Posted on 08/31/2022 8:43:36 AM PDT by Drew68
Yesli Vega, a Republican running for the U.S. House in a competitive Virginia district, no longer mentions her connection to former president Donald Trump in the bio section at the top of her Twitter page.
Colorado state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, also running in a battleground House race, has stopped promoting language defending the “Sanctity of Life” on her campaign website. Now, there is no mention of abortion at all, a review of the website showed.
And the campaign of Blake Masters, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona, has removed from his campaign website references to strict antiabortion positions he once championed, along with references to false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
At least nine Republican congressional candidates have scrubbed or amended references to Trump or abortion from their online profiles in recent months, distancing themselves from divisive subjects that some GOP strategists say are two of the biggest liabilities for the party ahead of the post-Labor Day sprint to Election Day.
“The Dobbs decision has clearly energized Democratic voters to the point where they have closed the enthusiasm gap with Republicans,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime GOP pollster, referencing the Supreme Court ruling that ended the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. Asked whether it hurts the GOP to have Trump back in the news, Ayres replied, “The best case for Republican candidates in the midterms is making the upcoming election a referendum on the Biden administration.”
He added: “Anything that distracts from that focus weakens the Republican position.”
Tracking back to the political middle after a primary is common practice long used by candidates of both parties. But the attempts by Republicans in competitive contests to pivot away from abortion and Trump have emboldened Democrats to mount an aggressive offense on those issues...
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They should all recall Bill Clinton, it is the economy. Focus on the recession, inflation, commerce, plus immigration and Democrat Covid totalitarianism. Why talk about abortion when it is was already won in the courts, now a state issue and not focus now? Republicans always fall into this trap election after election.
You are exactly right. A search for “Whit Ayres” brings up several videos of Ayres with the never-Trump Trotskyite assistant democrat Bill Kristol.
https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/whit-ayres/
Perhaps they have done research and understand their constituents better than we do.
those gop strategists are F’ing idiots, most likely trying to ensure MAGA candidates lose
Do what you need to do to get elected... it’s the Democrat way.
As long as you’re MAGA when you get into office.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4088361/posts?page=25#25
And from the archived website:I am 100% pro-life. Roe v. Wade was a horrible decision. It was wrong the day it was decided in 1973, it’s wrong today, and it must be reversed. But the fight doesn’t stop there. In the U.S. Senate I will:
He's removed the "I am 100% pro-life" part.
No it’s not - they want to lose, let them.
Virginia allow abortion. Candidates in states that allow abortion should just remind voters democrats are lying to them since it’s allowed in their state. It can’t be litigated by Congress it can only be litigated by states.
I agree.
I just hope they can skillfully explain the changes to their websites without looking foolish.
As I pointed out above, Democrats are never called to task when they take what they believe are more popular positions than the ones they previously championed. Only Republicans have to explain themselves.
So, why haven't you done so before posting this article?
I’ve provided examples on this thread.
their analysis of dem candidates and joey bananas?
Abortion and racism are the only issues the democrats and Rinos will talk about aka everything else stays the same deal with it.
And they'd like to win their races.
They're taking a page from Glenn Youngkin's playbook (and he actually won). Secure Trump's MAGA base and then go after the more moderate swing voters who don't like him.
The NYT and WaPo publish nothing that hasn’t been screened, edited for effect, and approved by the Democrat hierarchy. The truth and facts are too often detrimental to the approved narrative, so they just lie.
Strange how I see, on an almost daily basis, how ‘D’onkey Party candidates are elsewhere when Joe comes to town. Just this week it was Joe in Pennsylvania and his fellow ‘D’s were somewhere else. Big state but still!
Then again this is the DNCompost and it stinks just to be in the same room as a copy of it!
over 90% (or whatever it is- large % at any rate) of the people Trump supported won- so why are these people distancing themselves from hm again? WP Lying as usual
To be fair, the last election, president Trump said he was pro-life with exceptions for rape, incest, life of mother.
So far as his personal appeal, there are some areas where the liberal media is so dominant that no conservative voice gets heard unless it is searched for.
Good call posting thin under "editorial," because "false claims" is an opinion.
I don’t intend to hijack this thread, but, here goes:
The SOLE issue that should concern ALL Freedom loving Americans in 2022 is how to stop the VERY DANGEROUS anti-American Democrat Party FRom destroying America!
All Republicans have to do is point out the MANY failures of Sloe Joe, the Hoe, and their criminal administration to the American electorate!
This much is clear: The Democrat Party IS a Clear and Present Danger to the continued existence of our FRee Republic!
VOTE AGAINST ALL DEMOCRATS IN 2022!
SAVE AMERICA!
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