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calguy's Journal'You hung us out to dry': Leaked audio shows hot tempers inside GOP caucus after expulsion vote
Tempers flared inside the House Republican caucus after a handful of members voted against the expulsion of Rep. Gloria Johnson last week, according to edited audio from a caucus meeting Monday.
Republican leadership spent this week working to portray a united front and move forward from a historic double expulsion vote that thrust Democrats into a national spotlight and drew nationwide criticism of Tennessee House Republicans.
But audio leaked from a House GOP caucus meeting on Monday — just days after Republicans voted to expel Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville and Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, but not Johnson, D-Knoxville — shattered the message of unity the House GOP has pushed as it seeks to move forward.
In the recording, high-ranking GOP leaders vocally expressed their frustration, hurling accusations at Reps. Jody Barrett, R-Dickson and Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro for breaking with the caucus and voting against Johnson’s expulsion, saying “you hung us out to dry.”
"Dear God, we were called — you brought racism into it because you didn’t stay with us,” Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, can be heard on the recording. “I don't want to hear why there wasn't preponderance of the evidence as an attorney — I need to know why you flipped your vote at the last minute.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hung-us-dry-leaked-audio-014513713.html
Right wing heads exploding
As a public service to DU members, I've put on my bullshit repellent and chest waders. I trolled my way into a right wing chat site and recorded some of the hilarious comments the loonies are saying.
The following comments are for entertainment purposes onkye, so please don't report this thread for promoting right wing talking points.
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"Did you hear Bragg today, refuse to say what unlaying law that was used for this indictment?
He was asked by a reporter, and said, I don't have to tell you."
Reply quote>>>>> I heard him... He is a jerk
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" didn't watch any of the circus today actually.
This Banana Republic **** makes me want to vomit. We've lost our Country at this point."
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I am now a 200% Trump supporter. **** Democrats. Give me Trump or Death."
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"Get your Trump not guilty gear... You can get it all HERE"
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"THIS WILL BE HEADED TO SUPREME COURT, NO DOUBT "
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"Where do we show up for the rally? Trump Tower? NYC courthouse? Wherever MTG goes?"
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"I always knew it would be a *** backed by a jew that would turn the US into a third world nation."
Post-indictment poll: Trump surges to largest-ever lead over DeSantis
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — one of the first conducted after former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star — shows Trump surging to his largest-ever lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his likely 2024 GOP primary challenger, as Republican voters rally around the only president in U.S. history to face criminal charges.
In the previous Yahoo News/YouGov survey, which was conducted less than two weeks ago, Trump (47%) led DeSantis (39%) by eight percentage points in a head-to-head matchup among registered voters who are Republicans or Republican-leaning independents. As recently as February, it was DeSantis who was narrowly ahead of Trump, 45% to 41%.
But the new, post-indictment poll suddenly finds Trump lapping DeSantis by 26 percentage points — 57% to 31% — in a one-on-one contest. The former president even attracts majority support (52%, up from 44% previously) when pitted against a wider, 10-candidate field of declared and potential GOP challengers, while DeSantis plummets to 21% (down from 28%).
No one else cracks double digits.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-indictment-poll-surges-lead-desantis-151150006.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
He's still only getting 57% of Republican votes, even in this situation.
Bottom line, there is still a large percentage of Republicans that will never vote for anything MAGA again.
The last 3 elections should have been enough for the GOP to learn, but if it takes a 4th time, we'll give it to them.
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