Ohio Flips: 1st Poll Post Mar-a-Lago Raid Shows J.D. Vance, Republicans Have Overtaken Democrats


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JACOB BLISS17 Aug 2022Washington, DC

In the first poll since the unprecedented Mar-a-Lago raid, Emerson College Polling showed that J.D. Vance, the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Ohio’s open U.S. Senate seat, and Republicans had overtaken Democrats in the Buckeye State.

Vance leads Ryan by three points in the most recent Emerson College poll. The poll found that 45 percent of the 925 general election voters would vote for Vance over the 42 percent who would vote for Ryan. There were also four percent who said someone else, and ten percent were undecided.

In fact, when the voters were asked, “regardless of whom they support, which candidate they expect to win,” a majority of the respondents (52 percent) said Vance would win, compared to the 48 percent who said Ryan.

Executive Director of Emerson College polling Spencer Kimball said:https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/...d-vance-republicans-have-overtaken-democrats/

Both Vance and Ryan have strong bases of support, and the race tightens to a one-point lead for Vance among the very motivated and very likely voters in Ohio. Whereas Vance leads by a larger margin among somewhat likely and somewhat motivated voters.

Republicans also lead with double digits on the generic congressional ballot.

The Republicans on the Ohio generic congressional ballot hold a ten point lead over the Democrats, 51 percent to 41 percent. There was also eight percent undecided.

In Ohio, President Joe Biden has an approval rating of only 39 percent and a 56 percent disapproval.

In a hypothetical 2024 poll between Biden and former President Donald Trump, the former president leads with a majority of the vote with 53 percent compared to the 39 percent who would vote for Biden.

This comes after the recent FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, which showed that 39 percent of Ohio voters are “more likely” to support Trump if he runs for president in 2024. This is compared to only 35 percent who said the raid made them “less likely” to support Trump and the 27 percent who said the raid “makes no difference” in who they would vote for.

The Emerson College poll was conducted from August 15 to 16 and asked 925 somewhat and very likely general election voters. The poll also had a margin of error of 3.2 percent.

 

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Wyoming definitely chose the right candidate. All treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans do is lie and telling the truth is simply not allowed. Its also very important for treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans to lie about anything and everything and Hageman is already getting started.


Liz Cheney Releases Concession-Call Audio That Undermines Rival’s Fox News Claims

In a less than magnanimous move, Harriet Hageman on Wednesday complained on Fox News that Rep. Liz Cheney hadn’t fully conceded the Wyoming GOP primary race. Trump-backed Hageman told Sean Hannity that Cheney had “left a very brief two-second message on my cellphone” after the count Tuesday night, but hadn’t addressed “any kind of concession or anything else.” But an audio recording released by Cheney’s campaign to Politico showed that Hageman’s version of events wasn’t exactly accurate. “Hi, Harriet, it is Liz Cheney calling,” Cheney can be heard saying in the audio, along with an aide informing the incumbent that the Associated Press had just called the race for Hageman. “It is about 8:13 on Tuesday the 16th, I’m calling to concede the election and congratulate you on the win. Thanks.” Hagemen had told Hannity that Cheney had “just said ‘Hello, Harriet’ and then hung up.” Politico says Hageman’s campaign provided a video that showed a voice message from Cheney’s number saying Cheney’s two-word greeting before going silent for 10 seconds. Elsewhere, Bloomberg News reports that President Biden contacted Cheney on Wednesday after her primary defeat, though no details were given about what was said.

Read it at Politico

https://www.thedailybeast.com/liz-c...val-harriet-hagemans-fox-news-claims?ref=home

 

This is actually a huge lose for treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in congress. As long as they had Screwy Louie all the rest of them didn't look so crazy compared to him.

And that has very real world consequences. All treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans do is lie.. It is both their strategy and method of operation to out shout reality. So they will launch unreliable conspiracy theories and false propaganda. Which is so extreme no one can believe them. But then along comes Screwy Louie with things out of this world. And then the other treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans don't look so extreme compared to him. Which is how they normalize their extremism.

I am sure they will find someone to replace him. But no one could bring the crazy like Screwy Louie.




Louie Gohmert leaves Congress having passed one law and spread countless falsehoods

Eric Neugeboren The Texas Tribune
August 18, 2022



U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas, photo by Gage Skidmore.


