'Shipwreck:' GOP grows fearful about losing Senate as candidates struggle, Trump support tumbles

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Washington Post

Republicans have grown increasingly worried about losing control of the Senate, as President Trump’s approval rating tumbles and Democrats gain steam in key battleground races.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sounded some of the most doubtful notes of Trump’s presidency that Republicans will keep the upper chamber of Congress, telling reporters, “I hope when the smoke clears, we’ll still have a majority.”

His comments came as Republican strategists and officials fretted over a fresh round of private polling on the Senate races, while public polls registered further erosion in Americans’ approval of Trump. “Shipwreck” was how one leading strategist described the situation, adding an expletive to underscore the severity of the party’s problems.

One of the most unexpected fights is in reliably GOP Texas, where Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to fend off Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke. Republicans are so fearful about losing the seat that they are diverting resources to Texas, a sore point in the White House after the animosity between Cruz and Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/shipwreck-gop-grows-fearful-about-losing-senate-as-candidates-struggle-trump-support-tumbles/2018/09/11/b2cf04ce-b600-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html?utm_term=.f89a7675cf50

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[elmac]

1. McTurtle has many fascist governors keeping people from voting

has billions of dollar PACs fighting for him, he has the full resources of Russia fighting for him, what does he have to worry about.

[appalachiablue]

2. There must be an official "GOP Fascist Governors League" in place.

[BigmanPigman]

14. Hear, hear!

[Volaris]

15. If he's worried about it, it means the threat is real.

As much as I dislike that fucker, I'll acknowledge that he is damn good at maintaining his own Power. If he's saying it publicly, he's worried about it, and not for nothin.

As far as I'm concerned, THIS is the first indication that we can threaten the gop majority in BOTH Houses. GOTV!!!!

[Fred Sanders]

3. When Beto runs ads of Cruz the campaigner..."Trump is a liar"...versus now...Trump's lapdog...

no amount of money will explain that.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Beto should run ads of Trump saying ...

"Lying Ted"

[Demovictory9]

13. yes

[trueblue2007]

5. I HOPE THEY LOSE AT LEAST 9 SENATE SEATS

[iluvtennis]

6. My pipedream would be to flip at least 2 seats, so Dems have a 51-49 majority. Of course more

is better.

[Xipe Totec]

7. I'd encourage him to keep his chin up, but he ain't got one. nt

[Volaris]

16. Fuck you hahahahah, you just won the thread!

RESPECT.

[amcgrath]

8. Texas Democrats should definitely

Be running ads quoting Trumps comments about Cruz during the election.

- though I'm not sure whether Texans would be encouraged or discouraged by Trumps revelation that Cruz Senior shot JFK ?

[rwsanders]

9. They shouldn't whine...

They got what they wanted most of all. Tax cuts and a couple of stolen SCOTUS seats. They're not happy, but anything else at this point would be gravy to them.
Like a cancer, most will get killed off, but will rise again and the battle will go on.

[onetexan]

19. once upon a time the Republican party wasn't a cancer

the lunacy RW of the party and corruption of establishment members combined has become a malignant boil that has metastasized throughout the party over the years.

[rwsanders]

22. I just haven't been able to back track to figure out when that was.

Eisenhower was a good man, but you never hear them mention his name.
I'm starting to think the cancer was there and it absorbed the republican party as a convenient (and willing) host.

[turbinetree]

10. Hey asshole......................just gotta ask that Senate campaign funds that you fuckers

are using to try and save your enabling traitorous asses, how much of that came from Russia, after all at least five of your "republican members took jaunts over to Russia to have a sit down talk with a fucking Russian Spy.......................on July 3, 2018....................get any Russian oligarchy funds from Putin and Mogilvich Russia Mafia crime family since they are in bed when it comes to money laundering in Trumps towers ...........House OF trump House OF Putin, BY Craig Unger ...................THAT BRUCE OHR KNOWS ALL ABOUT.......................

"Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday that he hoped for an improvement in relations between the United States and the Russian Federation .

GOP lawmakers on the trip with Shelby include Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Jerry Moran of Kansas and John Thune of South Dakota.

Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, also joined the trip."


https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/senate-republicans-meet-lavrov-moscow-ahead-trump-putin-summit


The same asshole's in your bunch that want to do another confirm of another Federalist Society judge to the bench that is fucking SERIAL LAIR that keeps with the traditions of that fucking society to lie during confirmations hearing, must teach them that the Constitution isn't anything but toilet paper right there scumbag, because after all you lost the tory revolution and hate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights ..............................so Fuck you asshole...........................we are going to take back our Constitution, and when we do we are going to reconsider Clarence Thomas and then work down from there.......................got it ass hole, he also perjured himself......................right along with Gorsuch.....................and now Kavanuagh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you assholes have bastardized the judicial system for far to long ........................


You fucking POS.......................

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

[TeamPooka]

11. Register voters and get out the vote in every precinct! Nothing else matters.

[torius]

12. Mitch "no hearing on Merrick Garland because we need to wait for the election" McGonnif

Gonnif is a Yiddish word for THIEF.

[Vestigial_Sister]

17. What ever else you do Yertle,

don't start your bottom lip quivering...you'll end up beating yourself to death with your turkey neck flap. Asshole.

[pansypoo53219]

18. i want a red wedding.

[duforsure]

20. Lets see

If they install a corrupt liar to the Supreme Court , Kavanaugh, they'll lose both the House and the Senate. If they pass more tax scams for the super wealthy they'll lose both the House and the Senate. If trumps talking and tweeting they'll lose both houses, and if more is exposed that trump and the KGOP are conspiring with putin , or breaking election laws they'll lose both houses. If they keep lying like they are they'll lose both the house and the Senate. trump is hated and the kgop are enabling him so they are being dragged to hell by trump , and no matter how much he lies, corrupts , or accuses others it will not recover for them, and will only get worse. Just like ted cruz, he's the most hated person in Congress and a serial liar and will lose because of that and trump in Texas, and maybe other states as well. Their putting babies in cages , working to destroy Social Security , and all health care , running the deficit sky high to enrich their donors is nothing but a bribe, and voters are tired of it.

[UpInArms]

21. A picture for McTurtle

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