Posted on 03/11/2018 11:24:43 AM PDT by conservative98
WASHINGTON – President Trump should have a conservative challenger in 2020 who believes in free trade, limited government and economic freedom, said outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake.
“I do,” Flake of Arizona responded Sunday when asked if Trump needs an opponent from the right.
“It would be a tough go in a Republican primary. The Republican Party is the Trump party right now. But that’s not to say it will stay that way, ” he said.
Flake, a frequent Trump critic, is retiring from the Senate because he said his traditional conservative views and temperament aren’t accepted in the age of Trump.
“I couldn’t be reelected in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Trump has already announced his 2020 slogan – “Keep America Great!” – in a wide-ranging speech in Saturday in Pennsylvania where he also bashed the media, touted new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and suggested imposing the death penalty on drug dealers.
“We should never normalize this kind of behavior, particularly from the president of the United States,” Flake said. “So I think it does real damage long term to the political culture. It really does.”
Flake this week is traveling to New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, which stoked speculation of a possible presidential bid against Trump.
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Those three are smiling broadly because they were so happy with themselves for giving OUR country to illegal foreigners.
Thank God we stopped them.
Thank God for President Trump.
His only reason for running would be to help democrats win.
What a jackass.
“I couldn’t be reelected in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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There’s a reason for that Jeffy, you keep siding with fraudulently documented foreigners against the citizens and the rule of law.
Jeff Flake needs to catch the next spaceship to return to his home planet.
An R candidate to the right of President Trump?
That would be difficult to find. Of course, 15 or so fake conservatives in 2016 claimed to be to the right.
President Trump is even to the right of President Reagan.
The difference is that Trump is a pragmatist, whereas most opponents are politicians.
Mayo Clinic drs directly involved in the treatment have confirmed McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis. Besides, Rosenstein’s lapdog, Sessions, hasn’t been indicting anyone. He palmed that job off onto Mueller.
Three buffoons and a photo-bombing doofus.
I can see his campaign slogan now: “Flake the flake for President”.
He’ll last until the first punch. The only reason we even hear his name is because he makes himself a sex toy for the Communists.
So Flake is going to NH where he’ll try to engage in meaningful discussions with small groups of primary voters...ideal opportunity to get in his face and tell him exactly where to go.
I look forward to his short lived candidacy.
Sheriff Joe is too dense to know that he cannot be elected or nominated for that matter, but he can determine who the nominee will be.
i nominate the Kasich-Flake (or Flake-Kasich) ticket as the designated 2020 token sacrificial primary “opponents” to be the leftist GOPe/RINO tools to give anti-Trump quotes to the leftist fake stream media ...
anyone want to second this ticket?
TPB? reaganut1?
anyone?
I really wonder why so many republicans are leaving, even in sure thing states. Trump is surely doing something. But I don’t get it. There is something going on that Flake and others are either losing their incentive to stay. Or they are worried that something will happen to them. But its not that they will lose the election. And its not that they are purist conservatives. There is something else going on.
McShamey’s mini me. Both are lying traitorous cowards
And people thought Yeb had a hard time
Coincidentally Flake isn't otherwise occupied after January 2019.
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