Posted on 05/13/2022 6:11:25 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
Kathy Barnette, a rising candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary competing against Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz and former Treasury Undersecretary David McCormick, will get a six-figure boost from the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) and its partner super PAC, Women Speak Out PAC.
SBA List – which endorsed Barnette on Monday – is set to launch a six-figure digital ad campaign in Pennsylvania to support the candidate, who is a veteran and author. The ad is expected to contrast Barnette with John Fetterman, the Democrats' presumed nominee. The ad is part of a $2.3 million campaign against Fetterman, a large portion of which will go to support Barnette.
"Kathy Barnette is a courageous advocate for life with a deeply compelling personal story," SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement announcing the ad buy. "In stark contrast, John Fetterman sides with Biden-Schumer Democrats who are pushing to impose abortion on demand up to birth nationwide."
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MAGA is damaged by this race, no matter how it turns out.
they are really trying hard to promote her
Any black woman, who home schools, endorsed by the AMISH, has my vote. God does NOT look on the outside. Pennsylvania needs to look upon the person who has the FAVOR of God, and has the ‘Anointing.;;’. By her own testimony, she crawled out from under a rock..... Maybe she could be President one day. No one gave David a chance in a million he could take down the giant. God LOVES to show Himself strong in the weak. Go Kathy.
The babies are gaining traction.
Can’t say much, but this is one of those interesting stories that crops up every election cycle. Worthy of following, no matter how it turns out. Y’know like looky-looing a car wreck.
A pro-life group and a pro-life PAC are going to get behind who they feel is the most pro-life candidate. There’s nothing shocking in this.
If you go back and look at Tick Tock Sean’s attacks on Barnette, there isn’t a single specific thing he can point to about her, except “she won’t answer my questions, boo hoo”
Does anyone know how to post this story on the prayer list?
I just so a GAB’s CEO announcement that they are endorsing Kathy Barnette as well. This will be an interesting contest to watch.
Corrected:
"they are really trying hard to promote slime her", with "they" being the RINO/Uniparty establishment, in case you haven't noticed the plethora of their terrified anti-Barnette propaganda threads on this site.
I figure the next step is to fabricate -- before Tuesday -- a poll showing Barnette losing by a gazillion points to the Nazi nutjob Democrat in the hypothetical November matchup while showing the Great and Powerful Oz winning easily; as long as they're just making stuff up, why not?.
They're going to triple down on the slime if she wins on Tuesday, basically doing the Democrats' job for them. After Trump wipes the egg off his face, will he retract his anti-endorsement of Barnette and actually support her? And if so, when?
She is the only pro-life candidate of the three.
One man with God can defeat an army.
The club reaction appears to have been triggered by a GOP Trafalgar poll showing Kathy Barnette in a close second place (23.2%), surging ahead of David McCormick (21.6%) and right on the heels of Mehmet Oz (24.5%). [Bartos 7.2%, Sands 6.5%]
In this outline I will explain the easily visible GOPe club moves without trying to support any particular candidate, that’s for Pennsylvania voters to decide. However, once you understand the background play, it might help clarify what the Keystone state voters are witnessing.
BACKGROUND. President Trump has endorsed Mehmet Oz. However, many people in the MAGA base are stuggling with that endorsement because they just don’t like the guy and question the bonafides of his sudden, seemingly convenient, MAGA-mindedness.
Meanwhile, David McCormick is the GOPe candidate from the mold of the typically Wall Street Mitch McConnell tribe.
McCormick is the quintessential corporate republican, or what might be described as the ‘establishment’ party choice. I would call McCormick the club candidate.
Kathy Barnette is the alternative favorite in the race for the MAGA base who just cannot bring themselves to support Oz. Barnette is the outsider and carries a fierce independent streak that appeals to frustrated voters who have had enough of the nonsense.
As a result, the top three in the race break down into McCormick as the Club candidate, while Barnette and Oz are splitting the MAGA vote. By my estimation the MAGA support looks like 60%(ish) Barnette and 40%(ish) Oz. What is happening now in this race is very Karl Rove-ian.
The Club for Growth (CfG) is seemingly more aligned with David McCormick and needs to split the MAGA base, so they funnel money toward Barnette in order to disrupt and diminish the professional MAGA endorsements of Team Trump.
