Posted on 11/09/2022 8:34:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On an otherwise disastrous night for Republicans, who were the biggest winners?
ANSWER: Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia -- the two Republicans Donald Trump hates with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns.
Which Republicans most underperformed?
ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia -- two nominees hand-picked by Trump.
The first horror of a long Tuesday night came soon after the polls closed in Pennsylvania, with the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Mastriano, getting clobbered. Some of the tipoffs that Mastriano might not have been the strongest candidate for the GOP were:
-- A week before the primary, he spoke at a QAnon rally, featuring a film claiming 9/11 was an inside job and that John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated because he "knew too much."
-- He called abortion the "No. 1 issue" and promised to ban all abortions with no exceptions even for rape, incest or the life of the mother. He also said women who violated the ban should be charged with murder.
-- He vowed to de-register all Pennsylvania voters and make them re-register to vote and said that, as governor, he would choose who was allowed to certify elections.
Naturally, Trump endorsed him. After all, Mastriano had slavishly supported the ex-president's stolen election claims -- convening slates of fake electors and even showing up at the Capitol on Jan. 6. That's just the ticket for a purple state, no?
On Tuesday night, Mastriano lost 42% to 55%. That can't have helped Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican running for Senate, who was still hanging on the next day, conceding with 47% of the vote to John Fetterman's 50%.
In Georgia, we got both types of Trump's electoral wizardry: the bad and the horrendously bad. First, after narrowly losing the state in 2020, he went on a jihad against the Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.
Still enraged with Kemp, he recruited and funded a primary opponent to the popular governor. Luckily, Trump's designated candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, was available, having lost his own reelection to the Senate entirely because of Trump.
In case you've forgotten, Trump held rallies in Georgia leading up to the runoff between Perdue and Raphael Warnock, denouncing the popular Republican governor and telling people not to bother voting because the system was rigged. Warnock won and Perdue was unemployed, so Trump got him to run against Kemp.
Trump so hated Kemp that he finally dipped into his $100 million political PAC to fund something other than his own businesses and rallies, giving a half-million dollars to Perdue.
Primary election results: Kemp trounced Perdue 74% to 22%.
Raffensperger -- the Georgia secretary of state who Trump bullied because he refused to scare up 11,780 more Trump votes in 2020 and who he accused of committing "a criminal offense" -- won his primary by nearly 20 points.
I think Georgia voters were trying to send a message: Please just give us a normal Republican.
Trump: Message not received!
Having already caused the loss of two Senate seats in Georgia, Trump's second great idea was to hand-pick a candidate for the Senate based on stupid, narcissistic reasons having nothing to do with strategy or the state, but just because he knows the guy.
In March 2021 he put out a statement: "Wouldn't it be fantastic if the legendary Herschel Walker ran for the United States Senate in Georgia? He would be unstoppable, just like he was when he played for the Georgia Bulldogs, and in the NFL. He is also a GREAT person. Run Herschel, run!"
Senate candidate Herschel Walker is 100% Trump's baby.
It's not as if running for the Senate had been Walker's lifelong dream. It was Trump who decided he would be the nominee simply because he'd played for Trump's (now-defunct) United States Football League and had appeared as a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice."
This is how Trump picks candidates.
Still, the race should have been a cakewalk. On Tuesday night, Kemp and Raffensperger each won their elections by about 8 points. It's reasonable to conclude that any other Republican would have beaten Warnock by the same healthy margin. Same state, same election, same political party.
Instead, the Georgia Senate race ended up being the most expensive in the country -- money that Republicans really could have used in other races. Walker, as of this writing, appears to be headed for a runoff. Trump is on track to screw that one up too, by announcing that he's running for president, so he can make it all about himself again.
That's exactly what he did at his campaign rallies this week, showing up where he wasn't wanted and doing the same old schtick about the Russia investigation, his "perfect" call to Zelensky, "Shifty Schiff" (Rep. Adam Schiff) and what an awesome president he was -- including what a badass he'd be on crime. (Trump during the first debate with Biden: "You called them 'super-predators.' African Americans are super-predators ... I'm letting people out of jail now!")
If Walker loses, let the record show that this will be the third consecutive Georgia Senate seat Trump has lost for Republicans.
When the Republican governor of the second-largest state wins his reelection by 55% and the Republican governor of the third-largest state wins by 60%, the GOP doesn't need another one of its moronic "autopsies" of the party, promising to be just like the Democrats. The only thing we need now is an autopsy of Trump.
Slim must be publishing a book soon. Go back under your rock, Annie.
Is she still around? I haven’t thought of her in years, and I’m not going to think about her again for another few years.
The Clay & Buck show is awful. I gave them a chance... listened to them a few months when they first started. They suck. Clay definitely doesn't sound like the brightest bulb in the box. He says the same time over and over again.
The guy who should have taken over Rush's show is Rob Carson, who used to write Rush's comedy material.
Filthy skank.
She’s such a moron.
She’s the same one who said Republican stood no chance from now on due to the influx of illegals - years and years ago.
Now Hispanics are becoming more Republican.
She also has a vendetta against Trump who did more than any other president to secure the border. So she spins ridiculous crap claiming Trump “hates” DeSantis (he doesn’t). She’s also a neocon warmonger. Let her go join all the other neocons like Max Boot and Bill Kristol very much OUT of the Republican party.
Massive immigration has been her #1 issue for almost 20 years now. Trump campaigned like an immigration hawk, but he instantly switched to immigration dove after the election.
Trump filled the Department of Homeland Security with Obama hold overs and Deep State lifers. Then, he politically finessed The Wall for 18 months until it became an issue in the 2018 mid-term.
Ultimately, Trump, in his first three years, before Covid, issued more Green Cards than Obama, naturalized more new citizens than Obama, and issued more foreign work permits than Obama.
“Horse face sure is obsessed with him”
She has a terminal case of the Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Ann you Muslim loving ignorant slut.
Did trump refused to F her or something
This harpies just needs to go away
Thank goodness the “rule” requiring a picture of this scrawny self-serving witch to be posted on every thread at the slghtest mention of her name has been rescinded.
A woman scorned…
Agreed.
Ann Coulter, November 2020:
“The reason I’m very happy that [President] Trump lost – and lost narrowly – is that a second term of Trump would have killed us,” Coulter said.
“What we want, and what I think we can get in four years, is Trumpism without Trump,” she said.”
Well, Ann. You got your wish. How happy are you now?
No one cares what you think, Ann.
If I remember right, Ann was one of the first to rally around Trump in 2016.
Ann is wrong in her assessment of Hershel Walker, among other topics she brings up, Trump and Walker have been great personal friends for 40+ years. Walker is well known in GA because of his football days at UGA but Trump didn’t pluck him out if the crowd to run because of it, he already knew him.
Ann is quite the unlikable harpy.
You are correct.
Ditto what you wrote.
The GOPe has basically told conservatives “your opinion is not wanted. Get back in the slow lane and we will let you know when and who to vote for in the elections”.
Their goal is to crush us so we will never disobey them again. They attitude is we should have voted for Jeb! in 2016 and it is our failure to do so that has caused all the problems. Much like a wife-abuser justifies his abuse because the wife will not shut up and do as he says.
That is more like me saying Tampa Bay beat the Rams because I bet on them. lol
I could dig it up, but Trump said that Kemp could not beat Stacey Abrams. That was why Purdue was the only hope to keep Georgia from going blue. Trump is just wrong on Georgia politics and has been for a very long time now.
Always amazed at the Rino billion of energy spent on attacking Trump and little on democrats. I know the media picks up on this stuff and amplifies it, but that screed is absolute nonsense
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