Republicans

J.D. Vance: “Now, More Than Ever, We Need Trump”

Senator-elect J.D. Vance writes: Building a turnout machine without organized labor and amid declining church attendance is no small thing. Our party has one major asset, contra conventional wisdom, to rally these voters: President Donald Trump. Now, more than ever, our party needs President Trump’s leadership to turn these voters out and suffers for his absence from the stage. The …

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“Pissed Off” Cruz Rages At McConnell Over Midterms

“Let me start off by saying I am so pissed off, I cannot even see straight. We had an extraordinary opportunity. We had a generational opportunity. This should have been a fundamental landslide election. “We should have won the House and the Senate. We should have a 30, 40, 50 vote majority in the House. We should have 53, 54, …

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Cruz’s Midterms Picks Fared Even Worse Than Trump’s

The Daily Beast reports: In the aftermath of a disastrous midterm for Republicans, the blame game has mostly focused on former President Donald Trump’s ongoing ballot box toxicity. But conservatives might also want to cast a more critical eye on the record of another self-styled GOP influencer: Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz focused his support on House races, most specifically 24 …

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Pence: “Reckless” Trump Endangered My Life [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence said in an exclusive interview with ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric was “reckless” as a mob of his supporters ransacked the Capitol last year — with Pence and others temporarily forced into hiding. “I mean, the president’s words were reckless. It was clear he …

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Sarah Palin: Stop Donating To The Republican Party

The Independent reports: Sarah Palin has gone nuclear on the Republican Party, claiming the GOP sabotaged her Alaska House race and that they deserved their drubbing in the midterms. In a conspiracy-laden Instagram post, Ms Palin blamed the “cockamamie” ranked choice voting system, Senator Lisa Murkowski and the “dark, dysfunctional GOP machine” after she was seemingly trounced by Democrat Mary …

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Lara Trump To DeSantis: Don’t Run Or You’ll Be Sorry

“I think that Ron DeSantis is very smart. Look, he’s a young guy. There will be a lot of opportunity for him in the future, and he knows this, to run for president. “And so, I think he’s probably waiting to see what my father-in-law does, and I think he’s a smart enough guy to know that it will be …

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Sen. Bill Cassidy: Republicans Are Not A Cult [VIDEO]

“First, we’re not a cult. We’re not like, ‘Okay, there’s one person who leads our party.’ We are not going to have one person anointed unless she or he happens to be a sitting president.   “What we’ve been lacking, perhaps, is that fulsome discussion, followed up with the policy initiatives that we work to pass that will define who …

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DeSantis +7 Over Trump In National Post-Midterms Poll

The New York Post reports: A new national poll gives Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a 7-point edge over former President Donald Trump in a potential presidential primary battle, the first survey of the 2024 cycle to do so — and the first poll since February 2016 to point to a weakening of Trump’s GOP dominance. The YouGov poll, released Friday, …

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Hawley: It’s “Time To Bury” The Old Republican Party

Fox News reports: Republicans need to rebrand and “build something new” after they failed to retake a majority in the U.S. Senate or meet general expectations for the 2022 midterm elections, one of the party’s younger members said. On Saturday, shortly after Democrats picked up a key victory in Nevada, where incumbent Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican challenger …

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SNL’s Cold Open Scorches Kari “Vaseline” Lake [VIDEO]

Deadline reports: As Rupert Murdoch-owned outlets noticeably pinned the blame for the Republicans’ midterm losses on Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live spoofed Fox & Friends as its tried to break the news to the former Celebrity Apprentice host that he was no longer their favorite guest. The highlight of the skit was Strong’s return playing Lake, the former TV anchor …

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New Florida School Board Member Calls For Corporal Punishment, Crackdown On Disabled & LGBT Students

The Naples Daily News reports: Newly elected Collier County school board member Jerry Rutherford wants to bring corporal punishment back to district classrooms, he said the morning after Tuesday’s election. He added that disabled students’ behavior in particular is “out of control.” Additionally, he said he’d like to see fewer “rights” for LGBTQ students — or the same extended to …

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Cultists Protest Outside AZ Ballot Counting Facility

Arizona Central reports: Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake stoked fears of mail-in ballots. Now she’s taunting officials for not counting them fast enough after a record number of people held onto their mail-in ballots until Election Day. Lake accused election workers of deliberately slowing counts and holding back results, commenting in social media posts and in interviews on conservative news …

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Masters: I Won’t Concede Until All Votes Are Counted

ABC News reports: Senate nominee Blake Masters released a statement on Saturday indicating that he would decline to concede until all the votes were counted in his race against Sen. Mark Kelly (D). Several outlets, including NBC and The Associated Press, called the race for Kelly on Friday night. Masters has publicly denied the results of the 2020 presidential election, …

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Mo Brooks: Trump Is “Dishonest, Disloyal, Incompetent”

The Birmingham News reports: “It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” Brooks said in an interview with AL.com. “Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans. Even a candidate who campaigns from his …

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Walker: “We’re The Greatest Country In The US”

Newsweek reports: A video showing Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker referring to America as “the greatest country in the United States” has gone viral following an election rally on Thursday. Walker, who is running in Georgia’s Senate runoff election on December 6, spoke at an event, along with Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, as the state prepares for another …

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QAnon Election Denier Loses Nevada Sec Of State Race

Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate reports: Democrat Cisco Aguilar has won the race to become Nevada’s next secretary of state, defeating Republican and election denier Jim Marchant. Aguilar, a lawyer and former chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, did not have a primary challenger. Marchant did not accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and lost his race as the …

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DeSantis Remains Mum After Trump’s Latest Attacks

The New York Post reports: DeSilence is golden. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team have ignored Donald Trump’s ongoing rhetorical offensive because they believe the former president is only damaging his own brand, an insider told The Post Friday. “There is no upside to rolling around in the mud with Trump at this point,” the DeSantis source said. “Only …

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Scott: Midterms Were A “Complete Disappointment”

The Hill reports: “Here’s what happened to us: Election Day, our voters didn’t show up, we didn’t get enough voters. It was a complete disappointment,” Sen. Rick Scott told Fox News host Sean Hannity during his primetime show. Hannity asked Scott: “Where did all this pie in the sky talk about a wave and a tsunami election come from? Because …

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No Powder Found In Envelope Sent To Lake Campaign

The Arizona Republic reports: Phoenix police confirmed Friday that no powder was found inside an envelope sent to Kari Lake’s campaign office on Nov. 5. Ross Trumble, a spokesperson for the Lake campaign, told The Republic that a campaign staffer opened an envelope delivered to the office near 40th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix that contained “suspicious white powder.” …

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Trump Pick Joe Lombardo Wins Nevada Gov Race

CNN reports: Republican Joe Lombardo, the popular sheriff of Clark County, will defeat Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak after arguing that he did not do enough to get the economy moving after the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sisolak conceded Thursday evening before the race had been called. Lombardo was one of the rare GOP candidates backed by both Trump …

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