WASHINGTON — In 2010, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert warned the nation from the floor of the House of Representatives about a looming threat: terrorist babies. He described — without providing evidence — a diabolical and far-fetched scheme in which foreign enemies were sending pregnant women to the U.S. to birth babies that would emerge decades later as terrorists.
He found out about it, he said, from a conversation with a retired FBI agent on a flight, even as the FBI said it had no information about any such plot.

He would go on to fight with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper in an interview that went viral as he for nearly 10 minutes refused to answer questions or provide evidence of the claim, while yelling at Cooper for “attacking the messenger.”

It was a breakout moment for the Republican congressman from East Texas, who had been in office for about five years at the time and whose profile was growing as a member of the newly founded Tea Party. He was something of an outlier in Congress for the ease with which he was willing to make unfounded and offensive pronouncements. But it would prove to be a harbinger of what was yet to come.

This January, Gohmert, who turned 69 on Thursday, leaves office having defined his 17-year congressional career with conspiracy, conflict and fomenting anger.

Some of his most memorable controversies include the time he compared homosexuality to bestiality. Or when he said Hillary Clinton was “mentally impaired.” Or when he speculated that wearing a mask is what caused him to catch COVID-19. Or when he compared former President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. Or when he said the canceling of a television show for homophobic remarks by its hosts was on par with Nazism. Or when he said he was grieving over the arrests of rioters involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Gohmert was a precursor to former President Donald Trump’s brand of populist, establishment-bucking conservatism that delights in offending progressives and makes no apologies for spreading misinformation.

“He fostered angry, finger-pointing, conspiracy-theory-laden politics that now defines American politics," said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political scientist at the University of Houston. "He was the original congressional antagonist.”

Now he’s leaving Congress because he opted to run for Texas attorney general instead of reelection for his seat — which he presumably would have won easily.

He entered the Republican primary for attorney general last November — months after the other candidates, including incumbent Ken Paxton — and raised by far the least amount of money. He came in last place.

He exits office as Texas’ ninth most senior member of Congress, having made a mark — but not legislatively. In nine congressional terms, he’s passed just one bill into law, a measure in 2017 that simplified the process for calling 911.

Gohmert will perhaps be better remembered for his penchant for going against the majority. He was the only member in the House to vote against a bill last month to suspend tariffs on baby formula imports during a national shortage. (He said the bill was rushed.) He single-handedly delayed for a day the passage of an emergency coronavirus relief package that funded free COVID-19 tests, two weeks of paid sick leave and a billion dollars in food aid. (He later withdrew his objection to allow the bill to pass with unanimous consent.) And he was one of four members to vote against making lynching a federal hate crime. (He said the bill’s maximum sentence was not harsh enough.)

His retirement will be less of the end of an era, and more of a changing of the guard — as the House is attracting a new, younger class of like-minded firebrands who similarly seek conflict over policymaking and who came into office during Trump’s presidency. In recent years, Gohmert’s found allies in the House Freedom Caucus including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida. Last year, they attempted to visit a Washington, D.C., jail where rioters from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are being imprisoned. Greene recently urged the GOP to become the party of Christian nationalism and has made comments supportive of QAnon, an unfounded conspiracy theory and far-right political movement that claims Trump is waging a secret war against Satanic pedophiles.

“He's gone from something of an outlier that people chalked up to some combination of region and personality, to someone who is more representative of a big faction of a big share of Republican voters and even Republican elites,” said Jim Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

Gohmert repeatedly declined to be interviewed for this story and did not answer questions sent to his office via email.

Asked in a brief exchange on Capitol Hill last month about his time in Congress, he said: “I got a lot done, wish it would have been more, but I didn't care who got the credit. Got a lot of things passed on, changed, amended, fixed behind the scenes.” He did not answer a question about what he considers his signature achievement.

In his deep-red congressional district, voters have rewarded Gohmert for his combative reputation. He’s never faced a serious electoral challenge, and in his bid for attorney general, he placed first in the 17 counties near his hometown, despite placing last statewide. His supporters say he’s never wavered in his principles — unlike other Republicans they say care too much about appeasing party leadership.

“He has always been true to who he is. He has been uncompromising … in his faith and his love for East Texas, for his community, for his country,” said David Stein, chair of the Smith County GOP.

