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Flake: GOP Needs To Primary Trump — But It Ain’t Me, Babe
Hot Air ^ | January 29, 2019 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/29/2019 7:19:36 AM PST by C19fan

So much for the Great Right Hope in 2020. “I will not be a candidate,” former senator and now-CBS News contributor Jeff Flake announced to start his debut on CBS This Morning. Flake urged someone to run against Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but in almost the same breath called it an impossibility:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2020; arizona; belongsinbloggers; blog; cbs; cbsthismorning; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donaldtrump; flake; jeffflake; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; potus; presstitutes; seebs; smearmachine; trump
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To: LeonardFMason; V K Lee
All is not lost for Arizona. I heard a very authoritative tip from a trustworthy reporter at the UK Telegraph saying he knew an operative at the highly respected research firm Fusion GPS who from an anonymous Russian prostitute that...

Senator McCain was never actually interred in a grave, and that he in now in suspended animation and could be deployed to primary President Trump.

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21 posted on 01/29/2019 7:48:34 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: C19fan

No, the GOP needs to get behind Trump and support the team.


22 posted on 01/29/2019 7:48:39 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: PGR88

Too late...


23 posted on 01/29/2019 7:49:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: C19fan

“1 down and 2 to go: Kasich and Willard.”

i don’t see willard doing it. he’s actually not as stupid as flake or kasich, and must know how deeply unpopular he is and that any national run against trump will totally finish his political career, rendering him a pariah in the Senate ...

kasich is another matter ... my guess is he’ll attack trump in the limelight of the lying leftist fake stream enemedia for two years and then wimp out ...

if he DOES make an attempt, he’ll probably be frozen out by the party ... plus Trump is very likely to eschew any attempted “debates” by any primary attempts ...

kasich should be embarrassed with the results of any such attempt, but he’s so oblivious he’s unembarrassable, and of course he has no political career to speak of that is destroyable ...


24 posted on 01/29/2019 7:55:21 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: C19fan

The people want Trump. Why does it scare them so much?


25 posted on 01/29/2019 7:57:31 AM PST by Lopeover (We Are #TRUMPSTRONG)
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To: C19fan

Kasich will run as an independent or libertarian to split the vote for republican never Trumpers.
Right now Howard Schultz has democrats in a panic but, there will be a split on the right sure as shootin’.


26 posted on 01/29/2019 8:02:06 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: poconopundit
Such a shame that there "suspended animation fluid" just surrounds him.
This is one man who needs rejuvenation inside out.
What a waste of fluid; to use it on this blackhearted SOB.
No brain to work with? Try aiming for his heart!.
Joke's on you, he has none.

27 posted on 01/29/2019 8:02:29 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: C19fan

Flake is dead to me. Period.


28 posted on 01/29/2019 8:02:56 AM PST by Boomer ( Leftism is toxic poison to a free society.)
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To: C19fan

Vote Flake he likes to eat Cake


29 posted on 01/29/2019 8:09:23 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

ROFL!

Hey Flake, as if anyone cares and good luck to inflating your ego at See BS, you deserve each other.


30 posted on 01/29/2019 8:11:32 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: C19fan

PLEASE SHUT UP !


31 posted on 01/29/2019 8:12:36 AM PST by spincaster (ust)
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To: C19fan

Who in their right mind would even pose the question of Flake being a pres candidate?


32 posted on 01/29/2019 8:13:19 AM PST by lurk
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To: C19fan

Did the idiots on CBS morning start to cry?


33 posted on 01/29/2019 8:13:51 AM PST by Conserv
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To: C19fan

As long as Trump remembers that it is NOT about him that ties his supporters to him so close, but it is rather about what he REPRESENTS (starting with secure borders, and holding the line on Amnesty) - then no one will have a prayer at challenging him in a Primary.

But give in on Amnesty, all bets are off regarding a challenge from the right. Bush Sr. learned that the hard way after breaking his No New Taxes promise. He had to fend off a strong challenge from Pat Buchanan, which forced him to pivot hard-right, and made him an easy target for Clinton (and Perot) that November.

But regardless of Amnesty, as long as Trump is running, there is simply NO WAY anyone from the Left will be able to lay a finger on him - only from the right, and only if he sells us out. If people like Kasich do choose to run, they are doing it to be there, should Trump not be on the ticket in 2020 - and I’m sure they know that, or will learn it really, really, quick.


34 posted on 01/29/2019 8:57:52 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: C19fan

Dumbass.....NO DECENT Conservative would ever vote for you!


35 posted on 01/29/2019 9:31:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PGR88

Flake doesn’t want to get Jebbed by Trump.


36 posted on 01/29/2019 9:34:13 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: C19fan

So CBS has another Trump hater in their line-up, where’s the “diversity”?


37 posted on 01/29/2019 9:35:47 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Slyfox

Liberals are forever saying that “somebody (but not me) ought to do ...whatever.” And this is the crowd that likes to take credit for “fighting for you.”


38 posted on 01/29/2019 10:03:11 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“You win, I support you for POTUS.
You lose, you resign your Senate seat.
Deal?”

Great idea!


39 posted on 01/29/2019 2:08:06 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: an amused spectator

Maybe 2 RINO’s


40 posted on 01/29/2019 4:43:23 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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