Posted on 03/18/2018 9:51:00 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Rep. Tom MacArthur, alone among New Jersey Republicans, has embraced Donald Trump with a full bear hug. Maybe he thought that would work out for him politically, but it's shaping up to be a disaster.
He's toast as a statewide candidate in Blue Jersey, where Republicans had hoped he might rise to the U.S. Senate or governor's mansion. And now he has fresh reason to worry that he could even lose his seat in Congress.
That reason is Conor Lamb, the rookie Democrat from southwestern Pennsylvania who just stunned the political world by marching into deep red territory and grabbing a seat from a Trump loyalist.
The ground is shifting, and it's happening across the country.
The district Lamb just won, Pennsylvania's 18th, voted for Trump by 20 points a little more than a year ago. It was the eighth special election for Congress since Trump took office, and so far, Democrats have beaten the party's historic performance in every one of them -- by an average of 17 points.
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The Newark-Star Ledger, which in the infamous words of Chris Christie “ has not told the truth about anything since the Civil War”. Some things never change
And don’t get caught with a bb gun.
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Special elections are meaningless.
They mean nothing, especially about Trump.
He does but sadly the latter still hold far too much power in the party. They tried to stop Trump and would have done so had it not been for his sheer will and strategic genius.
The GOPmis institutionally broken and corrupted and cannot be saved.
Every victory Trump has is in spite of the GOP, not because of it.
I cannot remember where I heard it, but isn’t that district in PA about to be erased by re-districting? Lamb won’t be there long....??
That is so. If he does win he will need to start campaigning again right away.
With that attitude it is President Trump himself that will be cast into the dustbin of history. You are helping push the media’s narrative with the results you are wishing for.
Other than the recently deceased Jeff Bell, I don’t NJ has had anyone worth supporting. Or whom am I missing?
Really? You really think that it made no difference that the GOP controlled the Senate that Neil Gorsuch was confirm - and even got a vote on the floor (let alone all of the other judges that have been confirmed)? You really think it made no difference for tax reform to pass that the GOP controlled Congress? You really think there is no difference between Devin Nunes chairing the House Intelligence Committee vs. Adam Schiff? Etc, etc, etc.
Your logic is that of a troll trying to divide conservatives and help push the media narrative with a big Dem win in November that "the people" want President Trump and his entire agenda gone.
Yes - in addition to the fact they spent tens of millions of dollars in those districts where normally they spend zero...that would obviously make a difference in the results.
Doug Forrester, maybe?
Bret Schundler, maybe?
I live in the central Jersey area. It is a mix of Democrats, Republicans, and apathetic individuals.
They forgot to mention that the democrat ran on Trumps vision and ideas.
If Lamb had run as a Republican and Saccone as the Democrat, it would have been a blowout election for the Republicans. Saccone wasn't a very good candidate (-7 points), and Murphy, the incumbent, resigned in a sex scandal (-7 points). It's also disingenuous to say "a district that Trump won by 20 points" because while Murphy ran unopposed, Toomey didn't carry the district by nearly as large a margin as Trump.
This is wishful thinking from Moran, a far left Trump-hater.
Lamb ran as a pro-tariff, pro-Second Amendment candidate who said he likes President Trump.
And isn’t the 18th district mostly democrat? I thought Trump won there by 20 points because vast numbers of democrats and independents in that district voted for Trump in 2016.
“The areas along the Delaware in New Jersey are blue”. I live in Hunterdon county bordering the Delaware, and we are all red here. Nice place to live too, except the state and local taxes are much too high. That’s because the state is run by Democrats in both houses, and now the governor. More taxes are coming and the people like me are planning our exit. Will be like the rest of the state before long.
Republicans in Jersey? Next you will be telling me about the many wild Unicorns living there.
A lot of people in NJ are nice, fun to hang around with (Some of the most fun people I’ve ever met)
They are also predatory consumers, and buy up buildings in my area to rent out at crazy prices. They are terrible people when “Business is Business”.
But the worst is that even the conservatives, like those in NY, CT, MA and RI THINK they are conservative but within seconds the mask falls off and you find out that they are the breeding ground for the RINO.
they fancy themselves as one thing, but when push comes to shove they have their “Buuuutt...” statements that completely negate the constitution, the republic and our freedoms. Chris Christie is “Far right” in NJ. That’s very telling. He is the product of the NJ conservative “rising up and taking it back”.
Read my comment again. I was talking about District 3 along the Deleware. Everything from Trenton to Camden is “Blue”. Anyone from Jersey knows what Im talking about.
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