Lara Trump says she thinks GOP voters would like to see RNC pay Donald Trump's legal fees
By MICHELLE L. PRICE
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Updated 8:07 PM EDT, February 21, 2024
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and handpicked choice to help lead the Republican National Committee
said she thinks Republican voters would support having the political
organization pay the former president’s ballooning legal fees.
Lara
Trump said Wednesday while campaigning for her father-in-law ahead of
the South Carolina primary that she was not familiar with the RNC’s
rules about paying Donald Trump’s legal fees in a multitude of criminal and civil cases.
But she said she thought the idea would get broad support among GOP voters who see his legal cases as political persecution.
“That’s
why people are furious right now. And they see the attacks against him.
They feel like it’s an attack not just on Donald Trump but on this
country,” she said. “So yeah I think that is a big interest to people,
absolutely.”
Trump, though the front-runner in the GOP presidential primary, has not yet become the Republican nominee. That did not stop him last week from publicly calling to remove the RNC’s current leaders and suggest Lara Trump should serve as co-chair. He proposed Michael Whatley, the current chair of the North Carolina GOP, to serve as chair.
She
told reporters on Wednesday that GOP voters will feel more trust in the
RNC by having a Trump family member installed in leadership.
“Having someone like me in there I think will go a long way for
people. I can assure you that my loyalty is to my father-in-law and I
will make sure that every penny is used properly,” she said. “It should
be going to fight for Nov. 5 for the causes that we care about.”
Those
causes were electing Trump president in November, growing the
Republican majority in the House with “patriots, America first
candidates” and winning back control of the Senate, she said.
Current Chair Ronna McDaniel has privately agreed no changes would
take place until after South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, and the RNC
is not expected to formalize changes until it meets later in the
spring.
Though McDaniel herself was once handpicked by Donald
Trump to lead the party’s political machine, the former president had
grown frustrated with her as some of his allies complained about the
party’s losses in recent elections, the party’s finances and a
perception that the party did not do enough to focus on voter fraud,
which Trump has blamed for his 2020 election loss. That’s despite his
own Justice Department saying there was no evidence of widespread fraud and Trump’s team losing more than 50 lawsuits over the election.
Lara
Trump, speaking to Trump supporters and volunteers on Wednesday, said
she intended to have the RNC “fight fire with dynamite” when it came to
ensuring the party was doing everything it could to win Trump the
election, including early voting and so-called ballot harvesting, which the party has already started pushing.
The
proposed leadership change also raises questions about how an
emboldened Trump would work his will on the party. Trump already gets
involved in down-ballot Republican primary races for the House, Senate
and other offices and has endorsed the opponents of Republicans he has
seen as disloyal.
Lara Trump said if she is made co-chair of the RNC, her loyalty would
be to her father-in-law, but she believed the organization would stick
to its policy of staying neutral in primary contests, saying, “I don’t
know why we would change course on that now.”
But she drew a
different line with the presidential primary, where former U.N.
Ambassador Nikki Haley is still running against Trump.
“The RNC
will be supporting the whoever the Republican nominee for president is,”
Lara Trump said. “I think we all know that’s going to be Donald Trump.”
they should pay for his legal fees. then they would not have any money left over to compete in statewide elections in battleground states, leaving them open to be turned blue.
great strategy.
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She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist. That is utterly confounding.
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She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist. That is utterly confounding.
note he asked about support given she is a reported advocate for victims then she shared about her experience. as freely as she shares, it isnt the first time its shared.
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She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist. That is utterly confounding.
note he asked about support given she is a reported advocate for victims then she shared about her experience. as freely as she shares, it isnt the first time its shared.
I get the feeling she'll take her "15 minutes of fame" anyway she can get it. It's kind of weird how she's using her own tragedy (and who cannot empathize?, for sure) to get attention. But then, this is the way of MAGA.
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For those who still believe it’s “both sides” or same-same.
OpinionForget ‘polarization.’ It’s the GOP’s radicalization.