The lackluster policymaker
Gohmert entered Congress in 2005, unseating a Democrat incumbent a year earlier. He was previously a U.S. Army captain and state district judge in Smith County. In 1996, Gohmert raised eyebrows in his role as a district judge when he ordered an auto thief who was HIV-positive to seek written consent from any future sexual partners. Former Gov. Rick Perry appointed him to be chief justice of Texas’ 12th Court of Appeals in 2002.

Bills on which Gohmert has been the lead sponsor have passed the House six times. Only one was ever signed into law. Of the 118 House members still in office who started before 2010, just 10 have passed fewer bills in the House than Gohmert — three Republicans and seven Democrats — according to a Texas Tribune analysis. None of those members were Texans. Six members have passed the same number of bills.

Unlike other longtime members of Congress from Texas — like Reps. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands; Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas; and Michael McCaul, R-Austin — Gohmert has never chaired a congressional committee. However, he once chaired a subcommittee that provided natural resources oversight.

“I’m not sure what he was able to accomplish, I really have no idea,” said U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, who serves with Gohmert on the judiciary committee.

His supporters in Texas are unbothered by his lack of a policy record. Matt Long, president of the Fredericksburg Tea Party, which endorsed Gohmert for attorney general, acknowledged Gohmert’s ability to pass bills has been compromised because of his reputation for standing up to his own party leadership.

“If they don’t toe the line immediately with the establishment Republicans, then they don’t have a chance,” Long said.

Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, also backed Gohmert for attorney general and said passing bills doesn’t make someone a successful politician.

“Effectiveness has nothing to do with bills,” Biedermann said. “Effectiveness is speaking out for the people, being the voice of the people.”

That has become a growing mantra of today’s Republican Party. More Republicans are focusing on fighting for their constituents and party loyalty, while villainizing efforts to negotiate across the aisle to pass laws.

“It’s been very alarming to see the Republican Party become more about performance,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said. “It is becoming more and more like Louie Gohmert and less and less serious about legislation and public policy and solving real solutions.”

The provocateur
Gohmert started making waves in 2009, when he and 11 other Republican members of Congress cosponsored the so-called “birther” bill that would have required presidential candidates to produce a copy of their birth certificate — pressing a false narrative that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to be president. (Obama was born in Hawaii, and his father was born in Kenya.)

The birther saga was among the first of several instances in which Gohmert leaned into racist conspiracy theories and took on the role of an instigator. He co-led an effort in 2012 calling for the State Department to investigate the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and Huma Abedin, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton.

After Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech that addressed nationwide instances of police brutality, Gohmert condemned the president for dividing the country, adding that the president should be more like his former basketball coach, another Black man.

“But unlike my favorite coach in high school, who happened to be Black, he has been more divisive," Gohmert told reporters.

Gohmert was also just as likely to agitate his own party leadership. In 2014, Gohmert brought up his famously tense relationship with then-House Speaker John Boehner while speaking to the Upshur County Republican Executive Committee.

“If there was one more Louie Gohmert, John Boehner would have a heart attack,” Gohmert said. Boehner was a staunch Republican but faced pressure from hardline conservatives who felt he wasn’t doing enough to stand up to Democrats.

In 2015, Gohmert would launch a quixotic bid to unseat Boehner as House speaker.

Later that year, when Boehner announced his resignation, Gohmert took a victory lap.

“So often, after being elected to Congress, members have the goal drilled into their head that there is nothing nobler than being a ‘team player,’” he said. “For an appropriate use of the sports metaphor, too often ‘being a team player’ has disguised the fact that a play has been called that has us running toward the wrong goal line.”

The feeling was mutual. In “American Carnage,” a book about the modern Republican Party, Boehner told author Tim Alberta, “Louie Gohmert is insane. There’s not a functional brain in there.”

Gaetz, the Florida congressman and Gohmert ally, commended Gohmert for bucking the party.

“He warned against bad decisions Republicans made that lost them majorities and he inspired some of our best moments,” Gaetz said in an interview.

The talker
In 2015, Boehner cut Gohmert from two congressional diplomacy trips — to the Middle East and Africa — in retaliation after Gohmert had challenged him for House speaker.

But Gohmert didn’t mind.

