Posted on 03/01/2024 7:13:14 AM PST by RandFan
The race to replace Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is laying bare the power struggle between pro-Trump and anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate.
GOP lawmakers aligned closely with the former president are urging any candidate wanting to succeed McConnell to embrace Trump. Other Republican senators want McConnell’s successor to keep a healthy distance from the controversial former president.
McConnell fell out bitterly with former President Trump after the 2020 election and hasn’t spoken to him for more than three years, creating an awkward tension in the party that many GOP senators want to dispel.
But Republicans are divided over how aligned their next leader should be with Trump.
Some, such as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) want to elect a new leader who will be a cheerleader for Trump, flying with the former president to rallies around the country.
“It’s an imperative,” he said. “We got to get somebody now who’s going to energize our base all across the country for Senate Republicans and also going to be able to get on that airplane with Trump and stand up at a rally and say, ‘Listen, we need President Trump to win,’ and be very truthful about it.”
Other Republicans, who point to what they view as Trump’s spotty record endorsing Republican candidates who can actually win Senate seats in November — not to mention Trump’s failure to win re-election in 2020 — want to keep a healthy distance from Trump.
Some of those same Republicans are privately alarmed that Trump last month torpedoed a package of Ukraine funding and border security reforms because he wanted to deny President Biden a political win.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said many Republican senators have endorsed Trump out of a sense of political “self-preservation.”
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My opinion as well.
The RINOs will lose this one
Civil war?
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said many Republican senators have endorsed Trump out of a sense of political “self-preservation.”
“Romney? He sucks! Bad!” Obamaphone Woman, circa 2012.
It’s actually establishment vs the people truth be known
Indeed~~ VERY important to get a Patriot in that spot now!!
If a senator is not pro-Trump at least ideologically, I’d rather just have Democrats in power so this country can reboot. I’m closer to the end of my life than the beginning of it, my kids are brainwashed college-age Democrats who we raised in Portland so they vote for this stuff, and my wife and I live in a nice pro-Trump city in Montana where the opening of hunting season takes precedent over even football games in the Fall.
Let the big cities in the big states fight and riot and I’ll just be here casting a fly on the Big Horn or Yellowstone while eating elk from my freezer.
Just about says it all. We have anti-Republican Republicans. How do you win with those losers?
Given Schumer’s iron grip, we need a knowledgeable man who can reason with Schumer.
That man should not be a Democratic fundraising magnet.
“ It’s actually establishment vs the people truth be known”
Exactly right! It’s gargantuan gangster government vs. We The People.
ABJ - Anyone But John. (Any John)
How about “ends in D” - like Rand or Ted?
It’s a civil war between republicans and Trotskyite NeoCons
As I have said before, the republican caucus in the Senate makes great youtube videos with their hearings. They should be part of the entertainment industry. Great acting, but nothing beyond that.
You cannot reason with Schmukie. You have to defeat him in any way possible. He is a wretched, treasonous scumbag. The GOPe is going to try a Mitch 2.0. Given the fact that Mitch was despised by the base but they made him Minority Leader anyway, l am not optimistic
“stand up at a rally and say, ‘Listen, we need President Trump to win,’ and be very truthful about it.””
A truthful politician? :-) Sounds like a good idea. Good luck.
I missed the sarcasm mark?
Cotton or Barrasro seem best...
“ Given Schumer’s iron grip, we need a knowledgeable man who can reason with Schumer.”
There are no statesmen or reasonable people in leadership of the dems. It’s radical all the way for them as they have pretty much gotten everything they wanted from successive weak kneed Republicans who think losing in the name of “being reasonable “ is somehow a positive.
We are in a cultural war with the left, and there’s no place for the faint of heart in the leadership of the Republican Party.
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