Trump Keeps Butting Into Senate Races, Causing Headaches For GOP: Georgia is the latest example of

[riversedge]

12/05/2019 11:20 am ET
Trump Keeps Butting Into Senate Races, Causing Headaches For GOP

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-senate-georgia-2020-election_n_5de82f54e4b0d50f32ade9ca

Georgia is the latest example of the president looking to ensure a loyal Republican candidate.


By Igor Bobic and Kevin Robillard

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump has been keeping a close eye on Senate races across the country ahead of the critical 2020 elections, seeking to install loyalist candidates on the ballot as he continues to reshape the Republican Party in his image.

But the efforts by Trump and his top allies to handpick candidates in New Hampshire, Kansas and most recently Georgia, for example, has also ruffled feathers with national and local GOP officials who have their own ideas about who should run for the upper chamber.

On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) defied Trump by appointing wealthy businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to take over the seat of retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) next month. The president had wanted Kemp to appoint Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), a vocal Trump defender who has been deeply involved in fighting the House impeachment inquiry as the top GOP member on the Judiciary Committee. One of the president’s top allies, Fox News host Sean Hannity, even got into the mix, urging his viewers to call Kemp and tell him not to appoint Loeffler to the seat.

Loeffler, a longtime donor to both political parties, sought to reassure conservatives who had concerns about her candidacy on Wednesday, introducing herself alongside Kemp as: “A lifelong conservative. Pro-Second Amendment. Pro-military. Pro-wall. And pro-Trump.” The GOP establishment, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, got on board a day earlier, endorsing Loeffler for the seat...............................

[Iliyah]

1. Good. . . .

"F" them up!

[marble falls]

2. I say Adderall the poop out out him and get him out campaigning.

[dewsgirl]

4. LOL😆 They need his help, who doesn't want help from the

POTUS. I hope they let him help, it seems rude not to. He he he....😈

[Doreen]

3. The biggest mistake of Kemp

is that he put a woman in. The second mistake was not the man trump wanted. Someone is going to be leaving sometime in the future be it sooner or later. You all know how this works.