Kinzinger wants Dems & Indies to vote in GOP primaries to defeat Trumpists

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NEWS: Kinzinger's political operation unveils new plan to push Dems and independents to vote in Republican primaries in "underdog" fight to purge Trump from GOP. My story:

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Kinzinger pushes 'uneasy alliance' to thwart Trump's allies
NEW YORK (AP) — In the high-stakes fight for the GOP's future, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is calling on Democrats and independents to form an “uneasy alliance” with Republicans to fight former...
4:38 PM · Feb 1, 2022

https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-campaigns-election-2020-political-organizations-759871ec8c60a284704ea6c66590a9c3

NEW YORK (AP) — In the high-stakes fight for the GOP’s future, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is calling on Democrats and independents to form an “uneasy alliance” with Republicans to fight former President Donald Trump’s influence.

Kinzinger, one of Trump’s fiercest Republican critics in Congress, has directed his political organization to initiate a novel campaign to convince non-Republicans to support anti-Trump Republican candidates in GOP primary contests across the country later this year. Experts suggest the practice, sometimes known as “party raiding,” will be hard to execute on a broad scale, but Kinzinger warned that failure to shift the GOP’s embrace of Trump could undermine democracy or even a lead to “failed state.”

“People need to wake up to that real possibility,” Kinzinger, who is not seeking reelection this fall, told The Associated Press. “We have to be able to have uneasy alliances, as uneasy as they may be in this moment.”

There are few modern examples of a sitting Republican member of Congress so openly asking Democrats to help take down a former president of his own party.

Kinzinger’s plan underscores the extraordinary challenges Trump antagonists face as they fight to purge Trumpism from the GOP using the existing political system, which offers party leaders little control if voters line up behind extremists. At the same time, Trump allies control the Republican Party infrastructure at the state and national levels — in addition to fundraising.

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[FakeNoose]

1. Isn't that what Repukes do - vote in our Dem primaries?

[sop]

2. Why not Republicans voting for Democrats in the general elections?

[Raven123]

4. Excellent point.

Wonder if he adopts that strategy for the general election if plan A fails

[mucifer]

8. That's what the Lincoln Project people and lots of republicans did

[Raven123]

3. Ok. Get rid of the filibuster and I'm in

[tanyev]

5. I haven't yet decided which primary I'm going to vote in.

My county is very red and there’s usually only one name on the Democratic ballot in most of the local races. Problem on the Republican side is that Republican incumbents are being challenged by nutjobs even farther to the right. I haven’t seen any GOP candidates in my area speaking out like Kinzinger and Cheney have.

[Zambero]

6. Worth considering in certain situations

In Idaho, a statewide GOP primary victory is essentially a guarantee of victory come November. The spectre of an Amon Bundy or Janice McGeachin sitting in the governor's chair is sobering indeed. Brad Little is a lousy governor, but having him in place to stave of the crazies seems like the least bad option. Given that, he would never get my vote in a general election.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Doesn't really matter where I live. Blue district in a blue state...

I suppose in the Senate race, but that seat is pretty safe here, and frankly I'm not sure I want to improve the repubs' chances by eliminating the crazies before the general.

If I lived elsewhere, perhaps I'd think about it.