Posted on 08/31/2021 4:00:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
If Senate Republicans seem conservative now, just wait until next year. The 2022 midterms could usher in a wave of full-spectrum MAGA supporters who would turn the GOP conference an even deeper shade of red — and make the Senate a lot more like the fractious House.
In the five states where Republican senators are retiring, the primary election fields to succeed them are crowded with Donald Trump supporters who have made loyalty to the former president a cornerstone of their campaigns.
The three top candidates to succeed Sen. Richard Burr in North Carolina have all denounced his vote to convict Trump in his last impeachment trial. In Pennsylvania, the four leading candidates to succeed Sen. Pat Toomey — who, like Burr, was formally rebuked by the state party for his impeachment vote — have embraced Trump’s calls for an “audit” of the state’s presidential election results, to varying degrees.
The absolute fealty to Trump is only part of the change this class of candidates would herald. There are institutional implications for the Senate as well. The bipartisan infrastructure deal Ohio’s Sen. Rob Portman helped broker? Six of the top GOP candidates vying to replace him have rejected it.
At least five current House members have announced they are running for the open Senate seats, nearly all of whom are more hard-line conservative than the senators they’d replace.
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You don't keep putting in the same types.
Pantywaist McConnell will just have to deal with it.
Let’s hope this happens more and more
In my dreams !
Deal makers.
What a nice euphemism for Deep State-owned traitors to our former republic.
I am trying to recall a past Politico article where 'absolute fealty to [insert Democrat President]' was cited as a bad thing. Most times it was just assumed and never mentioned in specific! Anyhow, Politico is written by and for the Swamp and best treated as a push-poll operation! Axel Springer paid big bucks for this rag, he wants the influence!
I read dealmakers to be feckless crap-weasels. You don’t make deals with full on pinkos.
If everyone with an (R) after their name would fight like Trump, the Republican party would be unstoppable.
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with America First patriots.
RINO-controlled state legislatures who gave the Steal to Potato Joe by refusing to enforce voter ID must face the ultimate political price for their treachery. They put their petty hatred of Trump above their country, and an equal portion of the blood of our military is now on their hands.
I’d also point out that dumping RINO Senators and House members in swing states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina is a waste of time and energy if we keep electing them in deep “red” states like Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska
I hope Romney and Cheney are on the removal list.
Indiana suffered for 6 years after Lugar was outed. Take the plunge and primary them out.
That can't be too difficult, it mostly pinko right now.
“Deal Makers” Not the term I would use to describe them!!! Best news of the day!!
Hard to do that when elections are rigged everywhere they allow mail in voting.
With RINOs you get a stolen election and Pfascism.
The 2022 Republican primary's needs to be so punishing that the RINOs understand that they have been defeated and crushed.
At the rate things are going with the democrats there may not be a Senate next year.
NEVER TRUST ONE
The bipartisan infrastructure deal Ohio’s Sen. Rob Portman helped broker? Six of the top GOP candidates vying to replace him have rejected it.
DNC talking points buzzword for today -- bipartisan. That one pops up a lot. Partisan Media Shill alert.
AKA assistant Democrats.
I cannot wait to see Herschel Walker in GA oust that Commie Warlock or whatever....
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