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Talk radio's Laura Ingraham eyes Senate bid
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/15/2017 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 01/15/2017 10:36:21 AM PST by simpson96

The queen of conservative talk radio, Laura Ingraham, is eyeing a Senate run in Virginia and a challenge to Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine.

Knowledgeable sources said that several party insiders have approached the media giant to run and that she is considering it.

In preparation for a bid, her business partner, Peter Anthony, has begun buying website domains for Ingraham to use should she decide to move forward. It includes: ingrahamsenate.net, ingrahamsenate.com, ingrahamforvirginia.com and ingraham2018.com.

Ingraham wouldn't comment on any run.

While it would be considered an uphill fight, Ingraham brings her well-known personality and several influential backers to a race that could translate into immediate media and fundraising opportunities.

Ingraham also would come to the race with a powerful media enterprise behind her. Besides her popular radio show, she also heads the news site Lifezette.com.

What's more, she is close to President-elect Trump and was even rumored to be in the running for White House press secretary, a job given to Trump adviser and longtime Republican spokesman Sean Spicer. He is also the incoming White House communications director.

The Republican primary could be crowded. Both Reps. Barbara Comstock and Dave Brat are considering a bid, and Brat has already been singled out by Kaine as a top challenger. And there are reports that former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, a 2010 California Senate candidate, also wants to run in Virginia.

Ingraham, a Fox News contributor and former Supreme Court clerk, is also a New York Times bestselling author who has earned a reputation for delivering zingers. In fact, one of her books is titled Of Thee I Zing.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 115th; bedard; fiorina; ingraham; lauraingraham; relee; talkradio; timkaine; va2018; virginia
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To: Cowboy Bob

Does Fiorina reside in Virginia?

I don’t think so.


41 posted on 01/15/2017 1:04:43 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: simpson96

Fiorina is a resident of Washington D. C.

Residence: Los Altos Hills, Washington, D.C.


42 posted on 01/15/2017 1:07:54 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: spintreebob

You forget the GOP had the added baggage of McDonnell’s corruption allegations along with a fake Libertarian candidate designed to take votes from Republicans while serving McAwful.


43 posted on 01/15/2017 1:11:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: simpson96

Ingraham worked for the U.S. Supreme Court. I believe under Scalia. A bright gal.


44 posted on 01/15/2017 1:21:39 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: simpson96

Laura would kick ass


45 posted on 01/15/2017 1:24:20 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Imagine that)
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To: tennmountainman; fieldmarshaldj

Excuses, excuses.

The lesson is the good people in Va, the conservatives, the FReepers, must not depend on somebody else. They, their candidate’s campaign, need to build the organization.

I’ve been in 3rd party efforts. They become a threat when the people who care are ignored by other people who care.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda


46 posted on 01/15/2017 1:38:33 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: pugmama

I think KellyAnne Conway should run for President! Although, Laura would be good as well, and tough!


47 posted on 01/15/2017 2:03:48 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: relee

“play well with others”

Times are different! The GOPe “played well” by caving on most, if not all, issues. And YOU want MORE of this!? We want fighters! FIGHTERS! Lead, follow, or get out of the way!


48 posted on 01/15/2017 2:06:38 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: spintreebob

No excuses, just stating facts. Cuccinelli had a difficult situation. Had McDonnell stayed out of trouble, Cuccinelli could very well have eased into the Governorship.

A bad political environment for a given party can sink excellent candidates. Ronald Reagan was planning to run for the U.S. Senate at the conclusion of his two terms as Governor, but the Watergate debacle poisoned the well for GOP candidates and he chose not to run against incumbent Alan Cranston in 1974, a race he probably would’ve lost.


49 posted on 01/15/2017 2:42:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

When the D turnout is exactly the same as previously and the R turnout is 80,000 less lack of GOTV is obvious.

I’ve worked elections since 1962 for and against candidates where others in the same party had baggage. Others with baggage has never been a problem when the candidate had a smart campaign with GOTV being an important part of a smart campaign. A candidate can always separate from the predecessors... if a smart campaign is run.

It is quite different than when the candidate has the baggage.

We lose because we are too quick with lame excuses. When I was in sales, lame excuses were unacceptable. In IT lame excuses are unacceptable in well run shops.


50 posted on 01/15/2017 4:48:17 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: simpson96; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; randita; ...

Kaine needs to go.

But first, we need to win the VA Governorship (and LT Governorship, and AG) this November.


51 posted on 01/15/2017 8:46:08 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: simpson96

To many Washington DC libs have moved to Northern Virginia!


52 posted on 01/16/2017 2:29:37 AM PST by longhorn too
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To: Impy

McAuliffe has a couple of unsavory and unethical scandals (if not illegal) scandals dogging him. He has a lot of questions to answer.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/30/virginia-lawmakers-pressure-mcauliffe-over-greentech-scandal/

http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/mcauliffe-fbi-hillary-payoff-scandal-explodes/


53 posted on 01/16/2017 5:12:00 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: spintreebob

I strongly disagree with your point that a candidate “can always separate from the predecessors.” When there is a negative climate against the party and an unpopular incumbent, no matter how “smart” a campaign is run, it is extraordinarily difficult to overcome that. As one who has researched countless campaigns, I can attest to that. You can almost predict like clockwork the likely victor based on that formula, and very few buck it.

I will say that Cuccinelli’s contest had two competing formulas. Based on history, he should’ve won. Since 1977, every victor hailed from the opposite party to that in the White House. However, he ran up against McDonnell’s baggage and the Democrat chicanery related to the Libertarian nominee. This year, those two formulas will be on display again, the Dems should have an advantage with Trump as President, but they have a corrupt and unpopular Dem incumbent in McAuliffe. If the formula of 2013 holds, the GOP should prevail.


54 posted on 01/16/2017 8:47:06 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Angels27

Maybe the Trump administration can stop the voter corruption in and about Fairfax County.


55 posted on 01/16/2017 8:56:13 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: DOC44

Kaine was obviously one of the worst V.P. nominees ever; wonder what the silly Virginians ever saw in him?


56 posted on 01/16/2017 8:57:36 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: relee

Maybe she’s a one-termer who goes on to something else—governorship, president, whatever.

To be effective in the Senate coming out of 2018 you need to be a reliable conservative vote who helps to get Trump to 60 votes when needed. I have no question she would provide that.

She also immediately would be one of if not the best communicators in the Senate.


57 posted on 01/16/2017 9:03:35 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: simpson96

i best remember her as our keynote speaker at FRiva Las Vegas back in the day (2004?)


58 posted on 01/16/2017 9:32:23 AM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: simpson96

She’d get my vote!


59 posted on 01/17/2017 7:06:30 AM PST by FES0844 (G)
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To: simpson96

She’d be a great Senator.


60 posted on 01/17/2017 12:46:56 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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