Posted on 07/22/2021 4:23:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the longtime retiring senator from Alabama, plans to oppose former President Donald Trump in the primary to replace him and attack Trump’s pick for the nomination, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Breitbart News has learned.
Shelby will, in a yet-to-be-published interview with National Journal, attack Brooks as “irrational.”
“A lot of people would think so. Look at his record,” Shelby told National Journal’s Matt Holt when asked if Brooks would be an “irrational senator,” a transcript of their conversation provided to Breitbart News shows.
Shelby also told National Journal he will “absolutely” be helping his former chief of staff Katie Boyd Britt —dubbed the “Alabama Liz Cheney” given her work for swamp consultancies—“everywhere I can.”
“I mean, she has to run her own race, I don’t run people’s race. She’s highly qualified, and a very rational person,” Shelby said. While Shelby claims she is “qualified” to be a senator, Trump made clear she is not “qualified to be a senator” in a recent July 10 statement about Britt.
Trump said on July 10, shattering the idea that Britt is a credible or qualified candidate for Senate:
I see that the RINO Senator from Alabama, close friend of Old Crow Mitch McConnell, Richard Shelby, is pushing hard to have his ‘assistant’ fight the great Mo Brooks for his Senate seat. She is not in any way qualified and is certainly not what our Country needs or not what Alabama wants. For Mitch McConnell to be wasting money on her campaign is absolutely outrageous. Vote for Mo Brooks! He stands for America First, and everything Alabama wants. He also has my Complete and Total Endorsement.
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Has a nice Senatorial ring to it, says Mitch McConnell (who also learned the RINO ropes as a Senator's aide).
They'll do whatever they have to to prevent Brooks from getting the nomination. They can't do the Luther Strange gambit this time.
The GOPe wants to do a remake of “Die Hard.”
We should accommodate them.
“Data show that increased immigration spurs U.S. economic growth and productivity … those that give back to their communities and contribute to our nation’s economy — including undocumented immigrants who already live in the U.S. — should have an opportunity to earn legal status or citizenship,” a letter signed by the Chamber of Commerce and others wrote to Congress.
It truly is time for more and more people to leave this dying party.
Well we will transform it.
The Trump antibody vaccine agsinst GOPe virus is now being administered.
McConnell is choking badly. To win, we take out McConnell.
How long has he been retiring?
Shelby is no conservative.
Here in Pennsylvania we have closed primary elections. In order to vote for conservative candidates in the primary elections we must be members of the Republican Party. Independents, Libertarians, etc. are not allowed to vote for a Republican in the primaries. So I remain a Republican in name only...
I can't wait to see the smug looks on their faces wiped away during primary season in 2022.
It truly is time for the RINOs to be purged from the GOP.
Fixed it for you.
Why should WE have to form a new party? Make the RINOs pay billions to become the new Whigs.
And it's unbelievable that The Stupid Party has OPEN primaries in states like GA, where we know the Democrats are going to rush in to vote for Kemp and Raffensburger in the primaries. They won't vote for them in the general election, but the strategy is that if a Republican wins, then they would prefer Kemp or Ratboy to a conservative.
Of course Shelby would do that, he helped elect Democrat Doug Jones last go around.
Anytime we nominate somebody Mitch doesn’t like, he assists the Democrat to win.
I wouldn’t underestimate Boyd Britt
To Bush League Republicans, anyone who isn’t an Assistant Democrat is “irrational”.
McConnell should have been taken out in 2014, along with Flimsey Grahamnesty.
“I wouldn’t underestimate Boyd Britt”
To quote Winston Churchill on Clemet Atlee, “there’s a lot less there than meets the eye!”
Chamber of Commerce always goes all in for the RINO.
Brooks will stomp Britt in Alabama.
Shelby and Mitch will both look foolish after Brooks stomps Britt.
Doesn’t Katie Boyd Britt have a nice Establishment name, like Shelley Moore Capito, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, or Christie Todd Whitman?
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don’t forget hillary rotten clinton
Shelby is a mega-worm, former Democrat and current assistant Rat. He is a A#1 POS. He got filthy rich in his Senate seat, so his game is being an insider. Did not open his mouth a single time that I heard to support Trump. DO NOT LET HIM PICK HIS REPLACEMENT!!!!!!!!
I am firmly behind Mo Brooks
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