Posted on 07/18/2022 2:08:58 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The National Rifle Association on Monday issued a stinging rebuke of former President Donald Trump’s pick for Wisconsin governor, accusing him of misleading its members after his campaign falsely claimed the gun advocacy group had endorsed him.
Construction company co-owner Tim Michels is locked in a three-way GOP primary with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and state Rep. Tim Ramthun. Michels won Trump’s endorsement in June. An endorsement from the NRA would have marked another huge win for him heading into the Aug. 9 election.
Michels’ campaign sent out a flyer that landed in mailboxes Saturday that claimed the NRA had endorsed him. Scott Meyer, a Wisconsin lobbyist who has done work for the NRA, said the group hasn’t endorsed anyone in the GOP primary and doesn’t plan to do so.
“All this came out of the blue,” Meyer said of the flyer. “Stunned is the best word to describe it. I’ve never seen this before.”
Michels’ campaign spokesman Chris Walker said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday that the claim was an “unintentional error” and has been immediately corrected with a new mailer that says Michels received an “AQ” grade on an NRA questionnaire about his stances on gun rights. Meyer said that grade indicates he answered the questions to the NRA’s satisfaction.
“Our direct mail shouldn’t have indicated that rating was an ‘endorsement,’ and subsequent communications will describe his ‘AQ rating’ from the NRA,” Walker said in the email.
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That’s what their ratings are for. It doesn’t make sense to endorse more than one candidate, and if there are several who are equally good they don’t endorse.
GOA and JPFO should make endorsements. State why they are endorsing whoever they do.
Of course it does. If they are identically good in all respects with respect to 2A then the voters should know that and the NRA's job is done.
if there are several who are equally good they don’t endorse
That's not true
They race to publicize what the NRA has to say when it can be used to attack Trump, but they will never give any airtime to their endorsements.
The NRA was pretty much the only group that spent money to reelect Trump in my neck of Florida. Everybody else was AWOL at least as far as ads.
Are you aware of races where they've endorsed multiple competing candidates?
You said:
if there are several who are equally good they don’t endorse,
I said that's not true.
I am aware of races with several who [were] equally good and they DID endorse. Quite a few.
Did they endorse multiple candidates, which was my question, or did they choose one to endorse?
My point is I haven’t seen any other organizations that endorse multiple competing candidates in the same race.
My point is THEY SHOULD. There is no reason not to when the candiates are equally good on the issue.
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