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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 02:46 PM Feb 2022

Republicans Step Up Attacks on Fauci to Woo Trump Voters

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Jane Timken kicked off an eight-week advertising campaign on the Fox News Channel in her bid for the Republican nomination for Senate, she did not focus on immigration, health care or the economy. Her first ad was titled “Fire Fauci.”

Its subject — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser for the coronavirus — is also under attack in Pennsylvania, where Mehmet Oz, a television doctor who has entered the Republican Senate primary there, calls him a “petty tyrant.” In Nebraska, an ad shows Jim Pillen, a Republican running for governor, dressed in hunting gear and cocking his gun after saying, “And Fauci? Don’t get me started.”

Republican attacks on Dr. Fauci are not new; former President Donald J. Trump, irked that the doctor publicly corrected his falsehoods about the virus, called him “a disaster” and repeatedly threatened to fire him. Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, has grilled Dr. Fauci in nationally televised hearings, and Dr. Fauci — true to his fighter-from-Brooklyn roots — has punched back.

But as the 2022 midterm elections approach, the attacks have spread across the nation, intensifying as Dr. Fauci draws outsize attention in some of the most important state and local races on the ballot in November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-step-up-attacks-on-fauci-to-woo-trump-voters/ar-AATyq6I

Make sure you have good knee pads and plenty of chap-stick if you're going to kiss the humongous orange ass.

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Republicans Step Up Attacks on Fauci to Woo Trump Voters (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Dr. Fauci will surely get the last laugh. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2022 #1
It's good to remember that "Trump voters" are definitely in the minority. Sure, they're abqtommy Feb 2022 #2
All the GQP got is hate, lies, cheating, blame game . . . Lovie777 Feb 2022 #3
Anyone running for office... 2naSalit Feb 2022 #4
This puts Dr. Fauci and his family in even more danger peggysue2 Feb 2022 #5

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,783 posts)
1. Dr. Fauci will surely get the last laugh.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 02:53 PM
Feb 2022

As more Americans who refuse to follow the science, exercise precautions, and end up dying unnecessarily. All the while listening to Republican led propaganda that vaccinating against a deadly virus that is COVID is an affront to personal freedoms.

One cannot have freedom if they are dead.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. It's good to remember that "Trump voters" are definitely in the minority. Sure, they're
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 03:14 PM
Feb 2022

loud and offer nothing good to the rest of us but all we have to do is make sure our
voting rights are protected THEN GET OUT AND VOTE!

Lovie777

(12,232 posts)
3. All the GQP got is hate, lies, cheating, blame game . . .
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 03:23 PM
Feb 2022

That's it with tons of money. The GQP can never ever tell me how Christian they are, they are not.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
5. This puts Dr. Fauci and his family in even more danger
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 06:59 PM
Feb 2022

He's had to hire a security team as it is because of these noxious accusations. Anyone resorting to this nonsense should be disqualified from public office.

Thugs, all of them.

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