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Top Republican senators weigh in on midterm elections
One America News ^ | February 15, 2021

Posted on 02/15/2021 1:15:20 PM PST by Navy Patriot

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s backing candidates who can win in the midterms. In a Politico interview Saturday, the Kentucky lawmaker said his goal in every way possible is to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win.

His comments come as four Senate Republicans announced their plans to retire in 2022 instead of seeking reelection. McConnell went on to say the only thing he cares about is electability, regardless of whether the candidate is backed by President Trump.

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To: Navy Patriot

So right off the bat we’ll have Mark Walker vs. Lara Trump for the North Carolina seat and Ivanka vs. Rubio in Florida. What’s next for Pennsylvania and Ohio?


21 posted on 02/15/2021 2:31:59 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m afraid that we will never win anything until we make sure that our state government voting rules are fixed so voters are all legal. That part if up to us. Go to your state officials at your capitol and find out how your voting systems are set up and how safe they will be. Don’t be put off. Badger them till you know the system is fixed. Don’t wait until it’s too late to make sure they do it. Then make sure that both parties count the same votes. So what if each vote goes through 2 hands?


22 posted on 02/15/2021 2:38:29 PM PST by WVNan
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To: WVNan

I took proof of illegal activity to the state capital.

They blew it off.

I think a lot of the state workers are hired in through
some sort of process that seems them perform on the level
of the DMV.

It looks like a third world hell hole every time in go in
there now.

Very sad.


23 posted on 02/15/2021 2:41:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Code speak for he’s backing RINOs.


24 posted on 02/15/2021 2:43:19 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Navy Patriot; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Defeat Derp’s Bitch Mitch.


25 posted on 02/15/2021 2:45:02 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Navy Patriot

Looks like Mark Walker used the same ad company that did Kimberly Klacik’s great ads.

Same theme, same feel.


26 posted on 02/15/2021 2:48:52 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Navy Patriot

“In a Politico interview Saturday, the Kentucky lawmaker said his goal in every way possible is to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win.”

Win for what purpose? To repudiate the written Republican Party platform?

When Rs controlled the Senate, the House, and the White House they accomplished very little except to hinder President Trump.

I’ll never send Mitch’s group a damn nickel. Not one damn nickel.


27 posted on 02/15/2021 3:02:27 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Navy Patriot

Pretty much everybody outside of Washington DC hates the Turtle.

I will back whatever candidates President Trump supports. RINOS must be hunted down and destroyed.


28 posted on 02/15/2021 3:05:50 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: jeffersondem

Mitch McConnell Deployed His Anti-Trump Ploy in The Exact Same Manner He Deployed Against The Tea Party…

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Sundance

An interesting, insightful and accurate article from Christopher Bedford in The Federalist [SEE HERE] outlines how Mitch McConnell delivered his impeachment floor speech as a ploy to destroy the MAGA movement.  Bedford notes how Senator Lindsey Graham even outlined how McConnell’s attack was purposefully written and delivered to give any Democrat opponent in 2022 ammunition against Republican senators up for re-election.

However, what Bedford and Graham did not directly speak about is: (a) the historic pattern within exactly what Mitch McConnell did; and (b) the motive for him doing so.

Several DeceptiCon senators have already announced they will not run for re-election in 2020 [Shelby, Toomey, Burr, Portman and Johnson]. 

In the 2022 Senate races there are 34 seats up for grabs.  14 are held by Democrats and 20 are held by tenuous Republicans. 

[Breakdown Here]

Due to vulnerability, their lack of support amid the republican base, and their insufferable 2020 behavior outing them as DeceptiCons it is almost guaranteed the GOP will lose seats in the 2022 mid-term election. Those exiting senators, among others, know what McConnell’s objective is.  They also know this time the damage is far greater than previous times McConnell set about to destroy the base of the party.

Most casual political observers have absolutely no idea how McConnell works. 

However, for over a decade CTH has been trying –mostly failing– to awaken the base of common sense voters.  In 2010, 2011 and 2012 the #1 priority for McConnell was to destroy the threat represented by the Tea Party.  In 2022 we are seeing an exact replay of the same intents and purposes, only this time the target is President Trump’s MAGA movement.

