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NeverTrump Helping Democrats in Missouri Senate Race
Former U.S. Attorney John Wood stepped down as lead investigator for the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 this summer to launch an independent Senate bid in Missouri. Wood is a close friend of the Cheney family and formerly worked in the second Bush administration with stints at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Wood’s Senate campaign is now being financed by another alumnus of the Bush administration, former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, who was President Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations between 2004 and 2005. In July, Danforth’s super PAC launched a $750,000 dollar ad blitz and announced plans to raise anywhere from $20 to $40 million for the fall campaign.
So, a former Republican senator and Bush administration official is going to try and raise $40 million. He will not use this money to help flip blue seats in Georgia and Arizona. He will not use this money to protect vulnerable Republican seats in North Carolina or Pennsylvania. Instead, he will force the Republican Party to expend resources defending what should be a safe Republican senate seat in Missouri.
The pattern of Never-Trumpers openly supporting Democrats demonstrates that they are not principled conservatives. They are a Democrat fifth column embedded in Republican ranks, who will undermine the party’s chances at every opportunity.
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Me thinks that you have forgotten the 2020 Pandemic. I haven’t. For the first time in memory, the Democrats did not canvass door to door. And yet Biden got more than 7 million votes more than Trump in 2020.
And you’re making it even less believable.
Nobody can argue with this.
It’s a completely different era. Not comparable. The structure of everything is extremely different.
Hey Gary, why is Evan McMullin going to make for a better world than Mike Lee?
Math is hard, so I will type this slowly. 74 million is much larger than 54 million.
I know that sounds like a lot, but I’ve looked over the stats concerning the number of presidential votes for the last 200 years or so. The raw number of votes is irrelevant when you consider that the U.S. population has been growing every year since its inception. Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump received a percentage of votes from the electorate that is out of line with normal percentages in the last 100 years.
Trump’s 2020 vote was a higher percentage than Obama got in 20012, but a lower percentage than Obama got in 2008. Meanwhile, Biden’s whopping 81 million (supposedly legal) votes, is still a full 6% less than Lyndon Baines Johnson received in 1964. It’s even less than Nixon received in 1972 and almost identical to Reagan’s tally in ’84.
You are so smart! Wow, 74 million is 20 million larger than 54 million.
Opps! But you forgot a couple of things. First the population of the United States is much larger in 2020 than it was in 1984. But more importantly, Biden won 81 million votes which is, um, 44 million more than Mondale’s 37 million. And if I am not wrong 44 million is, um, like more than twice as large as 20 million.
People either loved or disliked Reagan, but by and large, they didn’t hate Reagan. But people either love or hate Trump. Trump, all on his own, with very little help from Biden, created Biden’s 81 million votes. I know, I was one of them. For the first time in 48 years, I voted for a Democrat for President. Trump did that all on his lonesome. And it looks like we are going to not take back the Senate based upon “candidate quality” as Cocaine Mitch said, given all of the Trumpanesta’s that have been nominated.
So, in 2023, when you see a Democrat Senate, you can thank Trump. And you can thank those who followed the Trump Pied Piper to disaster.
Your “hate analysis” doesn’t take into account the number of people who hate Biden.
Which is massive.
And which he multiplied by regularly insulting women, blacks, Indians, the poor, gun owners, conservatives, news reporters, as well as his continuous lying, yelling, and rudeness.
Silly argument. Reagan was great, the man for the times, good at traditional politics, looked sounded and behaved like a politician but stepped forward when necessary and therefore was transforming. Unfortunately we went back to the old sort who sounded right and behaved traditionally and I think they had integrity but lacked understanding. Perhaps they’ed been politicians too long. The fact is they didn’t understand Reagan or what had just happened. Trump was not a politician but understood a few key things and knew to listen to the right folks, and we needed that at that time. Why do you suppose the Democrats went so berserk and stole the election. Those who believe that silly old senile Biden got that many votes honestly simply lacks understanding, political insight, and common sense. The votes were there, how many fabricated in the system we let Democrats create, we can’t know, but fair? part of our tradition? honest? Give me a break.
Trump did not make you vote for a Democrat President. You did that on your own and now you conveniently try to blame Trump for it. You are not taking responsibility for your Biden vote. You could have at least left the ballot empty in the presidential race, but you instead chose to endorse probably the worst candidate to have ever been nominated by a major political party.
Again, we have to take responsibility and not blame Trump. If I remember correctly, you voted for the Democrat Senator Kyrstin Sinema because the Republican candidate made an off-hand remark to a reporter that you didn’t like. Your vote contributed to the latest spending fiasco, the Inflation Escalation Act. I don’t suppose Trump had anything to do with your electing Sinema.
Trump was worse as shown by the Trump Big Lie and the January 6th insurrection summoned, and motivated by Trump, who did nothing effective for 187 minutes while the Capitol as overrun.
Well Stephen, there is no Senator Krystin Sinema. There is a Senator Krysten Sinema, however.
I voted for Martha McSally against Krysten Sinema in 2018 despite McSally’s growing closeness to Trump.
After Martha McSally went full MAGA in 2020, I voted against her.
In Arizona the Trump endorsed candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and U.S. Senator all won plurality wins in the Republican Primaries, but none of them could get a majority of the primary vote. I would not be surprised if all four lost in the general election. (I have endorsed three of the four Democrats so far.)