The notion that the United States is “polarized” into two conflicting, equally stubborn and extreme camps infects much of the mainstream news coverage and everyday chatter about politics. Washington is “broken.” “Gridlock” is a problem. “No one goes out to dinner with someone on the other side.” Such mealy-mouthed language masks a stark dichotomy: Democrats have to move to the center to get bipartisan support; Republicans have become radicalized and unmovable.
This is not “polarization.” It is the authoritarian capture of much of the GOP by a right-wing movement bent on sowing chaos. Turkey, Hungary and other countries with autocratic strongmen are not polarized; democratic forces try their best to prevent their country’s ruin and collapse into total dictatorship. Our political scene, sadly, has come to resemble the global authoritarian assault on democracy.
Oh, sure, it’s fashionable, as departing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) did, to blame both political parties. “Our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. … The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. ‘Compromise’ is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division.” Really?! Who is “we”?
That’s the same tommyrot one hears from No Labels. CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reported that No Labels has resorted to “accusing Biden of having politically toxic positions he does not actually hold.” Well, if you are asking for millions to run a quixotic third-party race, it sounds better to make him out to be just as extreme as Trump; alas, it is just not true. (Even No Labels apparently understands that: “In a private presentation the group has circulated among members and prospective candidates are two claims that No Labels officials say would be damaging to Biden, even as they acknowledge the claims aren’t true: that he is for ‘open borders’ and that he is captive to a ‘far left’ that ‘wants to abandon Israel’ and is ‘sympathetic to Hamas.’”) To cook up an equivalence, you have to misrepresent Biden’s record.
Biden has actually stood up to the far left in his own party when it lionizes Hamas or demands Medicare-for-all. The left blasts him for being too accommodating, too courteous to Republicans and too hands-off with a listless Justice Department. Biden remains in step with the vast majority of Democrats.
The party’s center-left orientation was evident throughout the primaries. On Super Tuesday, California voters chose moderate Rep. Adam Schiff (D) over progressive Rep. Katie Porter (D) as one of two candidates to run to fill the Senate seat opened by Dianne Feinstein’s death. In Texas, moderate Rep. Colin Allred won the Senate Democratic primary by a mile and avoided a runoff.
San Francisco — yes, San Francisco — has gone moderate. “The liberal bastion of San Francisco pivoted rightward in Tuesday’s election as voters responded to ongoing drug, homelessness and crime crises by approving policies that bolster police and require drug-screening for welfare recipients,” Politico reported. “The results represent a major victory for embattled Mayor London Breed, a moderate Democrat who faces a tough fightfor a second full term in November.”
Meanwhile, Republicans nominated for North Carolina governor not a “fiery outsider,” as the New York Times would have us believe (the headline was subsequently changed), but Mark Robinson, who called transgender and gay people “filth” and said gay people are equivalent to “what the cows leave behind” (also “maggots” and “flies”). He has made a series of shocking an inflammatory comments about women and Jews (even quoting Hitler), remains a staunch election denier and wants to ban all abortions (a view about 90 percent of Americans reject). Hate speech of the type Trump and Robinson utter would be disqualifying in the Democratic Party.
Robinson will face the state’s no-nonsense Democratic attorney general, Josh Stein, who is very much in the mode of moderate incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper. (Also from North Carolina, “Republican Mark Harris, whose previous election to Congress in 2018 was thrown out after credible allegations of election fraud, won a GOP primary for a newly drawn House seat,” Politico reported.)
Congress has also fallen under the grip of a right-wing bastion that cannot govern itself. The GOP speaker of the House is a Christian nationalist who thinks he was chosen by God and takes direction from the Bible, not the Constitution. No Democrat compares to the likes of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) or Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
Responsible reporting should not cover for Republicans. The MAGA Republican Party has become shockingly irrational and radicalized, fully embracing totalitarianism, white nationalism and radical isolationism.
America is divided not by some free-floating condition of “polarization” but by one party going off the deep end. And that’s a threat to all of us.
