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McConnell signal to Republican Senate candidates: Distance from Trump if necessary
CNN ^ | July 31, 2020 | Michael Warren and Jamie Gangel

Posted on 07/31/2020 3:09:54 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

Washington (CNN)Sen. Mitch McConnell is allowing Republican Senate candidates to do whatever it takes to salvage their campaigns ahead of what Republicans increasingly fear could be a devastating election for their party.

In recent weeks, the Senate majority leader has become so concerned over Republicans losing control of the Senate that he has signaled to vulnerable GOP senators in tough races that they could distance themselves from the President if they feel it is necessary, according to multiple senior Republicans including a source close to McConnell.

That could mean breaking with Trump on the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and the continued efforts by the President to paint an optimistic picture despite rising cases and deaths across parts of the country, especially in many Republican states in the South and Midwest.

While this may give some senators the flexibility to draw a distinction between themselves and the President, it also forces them to walk a tightrope. Trump remains enormously popular with the Republican base, and any attempts to undercut him risks alienating those voters.

"These vulnerable senators can't afford to explicitly repudiate Trump," said one senior Republican on Capitol Hill. "They just need to show they are independent on issues important in their states."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews
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To: JoSixChip

The old elevator operator.


21 posted on 07/31/2020 3:36:56 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Rennes Templar

Few states will split tickets. I wouldn’t put much stock in these “anonymous” sources, this is article is just meant to demoralize Republicans.


22 posted on 07/31/2020 3:37:05 PM PDT by Impy (Thug Lives Splatter)
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When the Senate refused to look into Hunter/Joe in Ukraine and China - they sealed the deal.

That’s the only way Biden could win.



23 posted on 07/31/2020 3:39:14 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Rennes Templar

Cnn reports or babylon bee no difference


24 posted on 07/31/2020 3:40:12 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: crosdaddy

Oops my bad, I meant Paul Ryan. Tim Ryan is a Dem Congressman, but was not the Ryan I was thinking about.


25 posted on 07/31/2020 3:40:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Ok, thanks.


26 posted on 07/31/2020 3:43:37 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: Rennes Templar

Wishful thinking on the communist news network.


27 posted on 07/31/2020 3:46:41 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: butlerweave

DISTANCE FROM MCCONNELL!!


28 posted on 07/31/2020 3:46:56 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: Rennes Templar
Take Susan Collins for example.She votes correctly some of the time but obviously not all the time.One only needs to look at the filthy,dirty,worthless Rat Party whore who's Governor of Maine to know how a new Rat from Maine would vote.

Collins is clearly the lesser of two evils...the *very* best that we can expect from Maine.

And distancing herself from the President is her only hope of victory.That's how utterly filthy Maine has become.

It stinks to high heavens of course...but the only other option is much,*much* worse.

29 posted on 07/31/2020 3:47:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Rennes Templar

McConnell is not and never has been a supporter of the President. He has his own agenda and that’s all he cares about.


30 posted on 07/31/2020 3:49:55 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Rennes Templar

Sooo ... McConnell is the same as he’s always been.


31 posted on 07/31/2020 3:50:00 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Alberta's Child

“We should always remember that Trump is not a Republican. He’s an independent nationalist who ran on the Republican ticket.”

Well, he’s nontraditional, anyway. And that’s why he is a good president.


32 posted on 07/31/2020 3:50:17 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Rennes Templar

LOL. Fake News recycling articles from 2016 again?


33 posted on 07/31/2020 3:51:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Rennes Templar

the ones that distant themselves from Trump will lose ... period ...


34 posted on 07/31/2020 3:51:54 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Rennes Templar

CNN, not worth a crap.


35 posted on 07/31/2020 3:57:34 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: jospehm20

Anybody with half a brain could get Judges confirmed.

McConnell meets that requirement, the missing half is why he is no leader.

Goodbye Mitch!


36 posted on 07/31/2020 4:01:40 PM PDT by Colo9250
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To: Rennes Templar

Time for RINOS to FOAD!!


37 posted on 07/31/2020 4:02:11 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Rennes Templar

Ain’t new. He did tjis in 2016 and 2018

Do it your own peril


38 posted on 07/31/2020 4:03:27 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: JoSixChip

Unnamed Sources is still alive


39 posted on 07/31/2020 4:04:21 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Rennes Templar

Rush reported today that POTUS has a 50% approval rating. Sounds like a plan, Mitch!


40 posted on 07/31/2020 4:06:12 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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