“Because he canceled my trip this weekend, I’m going to be on Fox News, so thank you, Mr. Speaker,” Gohmert taunted.

He would in fact go on to become a fixture on right-wing media networks. He’s a regular guest on Newsmax and One America News, networks that have served as a farther-right alternative to Fox News and have become more popular in recent years as Trump’s popularity ascended. He’s recently had segments focusing on what he considers the abhorrent treatment of Jan. 6 rioters, whom he has called political prisoners.



U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert questions FBI agent and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok at a joint hearing of two House committees responsible for FBI and Justice Department oversight. Credit: C-Span screenshot



Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) criticizes the mainstream media for invoking a 'race riot' while covering the Tulsa shooting in an interview on Newsmax in 2022. Credit: Newsmax screenshot



Rep Louie Gohmert defends 'terror babies' to Anderson Cooper on a CNN interview in 2010. Credit: CNN screenshot

First: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, questions FBI agent and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok at a joint hearing of two House committees. Next: In an interview on Newsmax, Gohmert criticizes the mainstream media for invoking a “race riot” in coverage of the Tulsa shooting in 2022. Last: Gohmert appears on “Anderson Cooper 360” in 2010.

Brady, the representative from The Woodlands who is also retiring this year, said Gohmert’s legacy will be defined as “an outspoken conservative who was in the media trenches every day.”

“His strengths are in the messaging and the communication and in really the social media space there. I think that’s where he feels most comfortable,” Brady said.

He added that he thinks “social media has in some ways driven politics to the extremes,” which has overshadowed some of the more “substantive work and solutions that are so important to run the country.”

When Gohmert’s not appearing on a conservative news network, he can often be found doing what he calls “Gohmert Hour,” one-hour speeches on the House floor where he speaks in front of a near-empty chamber. A speech in June claimed there were no school shootings before prayer was eliminated in schools. Since entering Congress, he has spent 286 hours speaking on the House floor, according to C-SPAN data.

Rep. August Pfluger, R-San Angelo, said “I love listening to him. I love his passion.” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, called Gohmert “one of the best we have” and “one of the true characters of the House.”

It’s unknown if Gohmert’s successor will be a policymaker or bomb thrower. Nathaniel Moran won the Republican nomination earlier this year and is all but ensured to win the general election in the deep-red district.

Moran is a longtime fixture in Republican politics and is currently the Smith County Judge. He did not respond to multiple requests for an interview but has said that he wants to be a policymaker and “loves to be part of a team,” according to an interview with The Washington Post.

“They hold similar values, no question about it,” said Stein, the Smith County GOP chair who knows Gohmert and Moran personally. “To quote Judge Moran, he may go about it tactically in a different way. And that’s just a matter of preferential style. But he is a strong conservative.”

The insurrection
Since the 2020 election, Gohmert has joined the chorus of Trump acolytes who have spread the falsehood that the election was stolen. The claim has been repeatedly debunked by courts and election audits, and many of the former president’s own top aides have testified that the election was fair.

As he prepares to leave office, Gohmert’s role spreading that misinformation and how it may have contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection is being scrutinized by congressional investigators.

During the hearings this summer held by the House committee investigating the attack, he was mentioned frequently for his rhetoric ahead of the riot and for taking part in a December 2020 meeting to discuss former Vice President Mike Pence’s role in overturning the election results.

A Republican staffer who worked for Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows said Gohmert was among a group of Republicans who asked Trump for a pardon after the insurrection. Gohmert has emphatically denied doing so.

Gohmert’s appearances in the hearings weren’t a surprise. Days before the insurrection, U.S. Capitol Police flagged comments from Gohmert as potentially inciting violence. In an interview on Newsmax, Gohmert said letting President Joe Biden’s electoral victory stand would be “the end of our republic, the end of the experiment in self-government.”

“You got to go to the streets and be as violent as Antifa and [Black Lives Matter],” said Gohmert five days before the Capitol attack. He later said he was not advocating for violence.

In December 2020, Gohmert led a lawsuit that attempted to give the vice president the power to unilaterally name the next president. A federal judge dismissed the suit for lack of standing.

Gohmert, who objected to the electoral results in Arizona and Pennsylvania, would later downplay the insurrection. He sponsored a bill to award congressional gold medals to Capitol Police officers but made no mention of the Jan. 6 attack. He later voted against a bill to honor the officers that made an explicit reference to the attack.

