Examples of GOP Leadership

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Yep, Donald could run from his prison cell and win the GOP nomination, even Mike Pence is sucking his ass again after "hang Mike Pence" at the Capital.
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Romney: Trump will win 2024 GOP nomination if he runs - POLITICO

Romney: Trump will win 2024 GOP nomination if he runs
The Utah senator pointed to public opinion surveys that show Republican voters still overwhelmingly favor the former president.

Sen. Mitt Romney predicted Tuesday that former President Donald Trump would easily win the Republican presidential nomination if he seeks the White House again in 2024.

In a New York Times-DealBook virtual interview, the Utah Republican said he was “sure” the former president would play a role in the GOP in the coming years — assessing that Trump has “by far the largest voice and a big impact in my party.”
“I expect he will continue playing a role. I don’t know if he’ll run in 2024 or not. But if he does, I’m pretty sure he will win the nomination,” Romney said.

Although the senator cautioned that “a lot can happen between now and 2024,” he pointed to public opinion surveys that show Republican voters still overwhelmingly favor the former president.

“I look at the polls,” Romney said. “And the polls show that among the names being floated as potential contenders in 2024, if you put President Trump in there among Republicans, he wins in a landslide.”
The senator’s remarks represent a stark acknowledgment of Trump’s staying power within the Republican Party from one of the former president’s most prominent GOP critics.

Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump in his first impeachment trial last year for his dealings with Ukraine. And earlier this month, Romney and six other GOP colleagues found Trump guilty of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial, also declared that the former president was “morally and practically responsible” for the attack.

But high-ranking congressional Republicans have mostly softened their criticism of Trump in recent weeks, as the party comes to terms with his persistent popularity among GOP voters and the resilience of his political base.

Both House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) have made pilgrimages to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the former president resides, and Trump is expected to speak Sunday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — delivering his first major address since leaving office.

Trump has also confirmed that he will attend the Republican National Committee’s spring donor retreat in April.
According to a flash POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the days after his second impeachment trial, 57 percent of Republican voters said they want Trump to play a major role in their party going forward, and 80 percent of Republican respondents said they viewed him favorably.

Asked who they would support in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, 53 percent of Republicans surveyed said Trump. Former Vice President Mike Pence came in second place, with 12 percent Republican support, and all other contenders polled in the single digits.

 

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The new GOP

 

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The actual GOP:

 

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This is as good of an example as you will find of what's going on in the GOP.

 

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Republicans In Congress ‘Look As If They’re Just On The Wrong Page,’ Says Eugene Robinson

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and former Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe discuss Republicans uniting around their opposition to President Biden’s covid relief bill despite its bipartisan support beyond the beltway.

 

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Trump Speaks at CPAC. Pence gives it a miss.

I had no idea we had that smile available. I need to look deeper into what we really have.

exposingwot.com

 

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And

Rep. Mary Miller's Husband Owns Three Percenter Militia Truck at Capitol Riot

At least one baseball-bat-wielding man tied to the far-right militia group has been arrested for his alleged role in the insurrection.

www.thedailybeast.com

A pickup truck parked at the United States Capitol and bearing a Three Percenter militia sticker on the day of the Jan. 6 riot belongs to the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approvingly quoted Adolf Hitler a day earlier.

 

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I got nothing

 

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Former GOP lawmaker: Republican Party 'engulfed in lies and fear'
Curbelo and former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) teamed up as part of the nonpartisan debate series IntelligenceSquared U.S. to argue that many within the GOP are knowingly pushing a lie that the election was stolen out of fear of retaliation from former President Trump.

In his opening remarks, Curbelo said that by embracing former President Trump’s election claims, which preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the GOP had lost its credibility and damaged democracy.

“Here we only have two [political parties] and in order for one to be able to hold the other accountable, it has to be viable. It has to have credibility. With a majority of the voters in the country, it has to be a reasonable choice for most people,” Curbelo said. “And the problem we have today in our democracy is that the Republican Party is losing that position. Why? Because it has lost its way. Because it’s a party engulfed in lies and in fear.”

“Most congressional Republicans will acknowledge this privately,” Curbelo said. “And again, that’s the problem, that people aren’t telling the camera what they’re telling their friends. Why? Because Donald Trump converted the Republican Party into a personal club to advance his interests and even to question or to challenge free and fair election results. And in doing so, incited a riot that resulted in the defiling of one of the greatest structures in the history of democratic government and in the death of five people.”

Former GOP lawmaker: Republican Party ‘engulfed in lies and fear’

Former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) argued in a pre-taped interview that ran Friday that the Republican Party has lost its way and become “engulfed in lies in fear.”Curbelo and former Sen. Jeff Fla…

thehill.com

 

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The problem with satire. . . . .