The new MAGA Republican party is clearly showing signs of desperation... and making some pretty damn poor decisions. Where did they get the idea that using Britt was going to gain them any traction? Fools!
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This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
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This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Its the way of the new MAGAR (MAGA Republican) Party. They don't give a shit about being good leaders. They just want to troll the world and spread their hate.
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Going full on Iranian mullah/Taliban. Whats next? Chants of “Death to Brandon?”
Biden effigy beaten, kicked at Kansas county GOP event, drawing outrage
A Republican fundraiser in the Kansas City suburbs on Friday night at which attendees beat and kicked an effigy of President Bidenhas sparked bipartisan outrage and calls for the GOP leaders responsible for the event to resign.
At the “Grand Ol’ Party” fundraising event at the Overland Park Convention Center — hosted by and promoted on the Facebook page of the Johnson County Republican Party — attendees paid $100 to $300 a ticket to hear a keynote speech from musician Ted Nugent. It also featured a booth where attendees kicked and swung a foam bat at a mannequin topped with a rubber Biden mask, posts on social media showed.
The chairwoman of the Johnson County Republican Party told the Kansas City Star in an email that the effigy had been set up as part of a booth hosted by a local martial arts school.
Let the purging begin. Kind of reminds me of the Beer Hall putsch or Saddam Hussein calling out individual lawmakers and military brass and having them led away never to be seen nor heard from again.
RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee — handpicked by former president Donald Trump — started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly.
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications were made on Monday by Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser who was at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. LaCivita had complained about the staff of the RNC for several months, people who spoke to him said, and long planned to make changes. The Trump adviser had studied the organization’s payroll and employees for several weeks, the person said.
Let the purging begin. Kind of reminds me of the Beer Hall putsch or Saddam Hussein calling out individual lawmakers and military brass and having them led away never to be seen nor heard from again.
RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee — handpicked by former president Donald Trump — started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly.
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications were made on Monday by Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser who was at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. LaCivita had complained about the staff of the RNC for several months, people who spoke to him said, and long planned to make changes. The Trump adviser had studied the organization’s payroll and employees for several weeks, the person said.
This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
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Going full on Iranian mullah/Taliban. Whats next? Chants of “Death to Brandon?”
Biden effigy beaten, kicked at Kansas county GOP event, drawing outrage
A Republican fundraiser in the Kansas City suburbs on Friday night at which attendees beat and kicked an effigy of President Bidenhas sparked bipartisan outrage and calls for the GOP leaders responsible for the event to resign.
At the “Grand Ol’ Party” fundraising event at the Overland Park Convention Center — hosted by and promoted on the Facebook page of the Johnson County Republican Party — attendees paid $100 to $300 a ticket to hear a keynote speech from musician Ted Nugent. It also featured a booth where attendees kicked and swung a foam bat at a mannequin topped with a rubber Biden mask, posts on social media showed.
The chairwoman of the Johnson County Republican Party told the Kansas City Star in an email that the effigy had been set up as part of a booth hosted by a local martial arts school.
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This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
there will always been an infinitesimally small issue that the right will run on. today it's transgenders in sports. tomorrow it's mandating gold shoes in wrestling.
This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
there will always been an infinitesimally small issue that the right will run on. today it's transgenders in sports. tomorrow it's mandating gold shoes in wrestling.
Current IN Senator Mike Braun is running for Gov of IN. His ad goes on about the border....we're in fucking Indiana
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This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
there will always been an infinitesimally small issue that the right will run on. today it's transgenders in sports. tomorrow it's mandating gold shoes in wrestling.
Not only that but this all happened kinda quickly. Sometimes laws don't keep up with change in real time.
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This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
there will always been an infinitesimally small issue that the right will run on. today it's transgenders in sports. tomorrow it's mandating gold shoes in wrestling.
Republican representative for CO Ken Buck announced he's stepping down next Friday.
