THAT is what the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee said on Fox News today….
The Republican Senator from Florida , Rick Scott, said the Grand ole’ party is the ‘voter’s party’…..(He also said straight up Biden won…’absolutely‘)
Now most Republican voters seem to like the guy that just lost the Presidential election…
So?
Does Donald Trump agree?
Does he give a hoot about Republicans getting elected?
Or?
Does he just care about allegiance to him and making money?
But Scott’s remarks to host Chris Wallace also underscored the tense intraparty disputes he is navigating as he leads the GOP effort to retake the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.
Asked by Wallace whether the Republican Party is “still Donald Trump’s party,” Scott replied that the GOP is “the voters’ party” and “always has been.”
Scott said he spoke to Trump “about a week ago, and I told him, ‘This is my job. My job is to help Republican senators win all across the country.’”
The NRSC chair reported that the former president “made a commitment to me to help me do that,” adding: “I believe he’s going to be helpful, but I think other Republicans are going to be helpful.”
And despite Trump’s threats to support primary challenges to certain GOP officials — including those as high-ranking as Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), who is up for reelection in 2022 — Scott stressed that he would back incumbent Republicans in the midterm races.
“I am supporting every Republican incumbent in all the Senate races. So I believe all of our incumbents are going to win,” he said.
Scott also did not hesitate to declare that Biden had won the presidency fair and square last November, although he did say there were “people that believe we’ve got to focus on making sure people feel comfortable that elections are fair.”
Scott’s interview came after he appeared Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, where he said in a speech that he would not “mediate” debates among Republicans over Trump’s role in the party….
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday argued that despite former President Trump’s continued popularity among the GOP, the Republican Party’s “policies are what’s even more popular.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked the retiring senator about Trump’s apparent return to the political arena with a Sunday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), noting that fellow GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) has said that the Republicans cannot win without the former president.
“Well, he’s very popular among Republicans, and the polling shows that. I do think that the policies are what’s even more popular,” Portman said….
More caution against Donald Trump’s future….
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) predicted Sunday that former President Trump would not be the party’s nominee for president in 2024, pointing to the number of seats lost by Republicans in the House and Senate over the four years Trump was in office.
Speaking with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Cassidy was asked several times whether he would support Trump should he run in 2024 or back him if he wins the GOP nomination, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would last week.
“That’s a theoretical that I don’t think will come to pass,” Cassidy responded, adding, “I don’t mean to duck, but the truth is you could ask me [about] a lot of people, if they are fit. Point is, I don’t think he’ll be our nominee.”
“Political campaigns are about winning,” the senator added before pointing to the loss of GOP control of the House, Senate and White House under the former president.
“That has not happened in a single four years under a president since Herbert Hoover,” Cassidy said….
top image…Sen. Rick Scott, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. | John Raoux/AP Photo
bottom image…Sen. Portman…Toledo Blade
“Now most Republicans seem to like the guy who lost the last presidential election.”
See James that’s the key for me and, I imagine ,most of the other posters here.
You can “quote” all these Republican politicians you want(we do know that often their talk is meaningless and when Trump growls they quickly fall back in line,look out Rick Scott!Niiki ,has Trump agreed to see you yet ,so you can ahem “clarify” your remarks.)
What matters are the Voters.
So when the polls show Trump down to 50% or so among Republican voters?Then there’s something to talk about.
But various pronouncements from Rick Scott,Nikki Haley et al?Keep em coming and I will read them,snicker to myself, and move on.
The Trump numbers continues to drop…
You have some REPUBLICANS saying out LOUD the party should step AWAY from ‘him’….
You have Trump staff members begging the guy to Support the party ….
Not just him….
Things are bleeding Jack….
Again?
Democrat’s NEED GOPer’s to keep under his spell!
james says “Democrat’s NEED GOPer’s to keep under his spell!”
Who disagrees?
I disagree. Republicans can continue to be completely beholden to Trump or they can go another way.
Democrats have the majority of Americans on their side regardless.
I have never been a supporter of the idea that you should support the Evil candidate or faction in a party that you oppose.
There’s a ghastly, horrible example of world-historical importance in the attitude of the Communists towards Hitler and the Social Democrats during the “Third Period” between roughly 1928 and 1933-4 (until reality woke them up in a concentration camp).