It is a motive and agenda all wrapped up in the senate power structure.  McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty senate does not matter to those underneath it.  McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority; factually, he makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them.  The entire thing is a rigged-game.

THE FEDERALIST – […] “So what’s all behind this? After four years of yelling “MAGA!” while pushing his own classic, corporate Republican policies, McConnell had hoped to rid himself and his conference of the conservative populist nationalism the former president had championed and go back to the way things were.

He wants a return to promising to tackle illegal immigration before winking at corporate America that nothing will change. He wants to raise money on fighting the abortion of our infants while comfortably lifting nary a finger. He wants to shrug and change the subject when asked about men dominating women’s sports and using women’s bathrooms. He wants fewer taxes and more wars. Hell, he wants someone to blame for the Republican losses in the Georgia special election, and with them the loss of his seat at the head of the Senate.

Instead, his push to impeach ended with rebuke from his own conference. Angry and embarrassed, he blamed his own colleagues as well as the former president, performing a 20-minute attack ad for the left to use on Republicans for the next election cycle and beyond.” (read more)

Through his power structure, McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney]

McConnell has a well-used playbook he deploys to retain power at all costs and select candidates that will be indebted to his Senate schemes. Senate candidate Doug Collins was up against the same Mitch McConnell machine readers here are very familiar with.

To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles:  CNN Part I and CNN Part II  both showcase how McConnell works.   Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].

For those who follow the deep weeds of politics, McConnnell’s schemes are brutally transparent. For the remaining 97% of the voting electorate, they still don’t understand how the UniParty works. Decepticon leader McConnell doesn’t want the American electorate to see purchased senate republicans voting NO on border security.

Consider Senator Mitch McConnell telling the President of the United States that he had “excessive expectations” because President Trump doesn’t understand how things are done around here:

“A Congress goes on for two years. Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point.”

“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.”

~ Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell

That rebuke irked President Trump, as it should.  President Trump responded via twitter: “I don’t think so”…

McConnell must preserve the trough – Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.

Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial way-points to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.

When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.

Yes, Democrats are the opponents; they are ideological enemies to freedom. However, the far more urgent MAGA enemy is Mitch McConnell; the man who built the Trojan Horse.


29 posted on 02/15/2021 3:06:06 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Navy Patriot

Place your bets.

How many more GOP Senate seats is Yertle gonna piss away in 2022?


30 posted on 02/15/2021 3:46:18 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

A pipe dream. Primary him, sure. But he’ll win. Elect a squad of dynamic young Trumpers to do to him what the “shquad” is doing to Nanshy. Only these young Trumpers must be smarter than AOC and her fellow nitwits.


31 posted on 02/15/2021 3:48:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: headstamp 2

Who can win, sure. Like Mittens in 2012. Right.


32 posted on 02/15/2021 3:49:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: mombonn

“Republicans are going to have to win without my vote.”

And without mine, too. I’ve voted Republican in every election since 1974. It’s been a frustrating, disappointing experience, but I did it to save my country. After the fraudulent electoral catastrophe aided and abetted by GOPee fecklessness, gutlessness, duplicity, and craven cowardice in every way imaginable, I have lived to see my country die. I will never vote for another member of the GOPee, for any office, at any level, for the rest of my natural life.


33 posted on 02/15/2021 3:50:51 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: GAHeel

“Biden came in the Friday before 1/5 and said vote for the 2 Dems and I’ll give you the 2k”

Nu? What a liar.


34 posted on 02/15/2021 3:53:35 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: FLT-bird

Agree.


35 posted on 02/15/2021 3:53:44 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Why would the Turtle start supporting winners now?


36 posted on 02/15/2021 3:54:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Eleutheria5

A pumpkin is smarter than Stalinist Sandy and her merry band of jihadist scum.


37 posted on 02/15/2021 4:11:57 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Kinda makes me wonder about all those judges he approved.


38 posted on 02/15/2021 4:44:42 PM PST by FES0844
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To: Navy Patriot

Burn it down.


39 posted on 02/15/2021 4:46:57 PM PST by Jim Noble (He who saves his nation violates no law)
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To: FES0844

Yeah, me too.....


40 posted on 02/15/2021 4:52:12 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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