 

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Trump Speaks at CPAC. Pence gives it a miss.

I had no idea we had that smile available. I need to look deeper into what we really have.

exposingwot.com

Pence doesn't want to be assassinated at CPAC. Chicken.

 

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Pence doesn't want to be assassinated at CPAC. Chicken.

Can't say I blame him.

 

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Pence doesn't want to be assassinated at CPAC. Chicken.

He’d be as welcome there as Nancy Pelosi.

 

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CPAC Attendees Boo Hosts' Requests to Wear Masks
Two organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference were jeered on Friday when they asked a crowd to wear masks while in a Florida hotel ballroom. Politico reported that just moments after former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel finished his speech by chanting “freedom,” American Conservative Union Executive Director Dan Schneider and CPAC deputy director Carly Patrick took the stage to address what appeared to be an overwhelmingly maskless crowd at the Hyatt Regency Orlando.

“I know this might sound like a little bit of a downer, but we also believe in property rights, and this is a private hotel,” Schneider said in apparent reference to the hotel’s mask-wearing policies.
“And we believe in the rule of law, so we need to comply with the laws of this county that we’re in. But a private hotel, just like your house, gets to set its own rules.” And Patrick added: “We are in a private facility, and we do want to be respectful of the ordinances that they have as their private property. So please, everyone, when you’re in the ballroom, when you’re seated, you should still be wearing a mask.”

CPAC Attendees Boo Hosts' Requests to Wear Masks

Two organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference were jeered on Friday when they asked a crowd to wear masks while in a Florida hotel ballroom. Politico reported that just moments after former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel finished his speech by chanting...

www.newsmax.com

 

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That party would support the devil if they thought he could win.

 

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Trump endorses former aide against pro-impeachment Republican
Former President Trump has thrown his support behind an ex-White House official running to unseat a House Republican who voted for impeachment, the first GOP primary challenge Trump has backed since leaving office.

Max Miller, a former aide to Trump, announced Friday that he is waging a primary challenge against Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), a two-term congressman who was among 10 House Republicans to vote for impeachment.

“I'm running for Congress to stand up for Northeast Ohioans. They overwhelmingly voted for the America First agenda. But their Congressman betrayed them when he voted to impeach President Trump. I won't back down. And I'll never betray them,” Miller tweeted.

Trump endorses former aide against pro-impeachment Republican

Former President Trump has thrown his support behind an ex-White House official running to unseat a House Republican who voted for impeachment, the first GOP primary challenge Trump has b…

thehill.com

Putin putting loyalists in positions of power?

 

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That party would support the devil if they thought he could win.

They have already and are still supporting the devil. They even have a gold statue of him.

 

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Trump endorses former aide against pro-impeachment Republican
Former President Trump has thrown his support behind an ex-White House official running to unseat a House Republican who voted for impeachment, the first GOP primary challenge Trump has backed since leaving office.

Max Miller, a former aide to Trump, announced Friday that he is waging a primary challenge against Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), a two-term congressman who was among 10 House Republicans to vote for impeachment.

“I'm running for Congress to stand up for Northeast Ohioans. They overwhelmingly voted for the America First agenda. But their Congressman betrayed them when he voted to impeach President Trump. I won't back down. And I'll never betray them,” Miller tweeted.

Trump endorses former aide against pro-impeachment Republican

Former President Trump has thrown his support behind an ex-White House official running to unseat a House Republican who voted for impeachment, the first GOP primary challenge Trump has b…

thehill.com

Putin putting loyalists in positions of power?

Meet one of our nation's new congress member.

Nice work Indiana.

 

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They have already and are still supporting the devil. They even have a gold statue of him.

Yep, real old fashioned Christians would have surrounded CPAC and burned the lot of them at the stake for idolatry, heresy and blasphemy!

 

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McConnell Says Trump Responsible for Attack on Capitol, Pledges Support for Trump's 2024 Run. WHAT!

In a very real sense, Mitch McConnell is responsible for the horrific reign of Donald Trump: 500,000 Covid deaths; 300 arrests of Trump supporting insurrectionists, more than 30,000 documented lies over the course of Trump's presidency, etc. McConnell gave Trump aid and comfort throughout his presidency, orchestrating not one but two Senate impeachment trial acquittals.

After acquittal number two, in a rare spasm of candor McConnell stated the obvious: that Trump was "practically and morally" responsible for the deadly attack on the US Capitol. Now . . . McConnell pledges his full support for Trump's 2024 presidential run. This statement lands McConnell on a list of some of our nation's most infamous Americans.