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applegrove

(133,103 posts)
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 05:08 PM Nov 2022

J.D. Vance Urges Republicans Not to Blame Trump

J.D. Vance Urges Republicans Not to Blame Trump

November 14, 2022 at 3:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/14/j-d-vance-urges-republicans-not-to-blame-trump/

"SNIP.......

Sen.-elect J.D. Vance (R-OH) writes in the American Conservative that the Republican Party is hurting itself if its leaders continue to blame Donald Trump for its poor performance in the midterm elections.

Writes Vance: “Our party has one major asset, contra conventional wisdom, to rally these voters: President Donald Trump. Now, more than ever, our party needs President Trump’s leadership to turn these voters out and suffers for his absence from the stage.”

........SNIP"

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viva la

(4,637 posts)
18. This was the guy who stood there and beamed
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 06:06 PM
Nov 2022

as Trump LITERALLY said, "JD kissed my ass."

DFW

(60,436 posts)
8. The guy obviously did not get his doctorate in Political Science from Oxford....... n/t
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 05:17 PM
Nov 2022

Diamond_Dog

(41,049 posts)
13. Because if it weren't for Dump's endorsement
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 05:37 PM
Nov 2022

JD the Political Newbie with zero experience running for any elected office, is now a U.S. Senator. It still works here in Ohio, unfortunately

Aristus

(72,523 posts)
9. Someday, someone is going to write an elegy for how easily the hillbillies fell for the jive
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 05:19 PM
Nov 2022

of a wealthy New York elitist.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
17. Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 06:02 PM
Nov 2022

Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.

tanyev

(49,683 posts)
20. You got a typo there, J.D. You've got two superfluous letters in "asset".
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 06:21 PM
Nov 2022

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