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Lindsey Graham Will Not Support McConnell as Leader Unless He ‘Can Prove’ a ‘Working Relationship’ with Trump
breitbart ^ | 01/13/21` | Jordan Dixon-Hamilton

Posted on 01/13/2022 7:49:53 AM PST by chief lee runamok

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cast doubt on the possibility of supporting Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for Republican Senate Leader again.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Kentucky; US: South Carolina; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: kentucky; lindseygraham; mitchmcconnell; southcarolina
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To: chief lee runamok
Lindsey the human weathervane is pointing in yet another direction today.


21 posted on 01/13/2022 8:17:45 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Flimsy must be up for reelection.


22 posted on 01/13/2022 8:18:33 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: chief lee runamok

Include yourself along with McConnell, Linda.


23 posted on 01/13/2022 8:19:07 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Lurkinanloomin

24 posted on 01/13/2022 8:21:47 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: chief lee runamok

Why is everybody measuring for the drapes this early? 10 months in politics is a lifetime.


25 posted on 01/13/2022 8:23:46 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Jonny7797

No, the stupid voters of South Carolina just re-elected him for another six years, that’s TWICE after THREE votes for amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority.


26 posted on 01/13/2022 8:25:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: chief lee runamok

It’s either that, or.... He’s playing the anti-trump card. If he says he supports Trump, then the masses will be against him could be the ploy...


27 posted on 01/13/2022 8:30:26 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

PLEASE! When they do something good, encourage them. When they do something bad, criticize them.

There’s no reason for them to respond and do what the voters want if it doesn’t matter anyway.

Also, don’t forget, Graham was one of the first to support Trump and offered $50,000 of his own money to investigate or proceed in some way to support Trump’s claims. I think the big problem was the people that Trump picked to work on his side were somewhat flaky and not very effective, and when the Dems attacked, Graham backed off.

So support matters and encouraging them to do the right thing.

Thinking you look cool and cynical by shooting them down (and thus playing into the hands of the Dems, so that Trump loses another supporter) is shooting yourself in both feet and maybe in the crotch too.


28 posted on 01/13/2022 8:31:08 AM PST by livius
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To: chief lee runamok

Oh. Good timing Graham

Trump is on the outs with his with his vaccine push now Lindsey steps in. Horrible people.


29 posted on 01/13/2022 8:31:37 AM PST by stanne
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Of course, how could I forget. I was at an election party in AZ with what I thought were conservative folks but they all cheered when it was announced he was reelected. I was booing and then realized everyone was just kind of staring at me.


30 posted on 01/13/2022 8:36:27 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: chief lee runamok

“She’s a lady ...”

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1479497423076659201


31 posted on 01/13/2022 8:38:56 AM PST by maggief
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To: livius

No, that is the path of concept that would lead people to say . . . yeah, he hates Trump and is a never Trumper, but he’s semi pro Life so we should support him.

Do not leave room for maneuvering. There will certainly be maneuvering if you do. This is all Swamp thinking.

10 years in Washington and then erase them. If you don’t do that, regardless of alleged policy, then what would Drain The swamp mean?

We need a count of those who could oppose McConnell. Doesn’t matter who the opponent is. Just who could oppose McConnell.

Here are those who will NOT oppose him, and I’m assuming Murkowski is primaried out or voted out in Nov.

Romney
Thune
Collins
Rounds
McConnell
Grassley

Those are locked votes for him. He could have a few more, but they are retiring. I am counting only those who are known to be there in Jan 2023 for the Majority Leader vote.

There truly is plenty of room for 26 to vote him out.

BUT. Kentucky has a Dem Governor, not up until 2024. If McConnell is voted out, he might retire immediately. We would lose that seat. So all of this requires a majority of 52 or 53, to cover Collins doing the same. And Romney, who may know by then he cannot be re-elected and could switch parties (GOP Utah Governor, so he can’t retire).

Regardless, he doesn’t have many Senators who are locked to him.


32 posted on 01/13/2022 8:55:09 AM PST by Owen
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To: livius

He’s fraud, he has voted for amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority THREE times.

Can’t get anymore Assistant Democrat than that.


33 posted on 01/13/2022 9:04:11 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Owen

Grahamnesty, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Cornyn, Hyde-Smith, Collins, Sasse, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Daines, Crapo, Cramer, Boozman, Scott, Scott, Cassidy, Capito, Fischer, Moran, Lee, Risch, Sullivan, Barasso and Romney are all Bush League Republicans and Mitch’s bitches.


34 posted on 01/13/2022 9:06:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: chief lee runamok

I have had serious problems with both Lindsay and Mitch.
but anyways, this time Lindsay is correct


35 posted on 01/13/2022 9:12:19 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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36 posted on 01/13/2022 10:06:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: KeyLargo
Lindsay on Trump and Biden
37 posted on 01/13/2022 10:13:23 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Some of those disappear before Jan 2023. Portman retiring, Sasse retiring, Thune in the leadership.

Most of those have their fingers in the wind. Only a handful are locked to McConnell.


38 posted on 01/13/2022 11:11:24 AM PST by Owen
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To: chief lee runamok

# Linda having a panic attack.

She must be up for reelection again. Time to pretend to be ‘conservative’ for a few months.


39 posted on 01/13/2022 11:18:56 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: livius
PLEASE! When they do something good, encourage them.

Yes. Good post.

40 posted on 01/13/2022 2:33:37 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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