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RNC Chair: Base Will Walk if We Don’t Build Border Wall
lifezette.com ^ | 26 Apr 2017 | Kathryn Blackhurst

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:26:57 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel warned fellow Republicans that voters “are going to hold us accountable” if “we do not keep the campaign promises that were made,” during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

McDaniel predicted many Americans would be frustrated by the news a downpayment to start construction of the border wall would be dropped from a must-pass spending bill in Congress this week. Noting that building the border wall was “front and center” in Trump’s 2016 campaign, the RNC chair insisted that “our voters are going to expect us to act on it.”

“I know that our voters are going to hold us accountable in 2018 if we do not keep the campaign promises that we made,” McDaniel said. “And so, when you get to Washington, sometimes you forget what was said outside. And it’s important that we bring that back to Washington and let them hear what the voters expect of this government and this president.”

LifeZette editor-in-chief Laura Ingraham referred to reports of GOP leaders “sitting behind closed doors” and laughing at the prospect of building the wall, to which McDaniel warned those lawmakers are “going to lose the trust of our base.”

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1 posted on 04/26/2017 8:26:57 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

Absolutely. If this continues, the RINOs can expect to be primaried by patriots who aren’t afraid to do what the people elected them for.


2 posted on 04/26/2017 8:28:44 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Helicondelta

yer GD right...

We better start building up the CONSERVATIVE party


3 posted on 04/26/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: Helicondelta

Better believe it.

No wall no vote.


4 posted on 04/26/2017 8:29:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Helicondelta

“RNC Chair: Base Will Walk if We Don’t Build Border Wall”

Yes, I will. See my tagline.


5 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:03 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Helicondelta

He’s wrong.

We’ll run, not walk...................


6 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Helicondelta

Darn Never Trumpers! Go back to DU!

(s/)


7 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:35 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Helicondelta

Absolutely. We are watching. We The People. We The Voters. We the People YOU work for.


8 posted on 04/26/2017 8:32:22 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Helicondelta

She certainly seems to be an upgrade from Rancid Prius.


9 posted on 04/26/2017 8:32:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: VictoryGal

Yeah, but where are we going to walk to?

But she brings to mind a larger point about the Republican Party.

They haven’t changed. Just cause Trump was elected; the GOP-e still remains The Stupid Party.

Someone put it this way a few days ago...

The Republicans hold the House, the Senate,the White House and now even the Supreme Court.

Yet the Democrats still hold the power.


10 posted on 04/26/2017 8:32:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Age old threat. Where are they going? To the Dems? Libertarians? Sit home and​ default to the Dems?
11 posted on 04/26/2017 8:34:42 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Damn straight we will.

One of the things the left does get about the whole 2016 campaign - its not about a cult of personality its about love of the country. The wall is a huge symbol of keeping faith with the America people.

A straight forward tangible solution demanded by and promised to the America citizen. If this cannot be done we now can be certain we are ruled by tyrannical oligarchs.

No wall - no trust - no legitimate government - revolution soon - we're pissed.

The money was appropriated what like back in 2006 - 2007 ish

Build the wall now and start ignoring activist judges president Trump pretty much that simple - perhaps not easy

12 posted on 04/26/2017 8:36:26 AM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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It is odd that any GOPers in Congress might doubt our passion, our resolve, and our dauntless determination to secure our absolutely critical borders, and to do so with no delay. This should be so perfectly clear by now.

We need a list of wobbly and cowardly and fence-sitting Republicans so we can plan now for the primary election process.

13 posted on 04/26/2017 8:36:29 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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"...National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel..."

I don't know much about Ronna Romney McDaniel...other than she appears to be the smartest Republican in America right now.

14 posted on 04/26/2017 8:37:23 AM PDT by skimbell
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The people who pay for the campaigns don’t want a wall.

Voters are products, not consumers. The big donors are the customers. They don’t want a wall, because it will make their margins shrink.


15 posted on 04/26/2017 8:37:39 AM PDT by redgolum
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RE:"McDaniel predicted many Americans would be frustrated by the news a downpayment to start construction of the border wall would be dropped from a must-pass spending bill in Congress this week. Noting that building the border wall was “front and center” in Trump’s 2016 campaign, the RNC chair insisted that “our voters are going to expect us to act on it."

Let's see what Trump really promised.

Trump has vowed to force Mexico to pay for the border wall and said Tuesday on MSNBC that the hefty $8 billion price tag “is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico” on trade.
“The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get — and I say it also is also part of my plan — Mexico is going to play for the wall,” he said.
Trump: Border wall will cost $8 billion( CNN ^ | Tue February 9, 2016 | By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Posted on 2/9/2016 here)

Not congress, not deficits but Mexico.

Suggestion : Tell congress to pass a bill cutting funding from sanctuary cities, etc, with the $$$ going to pay the Wall.

16 posted on 04/26/2017 8:38:07 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "I will put America First!")
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To: VictoryGal

If it’s not in there, Trump shouldn’t sign it or he’s accountable too.


17 posted on 04/26/2017 8:38:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TomGuy
Age old threat. Where are they going? To the Dems? Libertarians? Sit home and​ default to the Dems?

 

I think you answered your own question.

Sit home and​ default to the Dems.

That seemed to be what happened in 2008 and 2012. If we Repubs had something besides McCain or Mitt - we could have avoided One Big Ass Mistake America.

18 posted on 04/26/2017 8:39:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Helicondelta

Please tell me there is no family relation to Magik Mormon Romeny.


19 posted on 04/26/2017 8:39:44 AM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: TomGuy

Not everyone cares as much as you.

I can see a lot of Rs staying home with indifference if the wall isn’t built and other things we were promised don’t happen.


20 posted on 04/26/2017 8:40:00 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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