Seeing Mehmet Oz struggling to get support, and seeing a rise in the polling for Kathy Barnette, Fox News Sean Hannity started to attack Barnette on Wednesday with a full-throated ridiculing of her campaign.
Hannity labels Barnette as an ‘unelectable extremist’ with a history of controversial statements, positions and tweets. After a 10-minute nasty attack segment, Sean Hannity then invites the previously scheduled Mehmet Oz to pile on. The total Wednesday attack program lasted almost 30-minutes on prime-time television.
Then Thursday (6pm), corporate Fox News Shannon Bream announces David McCormick will appear tomorrow (Friday) on Special Reports segment for a promotional interview. This makes sense because McCormick would be the corporate Fox News favorite republican in the mold of Marco Rubio.
During the 8pm hour (Tucker Carlson show) Fox News Corp then runs a promotional segment for Sean Hannity who says, “tune in at 9pm when we will go deeper into the controversial past of Kathy Barnette and expose her radical positions.”
As promoted at 9pm Hannity leads with another 15-minute attack against Barnette and then opens the floor to two other PA candidates, Jeff Bartos and Carla Sands, to continue the onslaught.
Destroying Barnette works for the agenda of Hannity (promoting Oz) and for the agenda of Corporate Fox News (promoting McCormick).
As a result, Kathy Barnette is taking fire from the GOPe Club, Corporate Fox News and the entirety of the Trump endorsement team which includes Sean Hannity and Ric Grennell. Trump Inc supporting Oz, while Fox Inc is supporting McCormick. This forms the gauntlet of the attack.
The beneficiary of this Rovian strategy is David McCormick.
Team McCormick is likely hopeful this onslaught will bring the destabilized Barnette wing of the MAGA base into his team; because the Barnette wing of the MAGA base will not support Mehmet Oz.
Both Oz and McCormick are sketchy to the ultra-MAGA base, but with McCormick the club alignment is what Mitch McConnell would call a “more approved” fit.
For the ultra-MAGA voter, with McCormick you get the openly Jeb Bush republican (Decepticon).
For the ultra-MAGA voter, with Mehmet Oz you get the closeted Mitt Romney democrat (RINO).
That’s why the majority of the ultra-MAGA voters were supporting Kathy Barnette in the first place, as an alternative to Oz. That’s why Donald Trump endorsing Mehmet Oz was received with such disdain by the base.
The Republican Club (McCormick) and the Trump Club (Dr. Oz) are both trying to bring down Kathy Barnette and saying she can never win the general election in Pennsylvania.
Are they correct? Well, that’s up to Pennsylvania voters to decide. The pundits will all tell you the suburban women’s vote is the deciding factor in Pennsylvania politics. Supposedly Dr Oz is more liked by that group of voters. I have no idea.
This type of battle is what primary voting contests are all about.
My only purpose in this outline is to explain why McCormick wants to split MAGA (the move by Rove), and why Trump is trying to avoid a split MAGA vote (to avoid McCormick).
For those still torn over what to do, my own advice is:
♦ Vote your heart in the primary contest.
♦ Vote pragmatically in the general election contest.
Bottom line, VOTE!
I sense the opposite- they may be sliming her (of course, they have to -as a republican), but the headlines are all “Barnett Surging- Trump Base Terrified”
They want the lesser-known candidate to RUN, but they dont want to say nice things so she actually wins.
Have to agree. If the Amish stand up for Barnette, that says much. Let the left cry point shame attack, but God will have his way, Amish may be tuned into that a little more than we, we shall see.
My concern with voting with your heart in the primary contest is that this could split the MAGA Oz/Barnette vote and help McCormick. Maybe vote tactically for Barnette and not Oz so Barnette handily defeats McCormick?
In the general Philly is hugely important and largely black. A black woman republican candidate could garner surprise support. But then again the likes of kim cant rember her last name in Baltimore did nada.
Hannity was running his fat mouth tearing down Barnette last saying she said Islam should not be allowed in the US and that the homo agenda, LGBTO+ has no place being taught to kids.
I don’t see anything wrong with that position.
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