Well…Well….
Remember all the talk about the Republicans ALL following their Grand Leader Donald J. Trump to the promised land?
Ah?
THAT has dropped for the ALL part…
With a voter of Trump’s job performance coming in six months…
And a subpar virus performance by the their party leader keeping his poll number’s static…
Group of Conservative Republicans have actually gone public with an ad attacking the big guy….
YES….
An open political civil was is back in the Republican Party !
President Donald Trump late Monday lashed out against a cadre of prominent conservatives seeking to thwart his reelection bid, a group that includes attorney George Conway — the husband of White House adviser, Kellyanne Conway.
The president’s multi-tweet screed came in response to the latest anti-Trump advertisement released earlier Monday by The Lincoln Project, the super PAC launched last December by George Conway and a handful of other disaffected Republicans and former party members.
The ominous, minute-long spot — titled “Mourning in America,” a play on the famous 1984 campaign commercial and slogan of former President Ronald Reagan — savaged the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and questioned: “If we have another four years like this, will there even be an America?”
The ad apparently infuriated the president.
“A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, ‘Morning in America’, doing everything possible to get even for all of their many failures,” Trump wrote online just before midnight on Monday.
“You see, these loser types don’t care about 252 new Federal Judges, 2 great Supreme Court Justices, a rebuilt military, a protected 2nd Amendment, biggest EVER Tax & Regulation cuts, and much more,” the president continued.
Trump went on to assert that he “didn’t use any” of the group’s founders or affiliated advisers in his own presidential campaigns “because they don’t know how to win,” and argued that “their so-called Lincoln Project is a disgrace to Honest Abe.”
“I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad,” Trump wrote of George Conway….
Note…
I still do not understand how KellyAnne Conway keeps her job while her husband keeps chewing on Trump in public…
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While I find their ads pretty good,Trump is essentially right about them.
They have no influence in today’s Republican Party where support for Trump is at 90% and even the small number who don’t support him will like either vote for him anyway, not vote or vote third party or write in(see CG)
They are not in significant numbers going to vote for Biden.
True. But every moment the Trump campaign spends fighting the few Republicans who are actively not supporting him is a moment they are not going after Biden.
Jon Meacham was mentioning the other day that every incumbent President facing reelection in recent times was able to frame his opponent as somehow unacceptable to enough voters in the spring time of the election year.
Clinton was able to tie Dole to Newt Gingrich and the unpopular GOP congress by the time he wrapped up the Republican nomination that spring. Dole resigned his Senate seat in May of 96 to distance himself but the damage was done.
GW Bush was in the process of “swift boating” John Kerry and pics of him windsurfing were all over the news by May of 2004
By May of 2012 the Obama campaign had framed Mitt Romney as the champion of the 1% who considered himself “severely conservative”. I think May was when Trump endorsed Mitt too, for what it’s worth
So in May 2020 how is the GOP framing Biden? They seem to be all over the place. The Ukraine thing didn’t stick. Tara Reade isn’t sticking. He’s old and makes “gaffes”? Trump is old and babbles incomprehensibly.
So far there is nothing they can say about Biden that doesn’t also apply to Trump in spades.
If I had to guess they will fall back on the “he’s a career politician” line to define Biden.
Will that have any reach beyond the 40% hardcore Republicans that would hate every Democratic nominee? With Trump as the incumbent who has surrounded himself with Republican career politicians it’s tough to see it carrying much water with independent or undecided voters.
I agree with all of this.
My point was really directed at James’s overly optimistic assertion that there was now “civil war” in the Republican Party.
The fact that a small number of Republicans and former Republicans are running some commercials does not a”civil war” make and the Republican Party remains the party of Trump,a few renegades notwithstanding.
I stand by the header on this post…
Yesterday it was the rebirth of the word moderate Republican …
Now it’s this…
And we have Graham saying nice things about Biden….
Scott is correct…
The ground under Trump is getting soft…
I grant you not much…
There’s no civil war in the Republican Party.
They either completely support his racist xenophobic Administration or, like McConnell, simply see it as a vehicle to consolidate power.
They would back the Devil for another Supreme Court Justice.
Yeah there is no GOP Civil War. There are skirmishes, which may only be distractions. But they are distractions that are overall helping the Democratic ticket, if only because just being the opposite of the Trumpublican Party is enough for an increasing number of voters now.
Yes, Trump is the Democrats GOTV. So, no need to repeat that endlessly.
Scott you mind me making your comment a post?
I never got the impression the ads were actually directed at Republicans Jack. Most are well done, not as good as the ads done by the Dem super PAC, but good. I think they are directed at the same voter, suburban educated white women, who won us the House back.
Trump appears to be running a small rural county campaign to gin up a massive turnout of the racist Republicans in small town America. Only problem, they are about to be hit by the virus big time.