Posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:10 AM PDT by ransomnote
A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.
“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”
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But the Lincoln Project has nonetheless placed six-figure ad buys against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, as well as Sens. Joni Ernst in Iowa, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Martha McSally in Arizona, as Republicans try to hold onto their narrow three-seat majority.
“They are the only ... human beings who had the authority and the ability to keep this president in check constitutionally and politically, and every one of them made a conscious decision to not do so,” said Jennifer Horn, a former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman who now advises the Lincoln Project.
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Follow the money straight to China.
Nope, not playing that game anymore. If Trump somehow loses and the Senate goes Dem, then that's the day I'm closing down all of my social media accounts and streaming services, and heading out to the sticks to get ready for the inevitable.
Yep.
The RNC has been dedicated to open borders and amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority since Bush I took office in 1989.
They tried to prevent us from being able to elect anyone who would side with the citizens and the rule of law.
Every GOP candidate for President has been an open borders/amnesty globalist until Trump.
I thank God every day that he moved Trump’s heart to stand with the citizens and our Constitution.
These are very bad people.
I’m already looking at property.
If the Democrats regain the Senate and the White House, they will never give up power. They have shown what lengths they will go to to undermine and destroy in order to stop Trump. I know he’s not well liked among some here, but Lindsey Graham said it best during the Kavanaugh hearing, “God I hope you never get it”.
[Whats the difference?]
I’ve said it before. Republicans only exist to run interference for Democrats. McCain was the worst.
If Republicans manage to gain a little power, they just fold and let Democrats run the show regardless.
If Democrats need some help dealing with being out of power, guys like Romney and Graham are happy to help screw us over.
Dan Bongino always says that Republicans aren’t the answer to your problems.
Guys like Trump are.
That’s why everyone in both parties, the media and elsewhere have done nothing but try and take him down.
These people are literally insane.
They think they can save the boat by drilling more
holes in the hull...
That’s like killing the patient to cure his cancer! Lincoln was right. Our destruction would come from within.
But the Lincoln Project has nonetheless placed six-figure ad buys against....
Everyone place your bets where did the money come from.
Democrats real quiet now for a reason.
How much of their funding comes from the DNC and left wing billionaires?
A tiny Cult that claims 63,000,000 Trump voters are the ones who are a cult
Agreed...they never were conservatives. Its what happens when you pretend that all ideologies are they same hence The Big Tent Foolishness.
The same people. Its always the same people. Regurgitating bunk.
That was my exact thought as well. Treacherous bastards. We are we taking the Republican party back from these Elite-moderates and they don’t like it one little bit. I wish they would just change their party affiliation to Democratic as that’s really where their allegiances lie. Truth be told, this is probably a deep state operation having Democrats pose as moderate Republicans to help steer the party away from our conservative ideals.
$oro$.
If the Dems take the Senate and the White House, on “day one”, the Senate 60-vote hurdle will be GONE and here comes gun confiscation, open borders, amnesty, Universal Healthcare and all of the other Communist goals the Lunatic Left has been drooling over for 50+ years
All slammed through in 6 months
Oh....and Bend Over Whitey
The Lincoln Project? Does that mean the organizers want to be shot?
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