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GOP senator says she's 'struggling' on whether to back Trump

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Lisa Murkowski: GOP senator says she's 'struggling' on whether to back Trump - CNNPolitics

Thoughts? Anyone buy it? I say that her, like damn nearly all of her fellow Republicans, will vote for the orange menace in November, despite claiming "concern" or that they are "struggling" about it. In 2016 many of them claimed the same thing, but when the election rolled around the so called "Never Trump" movement ended up being a total farce. It will be no different this time around.
 
She is perpetually "struggling." Is there any time she isn't?:lol:
 
Good on Senator Murkowski.

Let others come forward.
 
jamesbyoung said:
Good on Senator Murkowski.

Let others come forward.
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Carly Fiorina, former GOP presidential candidate in 2015/2016, said she wasn't going to vote for Trump in 2020 (she voted for him in 2016). But then again, she's not a senator trying to keep her job.
 
What other choice does she have? The RNC didn't let anyone else run.

If she goes democrat, that will be political suicide for her and when have you ever known, especially as of late, a republican to put the nation before the party?
 
Captain America said:
What other choice does she have? The RNC didn't let anyone else run.

If she goes democrat, that will be political suicide for her and when have you ever know a republican to put the nation before the party?
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She could vote third party, or stay home:mrgreen:

But yes, I agree with your points.
 
A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated:

We are the hollow men . . .

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

or rats’ feet over broken glass . . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...80ecf4-a425-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html


George Will is a conservative who's been around forever.

He says Trump has got to go for the good of the country. He say we should kick out all the republican senators and republican congressmen while we're at it, as punishment for them backing Trump.

George Will is a great American.
 
Captain America said:
A third party vote is almost the same as voting for Trump, IMO.
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Third party votes definitely benefitted Trump in 2016.

But this year, at least based on polling now, there are much less "undecided" voters this time around. Trump benefitted immensely from those "undecided" voters in 2016.
 
Puigb said:
Third party votes definitely benefitted Trump in 2016.

But this year, at least based on polling now, there are much less "undecided" voters this time around. Trump benefitted immensely from those "undecided" voters in 2016.
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Trump also benefitted from the Berner's who were pissed at the DNC for not getting behind their boy and voted for Trump in protest. And the EC. Can't forget the EC. That's the only way a republican can get elected president these days.
 
At this point, any Republican official that say's they are “struggling” can kiss my ass. She’s a damned coward. Like Collins with her “well, I think the president has learned a lesson now” bull****. Pick a position and own it. Look at Graham, one of Trump’s most vociferous critics before the election, but since then he’s swallowed Trump whole. He publicly and unabashedly declares his love for his very good friend. Of course, just about everyone has lost all respect for Lyndsey, but he doesn’t care because Trump will always have his back.
 

I'm surprised that Graham, being as queer as a three dollar bill, gets the conservative support he does. That's progress I suppose.
 
Captain America said:
Trump also benefitted from the Berner's who were pissed at the DNC for not getting behind their boy and voted for Trump in protest. And the EC. Can't forget the EC. That's the only way a republican can get elected president these days.
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Eh, the Bernie bros may have helped, but I doubt it made a huge difference. There was actually more Clinton supporters in 2008 who voted for McCain than Sanders supporters in 2016 voting for Trump.

It was the lower minority turn out in key swing states, particular younger black voters, that did her in.
 
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Captain America said:
I'm surprised that Graham, being as queer as a three dollar bill, gets the conservative support he does. That's progress I suppose.
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As long as he’s officially “straight”, he’s good to go with the GOP.
 

I liked this post, but I disagree that Trump will always have Graham's back. Trump will throw anyone, and I mean anyone, under the bus if it were to save his own ass. Trump is nobodies friend.

And Graham is just a GOP toady, hence his support for Trump. Once Trump is gone from office, he will have no more use for that bombastic idiot.
 
I was being facetious.
 
jamesbyoung said:
Good on Senator Murkowski.

Let others come forward.
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applause applause !!!

Lisa Murkowski is one of the very damn few republicans in the GOP.
 

She and Collins are all hot air. If she'd voted to remove Trump on articles of impeachment, I'd feel differently. Until something meaningful like that, it's just words.

And if she tapes herself voting against Trump, it'll only be because polls show he's got no chance of winning.





These people need to act when it matters or shut up.
 
Will is a man of real character. The Republican Party is much worse off without folks like him.
 
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