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McConnell backs Murkowski’s reelection, bucking pro-Trump challenger
washingtontimes.com ^ | 4/19/22 | Mica Soellner

Posted on 04/19/2022 2:03:58 PM PDT by cotton1706

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is fighting to fend off a pro-Trump challenger to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, flooding airwaves with ads defending the Alaska Republican’s record.

The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC associated with Mr. McConnell, said Monday that it booked more than $7 million worth of ad time in Alaska to boost Ms. Murkowski.

“It’s important for Lisa to be reelected. She’s one of the few … moderates in the middle of the Senate,” Mr. McConnell told Axios this week.

The GOP leader added that Ms. Murkowski had been a “key player” to advance bipartisan legislation and that he would do everything in his power to ensure her success in November.

Ms. Murkowski, 64, is fending off a primary challenge from Kelly Tshibaka, who received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; alaska; assistantdemocrat; assistantdemocrats; beijingmitch; cocainemitch; election2022; election2024; elections; electionses; electionz; electionzzz; elekchunz; gopestablishment; kellytshibaka; kentucky; lisamurkowski; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; murkowski; nevertrumpers; postturtle; rino; rinos; tds; tennessee; thefixisin; trump; tshibaka; uniparty; yertle
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

McConnell delivers the pork!
Kentuckians like WV’ians like their pork and government cheese! That makes politicos in those environments hard to dislodge.


41 posted on 04/19/2022 2:31:38 PM PDT by Reily
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To: cotton1706

You can bet your booties that since they have no candidate, the Dems will vote for her hot and heavy.


42 posted on 04/19/2022 2:32:06 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: cotton1706

McConnell is the head stink in the Republican DC swamp. I believe his only interest is maintaining the power of Congre$$.


43 posted on 04/19/2022 2:34:59 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: cotton1706

Republicans have got to get rid of McConnell.


44 posted on 04/19/2022 2:36:12 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --Saint Teresa of Avila)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
If the Republicans take back the senate and keep this swamp rat as their leader they won't hold the senate for long. This lowlife has been in the senate while America got screwed over and over again. He either helped the democrats or did nothing to stop them. Republicans better rebel against the party if this lowlife is nominated to lead the party.
45 posted on 04/19/2022 2:36:52 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: cotton1706

Proof positive that there is ONE party in DC.
If the Republican leadership truly sought to advance the agendas they run on, they would work to vote her out, as she is generally one of the group that bails every time any degree of victory is within our grasp.
Instead, the old turtle just shakes his head sadly, and tells the voters that they were so close, but will keep trying.
Spit.


46 posted on 04/19/2022 2:38:59 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: cotton1706

Now why isn’t he just saying that we can’t be backing people that can’t get elected.


47 posted on 04/19/2022 2:40:14 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: cotton1706

Does anyone know what her numbers look like ...seems they were pretty bad!!!


48 posted on 04/19/2022 2:41:04 PM PDT by ontap
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To: DoodleDawg

You removed the context; the endorsement was specifically against McGrath. And later on, Trump made a point of saying that McConnell would not have won without that endorsement.


49 posted on 04/19/2022 2:42:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MercyFlush

Exactly


50 posted on 04/19/2022 2:43:34 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: cotton1706
“It’s important for Lisa to be reelected. She’s one of the few manymoderates assistant Democrats in the middle of the Senate,” Mr. McConnell told Axios this week.
51 posted on 04/19/2022 2:44:38 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: cotton1706

I’m not saying Murkowski shouldn’t be primaried and soundly defeated, but I will say that in a 50-50 senate with dems desperately looking for any way of advancing their agenda at any cost, a bitter and unwanted Murkowski on her way out of office with nothing to lose can be incredibly dangerous. Would she trade votes on HR1 (nationalizing elections to ensure dems win) and whatever budget busting spending the dems want in exchange for say... a cabinet position as Secretary of Energy or something like that? Absolutely she would.


52 posted on 04/19/2022 2:45:02 PM PDT by jz638
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To: jz638
"I’m not saying Murkowski shouldn’t be primaried and soundly defeated...."

There is no such thing as a primary, in the conventional sense of the word, in Alaska anymore thanks to Rigged Choice Voting. Murkowski is *guaranteed* to be on the November ballot unless she dies prior to that time.

Then, in the much-less-than-likely chance she is defeated, she and the rest of her fellow Democrats will only have from November through the end of the session to get their legislation passed. That's more than enough of course, but not as much as if she were defeated in the August "primary".

53 posted on 04/19/2022 2:56:34 PM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: cotton1706
Both Murk and McC need to retire......

I don't know how corrupt Murk is....but I know NcC is up to his ears CORRUPT!!!!!

54 posted on 04/19/2022 3:00:49 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Vigilanteman
He just isn't a back-stabbing swamp creature in the mold of Romney or Liz Cheney, so I guess we should be grateful for that, eh?

SHEEEEETTTT they are all dog sheet.

55 posted on 04/19/2022 3:02:40 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Osage Orange

She voted to confirm KBJ. That ought to be all one needs to know.


56 posted on 04/19/2022 3:12:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cotton1706
Murky's vote for the idiot SCOTUS sista who doesn't know the difference between male/female tells me that she is so far underwater in the Senate race that there is nothing that can save her.

If it was a close race, no way would she have cast that vote.

57 posted on 04/19/2022 3:22:54 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: joma89
"The uniparty always protects its own."

Exactly

58 posted on 04/19/2022 3:31:47 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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To: cotton1706

Voting for RINOs is worse than voting for the Demonrats because RINOs are the enemies inside the gate ready to stab you in the back.


59 posted on 04/19/2022 3:34:01 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Rdct29; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

16 years this guy has been Senate leader. Nobody needs to serve that long unless they’re indispensable. McConnell has been anywhere from subpar to terrible. That he needs a contingent of destructive left-wing RINOs to support his leadership role shows he needs to be deposed ASAFP.


60 posted on 04/19/2022 3:55:26 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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