Posted on 02/01/2022 5:01:10 PM PST by cotton1706
Republican U.S. lawmakers donated more than $380,000 last year to the campaigns of eight colleagues who Donald Trump is trying to drive from office, prioritizing the goal of regaining control of Congress over the former president's desire for vengeance.
At least 71 Republican members of the House of Representatives and Senate transferred money to the campaigns of seven House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection arising from last year's Capitol riot and Senator Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him.
Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, and a group aligned with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, were among those making the donations.
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The best thing we can do is make them waste that money. If we can’t take out the rino in the primary, give up the seat. We are nothing but votes to them anyway, and losing their seats cuts off the ability to funnel government money to their families and friends. Thats the only reason most Republicans are there anyway.
Steve Scalise ?
As soon as I saw Yahoo I stopped reading.
Very true. And "my" vote is against that establishment.
“ prioritizing the goal of regaining control of Congress over the former president’s desire for vengeance.”
If I had wanted a libtard editorial I would have turned on CNN fake news 🤪
Even if true, $45,000 per Republican traitor is chump change. Need to go after those who contributed.
Yeah repeating an FR meme will fix the problem.
What part of what Yahoo said do you disagree with?
Yep. Rather a Democrat than a RINO. RINOs must be driven out at all costs. They are enemy #1.
They hate us.
Can’t tell you how many times I have done that.
Maybe the writer of this needs to go back to journalism school. The claim that Trump is motivated by the "desire for vengeance' is nonsense.
The criteria are America First foreign policy, protect our borders, deregulation, lower taxes, etc. It is simple and very effective.
Dear “Republican Lawmakers”… if you cross Trump, you cross US.
And if you cross US, you won’t BE “Republican Lawmakers” for much longer. You will, however, be unemployed.
Primary them all.
Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, and a group aligned with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, were among those making the donations.
Didn’t PDJT send in his personal doc to oversee Scalise not getting the Hastings treatment?
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Representative Elise Stefanik, who replaced Representative Liz Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican after Cheney was ousted from her post following her vote to impeach Trump, made a $5,000 contribution to Herrera Beutler from her “E-PAC” leadership committee, which Stefanik uses to support Republican women candidates.
Cheney, the scion of a storied Republican family and the most forceful Trump critic in Congress, received $5,000 from McConnell’s “Bluegrass Committee” fundraising group.
The group also gave $10,000 to the campaign of Murkowski, who is the only one of the Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his Senate impeachment trial last year who is seeking re-election this year.
Cheney and Murkowski both are facing Republican primary challengers endorsed by Trump, as is Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, another Republican who voted to impeach Trump and took contributions from the leadership committee of Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington.
Representatives August Pfluger of Texas, Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, Byron Donalds of Florida and Carlos Gimenez of Florida - who each have been endorsed by Trump in their re-election bids for this year - also transferred money to impeachment voters from their campaigns or leadership committees. Their offices did not respond to requests for comment.
A Trump spokesperson and representatives for Scalise, Stefanik, McConnell and McMorris Rodgers also did not respond to requests for comment.
Joe Kent, a U.S. Army veteran endorsed by Trump to unseat Herrera Beutler, said the lawmakers backing the incumbent are hoping Trump’s movement “will just go away.”
“2022 is a referendum on the establishment,” Kent said.
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RINO trash, all.
Kent is right about that.
I don’t know since I didn’t read it.
we need the list of the 71.
It’s the entire deep state / ruling class organized against Trump, not just Democrats.
I kind of like the colleges going left. At least it saves me money.
I used to give some money to them, and I felt guilty by not giving more.
Now, I just refuse to give them even a penny, and I feel good about it!
Shocked about Steve Scalise.
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