It’s Donald Trump’s party ….RIGHT?
Sooooo?
Lets forget about winning elections….
The prime directive is kissing the guy’s ass…
Republican Senator’s are WORRIED…..
Other Republicans NOT under the Trump spell are WORRIED also…
(A Republican political Civil War within Trmp’s ‘party’? ….Trump chaos as usual…)
It’s so bad that ole Lindsey Graham will go down to Florida to reason with guy who REALLY see’s the world as something for HIM to make money from….
The guy has already cost the party the their US Senate majority…
Stay tuned…
It could get worst….
Republicans are worried that the battle between former President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could torpedo their efforts to win back majorities in the House and Senate in 2022.
GOP operatives believe they’re in position to flip both chambers if they can run against President Biden’s agenda and avoid a destructive civil war.
Democrats are clinging to the smallest majority in the House in modern times and a 50-50 split in the Senate. The party for the incoming administration historically loses seats in its first midterm cycle.
But Republicans fear they could fumble those opportunities away amid the nasty feud that has broken out between Trump and McConnell over the future of the party.
The split could depress fundraising, dampen turnout, alienate swing voters and push bad general election candidates through divided primary fields, Republicans say.
Veteran GOP operative Brian Walsh pointed to the GOP’s recent failures in Georgia as evidence of the kind of calamity that awaits if Republicans are fighting themselves heading into Election Day.
Trump’s claims about systemic voter fraud tore the party apart ahead of the Georgia Senate runoffs, eroding turnout both among Trump’s supporters in the northern part of the state and among right-leaning swing voters in the suburbs.
Republicans lost close races for both seats in the traditionally red state, costing them a majority in the Senate….
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McConnell’s primary aim in rebuking Trump appears to be to rid the party of the fringe candidates that have lost winnable races in the past and attract nonstop media attention if they make it to Washington.
Republicans remember the Tea Party primary fights all too clearly and blame the bad insurgent candidates for losing at least five winnable Senate races between 2010 and 2012.
By denouncing the worst elements of Trump’s base and calling out House members such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), McConnell hopes to rally Republicans behind mainstream conservatives who can win primaries and general elections.
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The tension between Trump and McConnell has made life difficult for Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), who is running the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) this cycle.
He and other Republicans are hopeful they can move on from intraparty battles to focusing on the Democratic agenda….
Trump gets ready to tear the ass out of the Grand ole’ Party…
Which could lead to it suffering even MORE losses then it had in Georgia…
The planning for Trump’s coming revenge tour comes as other top Republicans try to cajole him into working with the party’s apparatus ahead of next year’s midterm elections, rather than recruiting rival candidates whose bids could complicate primaries and cost the GOP critical seats. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is expected to meet with Trump over the weekend to discuss his upcoming plans, including the former president’s desire to push for voter reforms at a time when the topic of election integrity has created a major split among elected Republicans….
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The Republican Party has now essentially become something akin to the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
It is about to undergo a”purge.” The Party’s unquestioned Ledaer Donald Trump is now deciding how to rid himself of these pesky figures in the party who have dared question his supremacy.He can’t just have them killed off ala Stalin.( although this animal in his fantasies probably dreams of something akin).Instead ,he must electorally eliminate them in the coming primaries next year.Those holding no office probably really don’t matter to him as their noise means nothing(columnists and commentators.).
The problem is that there is still a minority,small yet electorally significant ,that may resist the temptation to totalitarianism that Trump represents.About 3/4 of the party is in abject surrender to The Leader.So the other fourth have tough decisions to make.They can simply hide their detestation of The Leader and meekly follow the “line ,form their own party,or in protest to the seizure of their old party and,in many cases contrary to their political philosophical underpinnings,support Democratic candidates .
It’s a hell of a dilemma .
In most states there is no “worry”. They are completely behind the Trump wing of the party.
The worry IS from establishment types who are looking forward at 2022 and 2024 and value something besides a man trying to continue pimping the party for money and self ego…
Those worries ARE out there…
They ARE in the media….
They ARE trying to find some reality….
Actually?
Democrats should be happy Trump is STILL working hard to fuck ‘things’ up….
Now it isn’t the government…
It’s hoodwinked Republicans, who as Jack says…
ARE dumb and have no sense of a true party looking forward…
Prime example of a ‘party’ following Trump off a cliff….
Arizona May Hint at GOP’s Future
Rosie Gray: “Arizona Republicans keep losing — but the state party has already turned itself into a Trump machine, still trying to win an election that’s long over. And that might be the future of conservatism.”
Movement “conservatives “ aren’t worried.
CPAC ,the premier conservative event in the country ,is next week down in Florida,(none of those pesky virus regulations thanks to Trumpite Governor Ron DeSantis) ,and their guest speaker,
Donald Trump!
He’s speaking on “the future of the Republican Party.”
The only question will it be a total Trump Cult event or will there be any anti Trump speakers allowed?
I saw the list of speakers at CPAC. While I certainly did not recognize all of the names, those that I did recognize were all Trump supporters.
