Trump pick's Parnell for PA and Walker for GA worry GOP, about their scuzzy backgrounds

[Demovictory9]

Trump pick's messy personal life worries Senate Republicans desperate to hold on to Pennsylvania seat


Sean Parnell may have the backing of former President Donald Trump, but the Pennsylvania Republican also has significant personal baggage that is raising concerns about the GOP's ability to hold one of the most competitive Senate seats in the country next year.


A rival Republican candidate has revealed details about Parnell's ongoing and messy divorce and custody cases, part of an increasingly ugly GOP primary in the Keystone State that is giving Republicans in both Washington and Pennsylvania pause. While it is unclear what Parnell's estranged wife had alleged about him, documents showed she was granted two protective orders against him, though they were later expunged. But the news coverage in local papers of the revelations are prompting party leaders to privately question Trump's choice to succeed retiring Sen. Pat Toomey in one of Democrats' top-targeted seats.

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And Parnell isn't the only Trump-backed candidate facing scrutiny about his troubled past, with Senate candidate Herschel Walker of Georgia also having to address questions about his alleged past behavior.

The Republican establishment, meanwhile, is raising concerns that the party apparatus is too willing to accept Trump's chosen candidates, particularly when those candidates risk damaging the GOP's ability to win key races to building majorities in Congress.

CNN has learned that multiple GOP senators and donors are asking Florida Sen. Rick Scott, the powerful chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, about why his political consultants are also working with Parnell in the primary, according to three Republicans with knowledge of those conversations. The consultants in question hail from OnMessage, a campaign strategy firm who count Scott and Parnell among their many Republican clients.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pick-s-messy-personal-life-worries-senate-republicans-desperate-to-hold-on-to-pennsylvania-seat/ar-AAPTzB9?ocid=msedgntp

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, why would trump pick anybody with any moral scruples?

I mean, really? trump's a crook, he surrounds himself with crooks.

#ETTD you can assume that anybody that associates with trump is like trump.

[rpannier]

2. Only the best people

[PortTack]

3. His picks/endorsements to wins is really poor!

[hlthe2b]

4. I wish a Heisman winner could come out of this year's UGA team so that Herschel could finally

fade fully into the background. He's a sad case certainly and tremendously pathetic.

[Raven123]

5. I don't know. Seems to me Trumpism is the Republican establishment

[Deminpenn]

6. Parnell also had a significant, if not traumatic brain, head injury

during his tour in Iraq of Afghanistan, can't recall which. When he ran against Connor Lamb in 2020, he actually talked about the incident where his head hit something solid and fluid oozed out of his ear. Jmho, but doubt anyone is quite the same after such an injury.

[durablend]

7. Seems like that would be a feature not a flaw?

[tinrobot]

10. Yes. The dirtier the politician, the easier it is to control the politician.

[Silent3]

8. I'm beginning to wonder our best hope for winning in 2022 and 2024...

…is that Trump’s self-sabotage will outweigh Republican voter suppression and election rigging.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Abusive misogyny has become a PREREQUISITE for a Chump endorsement now.