Posted on 05/27/2016 8:15:03 AM PDT by CedarDave
During a 65-minute speech in Albuquerque on Tuesday night, Donald Trump laced into New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez.
He blamed her for the state’s economic problems, for the growing number of food stamp recipients and for not doing more to reject Syrian refugees. The billionaire even mused about moving to the state to run for governor himself.
“She’s got to do a better job,” Trump told thousands of supporters, per The Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson. “She’s not doing the job. We’ve got to get her moving. Come on: Let’s go, governor.”
Martinez’s press secretary, Mike Lonergan, responded with a blistering statement: “Apparently, Donald Trump doesn’t realize Governor Martinez wasn’t elected in 2000, that she has fought for welfare reform, and has strongly opposed the President’s Syrian refugee plan. But the pot shots weren’t about policy, they were about politics. And the Governor will not be bullied into supporting a candidate . . . Governor Martinez doesn’t care about what Donald Trump says about her – she cares about what he says he will do to help New Mexicans. She didn’t hear anything about that today.”
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Privately, she’s been more critical. At a fundraiser in the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire David Koch last month, a donor asked about Trump. Martinez acknowledged being deeply offended by Trump’s language about immigrants. “Noting her years working as a prosecutor on the Mexican border and now as a border-state governor, Martinez said Trump’s plan to build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it was unrealistic and irresponsible,” sources told The Post’s Matea Gold and Philip Rucker afterward.
Trump was obviously irked by these and other comments, which is the only plausible explanation for why he went after Martinez.
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There’s a pattern here: Someone from the GOPe hits Trump, Trump hits back, the media accuses Trump of unprovoked “attacks”, Trump’s support goes up.
Yes, the cheering was tremendous by the reddest voters in the state. He needs the purple votes to carry NM in the general. His statements did himself no good for November, true or not.
The irony will be if he loses to Hillary by 4 electoral votes when the 5 EV New Mexican votes would have put him over the top.
Rush is way behind and stuck in the Rino-weeds.
The last thing Trump needs is his blowhard advice. Trump is and always will be Trump. Rush is a dinosaur.
The only people concerned are GOPe members.
My problem would be if the facts were not true. However Martinez has made a mess of New Mexico. So trumps right again.
O Susana has a habit of criticizing things she doesn’t know about.
Typical Establishment lackey.
“Martinez is a total establishment go along.”
Looks like it. Many of us were thinking she’d make a good VP. She has been very vocal about ending DLs for Illegals in NM. Guess that was just tough talk.
All Martinez had to do was show up when Trump came to town.
She made her bed. No tears from me.
“So the gist is she is Hispanic and a woman so she is off-limits”
and that only works if we allow the GOPe PC crowd to dictate terms to the rest of us.
So essentially, don’t criticise Susana Martinez for her many failures as a governour because she has a vagina and a zed on the end of her name.
Not buying it.
Sung to the tune of Oh Susanna
Oh Susanna Rino, I won’t shed a tear for thee.
Either endorse Trump or I will want to spank you over my Knee
The nerve of this woman! She thinks she owns the whole state and everyone in it. From now on, if I’m ever a part of a drunken, rowdy, raucous party, I’ll make sure everyone knows I’m the governor of NM, Susana Martinez.
Thank you, Yogafist, for posting that link.
“The irony will be if he loses to Hillary by 4 electoral votes when the 5 EV New Mexican votes would have put him over the top.”
Without getting into the whole discussion you alluded to, we lose anyway if he gives in to placating the so called purple crowd. That NEVER ends well.
No this is exactly what the voters are fed up with.
Political incompetent is ignored, or suppressed becasue the incompetent is one of the PC media protected classes.
Dead wood needs to be removed, not propped up.
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