Posted on 12/30/2021 5:49:56 AM PST by cotton1706
Former President Donald Trump’s conditional endorsement of Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is pitting top Republicans against each other and complicating GOP efforts in key 2022 contests.
Late Wednesday, Trump backed Dunleavy’s reelection, declaring the governor a “strong and consistent conservative.” But the former president said his “complete and total endorsement” is “null and void” if Dunleavy endorses Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The move threatens to make adversaries of Alaska’s senior elected Republicans and force party organizations to work at cross purposes, developments that risk splintering the party in a red state and frustrating its drive to recapture the Senate.
"The Alaska GOP is already fractured in a big way," a Republican operative in the state told the Washington Examiner. "Trump's conditional endorsement of Dunleavy was just another straw."
Trump’s bid to influence Republican politics in Alaska was already uncomfortable for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The NRSC backs Murkowski, putting the Senate GOP campaign arm opposite Trump in this crucial race, a position it prefers to avoid. Senate Republicans need to win one seat to flip the chamber and generally see Murkowski as their best opportunity to hold Alaska given the dynamics of the state in general elections.
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And if that "roils the Alaska GOP" well that's just too f'n bad!
I am not seeing the problem here. The RINO party needs to be broken up into gravel and then crushed into dust.
And this so-called GOP operative needs to find a productive line of work standing up for America against the full communist onslaught backed by their RINO running dogs.
They are free to go join the Rats.
Holy crap that’s a helluva great move by Trump!
I love it when the liberal media tells us how awful something will be for the GOP.
We know they have our best interests at heart, right?
When they tell us how awful something is you can be sure it’s a good thing.
We will not get new leadership by re-electing Mitch’s bitches.
Crapo, Grassley, Hoeven, Lankford, Lee, Moran, Murkowsky, Rubio, Scott, Thune and Young all need to be primaried in 2022, even if Trump endorses them.
We will never MAGA by re-electing Assistant Democrats.
Crush Murkowski and any other RINOs who put themselves before the people.
DC Globalist RAG and Bushie Trump hater suck up Drucker are
pushing the usual Rhino LIES .
Murky, the original write-in candidate.
We can’t take on the Rats without first getting rid of the garbage in the GOP.
Well then the RINO establishment should roll over and withdraw their support for Murkowski. Then the party would not be fractured.
The last thing that roiled the GOP was when the lobbyists from K street were late with their monthly checks.
“Senate Republicans need to win one seat to flip the chamber and generally see Murkowski as their best opportunity to hold Alaska given the dynamics of the state in general elections.”
The ‘dynamics’ of Alaska in 2022 is that the person with an R next to his/her name will win by 20 points in a 2 or 3 person race.
Try again, please. (not you, Cotton, of course)
MY analogy. Europe always had wars-nonstop. The only peaceful period was between 1945-1990. It’s because nations had to make a choice between 2 sides.
Once the cold war ended all the hatreds returned. Trump is doing the same here. About time.
I think The Bomb also had a lot to do with that.
Very good DF! I was taught it was the UN.
Yeah, but the Uzbeks were the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism.
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