Can you blame him? One more MAGAT ready to take his place. It’s a slow motion car wreck caused by dem chaos agents jumping out in front of them or crossing against the light. 2025 is going to be frightening.
This fucking election is going to drive me fucking crazy. Some dipshit running for the House in IN is running ads about keeping transgender males out of female sports. Really? Nothing better to focus on?
Well if we could remove our heads from our asses and not allow that to begin with … then they wouldn’t be able to focus on it.
there will always been an infinitesimally small issue that the right will run on. today it's transgenders in sports. tomorrow it's mandating gold shoes in wrestling.
Current IN Senator Mike Braun is running for Gov of IN. His ad goes on about the border....we're in fucking Indiana
hey now. you have a section of lake michigan. which borders canada.....
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Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP's slim majority
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he'll resign next week, narrowing his party's razor-thin House majority and potentially short-circuiting Rep. Lauren Boebert's effort to succeed him.
Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party's handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.
During an appearance on CNN, Buck lamented that he hadn't been able to ask a question in the hearing yet even though he is the third-ranking Republican on the committee.
“A lot of this is personal. That's the problem," Buck said. "Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense," he said, adding that this was the worst of his nine years in Congress.
Buck’s March 22 departure will reduce the GOP’s House majority to only a five-seat margin and will trigger a special election to serve the remainder of his term. Colorado law requires that it happen in mid-to-late June, and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday afternoon that he would set it for June 25 — the same day as the Republican primary to replace Buck in November.
Boebert is one of several Republicans running in the primary to replace Buck. She moved across the state to run for Buck's more Republican-friendly seat anchored in Colorado's eastern plains. But before the district's voters have their say, a committee of Colorado Republicans must pick a nominee for the special election held the same day as the primary.
Political insiders were buzzing Tuesday that that nominee is unlikely to be the controversial Boebert, who had no prior ties to the district and has stirred resentment among many Republicans with her maneuvering for the seat. That means there'll be just one Republican nominee on the June 25 special election ballot against whoever the Democrats nominate. The district's many conservative voters will likely be voting for that person to ensure the GOP replaces Buck for the remainder of the year.
Then they'll cast ballots for the primary, in which the nominee Republicans just voted for will likely be a candidate, along with Boebert. That gives whoever the party committee picks as its nominee a major advantage in that primary contest.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Buck alluded to the ability of the local Republican committee to effectively choose his heir.
“Whoever fills that seat both for the next Congress as well as the remainder of this Congress will do a great job,” he said.
Buck said that even though he's resigning, he wants to stay involved politics.
“I just feel there is important work to be done concerning the election and how we choose candidates," Buck added. "So I want to get involved in this election cycle and make sure we choose the best candidate we can.”
Buck is a former federal prosecutor and district attorney in northern Colorado who is a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. Since the 2020 election, however, he's made a name for himself in Washington breaking with his party on major issues. He voted to certify Biden's presidential win and voted against a Republican push to impeach Biden and against making Rep. Jim Jordan, a major Trump ally, speaker.
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great strategy.
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She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?!
I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist. That is utterly confounding.
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I get the feeling she'll take her "15 minutes of fame" anyway she can get it. It's kind of weird how she's using her own tragedy (and who cannot empathize?, for sure) to get attention. But then, this is the way of MAGA.
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Opinion Forget ‘polarization.’ It’s the GOP’s radicalization.
This is not “polarization.” It is the authoritarian capture of much of the GOP by a right-wing movement bent on sowing chaos. Turkey, Hungary and other countries with autocratic strongmen are not polarized; democratic forces try their best to prevent their country’s ruin and collapse into total dictatorship. Our political scene, sadly, has come to resemble the global authoritarian assault on democracy.
Oh, sure, it’s fashionable, as departing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) did, to blame both political parties. “Our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. … The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. ‘Compromise’ is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division.” Really?! Who is “we”?