Gohmert said the bill “does not honor anyone, but rather seeks to drive a narrative that isn’t substantiated by known facts.”

Last month on Newsmax, Gohmert said it “grieves me to see the vendettas” against the Capitol rioters who have been imprisoned. He said he’d have no problem imprisoning some of the rioters, but that “most of them committed misdemeanors.” He tried to visit the imprisoned rioters last year at a Washington, D.C., jail but was not allowed a tour without receiving prior approval.

Gohmert leaves office less of an outlier than he once was, during a time when his ideas are becoming more pervasive in the mainstream of the party.

A Monmouth University poll in June found 61% of Republicans considered the Jan. 6 attack a “legitimate protest,” up from 47% a year earlier. Only 13% of Republicans considered the attack an “insurrection” and 45% called it a “riot.”

As of Tuesday, Trump-endorsed candidates for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and statewide offices had won 42 out of 54 of their primaries this year, according to Axios.

“Until the American public says they’ve had enough of it, my suspicion is that you’re gonna have more people like Louie Gohmert,” said Sean Theriault, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has researched Congress.

https://www.rawstory.com/louie-gohm...passed-1-law-and-spread-countless-falsehoods/

 

Another example of a republican who doesn't know history. Homosexuality was illegal under the Nazis and many were put to death or imprisoned.

Good riddance to trash!

 

https://rollcall.com/2022/03/02/gohmert-comes-up-short-in-bid-for-texas-attorney-general/

 

Hey thinskin, what ever happened to that refugee family you were housing?

 

This is a great point. In fact one of the reasons Hitler turned on his own Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) other than they had become too powerful and represented a threat to him was because they had also become a haven for homosexuals including holding orgies. And some historians say that is because Hitler himself was a closeted self loathing homosexual that could not accept that reality.

 

Oh, don't encourage him, @Scotchlass .

Before you can say "obsession" he'll be down in the basement digging around the archives looking for .................. something.
And the problem is that he never cleans up his mess, just leaves papers scattered around, boxes open, furniture overturned; its a bigger mess than they used to leave the safe space in.

And then he drags whatever caught his attention (usually something shiny) up here and throws it around, and, well, to be blunt about it, he doesn't even wipe the mold or mud off of whatever he drags up here, and it stinks the joint up something fierce. Plus, he never wipes his feet or anything and he ends up tracking mud and whatever all over the forum. We've had 14 janitors quit over it, but he simply refuses to even wipe his feet, much less, you know, wash his hands.

 

Maybe Republicans are different. But I know all to well what it means when Democrats start pulling their ads in states. It means their internal polling is telling them those states are already lost.

GOP Senate Campaign Arm Is Pulling Ads in Three Key Races

Blake Masters in Arizona, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, and Ron Johnson in Wisconsin are going to have a little less help than they would have hoped this fall


August 15, 2022

Mehmet Oz speaks to supporters at a rally on June 13, 2022. Ariana Shchuka/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/AP
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling $10 million worth of fall advertising reservations in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — three states at the center of the GOP’s push to regain control of Congress. The New York Times, which reported the news on Monday, notes Republicans have been struggling to raise money as of late, as well as that the decision to pull ads for some of its top candidates could be tied to the party’s financial troubles.

The NRSC has cut the most money, $5 million, in Pennsylvania, where quack TV doctor Mehmet Oz is taking on Lt. Governor John Fetterman. Oz’s campaign has been fraught, to say the least, and current polling averages currently have him losing to the Democrat by more than 10 percentage points. Oz narrowly edged out David McCormick in the state’s Republican primary behind the strength of former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Members of the Republican establishment, and even Trump’s circle, had lined up to back McCormick for fear that Oz couldn’t beat Fetterman.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...rizona-pennsylvania-wisconsin-senate-1397205/




































































The committee also cut more than $2 million in both Arizona, where Trump-backed Blake Masters is up against incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, and Wisconsin, where incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is trying to fend off rising Democratic star Mandela Barnes, who won his primary last week. Polling averages have Masters trailing Kelly by more 10 points. There isn’t much polling for the matchup between Johnson and Barnes, but the race is expected to be a close one, making the NRSC’s move to cut bait — at least $2 million worth of it — all the more surprising.

