Posted on 04/08/2017 11:05:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Vice President Pence is stepping into Kansas's special House election, recording a robocall urging Republican voters to cast their ballots for the party's congressional nominee on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported on Friday.
The robocall comes amid shaky support for Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes, who is running against Democrat James Thompson to fill the House seat vacated by Mike Pompeo, who is now President Trump's CIA director.
President Trump won Kansas's 4th District by almost 30 points in November. But Democrats in the district have been energized by the president's low-approval ratings and controversies in his first months in office, leaving Republicans sweating over whether they will be able to hold the seat.
"Ron's run a horrible campaign," a Kansas Republican operative told the Examiner. "Hasn't raised much money, his ads are abysmal — no energy. It's a low turnout special and weird things happen."
Pence isn't the only high-profile Republican to step in to try to aid Estes. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is expected to make an appearance in Kansas' 4th District on Monday, according to the Kansas City Star.
Another special House race in Georgia's 6th District also has Republicans scrambling for a win. Democrat Jon Ossoff has gained a high-profile in the district and is leading Republican candidates in polls to fill the House seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
Oh, and speaking of ad hominem, have a look in the mirror. You need some practice sticking to the issue, and leaving petty personal barbs out of it.
Yes, now I see that was Lakeshark. His flame bait started the tired old argument that you continued. The rest of us look forward to Trump working with conservatives in various ways. I said before and after the election that the main conservative accomplishment of Trump was to give conservatives some breathing room. Case in point is Gorsuch who will give us at least two decades of legally sound rulings.
Agree.
Bashing the Freedom Caucus, Kushner/Goldman Sachs, Tillerson going to Moscow with "evidence," and now Haley calling for "regime change" are very disturbing developments.
But it is far too early to abandon Trump at this point. By September we should have a good idea where the Trump Train is heading.
Let's hope for the best.
Eeyore Lives!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEZE that is not happening.
The never trumpers crazies never point out the source of the post is a joke and just Dem propaganda.
They never got over their defeat and side with the Hillary and Shummer to take down Trump .
“With the direction of the Trump admin...]
I could not disagree with your assessment more.
180 days ago, the DC political-class was crushed with a historic loss to an outsider that sent shockwaves that are still reverberating under foot. Republicans and democrats alike reeled in their new reality, that an outsider would now have access to all of their crooked information and the ability to discard their sacred cows nad expose them for what they are.
100 days into this administration, they have yet to confirm the majority of the President’s cabinet.
The activist courts have sprung into action to preserve the status quo and nullify the people’s will.
The media have been engaged in a constant onslaught of drivel, whining and negativity since election night. Tax returns, Ivanka, and Russia, Russia, Russia!
Through it all, Trump has stayed focused, delivering win after win after win, all while exposing the fact that the government espionage apparatus was used directly against him as a private citizen, then candidate, and then candidate-elect.
The prior administration has all but fled the country for crying out loud!
I for one will not miss ANY elections and will do my level best to not abandon the new president on the field of battle.
Republican fecklessness aside, your comments strike me as the words of a coward.
Agree with everything you said. I actually witnessed a dump-on-Trump poster yesterday citing the Boston Globe.
The Leftist, lying, Fake News, Communist-supporting Boston Globe.
The mind reels.
What is more, a fellow dump-on-Trump poster concurred with the anti-Trump propaganda shilled in the Globe article. Smh.
Someone called what’s happening mass hysteria; they hit the nail on the head.
I seem to remember that during the primaries you were a Trump supporter.
I will need to go back and check
1. Obamacare has not been repealed - Now it is Trump's Rinocare
2. The economy cannot pick-up steam until tax cuts , tax cut cannot occur until Trump's Rinocare is repealed
3. Why vote for RINOs in special elections or in 2018 - See Trump's Rinocare repeal
4. In Houston, we have THREE RINO congress-criters that we are hopping to Primary - Congress-critter POE being the latest to abandon his "conservative" freedom Caucus pledge
Thank you. Recognizing the source is always shrewd.
Thank you for that update Nancy.
Can ONE freeper reading this mention right off the bat the name of the Chair of the national committee? The one who took Prince Rebus' place? Do you even know what this Chair looks like or have you ever seen this Chair on the tube pumping for the Republican Party?
I think the answer would be in the negative for all my above questions.
Leni
$2 millon, no, more than $6.5 million, thanks to his leftist masters around the country.
You would think after he was humiliated by the election results, he would turn off the snobbery and long-winded posts.
Nah! Just tack that photo to the end of every post and for some reason he thinks it makes it a sound argument.
He’s now back to shooting off his mouth.
You called it. The NeverTrumpers have been waiting for something like the Tomahawk strike ever since Trump blew Cruz off the map. Now that they supposedly have proof that Trump is a ‘bad man,’ they will hang on to their dump-on-Trump narrative with a death-grip. It’s sad to see.
Speaking of the photo, let’s see if we can get a reaction. The real Nathan Bedford was an early member of the KKK.
How’s that?
I see - REPEAL is not in your vocabulary. I addition another Fed. G'ment Welfare program - be it called healthcare bill is a "bamboozle"
Are you sure you are on the proper WEB site?
People who like living on Fed. G'mnet Welfare usually / normally stay on DU
I agree....”The HIll” was dead wrong on the Trump POTUS victory!!! And....they are dead wrong on these three (3) congressional campaigns. The Democrat Party is killing itself off. Nationwide: Republicans 40%, Independents 40%, Democrats 20% and declining!!! Pubbies...get out and vote in these special elections, or lose the country to the low life Democrat Scum and Vermin Obamabots. Obama, himself is on the lam...hiding out in foreign lands!!! What American with a functioning brain would ever cast a vote for a deadbeat useless, anti-American Democrat!!!
Americans, all, support our great POTUS, Donald J. Trump!!!
The Rs are sweating in the GA 6th district, too. This is the seat vacated by Tom Price when he became HHS secretary.
Obama would routinely arrest and then RELEASE illegals into the general population. He also would almost NEVER employ an operation to seriously round up illegals. Every once in a while he would employ an operation strictly for PR.
Under Trump even the ATTEMPTS to enter the country illegally has dropped sharply, along with the arrests and detention (as opposed to simply being arrested and then released) have increased sharply.
Simply having strong border security will in and of itself solve the problem while the routine ongoing raids to apprehend those illegally here will accelerate the success of the effort by Trump.
WOW! By 100 votes...pfft cake to the rats, they find 100+fake votes to swing the election over to crooked left! By hook or crook!!
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