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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new GOP primary litmus test: Loyalty to Trump: Republicans who show anything less than total fe
What a sick way to run an election!!
The new GOP primary litmus test: Loyalty to Trump
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/trump-republicans-loyalty-arizona-241861
Republicans who show anything less than total fealty to the president are being hammered by GOP challengers.
By KEVIN ROBILLARD
08/21/2017 05:21 PM EDT
Sen. Dean Heller (left) is one of the candidates that has come under pressure as loyalty to President Trump has emerged as a potent issue in the 2018 races. | Michael Reynolds/Getty Images
By Ankit Panda
Taxes, spending and even health care have taken a back seat to the most potent new litmus test in Republican primaries: allegiance to President Donald Trump.
Even as the president spars with members of his own party and his approval rating has plummeted to historic lows, Republican Senate campaigns across the country are preparing to use instances of disloyalty to Trump to bludgeon primary opponents whove gotten on the wrong side of the president.
Loyalty to Trump has quickly become the most potent issue for the Republican base, according to a dozen candidates and strategists immersed in 2018 races. It has already put Sens. Jeff Flake and Dean Heller under pressure in their states, sparked bickering between GOP candidates in two of Republicans top 2018 targets, Indiana and West Virginia, and sunk one candidate running for Alabamas open Senate seat.
In any state where Trump has an approval [rating] of 85 percent or better among GOP primary voters, its an effective weapon, said Steven Law, president of Senate Leadership Fund, the Republican super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while warning every state and every race is different. Ahead of the first round of voting in Alabamas special Senate election this month, the PAC slammed Rep. Mo Brooks over his criticism of Trump in 2016.........................
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The new GOP primary litmus test: Loyalty to Trump: Republicans who show anything less than total fe (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2017
OP
Those districts are full of racists, bigots, knuckle-draggers and assorted idiots -
The Velveteen Ocelot
Aug 2017
#3
Warpy
(111,174 posts)1. The way he's fucking everything up, good luck with that
They might be lucky to break 60% among Republicans in the hardest core Donny states.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)2. This could work for us...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,615 posts)3. Those districts are full of racists, bigots, knuckle-draggers and assorted idiots -
You know, Trump's base. That dumb, brainwashed crowd can't bear the slightest suggestion that maybe the sun does not actually shine out of Trump's ass, and they'll crawl out of their parents' basements, light their tiki torches, sharpen up their garden forks, and primary out any GOPer that has indicated a hesitation to kiss Trump's taint. So the incumbent GOPers are now stuck with having to appease those numpties.