Stalin (partly because of his own domestic personal, factional and ideological battles within the Soviet Communist Party) declared that “in reality, Fascism and Social Democracy are not enemies but twins” — in fact opposing the Social Democrats more fiercely than the Nazis. The German Communists did the same when the Social Democrats (SPD) and their trade unions were allying with bourgeois democratic parties to forestall the rise of Hitler. When the SPD supported, the sitting President Hindenburg for President against Hitler in 1932, the Communists put up their own candidate (Ernst Thaelmann) on the argument that “not a dime’s worth of difference” separated Hitler and Hindenburg. (Hindenburg later caved to Hitler but that’s another story.)
Even in 1934 in Union Square, New York, the Communists violently broke up a broad but Socialist-organized rally supporting Austrian workers against the clerico-fascist régime of Engelbert Dollfuss.
Eventually, Stalin and the Communist International realized that implicitly helping the far right against the middle was a recipe not only for disaster but for annihilation.
¶ So (history lesson over, kids) I cannot at all agree with James’ cheering on our proto-fascist (or fascistoid) former President against more-moderate Republicans who still believe in, support and uphold the Constitution of the United States against all enemies.
And, to add my usual more-recent examples,
¶ liberal Democrats in California supported right-wing Republican Cong. Clair Burgener against Tom Metzger after Metzger had won a poorly-attended Democratic primary
¶ moderate Republicans supported (corrupt) Dem. Governor Edwin Edwards of Louisiana when the GOP voters nominated David Duke, and
¶ French socialists supported right-wing Gaullist Pres. Jacques Chirac when he was challenged by Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front.
Smart non-zombie Republicans…
So let me get this straight…
You believe Republicans are turning away from Trump and that distresses you because you want them to stay with Trump but I am wrong because I think they’re staying with Trump even though that what’s you want them to do so they will continue “bleeding.”
Really is that what you’re trying to say?
I think that is what he is trying to say.
Guys?
All I’m trying to say is Trump screws things up….
He almost ALWAYS DOES….
If?….
He continues to co-op the Republican Party?
And THAT results in a broken party?
(You will say it Trump’s party till the last die hard quits him)
THAT IS DAMN Good for Democrats….
I understand DSD’s history lesson…
I DO NOT ‘support’ Trump….
Democrats should NOT ‘support’ Trump….
But they sure could use his help next year….
He’s saying the quiet part aloud.
Trump is the far and away leader of the GOP not because of what one guy who runs a blog wants.
He’s the leader because it’s what Republicans want.
Not ALl Scott….
Less and LESS everyday….
Among lawmakers in Congress?
There IS a difference…
That difference will widen in the coming months….
Bet on it!
But you’re not happy about that are you?
Because you want Trump to stay leader of the Republicans to help Democrats.
“Right?”
NO….
I want Trump to keep tearing the ass out of ‘his’ party….
In doing THAT?
Would I be happy?
Yup!
You wouldn’t?
No .
I regard Trump as an actual threat to democracy.
I want him gone .out of the political system.
Understood….
Ur rooting for the DA’s then?
I don’t “root” for anybody.
I just state my opinion as to what I see occurring based on the facts as they emerge.
I leave the fantasizing to you.
Yeah, you guys wouldn’t be happy to see an assless Republican Party?
But you’re afraid he’s not going to be “around” because the anti Trumpers are going to take him down and so every time I,ot anyone else, says Trump isn’t going anywhere,you hope we are right ,but really don’t believe we are and that’s why you argue with us?
If that’s true ?Then ,of all the dumb stuff you say here (and that’s legendary) that one tops them all.
Are Republicans about Trump or their policies?
Trump only got 55% of the CPAC Straw Poll? That’s much lower than I would have thought.
Just 55% , eh?
Even among that audience?
Hmmmm?
That after the 97%?
Hmmmmm?
The leading anti Trumper was Nikki @ 3%.
Well, at least she can be called that presently.
If she ever gets that meeting with Trump?
Hell Nikki might issue a ringing endorsement!
In all seriousness, the CPAC Straw Poll, Golden Statue and all, I am surprised he did not get at least 90%, and I think others probably are too.