The bipartisan border compromise — her bipartisan bill — was sunk by Republicans. Republicans in the House overwhelmingly opposed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly known as the “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill (which President Biden modified to get bipartisan support); almost every Republican voted against the Chips Act, they all voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, and some even voted against the Pact Act, which would have helped veterans. House Republicans have launched phony, baseless impeachment hearings. Senate Republicans filibustered reenactment of a key part of the Voting Rights Act, blocked a bipartisan Jan. 6, 2021, commission and overwhelmingly refused to convict four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump. The assertion that hyper-partisanship, chaos and nihilism (e.g., threatening to shut down the government, egging on a default and refusing to even vote on Ukraine aide) is equally divided amounts to an outright fabrication — or utter cluelessness.
That’s the same tommyrot one hears from No Labels. CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reported that No Labels has resorted to “accusing Biden of having politically toxic positions he does not actually hold.” Well, if you are asking for millions to run a quixotic third-party race, it sounds better to make him out to be just as extreme as Trump; alas, it is just not true. (Even No Labels apparently understands that: “In a private presentation the group has circulated among members and prospective candidates are two claims that No Labels officials say would be damaging to Biden, even as they acknowledge the claims aren’t true: that he is for ‘open borders’ and that he is captive to a ‘far left’ that ‘wants to abandon Israel’ and is ‘sympathetic to Hamas.’”) To cook up an equivalence, you have to misrepresent Biden’s record.
Biden has actually stood up to the far left in his own party when it lionizes Hamas or demands Medicare-for-all. The left blasts him for being too accommodating, too courteous to Republicans and too hands-off with a listless Justice Department. Biden remains in step with the vast majority of Democrats.
The party’s center-left orientation was evident throughout the primaries. On Super Tuesday, California voters chose moderate Rep. Adam Schiff (D) over progressive Rep. Katie Porter (D) as one of two candidates to run to fill the Senate seat opened by Dianne Feinstein’s death. In Texas, moderate Rep. Colin Allred won the Senate Democratic primary by a mile and avoided a runoff.
San Francisco — yes, San Francisco — has gone moderate. “The liberal bastion of San Francisco pivoted rightward in Tuesday’s election as voters responded to ongoing drug, homelessness and crime crises by approving policies that bolster police and require drug-screening for welfare recipients,” Politico reported. “The results represent a major victory for embattled Mayor London Breed, a moderate Democrat who faces a tough fightfor a second full term in November.”
Meanwhile, Republicans nominated for North Carolina governor not a “fiery outsider,” as the New York Times would have us believe (the headline was subsequently changed), but Mark Robinson, who called transgender and gay people “filth” and said gay people are equivalent to “what the cows leave behind” (also “maggots” and “flies”). He has made a series of shocking an inflammatory comments about women and Jews (even quoting Hitler), remains a staunch election denier and wants to ban all abortions (a view about 90 percent of Americans reject). Hate speech of the type Trump and Robinson utter would be disqualifying in the Democratic Party.
Robinson will face the state’s no-nonsense Democratic attorney general, Josh Stein, who is very much in the mode of moderate incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper. (Also from North Carolina, “Republican Mark Harris, whose previous election to Congress in 2018 was thrown out after credible allegations of election fraud, won a GOP primary for a newly drawn House seat,” Politico reported.)
Congress has also fallen under the grip of a right-wing bastion that cannot govern itself. The GOP speaker of the House is a Christian nationalist who thinks he was chosen by God and takes direction from the Bible, not the Constitution. No Democrat compares to the likes of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) or Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
Worst of all, Republicans are on the verge of nominating someone literally out on bail, who dines with neo-Nazis, talks about blood purityand invites Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack NATO. Virtually every elected Republican has fallen in behind him — the most extreme, racist candidate since the Civil War. (Even Sen. Barry Goldwater knew Moscow was the enemy.)
Responsible reporting should not cover for Republicans. The MAGA Republican Party has become shockingly irrational and radicalized, fully embracing totalitarianism, white nationalism and radical isolationism.
America is divided not by some free-floating condition of “polarization” but by one party going off the deep end. And that’s a threat to all of us.
