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After months of wavering, Schmitt comes out against McConnell days before Senate primary (MO)
emissourian.com ^ | 7/31/22 | Rudi Keller

Posted on 07/31/2022 10:38:20 AM PDT by cotton1706

COLUMBIA — The final push to next week’s primary has Attorney General Eric Schmitt joining, for the first time, those hoping to oust Mitch McConnell as Senate Republican Leader and Lucas Kunce dismissing the importance of St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ endorsement in the Democratic race.

Speaking to reporters after a campaign stop in a Columbia bar, Schmitt said Wednesday that McConnell has lost touch with Republican voters. Schmitt said he would prefer Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who have both endorsed him.

“Mitch McConnell hasn’t endorsed me and I don’t endorse him for leadership,” Schmitt said.

Getting rid of McConnell was one of the earliest positions taken by one of Schmitt’s leading rivals for the GOP nomination, former Gov. Eric Greitens, when he entered the race. The third candidate atop the polls, U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, on Thursday added her name to the list of candidates who will not back McConnell.

“We need a true conservative leader who will stand up to Joe Biden and turn things around,” Hartzler said in a prepared statement. “We need someone with backbone to fight against this train wreck.”

McConnell and former President Donald Trump have long-running antipathy that can be traced almost to the beginning of his presidency in 2017. This week, Trump taunted McConnell over polling showing him to be the least popular Senator and called him “disloyal” after video of McConnell blaming Trump for the Jan. 6 riot was shown in investigative hearings.

Removing McConnell has become a litmus test for Trump supporters.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: elections
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I know a lot of FReepers don't like and won't vote for Grietens.

But this guy Schmitt is no leader.

His internal polls must show some slippage.

1 posted on 07/31/2022 10:38:20 AM PDT by cotton1706
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McConnell will be leader as long as we keep re-electing Mitch’s bitches.


2 posted on 07/31/2022 10:40:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

they are trying to out MAGA each other

which one is the genuine article?


3 posted on 07/31/2022 10:43:18 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: cotton1706

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I thought almost all of the Powerful Senators are behind Mitch.

It’s funny, the Country is going to hell, but they’ll all happy as a Pig in Air Conditioning.

Seems their goals are very different than the American people’s.

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4 posted on 07/31/2022 10:43:43 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep, McConnell is not going anywhere.

McCarthy will be Speaker in name only; in actuality it will be Paul Ryan (again).

Be prepared for epic disappointment. Again.


5 posted on 07/31/2022 10:44:29 AM PDT by Starboard
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Seems their goals are very different than the American people’s.

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Their goals are to keep the American people funding their cushy do-nothing jobs.


6 posted on 07/31/2022 10:45:51 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: joshua c

Hard to tell from here.


7 posted on 07/31/2022 10:47:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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They’re almost all happy with Biden. They love the spending.

They’ll feel put out to make a couple statements condemning Joe before the Election, but it’s just the swamp.



8 posted on 07/31/2022 10:47:35 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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And those fortunes.

Got to keep the investments flush with new $$$$

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9 posted on 07/31/2022 10:49:19 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Mitch is a two faced back stabbing skunk who is protecting himself and those selling out to the chinese


10 posted on 07/31/2022 10:51:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nwo )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Exactly.


11 posted on 07/31/2022 10:52:03 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: ronnie raygun
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He’s done everything he could for Joe




12 posted on 07/31/2022 10:55:41 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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Not Cruz. He’s into himself too much. Not Lee. The Mormon thing. He’ll pull his punches. Make it Rand Paul. The libertarian streak. Appeals to the young, at least their thought process. Problem is who votes. Are they all guilty of not voting in one of the others? Thune in line? Gimme a break.


13 posted on 07/31/2022 11:10:06 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Their goals are to keep the American people funding their cushy do-nothing jobs.

Their goal is to do what is needed to help out those who offer them the kinds of stock tips and property deals that catapult them into multi-millionairedom. Their do-nothing jobs are not very cushy on a senator's salary.

14 posted on 07/31/2022 11:11:52 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DIRTYSECRET

McConnell, Thune, Barrasso, Blunt, Ernst, Scott, Scott, Lee, Crapo, Grassley, Shelby, Murkowski, Sullivan, Boozman, Rubio, Risch, Young, Braun, Moran, Cassidy, Collins, Hyde-Smith, Daines, Fischer, Sasse, Burr, Tillis, Hoeven, Cramer, Portman, Inhofe, Lankford, Toomey, Grahamnesty, Rounds, Cornyn, Romney, Capito, Lummis are all Bush League Republicans.

We MUST elect better Republicans.


15 posted on 07/31/2022 11:18:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Joe wants to run against Pence.


Like his Cabinet, his Judges, his Budgets, his Covid money for Woke Mayors - the GOP will work to get Joe what he wants.



16 posted on 07/31/2022 11:22:00 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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A Soros DA who never had a legitimate case brought it to publicly smear Greitens because he’s not a stealth Lefty, and she got censured for it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/11/soros-prosecutor-kim-gardner-admits-wrongdoing-against-senate-candidate-eric-greitens/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/09/exclusive-eric-greitens-truth-prevails-prosecutor-ordered-release-texts-soros/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-police-source-woman-framed-former-missouri-gov-eric-greitens-guilty-perjury-bribed-cash-payment/

Yeah, he had an affair, but it was consensual.

Democrats don’t care if their candidates are rapists.

Now they are paying his wife big bucks to smear him, and spending millions of dollars on negative campaign ads.

This is the same thing they have done time and again... if they can’t defeat somebody at the polls, they gin up a scandal to get rid of them that way.

If we let them get away with it, we will never have real conservative Republicans in office, just Assistant Democrats.

The primary thing in Greitens’ favor is that George Soros targeted him specifically and took him out.

Soros is probably funding Schmitt, because he has more campaign money than God.


18 posted on 07/31/2022 11:27:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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F507-EEBE-D736-4-C3-E-BEF7-AA945139-CAFE .

CRAPO is in the Republican Leadership. He’s the Chief Deputy Whip And he supported Biden’s Infrastructure and Spending



19 posted on 07/31/2022 11:32:33 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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That should be Trillion, even the papers can’t adjust to the crazed spending.



20 posted on 07/31/2022 11:34:31 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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