NRSC Communication Director Chris Hartline stressed that the committee was still invested in all three races in a statement to the Times. “Nothing has changed about our commitment to winning in all of our target states,” he said.

The Senate is currently split 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats holding the edge because of Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to cast tie-breaking votes, as she did last week when the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act along party lines. Republicans have been hoping to take control of the chamber this November, but if Fetterman wins in Pennsylvania they’d be losing a seat (that race is to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey), and they stand to lose another should Johnson lose to Barnes in Wisconsin.

 

Could the midterm elections end up with Trump party have control of both house's
Then Trump ordering no Biden's bills to be allowed to pass or changing them to such a degree that Biden refuses to sign them.The US Could end up with no government like the UK has the moment.

 

All of the "expert" guesses say that deplorables will take the house and likely take the Senate. The deplorables will not have a veto proof majority, but if an issue falls towards the middle of the political spectrum it's reasonable to assume that congress will pass bills Biden won't like, but won't veto either.

Shooter doesn't put much weight behind "expert" pundit guesses, but he's said for quite awhile that the deplorables will take at least one house of congress and put biden in lame duck status.

Mark this spot.

 

Now this is gonna trigger some despicables ............

The top 10 Republican presidential candidates for 2024, ranked (msn.com)

10. Donald Trump Jr.: As we’ve said before, this applies only to a scenario in which his father doesn’t run. But that’s a scenario in which some polls show him running as high as second (with the caveat that we don’t have a lot of good polling). He’d clearly have a base to work with, but capitalizing on that is another matter. And it’s not just about lobbing bombs from the sideline, which is his true talent. (Previous ranking: 7)

9. Mike Pompeo: The former secretary of state returns to this list, showing all the signs of a guy who will run. Those include running digital ads in Iowa and South Carolina. Also worth watching: He recently became one of the highest-profile Trump officials to testify to the Jan. 6 committee. And afterward, he seemed to temper his denial about having discussed removing Trump from office using the 25th Amendment, saying merely that it hadn’t been discussed “seriously.” It’ll sure be interesting to see how Trump backers respond to whatever testimony Pompeo provided. (Previous ranking: N/A)

8. Rick Scott: The senator from Florida is often dismissed because of his awkward personal style. But he’s been positioning himself for the national stage by launching his own platform (which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has distanced himself from). And if Republicans can win back the Senate, perhaps Scott gets some credit as head of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm? That’s a double-edged sword though, given it’s quite possible Republicans blow a good opportunity. (Previous ranking: N/A)

7. Nikki Haley: The former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor is a real contender on paper. She’s also leaning hard into the idea that she’ll run, having repeatedly cited the idea of electing a woman as president. (You’ll notice she’s the only woman on this list.) But races aren’t won on paper. Haley often disappears from the national discourse, and it’s still not clear what her campaign would be about. (Previous ranking: 4)

6. Ted Cruz: The senator from Texas has been out front in criticizing the FBI’s search of Trump, including an early push for the search warrant. He has also floated impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI agents had been turned into “stormtroopers.” (Previous ranking: 6)

5. Glenn Youngkin: It still seems like a bit of a stretch for someone to launch a presidential campaign just a year into his one term as governor. (Virginia doesn’t allow governors to seek reelection). But he’s clearly putting himself in the mix, and 2022 could play into his hands. Imagine a world in which flawed candidates cost the GOP winnable races — and possibly the Senate — in states like Arizona, Georgia, Ohio or Pennsylvania. At that point, the guy whose 2021 win was supposed to be a road map for the party — a road map disregarded in these Senate primaries — might look pretty attractive. (Previous ranking: 8)

4. Tim Scott: The senator from South Carolina has faced some criticism from the right for his endorsement of moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). But if anyone can get past that kind of thing, it might be the broadly liked South Carolina senator. He’s also raising massive sums — $9.6 million last quarter — for what should be an easy reelection bid, and he can use that money to run for president. Scott’s recently published book included a blurb that said he was preparing a presidential run, but the publisher later said it was an error and that Scott hadn’t approved the line. (Previous ranking: 5)

3. Mike Pence: Pence offered some interesting comments this week, opening the door to testifying to the Jan. 6 committee and saying, “The American people have a right to know what happened.” He has walked a fine line on criticizing Trump for that day, despite the insurrectionists endangering his life. We shouldn’t expect him to thoroughly denounce the man who picked him as vice president, but he’s certainly got a vested interest in the party moving in a different direction. The hard part is facilitating that without completely alienating the Trump backers he’d need in 2024. (Previous ranking: 3)

2. Donald Trump: See above. (Previous ranking: 1)

1. Ron DeSantis: See above. (Previous ranking: 2)

 

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As shooter recalls anons reaction to trump jr showing up on a presidential candidate list is the same as despicables had of daddy being president.
Right up to the day that daddy was president.

