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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 02:02 PM Mar 2018

PA-18 Message to GOP: It's Time to Dump Trump

PA-18 Message to GOP: It’s Time to Dump Trump
Whatever the final result, the Pennsylvania message is clear. Republican candidates need to separate themselves from Trump and fast.
Matt Lewis 03.14.18 8:23 AM ET

In the olden days, coal miners would carry caged canaries down into the mines to test for carbon monoxide. The idea was to detect a problem before it harmed humans.

This might serve as a useful metaphor for Republicans who still don’t know yet whether they won or lost a special election in coal country, but in which their candidate trailed by a few hundred votes Wednesday morning. The canary in the coal mine is on life-support. It’s time to get out while you can.

Democrat Conor Lamb’s strong showing against Republican Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s 18th district is all the evidence you need to see the danger of being in the same party as Donald Trump on the mid-term ballot in November.

As conservative commentator Quin Hillyer noted, “Trump endorsed Luther Strange. Strange lost. Trump endorsed Roy Moore. Moore lost. Trump endorsed Saccone, who appears to have lost. in 2016, Trump endorsed Renee Ellmers. Ellmers lost....”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pa-18-message-to-gop-its-time-to-dump-trump?ref=home
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PA-18 Message to GOP: It's Time to Dump Trump (Original Post) workinclasszero Mar 2018 OP
I hope they dont and they run and they lose, assuming we are able to out vote them enough Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1
Trump is gonna get worse and worse as the midterms get closer workinclasszero Mar 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. I hope they dont and they run and they lose, assuming we are able to out vote them enough
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 02:10 PM
Mar 2018

to overcome election fraud and suppression.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Trump is gonna get worse and worse as the midterms get closer
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 02:17 PM
Mar 2018

I think the GOP needs to ignore the ideas that the author of this article puts forth and tie themselves even more tightly to the orange shitstain in charge!

Yeah that's the ticket GOPsters!

See ya in the blue wave midterms FOOLS!

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