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Former Black RNC Chair urges Trump supporters to leave GOP: ‘There’s the door’
news.yahoo.com ^ | 2/22/21 | Blue Telusma

Posted on 02/23/2021 6:58:22 AM PST by cotton1706

Michael Steele has been vocal in his reservations about Trump

This week, former chair of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele has made it clear that he would have no problem with vocal Trump supporters leaving the GOP altogether to organize an entirely new political party.

“You’ve got the national [Republican] leadership making their way down to Mar-a-Lago [Trump’s residence in Florida] to confer with Trump,” Steele pointed out Monday morning during a segment on MSNBC. The former GOP leader praised Republican Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for taking a stand against the former president’s movement.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; lincolnproject
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To: cotton1706

Trump got more of the Black vote w/o steele than the GOP got with Steele, hmmm


41 posted on 02/23/2021 7:28:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: cotton1706

Steele was/is a nerver Trumper and always was. If I remember right, he also voted for Obama so Steele is hardly someone to tell other Republicans what to do.


42 posted on 02/23/2021 7:31:06 AM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: cotton1706

Never forget that he ONLY got the RNC job because of Affirmative Action - it was the RNC response to Obama being sworn-in a week earlier, in 2009.

He was (and is) a disaster. Something to consider when being pushed to use AA types.


43 posted on 02/23/2021 7:33:55 AM PST by BobL
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To: cotton1706

Steele is dreaming. RINOs like him are the ones who need to leave. This is Trump’s party now.


44 posted on 02/23/2021 7:35:12 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: cotton1706

Why should 95% of the party leave?

That is retarded

Maybe the 5% of GOPee Bush, Romney and Never Trumpers should leave and create their own loser party

We should not give up our party to the minority because they don’t want us

We should push them out and tell them all to f themselves, politely


45 posted on 02/23/2021 7:48:52 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: cotton1706

Two word response that begins with “F” and ends with “u”


46 posted on 02/23/2021 7:49:11 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: 1Old Pro

Trump got more of the Black vote w/o steele than the GOP got with Steele, hmmm


Not disagreeing with you, but I believe pandering for the black vote was a waste of our time and resources.

I have no problem putting up a strong candidate in predominantly black urban areas to give them a choice in the election. I believe we should never give the dems unopposed seats. However nationally the pander a thon for black votes by Trump was disgusting and I believe it cost him blue collar white male votes.

It was another Trap that President Trump fell for


47 posted on 02/23/2021 7:52:34 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: cotton1706

When was the last time Michael Steele voted for a Republican?

Decades ago.

He was a token - which proves why tokens and other false picks are a mistake.


48 posted on 02/23/2021 7:53:32 AM PST by GOPJ (Was Jussie Smollett working for "Homeland Security" when he faked a hate crime?)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Yep, it never pays off, but his great economy made it an easy sale for the thoughtful Blacks who wanted job opportunities and understood conservative economics.


49 posted on 02/23/2021 7:54:29 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: cotton1706
Michael Steele is getting jiggy Whiggy with it.
50 posted on 02/23/2021 7:54:49 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: cotton1706

Sorry buddy, but if the party is to succeed, they need to reflect the values of the people they want to represent.

We’ve had three decades of “lesser evil” elections, which is the sort of election this man seems comfortable with, and we’ve scraped bottom. The jobs are gone, we have no privacy, and there are Chinese spies all over the place. Its time to change course.


51 posted on 02/23/2021 7:57:26 AM PST by BlackAdderess (IMO Congress is a symptom whereas K Street is the problem)
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To: cotton1706

Mr. Steele,

I’ll be voting against my RINO congress critter in the general if he isn’t primaried out.


52 posted on 02/23/2021 7:59:30 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cotton1706

We make them leave.


53 posted on 02/23/2021 7:59:48 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: Leep
Not to be confused with a steel tool.

But easy to confuse with a stool.

54 posted on 02/23/2021 8:00:08 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: cotton1706

They want us to leave. They only represent 3% of the GOP. We make them leave.


55 posted on 02/23/2021 8:00:48 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: BobL

Steel was the ‘guilty white conservative elite’ choice.

It was shameful... there’s no more real way to say ‘I’m a racist’ than to vote for a black person because they’re black. (Same with voting for a white person because they’re ‘white’.) Steel didn’t prove the point we weren’t racist - he proved the point our conservative elites WERE guilty white conservative racists...

Steel’s appointment proved our ‘elites’ are almost as bad as white liberal ‘elites’... One in six black men voted for Trump. They’re with us... Steel was NEVER with us... he played his race card for advantage. Period.


56 posted on 02/23/2021 8:01:34 AM PST by GOPJ (Was Jussie Smollett working for "Homeland Security" when he faked a hate crime?)
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To: 1Old Pro

They were going to vote Trump anyways

Now if Trump gained 40% of the black vote, he would be president today, and his efforts would have paid off

But that didn’t happen, he got a 3 point bump, big freakin deal

It also tells us that no amount of pandering is going to help us with that voting block

We are better of ignoring it

Or presenting the issues that would appeal to them in a non racial context, like school choice, jobs, economic freedom, stuff like that, like he did in 2016

Honestly he should have stayed to his all American 2016 campaign, Trump rarely talked about race, but the issues, I think that helped him more because even though the militant commie blacks think about everything under the lens of race, there are still a lot of blacks who don’t believe everything is racial and want to be spoken to as an American, not as a black man. There is a big difference in that approach.

I hated Trump’s 2020 campaign of everything is about race, it sucked and I believe it chased away a lot of blue collar voters only to gain a couple points of black voters. It was dumb


57 posted on 02/23/2021 8:05:18 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Don’t disagree, he may have thought it would help with “diversity” moms, but it hurt there as well.


58 posted on 02/23/2021 8:06:59 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: cotton1706

He’s a not-so-secret demonrat, of course he’d love for conservative voters to get lost.


59 posted on 02/23/2021 8:08:14 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 1Old Pro

The problem with race is that he isn’t going to attract the militants who think everything is about race.

If he stayed in on his 2016 message of including all in his speeches, he would have done better. Majority of Americans want to look beyond skin color, only the radicals think everything is about race. However this small minority is very vocal and their skreed gets printed or published online all the time. So some people think it is problem, even though they themselves have never witnessed it, ever.

Instead of talking about race, he should have talked about school choice, that is an issue that is big in the inner city and also in rural and suburban areas as well, not all rural and suburban areas are wealthy with great schools. Failing schools exist in those areas as well.

Problem is Trump allowed the democrats define the 2020 election, and of course, they are going to pick race and inequality, minimum wage to be the issues they can win on.

Trump should have made it early about School Choice, like he did in 2016 about immigration and American Jobs. 2016 was about immigration and American jobs, and he won by making it the issue, if Hillary would have made 2016 about race, minimum wage and inequality, she would have won. But she was lazy and allowed Trump to define the 2016 issues.


60 posted on 02/23/2021 8:16:51 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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