Posted on 08/31/2021 4:46:49 AM PDT by RandFan
In the five states where Republican senators are retiring, the midterm elections could usher in a wave of hardliners who are nothing like their GOP predecessors.
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.
McConnell has already indicated his willingness to intervene in GOP primary battles — even against Trump-backed candidates — if he perceives there are electability issues that might endanger the party’s chances of winning the seat.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Good!
Mitch fretting also good!
There are still plenty of RINOs in the Senate. It's going to take years to replace them.
Deal makers = co-conspirators
There, better.
How much power does McConnell have over Republican primary voters?
Answer: Close to none.
Isn’t Politico now owned by some fascist Germans? [Critical Nazi Theory says ALL Germans are fascists]
Mitch controls a large chunk of the money.
“Most of the newcomers would accelerate the GOP’s transition from tea party to Trump party”
Roy Blunt is of the Tea Party?
Who knew?
“McConnell has already indicated his willingness to intervene in GOP primary battles — even against Trump-backed candidates — if he perceives there are electability issues that might endanger the party’s chances of winning the seat.”
Yeah, McConnell’s track record is clear. He will spend gobs of lobbyist money to defeat conservative candidates who are unwilling to support McConnell’s lobbyist string-pullers.
Won't do him any good. Right now, McConnell has zero credibility with the GOP base who vote in primaries. Any candidate who is publicly endorsed by McConnell against a Trump backed candidate, will lose.
I fear that if you believe this possible you are ignoring the obvious.
New WuhanFlu variants will continue to be used to force lockdowns and corrupt mailin voting. That is happening out here in CaCaLand on the Newsom recall.
All elections from here on out will be corrupted by this process.
That was (obviously) allowed to happen back in Nov and it will be repeated until all opposition is buried.
McConnell has already indicated his willingness to intervene in GOP primary battles — even against Trump-backed candidates
How much power does McConnell have over Republican primary voters?
Answer: Close to none.
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what china mitch has to muddy the water is control of the republican senate election committee purse strings that he always directs to Rinos
The article comes up short. Too little mention of Lisa, Murkowski, Thune. That’s where the attention should be.
It's Politico.
When Politico and McConnell are against it, you know it is good thing.
When even the corrupt FBI can’t pin January 6th on Trump, anyone who voted to impeach him for it should acknowledge their own stupidity.
Fun read. Thanks for posting. I love that every Politico sentence here is so morose about the new wave of coming Trumpists. Delightful!
GREAT !!!
From my post of January 20, 2021:
Let's also remember:
Let's look at the 2020 Republican roster:
- Sen. Martha McSally (Arizona) - McConnell hand-picked candidate. Lost.
- Sen. Thom Tillis (North Carolina) - Won only because of Cal Cunningham's multiple sex scandals.
- Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) - A McConnell super-PAC donated $4 million to the Collins campaign in the last week of the race. She won with 51% of the vote. She was losing all summer long.
- Sen. Steve Daines (Montana) - Incumbent in a red state. Won with 55% of the vote. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa) - Part of McConnell's leadership team (Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference). This was a squeaker all summer and fall. She won with 51.8% of the vote. Not sure what McConnell's role was in her win.
- Sen. Cory Gardner (Colorado) - Also part of McConnell's leadership team (National Republican Senatorial Committee). Lost.
- Sen. David Perdue (Georgia) - Incumbent in a red state. Lost.
- Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) - Barely won in a red state. Not sure of McConnell's involvement in that. Graham can be his own worst enemy.
- Sen. Kelly Loeffler (Georgia) - Lost a special election runoff.
- Sen. James Risch (Idaho) - Incumbent in a deep red state won with 62.6%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Roger Marshall (Kansas) - Won the open seat held by retiring Pat Roberts, with 53.2%. McConnell opposed Kris Kobach (a Trump supporter) in the primary.
- Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska) - Incumbent in a red state, won with 53.9%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) - Incumbent in a red state. Won with 53.5%. Member of McConnell's leadership team (Assistant Majority Leader, a made-up position after Pelosi created it in the House because of the optics of ousting James Clyburn when she lost the Speakership). McConnell had nothing to do with it. It's Texas.
- Sen. Mike Rounds (South Dakota) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 65.7%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Ben Sasse (Nebraska) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 62.7%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 59.3%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 54.1%. McConnell had nothing to do with it. McConnell opposed conservative six-year Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel for the seat and ran racist ads against him in the runoff election against senile Thad Cochran.
- Sen. James Inhofe (Oklahoma) - Long-time incumbent in a deep red state, won with 62.9%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 66.5%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia) - Incumbent in a deep red state, won with 70.3%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Bill Hagerty (Tennessee) - Won the open seat held by retiring Lamar Alexander in a deep red state with 62.2%. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
- Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming) - Won the open Wyoming seat held by retiring Mike Enzi in a deep red state with 73.1% of the vote. McConnell had nothing to do with it.
The bottom line is that -- maybe -- McConnell helped Collins , Ernst, and Graham, but not much else. The incumbents in red states were going to win anyway.
-PJ
Yes, but then President Trump will more than counterbalance that by raising more money for those he picks than any money McConnell can give.
Right now, McConnell’s name is mid among the GOP base. Getting endorsed by McConnell against an endorsement from Trump will send any candidate down.
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