Posted on 01/16/2022 5:42:13 AM PST by cotton1706
Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party with a Saturday rally in Arizona in which he plans to castigate anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, likely including the state’s GOP governor, Doug Ducey.
But 2,000 miles to the east in Washington, there are small signs that some Republicans are tiring of the charade. Mike Rounds, the generally unassuming senator from South Dakota, was perhaps the boldest in acknowledging the reality that the election was in fact fair. Instead of being shunned, he was supported by his GOP colleagues, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Rounds later said the party needed to get “ louder ” in telling voters the truth about the 2020 campaign.
Meanwhile, top Republicans in Washington have engaged in a behind-the-scenes effort to encourage Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, one of Trump’s most vocal antagonists in the party, to run for a Senate seat. And on Saturday, Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican since 2010 to be sworn in as Virginia’s governor after running a campaign that kept Trump at arm's length.
Less than two months before the 2022 primary season begins, Trump remains the most popular figure among the voters who will decide which Republicans advance to the fall general election. But the recent dynamics bring new clarity to the debate that will likely animate the GOP all year: how closely candidates should align themselves with Trump and his election lie.
“I was very encouraged by the response from a number of different senators supportive of Sen. Rounds,” said former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been a rare Republican urging the party to move on from Trump and his election obsession.
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He was SO BRAVE that he waited till AFTER he Trump's support got him safely reeelected.
They think we don't notice these things.
But we LIKE these people outing themselves, for then we know they are in their final terms (and they probably do too, so feel free from the people's influence).
Move on from Trump = get back to being the go along, get along party of “democrat lite.”
No thanks, I’ll pass. And even if I wasn’t going to support Trump, I would be supporting one of his supporters.
It’s the movement, not the man.
Mike Rounds cannot be same or normal.
In addition to my own senator McConnell pissing me off last year, this moron adds to the list of RINO’s who remind me why I left the GOP.
I watched him last night. He’s in danger of getting boring.
As if we trust them. I have a few issues with Trump, but the gop is not trustworthy at all. I view them as a frenemy.
Set a political career on fire because the greedy establishment is seeking the fools gold of rigged elections.
It will kill the goose to do that.
I stopped reading as soon as I read “Trumps lie that the election was stolen”. DELETE.
Who are they kidding. The RINOs are losing this power struggle badly. Everybody knows it. Trump’s endorsement basically means a win in any Republican primary. Thus far, all RINO efforts to oppose the MAGA tsunami have ended in abject failure and surrender.
Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican since 2010 to be sworn in as Virginia’s governor after running a campaign that kept Trump at arm’s length.....
Kept President Trump at arms length, but the policies he preached were pretty much in line with all of President Trump’s policies and he had a lot of help because of the school fiasco’s, the fact that Northam is a radical Leftist, and folks might finally be realizing that the Soros DAs that were elected in Arlington-Fairfax-Loudon are such disaster’s, that a change had to be made. And look at who he ran against.
And hasn’t it been shown that he hasn’t really banned CRT?
We have Democrats and we have Republicans.
And then we have Donald Trump … a nationalist who doesn’t fit into either major party, but who hijacked the GOP nomination process in 2016 to get elected.
Republicans should tread carefully when they deal with Trump … because he has a lot of support among independents and even Democrats who have no interest in supporting the Beltway globalists who dominate the national GOP.
The propaganda continues, that Donald Trump is somehow “lying” about the massive fraud that elevated the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime to the Oval office.
None are so blind as those who are willfully ignorant.
Why do these articles never say dame thing about democrat leaders even though they are always in lockstep
Their reference to Youngkin keeping Trump at ‘arms distance’ was true, but they omit that Youngkin was also VERY CAREFUL not to insult either Trump or the 90% of the GOP who still worship Trump (me included, by the way). In fact, I don’t know of Youngkin even commenting on the 2020 election or calling the Jan 6 political prisoners ‘terrorists’, like Cruz has done.
It was a good strategy in a Purple/Blue state, as he needed to bring-in a fair number of Trump-hating, CNN-watching, Soccer Moms to win.
“And hasn’t it been shown that he hasn’t really banned CRT?”
Yep, and that’s because it’s impossible to ban, short of putting cameras and microphones in classrooms. The best one can hope if those steps aren’t taken is pushing it underground.
Theyll end up on the trash heap like so many others.
They’re not ignorant, they have a story and they’re sticking to it. They all know the truth.
The smell of napalm in the morning. Fear and panic set in. Beautiful
ANYONE with half a brain knows that Biden NEVER had the HUGE support they claim he had, he has fallen like quick sand in less than one year THAT doesn’t happen when you have 81 million voters!! They ALL KNOW and were in on this election being stolen I will NEVER EVER forgive the GOP, RNC, ect. for this NEVER!!
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