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Sens. Hawley, Cruz, Rubio emerge as champions of GOP populism amid Trump’s decline
The HIll ^ | 12/05/22 6:00 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 12/05/2022 7:22:53 AM PST by RandFan

Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) are emerging as the new champions of conservative populism at a time when many Republicans think former President Trump’s grip on the party is slipping.

All three GOP senators voted with almost the entire Senate Democratic caucus to give seven days of paid sick leave to 115,000 rail workers who threatened to go on strike because of an impasse in labor negotiations.

Trump touted a new brand of Republican populism that brought many first-time voters to the polls for the 2016 presidential election and helped him stun political experts and handicappers by defeating Hillary Clinton.

While Trump’s popularity among Republican voters may be slipping, this group of Senate conservatives, who are thought to harbor their own presidential ambitions, are embracing the populism that worked so well for him in 2016.

Hawley has been at the front of the push to remake the GOP from the party of corporate executives to the party of the working man and woman.

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


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No thanks.

I like Hawley though but he's no where near presidential material (IMO).

1 posted on 12/05/2022 7:22:53 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Cruz has to be dragged kicking and screaming on H1B workers. Rubio STILL likes them.


2 posted on 12/05/2022 7:24:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yawn! “This time we finally got him!


3 posted on 12/05/2022 7:25:19 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: RandFan

Call me when Ted has returned the contributions from FTX.


4 posted on 12/05/2022 7:26:00 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Hill is famous for Whoppers, but not like Burger King Whoppers, more like Democrat whoppers.


5 posted on 12/05/2022 7:26:23 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: RandFan

Just one of many polls. Polls doing that this thing is all over the map depending on who is polling, who they’re polling and how they’re polling.

But……

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/03/poll-donald-trump-holds-double-digit-lead-hypothetical-2024-primary/

Pres Trump’s decline??


6 posted on 12/05/2022 7:29:17 AM PST by qaz123
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To: RandFan

The sHill needs to write something about their fantasy of “TRUMP’S DECLINE”.

Anything.


7 posted on 12/05/2022 7:29:17 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: RandFan; All

Trumps decline? Oh mercy, these people are clueless


8 posted on 12/05/2022 7:29:29 AM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: RandFan
many Republicans think former President Trump’s grip on the party is slipping.

But not with primary voters, and I'm pretty sure they will get their say over the establishment Republicans.

9 posted on 12/05/2022 7:30:30 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: RandFan

“The Hill” - snort, snort.

Hill of what? I always wonder.


10 posted on 12/05/2022 7:30:35 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Catholics: We HATE you because you wrote a book. Also Catholics: We LOVE this cat-torturing guy!)
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I wonder when his next rally will be.


11 posted on 12/05/2022 7:31:30 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: RandFan

Didn’t all of these scumbags vote to send $55b to the Ukes? I know Cruz did.


12 posted on 12/05/2022 7:33:12 AM PST by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: RandFan

The Hill is not a hill, but a pile. A brown stinking pile.

5.56mm


13 posted on 12/05/2022 7:33:42 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Cruz has to be dragged kicking and screaming on H1B workers. Rubio STILL likes them.

- - -

Elon Musk likes H1B workers too.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/11/08/must-tech-ceos-fire-thousands-of-americans-but-few-foreign-workers/


14 posted on 12/05/2022 7:36:28 AM PST by Izzatso
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To: RandFan
Publications like "the Hill" are going to throw up one name after another. They already tried with DeSantis, but probably saw that as a dry well.

The next two years are going to this leftward migration of names, eventually leading to Nimrata Haley and Mitt Romney, potentially Liz Cheney if they think they can rehabilitate her.

15 posted on 12/05/2022 7:37:38 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: RandFan

A week’s pay for rail workers, all on Uncle Sam?
Truck drivers should threaten to strike immediately!
It’s open season on the US Treasury!


16 posted on 12/05/2022 7:40:03 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: RandFan

Trump has declined?


17 posted on 12/05/2022 7:41:10 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: RandFan

Another Ivy Leaguer…


18 posted on 12/05/2022 7:41:43 AM PST by EEGator
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To: RandFan

Trump’s SUPPOSED fake manufactured decline.


19 posted on 12/05/2022 7:41:48 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: All

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Cruz praised Chris Wray in hearings 24 hrs before Wray had his men go to an Epstein Judge that hates Trump to get approval for an unprecedented Raid.

Cruz said Wray was not part of the issues at the FBi. Wray refused to answer whether a GOP factual report on the Biden Family Business contained any Russian disinformation when he clearly knows it doesn’t.

Rubio backed the Intelligence committee attacks and investigations of Trump and wanted the Mueller Investigation to expand / continue. He would not support the Wall.

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20 posted on 12/05/2022 7:42:53 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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