Posted on 04/20/2021 9:01:19 AM PDT by cotton1706
According to a report from CNN, Donald Trump’s focus on unseating Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has the Republican leadership throwing up their hands in exasperation as they look toward the 2022 elections.
While multiple GOP lawmakers voted against the ex-president during his second impeachment trial, Trump has been laser-focused on the one female senator who broke ranks and said he should have been removed from office.
Since that time, Kelly Tshibaka, a former Alaska Department of Administration commissioner, has jumped into the race with help from former Trump advisers while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has offered his full support for the incumbent which is setting up what could turn into an ugly intra-party battle at a time when the GOP is trying to win back the Senate.
According to the CNN report, Republicans are being put in an “awkward position as they remain divided about the former President’s role in the party, and try to unify ahead of the 2022 midterms with control of Congress at stake.”
“Republican leaders in Washington say they are steadfastly behind Murkowski, with McConnell’s big-spending super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, as well as the NRSC, backing the long-time incumbent.
But McConnell has been in a cold war with Trump after blaming the President for causing the insurrection,” the report notes, adding that Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) gave Trump a leadership award after he called McConnell a “dumb son of a b*tch” in a speech before GOP donors.
For his part, Scott “defended the award, noting it was for Trump’s policies, but also said he disagrees with his attacks on McConnell and backs Murkowski — all the while arguing the party needs to unify to win back the Senate.”
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It will have to be saved from the ground up - none of these losers in leadership will play any significant role.
GOP leadership is a bunch of wimps
They're accomplices to the D's criminality. They need the RINO to keep their corrupt gravy train going.
Well yeah, but as we know, they don't GA*.
DiFi owns the b!tch anyway.
Nancy is playing by the Borgia/Machiavelli handbook and Republicans are using a children’s bedtime story
Well, if they’re frustrated that makes me very happy. LOL
Good news! Trump said he would and is delivering. What the Gop think would happen and this the number one reason he trashed Mitch. He is mad at Lisa for voting to impeach Trump recently.
“GOP leadership”, now there is a misnomer if I ever saw one.
Murkowski’s as good as gone... She needs to go the way of other RINO’s before her... maybe join up with Flake and start a non-profit... whatever.
Trump needs to pick the best from what’s offered... it’s the only way for us to take our party back from the Establishment...
Trump backed DeSantis against the party favorite in the primary... and DeSantis won. That was great. (That said, both men would have made strong governors and both backed Trump... but DeSantis has been amazing.)
Everything after “according to CNN “ is always fake news
I’ve just received a GOP ‘Unity Survey’, which, of course, is a thinly disguised fundraising tool. It starts out with a letter that speaks of how it’s so important to hear from me that they’ve affixed 3 ‘real stamps’ to the return envelope for postage, to ‘get my attention.’
The got my attention, alight. I looked to confirm that there were, indeed, stamps. Yup, they’re real and they’re there — 3 1-cent stamps. I guess I’ll give them my 2-cents worth in return...
I intended to annotate my answers to reflect my disgust for the non-performance these a-holes gave us when they had the House and Senate majorities, and their refusal to coalesce around DJT.
And — needless to say — they aren’t getting a penny from me. Pete & I ‘won’t get fooled again...’
They can take their “unity” and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
When did CNN become a mouthpiece for anyone in the GOP?
Republican Leadership
Bwa ha ha ha ha
Trump IS that leadership BOZOs.
Sounds like Trump must be doing something right.
There are millions of Americans would would do this, once this “GOP leadership” is found. At the moment, we continue to search. All we find are big talking liars, cheats, and turn-coats (all seriously lacking in leadership qualities yet expect to enjoy the privileges of the title).
Deep state establishment anti-Trumper GOP vs................
That is pretty much their default position since there is no leadership in the GOP. And unless they push hard for election integrity, it won't matter who the GOP runs.
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