Posted on 01/23/2022 3:51:17 AM PST by cotton1706
Governors, traditionally insulated from national politics, are one of the last bastions of Republican elected leaders able to maneuver around former President Donald Trump.
But maybe not for long.
Trump is stepping up his involvement in gubernatorial primaries, looking to make an example of critics in his own party and elevate allies ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run — just as some elected before the former president's takeover of the GOP are hitting their term limits.
The result could be unelectable candidates in otherwise winnable races and the purging of some of the few Republican elected leaders who didn't need to depend on Trump's base, critics say.
“It's bad for the party, and it's bad for the country,” Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who will leave office next year and is term-limited, said in an interview. “The people that I think are good Republicans that we need in the party that are being unfairly criticized because they won't swear allegiance to the Dear Leader.”
Popular Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced last month he will not run for re-election after Trump endorsed a GOP primary challenger. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is term-limited. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, who has dramatically expanded vote-by-mail in opposition to Trump, has not yet said if he’ll run again despite being declared the most popular governor in America.
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They have been pushing this line of nonsense go so long.
And the problem is...?
Thats a stretch.
Show me a moderate Democrat governor.
Bye.
from NBC, “moderate” means “we can roll over them with media pressure on any issue at any time”
Ralph Northam is now a moderate Democrat governor
Good riddens!!
This guy is certainly no "moderate" and is literally just as Left as any Democrat. Vermont is essentially a non-partisan ballot statewide with only Leftists needing to apply.
I agree with one premise of this opinion piece.
The Primaries this year are going to tell us who & what are the heart of the Republican Party, As I have posed before, I see three distinct parties. 1) Vichy-Republicans. ie: Liz Cheney 2) Rockefeller-Republicans. ie: Mitt Romney. 3) MAGA-Republicans. ie: Andy Biggs and the rest of us.
Go Kari Lake!
If Cheney loses in the primary, I believe there’s an 80% chance she will run as an Independent. She’s a vindictive horses a** and would do anything to prevent any Trump supported candidate from winning.
“Ralph Northam is now a moderate Democrat governor”
Youngkin is also a non-Trump Republican. He didn’t want Trump around ‘helping’ him in what was considered a light blue state. But he also understood something VERY SIMPLE, that I guess is too much for Hogan and most of the other Republican governors (as well as Cruz, Crenshaw, and many other Republicans), which is that one CANNOT attack Trump without simultaneously attacking Trump’s voters - it is literally impossible. And has Youngkin also figured out, virtually EVERY elected Republican needs Trump’s voters, ALL OF THEM, to win (which makes sense since 90% of Republican voters also support Trump).
So Youngkin figured out something that is OBVIOUS to us: If you don’t like Trump, fine, we almost expect that (after all, virtually no one in the GOP liked Reagan too, not even his VP). But if you also want to win, then learn to KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. It’s really something that most of us learn in grade school - don’t bitch about everything that bothers you.
To this day, I don’t know what Youngkin thinks of Trump, and I don’t really care either. Youngkin’s an otherwise good Republican (and far, far, better than any Democrat) and if he doesn’t insult Trump (meaning doesn’t insult me), I’d vote for him (if I lived in Virginia), as much as I’d vote for Trump.
How exactly do the Vichy and Rockefeller factions differ?
“If Cheney loses in the primary, I believe there’s an 80% chance she will run as an Independent. She’s a vindictive horses a** and would do anything to prevent any Trump supported candidate from winning.”
I guess she can try, but Wyoming isn’t Arizona in that it’s a rather deep red state, and if Trump gets the Republican base out, then pretty much all Cheney can do is split up the Democrat vote.
The Republicans need to focus on winning the working class away from Democrats. Do that, and the Democrats lose.
I never heard of him until now. If NBC calls him “most popular”, that has to be an enormous exaggeration at best.
The working class are not behind the Dems. They aren’t behind the left-wing Republicans either due to being betrayed by them over and over.
Why doesn’t Wyoming get rid of the open primary? To me, allowing the opposition to vote in your primary is like letting your rival high school choose who will be on your school’s football team.
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