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Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party
MSN News ^ | June 20, 2018 | Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 06/20/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by detective

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Full title: ‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), announced early Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican Party, which he decried as “fully the party of Trump” and “a danger to our democracy and values.”

In early-morning tweets, Schmidt, a vocal Trump critic, urged voters to elect Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections and harshly criticized the administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, describing the government-run detention centers as “internment camps for babies.”

“29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life,” Schmidt wrote. “Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: gop; saboteur; schmidt
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To: detective

Steve Schmidt, like John McCain, was always a Democrat.


41 posted on 06/20/2018 9:38:10 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Still Thinking

LOL...Yeah, riiiiight....


42 posted on 06/20/2018 9:38:10 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: detective

Heck, Sarah Palin has twice the ‘cojonies’ Schmidt has and she doesn’t have them . . .


43 posted on 06/20/2018 9:38:49 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: detective
I was in California at a hotel making my way to my room and I passed through the area where they have a lot of meeting rooms.

I overheard some guy say what time McCain was showing up for the con fab that evening.

I remember being really non-plussed about the possibility of seeing John McCain while he was running for president when I could have gotten an up close view.

44 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:34 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Values of the democratic party are NOT American Values that uphold the US Constitution.
Past Time for the interloper to exit.


45 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:46 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: fwdude
More swamp sludge gets flushed. This is a good thing.

Amen to that. More attrition in the Pond Scum wing of the GOP. Maybe the Bush family and Mitt Romney will be next.

46 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:04 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: detective
“a danger to our democracy and values.”

America is a Republic, you tw@t ... and your diseased socialist values are un-American.

47 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: detective
urged voters to elect Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections

Thus proving what we've said about the Rinos all along.
48 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:39 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: detective
One less mole. Thank God.

That said, isn't this like the fifth time he's left the party?
49 posted on 06/20/2018 9:41:41 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: detective

His true colours came out in 2003 when he backed a pseudoRepellican called aRnie. We will be paying for that for years as it was a final blow to the CAGOP which had become a 3rd class political org. and lost its way and any semblance of leadership or message.


50 posted on 06/20/2018 9:41:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: detective

Good riddance. Never thought the guy was a Republican other than maybe INO.


51 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:06 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: detective

The GOP looks a little better today. Maybe he can talk his former boss (McCain) into leaving the party. Actually it’s more like a cesspool than a swamp.


52 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:10 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Is that a leftover from Trump’s WWE days?


53 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: detective

Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.)”

Stopped reading.


54 posted on 06/20/2018 9:50:11 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: detective

I could swear this is not the first time he’s done this . . .


55 posted on 06/20/2018 9:51:15 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: detective
GTFO Schmidt.

He is a backstabbing, rip off artist.

56 posted on 06/20/2018 9:52:25 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: detective

Please take McNuts with you!


57 posted on 06/20/2018 9:52:54 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (boycott the)
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To: detective

Buh Bye.


58 posted on 06/20/2018 9:54:52 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: detective

Buh-bye!


59 posted on 06/20/2018 9:58:44 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: detective

Never heard of him and he can take the illegals with him.


60 posted on 06/20/2018 10:07:27 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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