Posted on 08/10/2017 4:45:59 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Sen. Jeff Flake. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Jeff Flake is one of the few elected Republicans to publicly break from Donald Trump, denouncing Trump-style populism in his new book and refusing to endorse Trump during the presidential election.
Now, Trump-supporting billionaire Robert Mercer is donating $300,000 to a super PAC backing Kelli Ward, one of Flake's Republican primary challengers, Politico's Alex Isenstadt reports. Why it matters: Polls show that Flake is deeply unpopular in Arizona, and Republican primary voters are still overwhelmingly supportive of Trump. The precarious situation Flake finds himself in shows the risks other Republicans will be taking if they challenge Trump.
Hard Left Politico set up another left wing website since its has a Sorry Left wing taint .
Read and Believe at your own risk .
Good for Mercer. Now he can make a similar contribution to the Trump candidates who will work to replace Urine Hatch (Octogenarian, UT), Dean Heller (Other Useless Mormon, NV), Bob “The Worthless Dwarf” Corker (TN) and Roger Wicker (MS).
Flake is simply at the front of this process....there’s probably another dozen GOP senators who won’t survive the next election they face (McConnell would be one, and I think Rubio might be another). It’s not just Democrats who need to worry about disenchantment with voters.
Buy enough rolled-up newspapers to whack AZ voters in the head so they will stop voting for these idiots?
“Buy enough rolled-up newspapers to whack AZ voters in the head so they will stop voting for these idiots?”
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2. Check voter IDs.
3. If ID is valid, then drug test.
Flake needs to be removed but Leftico / Axios only reports planted crap by Uniparty or the DNC .
The is a Uniparty angle to this story.
If all Freepers would make a donation to Kelli Ward’s campaign we might be able to get rid of that moron Flake.
AZ used to be a reliable, conservative state, but too many Californians have moved in to screw it up.
Flake can become the poster child of what happens to a Republican that defies our duly elected Republican POTUS.
Good news bump!
Consolidating around one Flake challenger early is the best path to success.
there are too many non viable “candidates” who jump in and then split the challenger vote. ( some I suspect are paid vote splitters)
,,,,,,,,, throw in another 300k and get rid of McLame to .
Flake will try to win the primary the same way McCain did: by saying that a vote for Ward means the Democrat wins in the general election.
In the case of McCain that was Ann Kirkpatrick.
And unless she runs there’s no credible Democrat Senate candidate. Maybe Kirsten Sinema, the far left looney toon.
This time Ward can win. Flake finally came out and said something that will destroy him. And there’s no credible opposition.
Flake will win, because the Democrats favor him. It is almost impossible for a conservative to win the primary (why McCain wins all the time). While Democrats can’t crossover and vote in the Republican primary, Independents can. Independents are the largest voting block in AZ.
So, if Ward has the lead the among Republicans, it will not matter. Democrats never run a competitive primary, so they don’t need their independent voters to sway their election. Those freed democrat leaning independents always influence the Republican primary. If the Republican primary was completely closed (to independents), we would not have had to deal with McCain.
flake is a flake.
AZ used to be a reliable, conservative state, but too many Californians have moved in to screw it up.
Flake also has a reliable Mormon voting block in AZ he can count on. That can make a difference in a low turn out primary.
This time Ward can win. Flake finally came out and said something that will destroy him. And there’s no credible opposition.
Flake has been beltway consulted to death.
Add Richard Birr and Tom Tillis both from North Carolina. They need to go.
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