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The new MAGA Republican party is clearly showing signs of desperation... and making some pretty damn poor decisions. Where did they get the idea that using Britt was going to gain them any traction? Fools!
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Its the way of the new MAGAR (MAGA Republican) Party. They don't give a shit about being good leaders. They just want to troll the world and spread their hate.
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How to combat his cruelty
Biden effigy beaten, kicked at Kansas county GOP event, drawing outrage
A Republican fundraiser in the Kansas City suburbs on Friday night at which attendees beat and kicked an effigy of President Bidenhas sparked bipartisan outrage and calls for the GOP leaders responsible for the event to resign.
At the “Grand Ol’ Party” fundraising event at the Overland Park Convention Center — hosted by and promoted on the Facebook page of the Johnson County Republican Party — attendees paid $100 to $300 a ticket to hear a keynote speech from musician Ted Nugent. It also featured a booth where attendees kicked and swung a foam bat at a mannequin topped with a rubber Biden mask, posts on social media showed.
The chairwoman of the Johnson County Republican Party told the Kansas City Star in an email that the effigy had been set up as part of a booth hosted by a local martial arts school.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/11/biden-effigy-kansas-republican-event/
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RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications were made on Monday by Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser who was at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. LaCivita had complained about the staff of the RNC for several months, people who spoke to him said, and long planned to make changes. The Trump adviser had studied the organization’s payroll and employees for several weeks, the person said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/rnc-trump-firings/
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good. they will never win another national election again. fuck em.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
What they're really doing is burning down their own party. Fools!
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1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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Republican representative for CO Ken Buck announced he's stepping down next Friday.
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how many seats are they going to lose? may end up with speaker jeffries before this term is over.
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he'll resign next week, narrowing his party's razor-thin House majority and potentially short-circuiting Rep. Lauren Boebert's effort to succeed him.
Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party's handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.
During an appearance on CNN, Buck lamented that he hadn't been able to ask a question in the hearing yet even though he is the third-ranking Republican on the committee.
“A lot of this is personal. That's the problem," Buck said. "Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense," he said, adding that this was the worst of his nine years in Congress.
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Buck’s March 22 departure will reduce the GOP’s House majority to only a five-seat margin and will trigger a special election to serve the remainder of his term. Colorado law requires that it happen in mid-to-late June, and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday afternoon that he would set it for June 25 — the same day as the Republican primary to replace Buck in November.
Boebert is one of several Republicans running in the primary to replace Buck. She moved across the state to run for Buck's more Republican-friendly seat anchored in Colorado's eastern plains. But before the district's voters have their say, a committee of Colorado Republicans must pick a nominee for the special election held the same day as the primary.
Political insiders were buzzing Tuesday that that nominee is unlikely to be the controversial Boebert, who had no prior ties to the district and has stirred resentment among many Republicans with her maneuvering for the seat. That means there'll be just one Republican nominee on the June 25 special election ballot against whoever the Democrats nominate. The district's many conservative voters will likely be voting for that person to ensure the GOP replaces Buck for the remainder of the year.
Then they'll cast ballots for the primary, in which the nominee Republicans just voted for will likely be a candidate, along with Boebert. That gives whoever the party committee picks as its nominee a major advantage in that primary contest.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Buck alluded to the ability of the local Republican committee to effectively choose his heir.
“Whoever fills that seat both for the next Congress as well as the remainder of this Congress will do a great job,” he said.
Buck said that even though he's resigning, he wants to stay involved politics.
“I just feel there is important work to be done concerning the election and how we choose candidates," Buck added. "So I want to get involved in this election cycle and make sure we choose the best candidate we can.”
Buck is a former federal prosecutor and district attorney in northern Colorado who is a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. Since the 2020 election, however, he's made a name for himself in Washington breaking with his party on major issues. He voted to certify Biden's presidential win and voted against a Republican push to impeach Biden and against making Rep. Jim Jordan, a major Trump ally, speaker.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14