About ten years ago, CPAC was headed by Alex Castellanos, who doesn’t sound like much of Cultist on his Sunday morning talk panel gig.
Here’s the list of speakers, which was a little slow to download on my machine and connection because it had high-res pictures of all two dozen of so.
https://cpac.conservative.org/speakers/
Some of them might be considered tactical or provisional supporters of Trump, since they have their own positions (personal and intellectural) to consider, e.g. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Calif.) or the writer for National Review, which — although it has not reverted to its front cover Never Trump attitude — certainly has plenty of space for conservative, libertarian and Republican critiques of (or outright attacks on) the Trump past and Trump present. Rich Lowry’s own expressed views have been rather inscrutable and intellectually inconsistent.
Looking at the National Review contributor’s web site, however, I see that he advocates the whole Myth:
https://deroymurdock.com/
No
McConnell?
Romney?
Manchin?
Twitter Universe …
Tom Joseph
@TomJChicago
Trump will be slurring to the cult next week at CPAC. He will look, sound & act impaired. CPAC is where he comes apart. Remember him hugging the flag w/ that stupid look on his traitorous face? He’s a temporary novelty item for Rs. Indictments will force him underground for good
Belaaz
@TheBelaaz
Flag of United States — JUST IN: Former President Donald Trump will be speaking at next week’s CPAC event in Florida, his first public appearance since leaving office, a spokesman confirmed today. Trump is scheduled to speak on Sunday, Feb 28, the last day of the conference.
James Holden
@jamesholden007
He can talk freely at CPAC but the MSM won’t post his speech. YouTube, Twitter, and FB will censor or alter what he says. But OAN and Newsmax will tell the truth, as will Parler, MeWe, et al.
NY Times on CPAC….
Trump Schedules Address Before CPAC Next Sunday
The former president will make his first lengthy remarks since leaving office before the annual conference of conservatives Feb. 28….
…What Mr. Trump plans to talk about and what he ultimately says once he’s onstage often diverge, as he discards scripts that aides prepare for him….
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Well….Well….Another defection for the Trump world?
Former Vice President Mike Pence declined an invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next week, according to multiple reports.
Organizers of the annual conservative conference are seeking to change the former vice president’s mind about attending or giving remarks, an unidentified source confirmed to CNN…
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Of course we also have this going on…
Trump’s Grip on Kansas, Missouri GOP Still Strong
Kansas City Star: “Trump is out of office after a chaotic term that produced two of the four presidential impeachments in history and an explosion of violence that shocked the nation. He has left behind a Republican Party remade in his image and a national political atmosphere more toxic than ever.”
“His influence also reaches deep into the foundations Kansas and Missouri Republicanism in ways that could persist for many years. In state and local parties, the former president’s repeated falsehoods about the election and flirtation with conspiracy theories have found a receptive audience among some rank-and-file and leadership. Some who have attempted to challenge the discredited narrative have been marginalized or threatened.”
Hahaha!
You’re joking, right?
Yes I saw tye list.
This is nothing but a full Trumpfest with all the speakers trying to outdo each other in expressing their fealty to the Leader.
Of course some ,like Hawley, Cotton and Pompeo ,will subtly try to let the assembled cultists know that if the Leader doesn’t or can’t run, they are the next best thing.
And this conference well shows where the Republican Party is today.
Full on Trump.
A decade ago, CPAC was giving its freedom medal to Vaclav Havel (Czech president and human-rights hero) — exactly the sort of person that the ex-KGB apparatchik running the Russian Federation would have hated the very most.
What a contrast between Vladimir Putin’s chief American fan and Vaclav Havel (a pioneer of democracy peaceful change and peaceful transition in the most difficult of times).
Add another one…
Arkansas Governor Won’t Support Trump In 2024
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) told CNN that he would not support former President Trump if he ran for the White House again in 2024, pointing to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Said Hutchinson: “I would not support him for reelection in 2024.”
Trump wants to use the CPAC speech to demonstrate that he and he alone runs the party.
It’s up to Republicans now if they want that for their future.
Any whining from once and future Republicans that Democrats are rooting for Trumpists to remain the dominant power in the GOP is just statistical noise.
It’s the personal responsibility of the “Party of Personal Responsibility” to decide where they go from here.
I predict Trump will get the most applause at the convention.
And someone on this blog might blame the Democrats for that.
Good on the applause Z‼️….
Let’m keep ripping the ass outta ‘his’ party….
It is not good news.
Democracy barely survived in 2020. It is far from obvious that it will survive in 2024.
I’m more optimistic…
We came out fine in the Trump testing…
And as i’ve said here…
Trump has more pressing things coming at him in the months ahead…
I doubt he himself will be much of a factor afterwards…
Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the Republican National Committee’s upcoming spring donor retreat, as the former president reemerges following his departure from the White House.
The private retreat is slated to take place April 9-11 in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump’s expected attendance at the event, which is expected to draw an array of major GOP givers, was confirmed by two people familiar with his plans. Republican officials declined to specify where the event is being held, but they said it would not be at Trump’s nearby Mar-a-Lago estate, where the former president has been staying….
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