Republicans saw their suburban support collapse last November….
Why?
A Politico piece points to Donald J. Trump in one county…..
That while most Republicans continue to embrace the Big Guy….
(PLEASE KEEP doing this❗️)
This dog repeats….
‘Everything Trump touches turns to shit’…..
In this case Trump , by himself, could be sowing the seeds a Grand ole Parties 2022 Midterm surprise….
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the Republican National Committee opted not to order an autopsy into what exactly led to the party’s decline in suburban communities that were, until recently, considered deep red.
But if RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel wanted to understand what happened, she could do worse than to look back at the place she was raised: Oakland County, Michigan.
“Oakland County was kind of the quintessential suburban Republican stronghold over the postwar period,” says Jeff Timmer, a longtime GOP strategist who was executive director of the state party from 2005-2009. It was (and is) a huge source of campaign donations for the party and its candidates. It had massive influence in Lansing, and an influential bipartisan delegation in Washington. It was a must-visit locale for every aspiring Republican presidential candidate.
“When I ran the Michigan Republican Party, we always pointed to Oakland: ‘These guys have got their shit together,’” says Timmer.
To put it bluntly, the shit is no longer together.
Ten years ago, Republicans held two of the four GOP-drawn U.S. House seats in Oakland (the other two were safe Democratic); now, all four are in Democratic hands. Democratic women now represent the Romney family’s hometown in the state House, state Senate and U.S. House (Rep. Haley Stevens). Ten years ago, Brooks Patterson, the silver-tongued sun-God around whom all local politics orbited, was county executive, and Republicans held four of the six countywide elected posts; Democrats now hold five of them, including the executive. After GOP-controlled redistricting in 2012, Republicans had a 14-7 majority on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners; now, Democrats have an 11-10 edge and will control the county-level redistricting process for the first time in a half-century.
The change is happening in lush, sylvan communities like Birmingham and Bloomfield—a place at least three generations of Romneys, McDaniel included, have called home. Here, generations of families with auto-baron surnames set roots. Here, they enrolled their kids at affluent public schools or even-more-affluent private schools with idyllic names like Country Day and Cranbrook. Here, they donated to and elected Republicans. At least, that is, until recently….
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To the casual observer, this change happened overnight. But the change is less the flip of a switch than a stovetop dial cranked on high—it took a while to heat up but the pot is boiling now.
Between Barack Obama’s campaign in 2012 and Joe Biden’s in 2020, the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates in Oakland grew by roughly 55,000 votes. Few have noticed it, but Oakland’s share of the statewide Democratic vote now exceeds that of the city of Detroit. Oakland now accounts for roughly 1 in every 7 votes statewide. And those votes are being cast for Democrats at much higher rates than they used to be.
That’s a problem for Republicans in a state that has played a pivotal role in the last two presidential elections. But Oakland is also a national warning light for the Republicans at the highest levels of the party….
Mike Pence was booed and called “traitor” during a speech to conservative activists today.
Is it any wonder educated suburbanites are fleeing the GOP?
Nope….
Readers here will learn that Lying Lindsay Graham is really coming around and will return to his McCain like bipartisan ways of yesteryear.
Cow Manure.
Sure Graham will vote occassionally for a judicial nominee but on major matters?Will always vote with the Republicans.No surprise there.
Lying Lindsay is firmly in the Trump stable as anyone with the least knowledge of politics knows.
Graham amplified at that meeting of Right Wing nutjobs where Pence was booed.
“ Winning in 2022 is the only option for conservatism”(Lindsay equates “conservatism “ with Trump )
“A Republican victory in 2022 will mean “The Party of Trump is not dead and buried.”Then the Liar claimed that a Democratic victory would mean the abolition of the Electoral College( which would require a constitutional amendment)No explanation how the Dems would pull that off.Doesnt matter as most of those kooks don’t even know that or care.
So you can read the reality or you can listen to James’s garbage about how “bipartisan “ “Ol Lindsay”(one of his favorite Republicans ) is.
From were i see things?
Lying Lindsey is trying to have his feet in both sides of rhings
Only here would one read such silliness implying somehow the devoted Trumpite Graham has a foot in the Biden camp because he voted for a few judges who would have been confirmed anyway
Graham is a firm Trumpite.
Despite what two people on this blog think.
Graham is the polar opposite of Trump on foreign policy matters.
Not just foreign affairs….
But some here are trying to sell only the ‘reign’ of LOSER Trump as the second coming even when shown proof of the guys slippage politically……
Ha! Like Republicans care about foreign policy matters anymore. Graham gives Trump’s balls a nice tongue bath at every turn so his minions don’t g8ve a shit that Lindsey is an old school Republican hawk..
None of it matters. Except complete fealty to Dear Leader of the GOP
They may NOT ‘care’ about foreign policy…
But they sure ARE on saying things about it….
When President Joe Biden announced his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Republican reaction was notable for what didn’t happen. The party didn’t circle the wagons to attack Biden’s cowardice; it didn’t collectively accuse him of leaving unfinished business, or being soft on terror. Instead, Republicans were split. While some, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), denounced Biden’s decision, the more Trumpist “America First” nationalists, including Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) as well as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, lauded it.
A set of politically ambitious Republicans endorsing a progressive decision by a Democratic president? It seemed the perfect embodiment of how Donald Trump changed the party, pushing the GOP away from its more traditional, muscular approach to foreign policy….
More…
Hmmmm?
Burr Implies Budd Can’t Win in North Carolina
Retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) told Politico that former Gov. Pat McCrory (R) is “the only one in the race that can win the general election.”
That would mean Burr is asserting Trump-endorsed Rep. Ted Budd (R) could not win.
And Lindsay Graham is a lawyer (USAF Reserve JAG).
Yup on Graham who is against the Afghan pullout i believe
Yeah his contribution to that war was drawing up wills for the soldiers.
He received a lot of ribbing about that from some politicos in S.C.