History repeats itself for those who fail to heed it, eh?

 

So, then regale us with his vast array of accomplishments and qualifications!

 

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are having their inflation and price of gas narratives blow up in their faces. In fact the more they scream about that the more people see both coming down and the better Democrats look.

And so they have switched to trying to scare average Americans with increased funding for the IRS saying armed IRS agents will be showing up at their door. Which is going to blow up in their faces even worse. They vast majority of Americans do their taxes honestly and know they don't have anything to worry about while at the same time want to see the IRS going after tax cheats.

When there is just a very simple solution.


Chuck Todd confronts GOPer opposing IRS agents: 'Stop cheating on your taxes, Congressman'

David Edwards
August 21, 2022



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NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday confronted Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) about his opposition to funding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

"I just don't get it," Todd said of Republicans who oppose funding for 87,000 IRS employees. "A lot of Republicans have talked about dealing with waste, fraud and abuse. The current head of the IRS, which was a Trump appointee, said he didn't have enough people, that the biggest problem we have is that people don't pay their taxes that they're supposed to pay."

"If you're upset about extra IRS agents," the host added, "stop cheating on your taxes, Congressman. I'm not saying you personally. I'm talking about in general."

"Right, Chuck," Barr replied. "Everybody believes people should pay their taxes but the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, looking at this legislation, this reconciliation bill, this inflation expansion act says that $20 billion of these audits are going to come at the expense of low and middle-income Americans."

Barr complained that taxes are going to "go up" on people who are currently cheating.

"This bill is going to come at the expense of the American people," he insisted.

Watch the video below from NBC.You can also watch at this link.





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First, gas is still 150% of what it was in 2020.
Second inflation in July 8.5%.
Third, why, again, does the FBI need more agents on this level?
Who they gonna audit?
Pelosi?
Biden?
Schumer?
Conservative non profits?
Trump?
Bannon?
Yes, they really do think we're that stupid.

 

There is a lot of rumbling about this. While Scott is running around telling Americans we want to take your Social Security and Medicare away other treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in the Senate are asking Hey Rick where the fuck did all our money go?



New filings reveal Rick Scott's NRSC has less than half the money of Dem counterpart — and draining fast

Matthew Chapman
August 22, 2022



Senator Rick Scott speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore)


On Monday, National Journal's Matt Holt reported that new campaign filings for July reveal yet more serious money problems for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) — the group led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) that is tasked with coordinating elections for Senate Republicans.

According to the new filings, the NRSC had $23.3 million cash on hand at the start of August, having raised $8 million in July — but burning through $13.3 million at the same time. This stands in contrast to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), which raised $10 million in that same period while spending $9.4 million, entering august with $54 million cash on hand.

This comes after another report that the NRSC canceled over $13 million in advertising slots for the fall, in the key states of Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

A spokesperson argued that many of these canceled slots, which were for independent expenditures, will be replaced with coordinated expenditures, although campaign finance regulations mean they likely won't be able to spend as much as they would have.

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It also comes as Republican strategists are growing exasperated with Scott over how he is running the NRSC, spending resources from the group to promote himself and his controversial "11 point plan" for Senate GOP policy including new taxes on the poor and sunset requirements for federal programs like Social Security and Medicare. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has even rebuked Scott's policy document, saying a Republican-led Senate would not take it up.

Financial troubles are not the only obstacle for Senate Republicans. McConnell has also acknowledged the party faces a serious deficit in "candidate quality," with many of former President Donald Trump's handpicked candidates like retired football star Herschel Walker in Georgia, daytime TV weight loss guru Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, and venture capitalist Blake Masters in Arizona performing poorly on the trail and in polls.



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