....looky here!


35 posted on 08/09/2017 3:24:58 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Redbob

Huge influx of illegals. We do have to show ID, but fake IDs are big business for the illegal voting crowd (otherwise known as Democrats)


36 posted on 08/09/2017 3:26:44 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: cotton1706

Wheee!!! Thank you Robert Mercer! Flake must go, it will be so much fun seeing him get his @ss kicked in the primaries!!!


37 posted on 08/09/2017 3:30:10 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Jane Long

Heh heh heh.

Had dinner with Kelli last night. Yep.


38 posted on 08/09/2017 3:38:37 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: cotton1706

Would be great if Flake gets primaried out. That would send a message to these RINO’s in the Senate.


39 posted on 08/09/2017 5:14:02 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: cotton1706

Fantastic news. Glad Mercer chose Ward to back.


40 posted on 08/09/2017 6:03:17 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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