Trump wants to undercut Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy before the midterms: former GOP lawmaker

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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TFG wants to put himself on the ballot for the 2022 midterms and to undercut McCarthy and MoscowMitch if the GOP does well. This will be fun to watch

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mccarthy-2657603012/

Reacting to a report that Donald Trump is giving serious thought to announcing his 2024 presidential run very soon, one former GOP lawmaker suggested the former president has multiple motives -- one of them being undercutting the GOP leadership team of Sen. Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy......

"Donald Trump is going to plan an announcement for two reasons," he began. "One, vanity, secondly, strategy."

"The vanity is he cannot let Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell retake Congress and make the story about McCarthy and Mitch McConnell," he explained. "He has to make Republicans resurgent in November about him, so he has to jump in front of the parade -- that's vanity."

"Strategy is because [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis is nipping at his heels," he added. "As soon as Ron DeSantis is reelected in Florida, should that happen, all eyes will turn toward whether Ron DeSantis is running. I actually think Ron DeSantis is running. I think he is currently passing Donald Trump, and it's very easy for DeSantis after his November election."

If the GOP win controls of the House or the Senate, TFG wants to claim credit.

I want TFG to be in effect on the ballot. The more we make the mid-terms about TFG, the better off Democratic candidates will do

[brer cat]

1. I agree that we are better off the mid-tems include trump

effectively on the ballot.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. Desantis

has to bin re-election before anything else. If he is running against Charlie Crist, that may be an issue.

[Irish_Dem]

3. What happens if a person gets on the wrong side of McConnell?

I believe McConnell cut a deal with the Dems. He lets the J6 committee proceed without crashing it.
Throws Trump to the wolves. In return his J6 guilty senators will not be touched.


Just guessing. But we know McConnell is a total control freak and absolutely ruthless in his quest for power.

[QED]

14. The J6 is House

McConnell is Senate. I don't think he has much control in the House.

[Irish_Dem]

16. McConnell is the major GOP power player. He has a say in everything.

That is how Wash DC works.

Back room deals.

[PJMcK]

4. Surprisingly, Trump didn't announce his candidacy yesterday

There were many rumors he would announce on the 4th of July. Because of course he would!

I wonder why he didn't.

There's a third reason he'll announce sometime soon: He can then claim that the investigation into his sedition are politically motivated.

In the real world, I believe Trump is toast. Democrats and most independents hate him and Many Republicans are tired of him.

DeSantis is a very frightening creature.

[Phoenix61]

5. The second he announces his grifting is subject to election laws.

He’ll put that off as long as he can. Why wouldn’t he?

[PJMcK]

8. When have any laws stopped Trump?

Seriously, Trump has violated so many laws that campaign finance regulations won't deter him. After all, his personal lawyer went to jail for just such a violation but Trump was simply named as "Individual No. 1." There were no consequences for his criminality.

Why would that stop him?

He raised $250 million for his stop the steal BS and it's unaccounted for. Do you really think Trump gives a damn about election laws?


ETA: I'm just surprised Trump didn't make the holiday all about himself.

[Phoenix61]

9. That $250 million wasn't campaign contributions which is

why it’s unclear if it was illegal. Campaign election fraud is clearly illegal. Think Lev Parma’s. Why risk it when he doesn’t have to? Why be bothered with all that filing crap when he doesn’t have to? Why not keep people guessing and keep his name in the papers and keep DeSatan off balance.

[PJMcK]

11. I agree but that's not my point

Trump doesn't care about laws. That's all I'm saying.

Sure, he's going to try to make his eventual announcement a yuge event. He'll pay lip service to the campaign regulations. But he really doesn't care about laws. The perfect example of my point is that he tried-- and nearly succeeded!-- to overthrow the U.S. Government.

Do you really think he cares about contribution limits?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. The SuperPAC will have to shutdown or be controlled by someone other that TFG

[kimbutgar]

6. Also maybe because one of his supporters shot up a Fourth of July parade

The timing would not be good.

[GoCubsGo]

17. He didn't announce, because he's not going to.

Teasing that he's going to do something, and never actually doing it has always been his schtick. He's teasing in order to keep suckers sending more money to him. I recall seeing that his donations have plummeted since the Cassidy Hutchinson testimony. He wants money, and he wants a distraction from the Jan. 6 investigation. This is just another iteration of the Pillow Clown and his regular claims that Trump was going to be "re-seated" on such-and-such a day--which never happened.

As for him being able to claim that an investigation would be politically motivated, he is already making that claim, and he doesn't need a future presidential run to continue doing so. He's been screaming "Witch hunt!" for months. He may think that running again will shield him from prosecution, but he would be wrong.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Didn't donations nosedive right when Russian assets were frozen? (n/t)

[GoCubsGo]

21. Yeah. That, too.

With the J6, he's also bleeding domestic supporters, though.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. GoJ6Go :)

[Mad_Machine76]

7. Yeah

Get Trump on the 2022 Midterms ballot. Should end the endless handwringing about whether Democrats should run against Trump and keep on tying the GOP to him

[Captain Zero]

25. If trump jumps in this fall, campaign on the GOP making him speaker

Run against him that way?

[Mad_Machine76]

26. It's a crazy idea

but it's something that has been suggested, so why not feed into that?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Proceed, Mr. Trump.

[Wednesdays]

12. And when the Repugs lose in November, TFG will pin the blame on Mitch and Kevin

'Cause that's how he rolls.

[CrispyQ]

13. Trump was why we had such phenomenal turnout in 2018.

I hope McConnell's last words are, "I should have convicted that mofo."

[Bluethroughu]

15. They all brought us this insurrection loser and supported him through the impeachment

So I don't care if TFG makes a mess at their party, they invited him.

[localroger]

18. Trump will sabotage the GOP because he doesn't want them to succeed without him

...and because it's really frozen out so he can do nothing else. The best thing he could do is slink away and be quiet while the GOP gets its shit together around someone like deSantis, but he will never be able to do that. It has to be about me, me, me and without me you don't have a chance. So Trump might run, in which case his base will come out but not enough of them to win a general election, or he'll play kingmaker and put his support behind someone else so nutty they can't win a general election. What he will not do is put his support behind someone who might ultimately eclipse him in the public eye. The very things that make a few GOP candidates look like they could pull off a win also make those candidates toxic to Trump, and he will do everything he can to make sure he can claim to be more powerful and well-known than they are.

[duckworth969]

19. Think you're right...

Having Chump declare before mid-terms might be good for Dems. Repubes will begin to fight amongst themselves and perhaps make donors pause the flow of their $ for the time being. Maybe suck some of the oxygen (and $) away from Desantis too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. If Donald Trump wants to make the midterms a referendum on him, Democrats will win

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