“Everyone Trump Endorses in Primaries Loses in the General Election.” (A take off on “Everything Trump Touches Dies” by the questionable Rick Wilson.)
So it’s not Trump you dislike so much as the people who elected him. It’s what we kinda suspected.
Gary, as you know, I am not one to bash you over your divergent opinions here on Ricochet, so I ask this with no rancor.
Do you really think that our country has been better off with Biden as President than we were when Trump was President? I will grant you that in some specifics, Trump was wrong about certain things – I may not entirely agree on “the big lie,” I feel like Trump exaggerated the voter fraud and has been narcissistic, but to call it a lie would mean that Trump knew absolutely that there was not enough fraud to overturn the results but instead chose to lie about it. That is a big assumption.
And even if I grant that Trump did not act for 187 minutes (although drew in Wisconsin has pointed out numerous times that this is actually “a lie”), does that make our country worse off than what we have going now? Is it better to have 9% inflation, let crime run rampant, let two million illegal aliens, human traffickers and drugs across the border, and let men take trophies and scholarships away from women, rather than have a President sit idle for 187 minutes?
Tell me seriously the reasons that us ordinary citizens are better off now under Biden.
He didn’t think it through or he didn’t listen to the right people. He’s just not curious enough about this type of thing.
Do you feel justified now that your vote helped to give the Democrats a majority in the Senate? Do you support that latest Trillion dollar spending bill that you helped to pass by voting for the democrat? And why is that such a good thing? I really don’t see the point of electing these democrats. How could things possibly be worse if Arizona had elected a Republican Senator? Perhaps you can fill me in. I am dumbfounded.
No. I admire and respect my sainted mother, my physician brother and my crack Legal Assistant, all of whom voted for Trump.
in 2018, I voted for Martha McSally in the primary and general elections. But in 2020, Martha McSally went full MAGA, and showed a canine degree of devotion to Trump.
Gary has a model of everything in his head that doesn’t exist in reality.
I apologize for my tone. It was over the top.
Biden gets a F for Afghanistan, a D for spending and the economy, a C for getting “moderate” bills through the Senate, a B for the infrastructure bill and an A for Ukraine.
If we take away the Trump Big Lie, the Trump Cult of Personality, and the January 6th Insurrection, Trump was marginally a better President than Biden is, even though he could never cut any deal with them like an infrastructure bill. (We should be putting on the finishing touches to the “Trump Tunnel” to replace the 100+ year old tunnels under the Hudson.)
The problem is The Rule of Law. Since our country’s founding in 1789, we have had an unbroken series of the peaceful transfer of power. This is our sacred birthright, or at least it was. We are a government of laws, not men. No man is above the law. Trump’s attempt to violently overthrow the government is unforgivable, and he likely should be prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated.
Great points. After a tweet that Mike Pence let us down, Trump released a couple of mamby-pamby tweets that generically called for no violence, but the rioters noted that Trump had not told them to leave. Once he did, 187 minutes after the end of his speech at the Ellipse, the riot ended.
Inflation, while slowly coming down is far too high. Republicans or even Trump would have done better.
Crime is too high. Republicans or even Trump would do better.
Opening the border is wrong. Republicans or even Trump would do better.
Please define your terms about “human trafficking.” Most people think of that as smuggling women to put them to work as prostitutes. Has that happened? Yes, but on the margin. Primarily, “coyotes” get people across the border. Is that bad? Yes. Is that “human trafficking”? Not as most people use the phrase.
Biological males should not compete in women’s sports. Republicans or even Trump would do better.
But the reference to a mere 187 minutes is misplaced. That is the whole ballgame. Any other President would have marched into the press room and call on the rioters to go home. Any other President would have swarmed law enforcement to the Capitol. If we don’t have Rule of Law, we are a thugocracy. Stopping that is a mountain that I am willing to die on.
We are better off with Biden only because did not attempt to violently overthrow the government. Biden’s mistakes can be corrected. But if Trump had succeeded in overthrowing the government, that’s the whole ballgame.
The Constitution is at risk. The Republic is at risk. They are far more important than any one person or political party.
What does this mean? What is this bill commonly called?
We need an upgrade on our infrastructure. It is amazing that Trump, a builder, could not get that done. Thank goodness Biden did.
They owe ***organized crime*** a ton of money. That’s setting aside the risks involved and the huge drain on the United States treasury and the border patrol. 1 million got a ways since Biden came into office.
Profound.
Think of all the crap these women are going through and how unfair this stuff is. So much of this they will never recover.
What bill are you talking about?
If this is what I think it is, this is another example of your not paying attention to basic news.
This is that “inflation bill”, that the Democrat media started calling an infrastructure and etc bill on orders from the Democrat party.
I asked because you said MAGA and didn’t mention Trump. What about somebody who is full MAGA and is indifferent about Trump?
The supposed negotiating with drug companies is about fining them if they don’t go along.
The good part is at 4:00
When I say “full MAGA” that would include being devoted to Trump. McSally became completely devoted to Trump. It was embarrassing that this accomplished woman groveled so much.
The very principled Liz Cheney, warrior against “election denial,” will not be expending any energy to defeat Stacy Abrams. Tells you all you need to know about Scowlin’ Liz.