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GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card
Axios ^ | May 11, 2022 | Jonathan Swan

Posted on 05/11/2022 6:03:46 PM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020

Influential Republicans in Washington and among the nationwide party elite are having a belated "oh s--t" moment over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party's nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Why it matters: In Barnette, who's been soaring in the polls ahead of Tuesday's primary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would be dealing with a general election candidate who'd be an opposition researcher's dream — potentially endangering the GOP effort to take back the Senate.

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


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To: joma89

So Kathy wins the primary and loses the actual election? Good plan.


21 posted on 05/11/2022 6:56:32 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: sam_whiskey

she runs good ads professionally made with the money she has. O’Donnell had $10 million+ and made ads that looked like they were recorded in her basement and put together using Windows media player by an amateur...she could have hired the best media marketing company in the business to run her media campaign and she did not...Barnette I doubt will be running ads saying “I’m not a witch!” either.


22 posted on 05/11/2022 7:10:34 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

23 posted on 05/11/2022 7:11:09 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

No glory in winning if the Senate is full of Rino’s.


24 posted on 05/11/2022 7:18:24 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

The Uniparty is in panic mode. They know that the people may not want any more of their BS.


25 posted on 05/11/2022 7:20:31 PM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: Alberta's Child

“ What would that be? I’ll vote for her if she’s the nominee, but she’s got the weakest resume I’ve seen for a political candidate in years. ”

Exactly right.

She’s a great person but not ready for a Senate run. Watch her performance in the debates and you might see what I am saying.


26 posted on 05/11/2022 8:02:45 PM PDT by jdsteel (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

This Axios article is exactly why discerning Freepers often don’t read entire articles that are linked. I read this whole thing. It was vapid. The headline WAS the article.

I want 5 minutes of my life back. (At my age, that’s not a negligible percentage.)


27 posted on 05/11/2022 8:03:54 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

McConnell has done nothing to try and take the Senate majority. He slammed Trump and MAGA and offers no resistance to the Rats.

Time for a change.


28 posted on 05/11/2022 8:10:40 PM PDT by stratboy
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To: No Left Turn

Just the ones made of carpet.


29 posted on 05/11/2022 9:10:58 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: packagingguy

She’s the real deal.


30 posted on 05/11/2022 9:11:53 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: Steamburg

https://nitter.net/JackPosobiec/status/1524573824229986304#m


31 posted on 05/11/2022 9:16:15 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Like Trump the only people who hate her more than the Dems is the Repubs.


32 posted on 05/11/2022 9:35:39 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: packagingguy
But even in those early Tweets she said she was conservative.
They all say that.
33 posted on 05/11/2022 11:00:08 PM PDT by lewislynn ((Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020?)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Do your homework, people of Pa. It’s a lot worse than a couple tweets calling Trump names. After doing mine, I fully understand why Trump backed Oz. Look up her tweet history.


34 posted on 05/12/2022 1:56:42 AM PDT by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: thefactor

The same was said about one Donald Trump in 2015. Nice job being a defeatist. Glad I never played on a sports team with you.


35 posted on 05/12/2022 2:40:55 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89
That's a tad dramatic, IMHO.

Would you rather a "RINO" win a Senate seat and vote with R's 93% of the time or a D win the seat and vote with R's 0% of the time?

36 posted on 05/12/2022 3:13:29 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: McGruff

Could “Team Mitch” big ally be sent to the showers? I certainly hope so, for good. What a weasel/turtle..


37 posted on 05/12/2022 3:39:28 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Does she do more than talk a good game?

Do any of them?

38 posted on 05/12/2022 4:11:03 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Republicans 2016 2020
potentially endangering the GOP effort to take back the Senate.

My BS filter is on. Yes, the GOP-e is having an "Oh Sheeeeet!" moment, and it will continue to happen. No, it does not endanger taking back the Senate.

39 posted on 05/12/2022 6:46:19 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: thefactor

Again, you assume she will lose as an argument for going with the RINO candidate who you then assume will win (or at least has a better chance of winning) This is a strawman argument which is why I noted the same was said about Donald Trump who was assumed to lose in the general election as an argument for folks to not vote for him in the primary. It is also why I am glad I never played team sports with you since you have a defeatist viewpoint and that is not dramatic. You assume the better candidate for us will lose while the worse candidate may not.

FYI, an 80 to 1 long shot just won the Kentucky derby.

By the way, I have a secret service friend who was so sure killery would win, he quit the presidential detail for a secret service job in North Carolina. Boy was he not happy when Trump won. Of course, he did his best to support Trump from North Carolina but could never get back to presidential detail and is now stuck in North Carolina.


40 posted on 05/12/2022 7:09:39 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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