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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 01:53 PM Jul 2021

TFG threatened to primary GOP lawmakers who favor the bipartisan infrastructure plan.

17 Republicans just voted to advance it, including Mitch McConnell.

Former President Donald Trump left no words unspoken in his most direct attempt yet to tank President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure deal.

The GOP frontman threatened "lots of primaries" ahead for any Republican lawmakers who cooperated with Democrats to get the bipartisan deal passed.

His statement was released after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced ahead of the procedural vote in the Senate on Wednesday that he would vote to advance the measure. Seventeen Republicans - including McConnell - joined all 50 Democrats to advance the bipartisan legislation, in a major test for the bill.

The vote came hours after a group of 10 Republican and Democratic negotiators announced they struck a deal with the White House for $550 billion in new spending - $30 billion less than was included in a prior agreement.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatened-primary-gop-lawmakers-010115113.html

Given the orange pustule's recent successes I don't think they have much to worry about.
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TFG threatened to primary GOP lawmakers who favor the bipartisan infrastructure plan. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
Do it, dimwit....see how well that works Maeve Jul 2021 #1
Oh FFS...call. his. bluff. Moostache Jul 2021 #2
Please do. Ace Rothstein Jul 2021 #3
Eating their own!!! Grins Jul 2021 #4
TRUMP is succccccccccccccccccch a MORON Trueblue1968 Jul 2021 #5

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. Oh FFS...call. his. bluff.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 01:57 PM
Jul 2021

Does anyone REALLY believe Trump is going to do actual WORK or expend EFFORT on this?
He is blustering and bluffing because it has worked a little for him lately.

Call his BS and watch him melt away into a pouty-faced puddle of "what a world...what a life" wicked witch goo.

Ace Rothstein

(3,109 posts)
3. Please do.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:00 PM
Jul 2021

Remember all the Tea Party nuts that ended up being nominated for Senate seats in 2010? That allowed us to hold onto the Senate for an extra 4 years.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
4. Eating their own!!!
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 03:01 PM
Jul 2021

So beautiful.

If they fight back, “the base” will attack them, primary and vote for someone else, who will immediately be labeled a toe-sucking, spineless toady, deservedly!

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