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Michele Bachmann says she's considering running for Al Franken's Senate seat
foxnews.com ^ | 1/2/18 | Nicole Darrah

Posted on 01/02/2018 1:38:56 PM PST by cotton1706

ormer Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is considering running for the recently vacated U.S. Senate seat held by Al Franken.

“I’ve had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat,” Bachmann said recently on televangelist Jim Bakker's television show. “And the only reason I would run is for the ability to take these principles into the United States Senate and to be able to advocate for these principles.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 115th; abortion; alfranken; bachmann; elections; franken; gopprimary; markdayton; michelebachmann; minnesota; mn2018; noooooooooooooo; plannedparenthood; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; senate; tinasmith
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To: SaveFerris

Minnesotans are also hugely tired of the overburdening regulations and fees they pay, and how much of a welfare state it is. They’re nickel and dimed to high heaven. Trump’s 20 reg’s gone for every one new reg is a highly appealing model.


21 posted on 01/02/2018 2:11:37 PM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: faithhopecharity

Addadicktome


22 posted on 01/02/2018 2:12:37 PM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: polymuser

that’s better than mine, THANKS!


23 posted on 01/02/2018 2:14:45 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: cotton1706
Won't work. After the character assassination of Roy Moore, no serious Christian will ever be able to run for Federal office in the United States of America, ever again. The second one tries, the media, the Democrats, and the RINOs will gang up on them and find some dirt on them, blow it our of proportion, or just make up whatever lie they need to make up.

In fact, why should we vote in Federal elections anymore? Post-Trump, they're all going to be bought and paid for.

24 posted on 01/02/2018 2:19:42 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (The GOP-Democrat-Media Uniparty must be destroyed.)
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To: cotton1706

Michelle, you’ve got our money again to help.


25 posted on 01/02/2018 2:22:38 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, but she’d be running in a presidential election year. If Trump can generate another Wave-election who knows? Franken’s immediate replacement would have to run in 2020.


26 posted on 01/02/2018 2:24:03 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

There is a special election this Nov unless the appointed senator quits shortly before the special election.


27 posted on 01/02/2018 2:31:26 PM PST by Nateman (The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Do you think you’ll ever get out of your funk?


28 posted on 01/02/2018 2:36:51 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left would manage to find ballots in trunks if needed. Another Franken debacle! That said, I wish her the most luck anyone can have!


29 posted on 01/02/2018 2:39:12 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: cotton1706

she never was the sharpest knife in the box.


30 posted on 01/02/2018 2:43:42 PM PST by mylife ( The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: dp0622
Focus on Al’s and the opponent’s weaknesses.

What are Tina Smith's weaknesses?

31 posted on 01/02/2018 2:45:12 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: cotton1706

The fact she goes on Jim Bakkers show makes me leary of her now.


32 posted on 01/02/2018 2:45:41 PM PST by Angels27
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To: SaveFerris

Bet he said “Come in Tokyo”.


33 posted on 01/02/2018 2:47:18 PM PST by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: polymuser
Trump lost there by only 1.5 pt.

Reagan lost by fewer than 4000 votes in 1980. That didn't turn the state red.

34 posted on 01/02/2018 2:47:29 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s better to try and fail, than to have never tried at all.

You never know, Michelle might just win it.


35 posted on 01/02/2018 2:47:50 PM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Angels27
The fact she goes on Jim Bakkers show makes me leary of her now.

You do know that the woman she would probably be running against has been in the leadership of Planned Parenthood, right?

36 posted on 01/02/2018 2:56:26 PM PST by SarahPalin2012
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To: SarahPalin2012

I am well aware of that, and would certainly pull for Michele to win over any democRAT despite the Bakker appearance.

Ibthunk Michele is too conservative to win in this solid blue state however. We’ll find out later this year


37 posted on 01/02/2018 3:00:13 PM PST by Angels27
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To: cotton1706

So we ain’t seen nothin’ yet, buh, buh, baby ya ain’t seen ne,ne,ne, nothin yet.


38 posted on 01/02/2018 3:05:03 PM PST by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: cotton1706

“”””””Norm Coleman”””””””””””””””

A New York hippie, just like Franken. Neither one of them are Minnesotans.


39 posted on 01/02/2018 3:05:36 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: TexasCruzin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3CFyOxmgTk Ain’t seen nothin yet.


40 posted on 01/02/2018 3:08:02 PM PST by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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