Republicans fear Trump may cost them Senate

[babylonsister]

Boo fuckin' hoo! They had their chance to get rid of him and didn't think it was that important.


Republicans fear Trump may cost them Senate
By Alexander Bolton - 06/06/20 06:00 AM EDT


Senate Republicans are feeling high anxiety over President Trump’s aggressive response to nationwide civil unrest, which they fear is alienating middle-of-the-road voters who are crucial to keeping their majority after Nov. 3.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared at the beginning of the election cycle that winning over college graduates and women in the suburbs would be key to retaining the Senate majority in 2020.

With the election five months away, Senate Republicans worry that Trump is blowing up that strategy with his laser-like focus on his base instead of swing voters.

“The last week and a half has certainly raised the level of angst over the politics of the presidential race and consequences on the Senate. I think it’s just kind of become one thing after another. Initially the handling of COVID and now this,” said a Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss conversations with GOP colleagues.

GOP senators were already nervous about keeping their majority because of the administration’s slow response to the coronavirus crisis and several Trump gaffes, including his advice that ingesting disinfectant could treat COVID-19.

“There are a lot of people in the middle that are looking for calmness,” said a second GOP senator who asked for anonymity to voice concerns about Trump’s recent performance. “It’s the tone and the words he’s using that I think might harm us back home.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/501417-republicans-fear-trump-may-cost-them-senate

[PA Democrat]

1. They will cost themselves the Senate through their boot-licking cowardice.

Silence = Complicity.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. +1

[denem]

2. "It's the tone and the words he's using"

It's trump himself you doofus. Yo know, the guy, y'all in February.

[struggle4progress]

3. "We're all very concerned to learn he sounds like an insensitive self-absorbed unprepared jackass"

[live love laugh]

4. Prediction: they lose Senate but retake the House

a) because they are too radical to give all of their power away and

b) they want the House pur$e and impeachment powers

[PCIntern]

6. They're not retaking the House.

Turnout is gonna be enormous.

[live love laugh]

8. Hope you are right since they are pouring $$$ into

doing so.

[maxrandb]

5. Umm, that's kinda like saying

"White Star Lines fears iceberg will cost them some broken dinner plates"

[Squinch]

7. THIS is a beautiful comment!!!!

:

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Senate Republicans BLEW their chance.....

To rid themselves of the stench of Trump. But NO!

Senate Republicans! You made your bed, now lie in it!

[Hugin]

10. After all this time they still haven't learned the two rules of life in the Turd Reich...

The Grope Others Party never were the students of anything.

Rule Numero Uno: Nobody tells the Colossal Man Baby what to do.

Rule Numero Dos: Anything King Shart Midas touches turns to crap.

I'd chisel these in stone, if there were such a way to do that in DU.

Let's hope they never figure that out. However, after letting the Orange Blunder skate on impeachment, it's probably too late.

[Aristus]

12. I wonder if they noticed that the instant they acquitted him

is when everything turned to shit for him, for them, and for the rest of us.

[JHB]

13. Republicans fear *Republicans* may cost them Senate

After 3 and a half years in lockstep with him, of backing him at every turn, this is reaping what you sewed.

You could have voted to remove him. Hell, you could have done that at any time. It takes a good long while to scroll through the "if any Democrat did this they'd be out within a week"-list, but when you held both houses you did nothing, and once we took the House Speaker Pelosi had to craft just the right articles of impeachment, avoiding any gray areas, and you just dismissed that out of hand too.

Nobody else is harming you. It's your own venality and cowardice.

[Hugin]

15. Should the GrOPpers not manage to re-install him in Nov.

Their message (which will resonate with the suddenly awakened and numerous I-never-voted-for-the-guy currently Libertarian/Independent, but, always Republicans) will be in 2022 and forward that Trump was never really one of them.

You can count on it.

[Laelth]

17. Safe bet. n/t

-Laelth

[JHB]

18. That's why it's important to not let them off the hook...

...to slap down any talk of "reasonable Republicans" when they all go along with it. None of them stand up to him. The most that happens is one or two make a "fart in a tornado" burp of discontent then fall right back into formation.

They don't get membership in the Disownership Society.

Blast the escape pods. Burn the lifeboats.

[Hugin]

19. +1

Trust is to be earned. Daily.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

14. They fear that Trump will make them lose power?

Meanwhile, the rest of us fear that Trump is costing us our democracy. There's a moral difference for you.

[kacekwl]

16. Unless they cheat, which

is the plan I'm sure.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Then they need to quit playing up to him,.