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Republican Panic Recedes Senate prospects improve, as do Trump's.
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 16, 2016 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 06/03/2016 3:30:07 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Donald Trump has achieved two things besides locking up the Republican presidential nomination. The first is widely acknowledged: He now has a real chance of beating Hillary Clinton. Sean Trende, the best of the big-picture political writers, puts the possibility Trump will win the presidency at 30 percent. That sounds about right, for the moment anyway.

The second achievement is the effect Trump’s rise has had on the political environment. It's helped Republicans. GOP leaders had feared they'd lose the Senate overwhelmingly, maybe the House too, and lots of governors as a result of a Trump wipeout in November. But now that the Trump-Clinton race looks to be reasonably close, that fear has receded.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016issues; fredbarnes; trump2016
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1 posted on 06/03/2016 3:30:07 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

The news is looking better in Senate races. If Trump wins and Republicans hold both houses of Congress, America will have a second chance.


2 posted on 06/03/2016 3:31:20 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued

If you can get Bernie to run write-in or push Jill of the Greens the dem down ticket will go to hell.


3 posted on 06/03/2016 3:32:03 PM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Wow, weekly standard. Bill must have been off French kissing.


4 posted on 06/03/2016 3:33:07 PM PDT by proust (Trump/Sessions 2016!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The Weekly subStandard


5 posted on 06/03/2016 3:35:35 PM PDT by Bobalu (Government treats you like a milk cow. If things get tough, they will treat you like a beef cow)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Fred Barns is out shopping for a new job.


6 posted on 06/03/2016 3:39:26 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Clintonfatigued

So, ole Donald may have some pretty long and wide coat-tails.

There does seem to be a change in tone coming from some in the establishment. Even Mark Levin, who has been trashing Trump for 4 months, all of the sudden seems to be changing his tone.

For the nation, after 8 years of Obama, it is win with Trump or lose with Hillary.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 3:44:59 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Clintonfatigued

“If Trump wins and Republicans hold both houses of Congress, America will have a second chance.”

I agree and hope so.


8 posted on 06/03/2016 3:45:03 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I don't entirely trust Trump, and I don't trust McConnell or Ryan at all. However . . .

If Trump gets a Reagan-like landslide, I trust the American people to push the reluctant side to do the right thing.

9 posted on 06/03/2016 3:56:42 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: proust

“Wow, weekly standard. Bill must have been off French kissing.”

Bwahahahaha. That is a good one and probably true.


10 posted on 06/03/2016 4:45:31 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hmm, I guess the people DO know best. Idiots!


11 posted on 06/03/2016 5:03:32 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Clintonfatigued

“The news is looking better in Senate races.”

The republicans don’t deserve the Senate.

The only problem is, neither do the dems.


12 posted on 06/03/2016 5:06:04 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Is Fred Barnes distancing himself from Bill Kristol’s disastrous plan?


13 posted on 06/03/2016 5:08:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: JPJones

That is a fact.


14 posted on 06/03/2016 5:09:29 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

So, Fred Barnes is the “good cop” at Weakly Standard?


15 posted on 06/03/2016 6:49:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Innovative; Clintonfatigued
“If Trump wins and Republicans hold both houses of Congress, America will have a second chance.”

Why should it?





Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

16 posted on 06/04/2016 3:51:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

A second chance includes the chance to stop Moloch.


17 posted on 06/04/2016 9:06:19 AM PDT by Luircin (Stomp Hillary, build wall, stop Islam. Any of the above are good reasons to vote. Trump 2016)
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To: JPJones

Gotta have the Senate or the Supreme Court is screwed and America is over, very simple.


18 posted on 06/04/2016 9:59:46 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: proust
Wow, weekly standard.


19 posted on 06/04/2016 10:10:22 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: Impy

“Gotta have the Senate or the Supreme Court is screwed and America is over, very simple.”

Seems I’ve heard this story before.


20 posted on 06/05/2016 3:26:28 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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