4 GOP Governors Do Not Sign Letter in Support of Judge Amy Coney Barrett

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Four Republican state governors have declined to sign a letter in support of President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

Out of the nation’s 28 Republican governors, 24 signed a joint letter urging the “swift confirmation” of Barrett. The governors who did not sign were Larry Hogan of Maryland, Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Phil Scott of Vermont, and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire.

Sununu has not been as openly critical of Trump as the three other governors who refrained from signing. Currently in the midst of a reelection campaign, Sununu is leading Democratic challenger Dan Feltes by 58-35 percent in a poll by Saint Anshelm College.

“As governor, Chris Sununu has no role in the confirmation process,” Sununu campaign spokesperson Ben Vihstadt told WMUR News. However, the New Hampshire governor gave his support to the president’s previous nominees, Neil Gorsuch and Bret Kavanaugh.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-gop-governors-including-chris-140003156.html

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Smart governors. They know who their constituents are and that they are where they are because . . .

. . . . of electoral flukes or similar reasons.

Take my own governor, Larry Hogan. He got elected over an African American opponent, Martin O'Malley's Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, because Brown took the black community for granted. He was a piss-poor candidate who deserved to lose. He won reelection against former NAACP head, Ben Jealous, because he did a reasonable job in his first term and because Jealous was just not a good debater or public speaker.

All that aside, his constituency is naturally Democratic and he knows what needle eyes he needs to thread. he's been pretty skillful at it.

Trivia: Hogan's father was a GOP congressman during the Nixon years. He was the first one to come out in opposition to Nixon and calling for his removal.



These guys are an endangered breed: GOP politicians in the Northeast (Maryland is more Northeast than Southern, which, technically, it is).

[Midnight Writer]

2. Looks like the 2024 Republican Presidential field is forming.

[Mariana]

3. Trump will probably be the nominee in 2024, if he's still alive.

Regardless, there's no way Trump's cultists are going to support any of those four.