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Jeff Flake: Trump needs a Republican opponent in 2020
NY Post ^ | March 11, 2018 | 2:14pm | Marisa Schultz

Posted on 03/11/2018 11:24:43 AM PDT by conservative98

WASHINGTON – President Trump should have a conservative challenger in 2020 who believes in free trade, limited government and economic freedom, said outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake.

“I do,” Flake of Arizona responded Sunday when asked if Trump needs an opponent from the right.

“It would be a tough go in a Republican primary. The Republican Party is the Trump party right now. But that’s not to say it will stay that way, ” he said.

Flake, a frequent Trump critic, is retiring from the Senate because he said his traditional conservative views and temperament aren’t accepted in the age of Trump.

“I couldn’t be reelected in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Trump has already announced his 2020 slogan – “Keep America Great!” – in a wide-ranging speech in Saturday in Pennsylvania where he also bashed the media, touted new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and suggested imposing the death penalty on drug dealers.

“We should never normalize this kind of behavior, particularly from the president of the United States,” Flake said. “So I think it does real damage long term to the political culture. It really does.”

Flake this week is traveling to New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, which stoked speculation of a possible presidential bid against Trump.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2020; arizona; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; flake; flakeyflake; jeffflake; marisaschultz; trump; trump2020
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1 posted on 03/11/2018 11:24:43 AM PDT by conservative98
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2 posted on 03/11/2018 11:25:01 AM PDT by conservative98
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Then what would the Democrats do?


3 posted on 03/11/2018 11:26:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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Another one who is just not going to go away. Not smart enough to realize just how out of step he is with real America.


4 posted on 03/11/2018 11:26:48 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.nomi)
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To: conservative98

Come on, Flake, go for it. Put your money where your mouth is.


5 posted on 03/11/2018 11:27:44 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: conservative98

“Flake this week is traveling to New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, which stoked speculation of a possible presidential bid against Trump.”

Jeff Flake running against Donald Trump; essentially a sequel to “Bambi versus Godzilla”.


6 posted on 03/11/2018 11:28:25 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

He’s a Deeper is there ever was one!


7 posted on 03/11/2018 11:28:26 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: conservative98

I still say McQueeg isn't really sick and is just trying to dodge the indictments.

8 posted on 03/11/2018 11:29:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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Oh please PLEASE run, Saint Jeffy! It will be so much fun kicking your snarky pathetic @ss!!!!


9 posted on 03/11/2018 11:31:12 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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McCain would be the ideal GROPElite candidate.

He’d run a better campaign from the grave than he did in 2008.


10 posted on 03/11/2018 11:31:31 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Get ready for Candidate Flake. Coming soon to a presidential primary near you.


11 posted on 03/11/2018 11:32:15 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Yeah and football players need a tackling dummy.


12 posted on 03/11/2018 11:33:38 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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It seems like the jokes write themselves on these dumb Sunday morning talk shows, don’t they?


13 posted on 03/11/2018 11:33:54 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: BradyLS

So, basically, he’s Kasich ...with table manners


14 posted on 03/11/2018 11:34:04 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: conservative98

Flake has chit for brains.

He isn’t running for re-election in Arizona because his polling numbers for the Senate seat there are in the single digits.

And yet, he thinks he can unseat the incumbent president, a member of his own party?

The idiot Flake is delusional.


15 posted on 03/11/2018 11:34:14 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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He can’t be reelected in his party right now because he votes to the left of nancy Pelosi. That has bothing to do with Trump.


16 posted on 03/11/2018 11:36:08 AM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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like who... you??? feh
17 posted on 03/11/2018 11:36:37 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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AZ is being set up right now to elect McSallycain as the next Flake.


18 posted on 03/11/2018 11:38:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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“I couldn’t be reelected or in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Or ever again...


19 posted on 03/11/2018 11:39:48 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Every person in that picture is a POS hated loser.


20 posted on 03/11/2018 11:40:14 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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