I think Biden might even do better than 55% in a Democrat 2024 Straw Poll.
Only 68% of CPAC freaks say they want Trump run again? Incredibly weak per expectations.
And somehow, there are those who want him to run, but won’t support him for the nomination.
So 68% of CPAC attendees wanting Trump to run again is low?
I wonder what percentage of CPACers wanted recent losing nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney in 2009 and 2013 respectively?
They didn’t have golden statues made of them for people to pose with.
68% who want him to run and 55% who would support him *among this crowd* is weak and sad.
I think that,despite all their craziness, and this is a zany bunch of essentially kooks, deep down they think he will lose again.
Occasionally Trump says something that is true. He just said there was no need for him to start a new party since he has the Republican Party.
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Kooks?
Nah….
Zombies !
Scott?
Them 50’s and 60’s ain’t the 90’s….
I HAVE been preaching here and taking knocks….
I STILL stand by my view that the elevator IS going down for the Big Guy….
But you don’t want it toright?
Otherwise ,how can he rip apart the Republican Party which is you fondest hope?
( this is gotten so stupid now I’m just playing this for laughs)
Actually I seriously doubt Trump does run again.
For all sorts of reasons.
HOT DAMN‼️
Jack fesses up?
No Donald 2024???
Oh I’ve mentioned that several times.
You’re so consumed with your own foolishness that you pay little to no attention to what others post and when you do you frequently misinterpret what they say or just lie about it.
Further what will happen in four years has nothing to do to with what is happening now.
Of course you don’t understand this.
They are playing “Billie Jean” at CPAC now as they wait for Trump.
“Be careful what you do, because a lie becomes the truth.”
Bye
Da Man speaks
I see even odds on Trump running again.
I certainly don’t see it as a foregone conclusion. But as I’ve said earlier I thought he would claim politics and the Republican Party were no longer worthy of him if he lost a second term. At this point that is not the case.
Ur being way toooooo generous Scott…
Generous with what? My odds of Trump running as 50/50?
To which side am I being “generous”? To his running or not running?
Me?
I don’t think it’s near 50/50….
He’s got a rough next 12 months coming at him and even the people here are saying his performance was lacking today?
I saw the speech. It sure sounded like Trump plans to run again.
Trump is an old obese man. Who knows what his health will be like in 4 years or what embarrassments he will face. I think that Scott’s odds are about right.
We’ll see….
But U DO add health to the list of things running against a second try , let alone a prayer for a win….
I think if Trump runs again, he is the clear GOP favorite as of today. He was the overwhelming favorite of CPAC. There are more people who are Trump Republicans today than there ever were Reagan Republicans.
Whether Trump ultimately runs or not is irrelevant to the political scene for the next few years.
Unless and until he makes a definitive statement that he’s not,he essentially freezes the field.Prospective candidates will continue to pay him fealty and anyone who strays from doing so will likely face being denounced and ridiculed by him.As long as his candidacy is a possibility ,raising money for a candidacy will be extremely difficult .
So as long as he’s around the Republican Party has to deal with him and ,as we know,
Trump only deals on his terms.
And since some people on here are so obsessed with what any of us “wants” as if that has any effect on what will happen here is what I “wanted” in regards to Trump and the GOP.
I “wanted” him to denounce electoral politics and the Republican Party as beneath him and his supporters after losing. In this alternate reality he would have started his own conservative media outlet but overall would have been avoided by the GOP that he now denounced. I “wanted” the Republican Party to be embarrassed for having supported him.
He still lost. Which is what. I not only “wanted” but worked actively to achieve. But he hasn’t slinked away. And most of the Republican Party is not embarrassed for having supported him.
The obligatory anti-Scott reaction piece after his ‘Not Trump’s Party’ declaration….
Rick Scott Gets No Love from the MAGA Base
Politico: “The billionaire-turned-politician is trying to build his own national brand ahead of a potential run for president, but some early stumbles — including a recent pivot away from Trump — aren’t endearing him with the base.”
“Trump’s GOP is largely foreign to Scott, a former health care executive who embraces focus groups and adheres to the talking points of the day, not the off-the-cuff brashness Trump embraces. That, along with his well-known lack of charisma, could spell early trouble for Scott’s White House ambitions.”