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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Citing CNN automatically makes this article a non starter for me on any intellectual, ethical and honesty level.
It is the GOP leadership that should be gping after Murkowski. Anyone who does not is a full-fledged RINO. Looking at her voting record, she is not an honest Republican. She has voted like a democrat in a majority of important cases. She deserves to go and should. She does not deserve to be re-elected.
To me, a RINO is a Demoncrap that was able to infiltrate the (R) party and do (D) things that many (R) citizens tell their friends, "hold your nose, it is better than voting (D)".
We've all seen the results of that type of thinking.
(This obviously has been going on for several decades...)
China Mitch personally campaigned for years to repeal Obamacare. That failed in large part because Murkowski voted against repeal. In hindsight it is obvious McConnell never cared about Obamacare repeal. If he did he would have destroyed Murkowski politically.
I hope the gop leadership gets found on the street, somewhere, by somebody who doesn’t like them.
Yep. If he really cared he would have destroyed Mccain too. But they’re all cut from the same cloth.
The GOP cannot be saved and every bleeding heart that thinks so should do a little reflecting on the last 8 years.
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