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Centrist Democrat Praises Trump, Won't Vote for Pelosi for Speaker
PJ Media ^ | 11/14/2020 | Rick Moran

Posted on 11/14/2020 5:12:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind



Nancy Pelosi is going about her business during this post-election period, apparently oblivious to the storm that’s raging among her caucus members.

In truth, it isn’t so much that there is much disagreement between radical Democrats and the “moderates.” The problem, as the moderates see it, is “messaging.” The radicals make Democratic proposals sound, well, radical. Centrist Democrats want a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. They prefer to soft-pedal some of the more extreme rhetoric coming from the radicals while embracing the ideas. They don’t want to call it “government-run health care.” They want their health care plan to be “inclusive” and “affordable” and “fair.” Thus is their real intent hidden from the voter.

It worked in a lot of districts and failed in others. But one centrist Democrat had the audacity (or stupidity) to actually praise Donald Trump and says she won’t vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. Rep.Elissa Slotkin of Michigan thinks it’s time to rein in the radicals and bring the party down to earth. Politico posted a long, revealing interview with the congresswoman.

“You know, the one thing I will say about Donald Trump,” Slotkin began, “he doesn’t talk down to anybody. He is who he is, but he doesn’t talk down to anyone. And I think that there is a certain voter out there because of that who identifies with him and appreciates him.”

Slotkin flipped a GOP seat in 2018 and was comfortably ahead in the polls on Election Day. But she ended up winning by half the margin she was projected to. She and other centrist Democrats believe there are lessons to be learned from Trump.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: centrism; democrat; elissaslotkin; pelosi

1 posted on 11/14/2020 5:12:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Vote from Trump as the speaker. He doesn’t have to be a member of congress and is in line to the president.


2 posted on 11/14/2020 5:17:11 PM PST by keving (We the government)
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To: SeekAndFind

If only a half dozen or so Democrats will support a moderate Democrat as Speaker then the Republicans could vote with them and send Nancy to the curb. The alternative is Nancy and the far left wing controlling the House.


3 posted on 11/14/2020 5:17:41 PM PST by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Rep.Elissa Slotkin of Michigan thinks it’s time to rein in the radicals and bring the party down to earth.

I think Ms Slotkin, it may be time to change your party affiliation if you really mean what you say. Legislators who are bent on killing God's creation before and right after birth have been given over to a relationship with the devil. It will take more than words to rein them in . . . try exorcism.

4 posted on 11/14/2020 5:19:21 PM PST by Maudeen (A must listen! https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Rev.1)
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To: kennedy

RE: If only a half dozen or so Democrats will support a moderate Democrat as Speaker then the Republicans could vote with them and send Nancy to the curb.

And who might you say such a person would be?

Can you give us a few names?


5 posted on 11/14/2020 5:19:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bet Ms Slotkin gets put on The List. The more the merrier.


6 posted on 11/14/2020 5:20:15 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, but she isnt a centrist.
Just another pro-abortion extremist, with a 100% planned parenthood record, pretending to be reasonable.


7 posted on 11/14/2020 5:21:04 PM PST by OVERTIME (Another Pro-Abortion extremist.)
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To: SeekAndFind
moderate Democrat

Oxymoron, antonym, etc...

8 posted on 11/14/2020 5:23:32 PM PST by Golden Eagle (List of Cable News Alternatives ----> http://freerepublic.com/~goldeneagle/ <----)
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To: SeekAndFind

Slotkin, like Spanberger, is CIA.


9 posted on 11/14/2020 5:24:20 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

But she voted to impeach him. She needs to peddle her horseshit to another audience.


10 posted on 11/14/2020 5:43:56 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: kennedy

How many dem reps need to switch parties to flip the house? Just tossing it out there.


11 posted on 11/14/2020 5:45:36 PM PST by getitright (Finally- a president who fights back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oooo, dissension in the ranks....


12 posted on 11/14/2020 5:49:55 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: SeekAndFind

l8r


13 posted on 11/14/2020 5:54:15 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: getitright
How many dem reps need to switch parties to flip the house?

Last I heard, the Dem majority was +12. So if 6 or 7 switch (not likely, I know), we own the House.

I expected Pelosi to be challenged for speaker, because of her age and her poor performance in the election, but I expected it to be from AOC and the far left, not moderates. Now I'm starting to realize ANY dem who can enlist 6 other Dems can form a voting bloc that can kill any bill Pelosi puts to a vote.

Any good news I can find is welcome nowadays...

14 posted on 11/14/2020 6:07:56 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are absolutely no “centrist communists...
None...
Zero...

They are all just filthy vermin needing extermination...


15 posted on 11/14/2020 6:36:48 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SeekAndFind
If she's a centrist, I must be off the charts as a conservative. She is not a centrist,..

Maybe in her party, she is ..😀

16 posted on 11/14/2020 7:07:14 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Dems can't win fairly, so they have to cheat! Election reform NOW!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Communists ready to release plans for new world order CCP nods.


17 posted on 11/15/2020 9:44:20 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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