Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss
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Paul Ryan has no interest in giving Donald Trump another chance come November.
The former House speaker told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday that he doesn't plan to vote for the former president, adding he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead.
“Character is too important for me,” Ryan told us at the Milken Institute Global Conference. “[The presidency] is a job that requires the kind of character [Trump] doesn’t have.”
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More "top Republicans" refuse to commit to accepting 2024 election results. These include VP-hopefuls like Scott, Burgum, and Stefanik.
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@George-K said in Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss:
Remember when the Democrats were considered stupid and the Republicans were considered evil?
Despite numerous James Bond movies that would indicate otherwise, evil and stupid are clearly not mutually exclusive.
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Chris Gibbs, a farmer who raises soybeans, corn and cattle, spent much of his adult life as a leader of the Republican Party in Shelby County, Ohio. He rose from vice chair of the local executive committee to party chairman, a role he served in for seven years, until 2015. Last fall he was elected to a far tougher job: chairman of the Democratic Party in Shelby County, where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats more than eight to one.
In today’s Republican Party, “You either speak with a Trump voice or you’re vaporized,” Mr. Gibbs told me. … “In the Democratic Party, everybody gets a voice. You don’t always get your way, but you get a voice.”
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) slammed his fellow Republicans for showing up at Donald Trump’s porn star hush money trial this week in fiery comments to CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday.
Raju reported that Romney told him, “I think it’s a little demeaning to show up in front of the courthouse — and particularly one where we’re talking about an allegation of paying a porn star. And it’s really, really very difficult to watch.”
EDIT TO ADD:
read://https_thehill.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fsenate%2F4665313-murkowski-knocks-senate-republicans-trump-trial%2F
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) reportedly went after fellow members of her party who have attended former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York.
“Do we have something to do around here other than watch a stupid porn trial? I mean, this is ridiculous,” the Alaska Republican said Tuesday,
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Wasn't it Bill Maher who said (I think I posted the link) that any time you see the word "shreds" (or "owns," or "destroys") in the headline of a story, stop reading.
And, Romney's complaining about a bimbo eruption - remember that term? - and this case is not about that. If I were Johnson, would I have shown up? Probably not. But to make an issue of it is silly.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss:
But to make an issue of it is silly.
He is not the only one. (See my edit above).
Even a recent Chicago Tribune editorial (which I think is somewhat conservative) said the same thing.
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If I were Johnson, would I have shown up? Probably not.
That was my initial knee jerk reaction as well. However after a little reflection, I believe it was an astute move on Johnson’s part.
Trump for good or bad has been supportive of Johnson over the attempts by the GOP trailer trash faction led by MTG to oust him as Speaker. Johnson attending the trial shows Party unity and isolates the reactionaries. In other words, better Johnson there than MTG or a few others.
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@taiwan_girl said in Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss:
Chicago Tribune editorial (which I think is
somewhatused to be conservative)Not to derail, but one of the reasons John Kass left the Trib was because of its leftward drift.
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I mean, come on.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee shuffled its schedule, bumping a hearing to hold Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress so some of its members could instead attend former President Trump’s hush money trial.
The panel was set to meet early Thursday, an hour after a twin resolution censuring Garland would likewise be considered by the House Judiciary Committee. Instead, it will now meet at 8 p.m. so numerous Republicans who sit on the panel — including Freedom Caucus members — could attend the trial.
A source confirmed to The Hill that the last-minute shift was to allow the lawmakers to make the trip to New York
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J.D. Vance wasn’t just some hillbilly after all
His journey from author to Trumpist senator is a fable for the GOP’s devolution.[J. D. Vance's book] “Hillbilly Elegy” was embraced on the right for its indictment of cultural decay and its call to self-reliance; it was lauded on the left because it offered an explanation as to why good people would gravitate toward someone as reprehensible as Trump. That’s not my word, by the way — it was Vance’s, who called himself a Never Trumper at the time and warned Christian voters: “When we apologize for this man, Lord help us.”
... By 2022, when [Vance] ran for the open seat left by retiring Sen. Rob Portman, Vance had gone from Never Trump to Long Live the King; his conversion included a spirited embrace of Trump’s stolen-election nonsense. His financier in that race was billionaire Peter Thiel, who had also bankrolled Trump in 2016.
Now Vance is gunning to be Trump’s running mate, which is why he bravely waded through the leftist filth of Manhattan to show his fealty. ... -
Trump-backed Republican platform tempers language on abortion
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The platform, a basic statement of policy principles, takes Trump’s position that the issue of abortion now is one to be determined by individual states. It makes no mention of a federal ban or protecting a fetus as a person under the U.S. Constitution – tenets that have been included in past platforms and were demanded by a cadre of influential evangelicals. -
Trump is pushing falsehoods. Some Republicans are worried about the fallout.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/11/trump-disinformation-immigrants-storm-00183378
Donald Trump is relying more than ever on easily debunked and often bizarre conspiracy theories and rumors — often to the frustration of even his fellow Republicans.
In the final weeks of the campaign, the former president has been toggling between outlandish claims about Haitians and other migrants, false descriptions of the federal response to recent hurricanes and incorrect statistics about the economy and crime.
Lots of examples of Republicans debunking various falsehoods pushed by Trump.
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Recent on the record comments by John Kelly
Among other things, Kelly has said Trump made favorable comments about Adolf Hitler, denigrated disabled veterans and argued Trump would rule like a dictator if returned to the White House. The Atlantic magazine also reported that Trump had expressed disdain for the military.
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"He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government," "Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he's certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators - he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure."
And in typical President Trump fashion, his response was:
“John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought,
I know we have talked about this before, but it amazes me that so so many people who worked very very closely with President Trump have such a negative opinion of him, yet President Trump still is held up as this beacon of greatness by quite a few people.
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Senator McConnell speaks:
In the minority leader's quotes revealed in the book, he doesn't hold back, reportedly slamming Trump as "stupid," "erratic," a "despicable human being," and a "narcissist."
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In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election and before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, McConnell said, "It’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days" until Trump is no longer president.
He further praised the "good judgment of the American people" for voting Trump out in 2020.
"They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him," he said, according to the excerpt.
McConnell additionally blamed Trump for the House Republicans losing the majority in the lower chamber in the 2018 midterm elections. He "has every characteristic you would not want a president to have," he said.
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