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Chip Roy: Trump ‘hangs out in his basement in Florida, afraid to actually debate’
thehill ^ | Dec 20, 2023 | Sarah Fortinsky

Posted on 12/20/2023 9:44:18 AM PST by backpacker_c

“I was just at multiple events with [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis, where he’s shaking their hands and looking them in the eye, while Donald Trump hangs out in his basement in Florida, afraid to actually debate,” Roy said in an interview on CNN’s “The Source,

“If we’d gotten the policies in place, if he had worked with conservatives to get bills passed in 2018, ’19,” Roy said of Trump. “We wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in right now, where Joe Biden is leaving Texas fully exposed to have people running over our Border Patrol agents and our [Department of Public Safety].”

Roy was also pressed a couple of times about Trump’s recent controversial remarks that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America, and he said Republicans ought to be approaching the issue with more compassion.

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KEYWORDS: chiproy; debate; desantis; trump
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To: backpacker_c

“Roy said in an interview on CNN’s “The Source,””

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Well there you go, Chip, attacking the obvious Republican nominee on the Communist News Network. We see who you are.


21 posted on 12/20/2023 10:11:03 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: backpacker_c

Yup, just look at that coward hiding in his basement.

To be fair, I goggled "Chip Roy Rally" and this came up:


22 posted on 12/20/2023 10:11:27 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: backpacker_c
BTW Chip Roy, you wish that he was hiding out in his basement. The truth is he is out & about meeting with & talking to the voters. So, hold your little debates that draw smaller crowds than Trump does. Trump has a solid base that will not leave him for any of the Keebler Elves that the Deep State will put up to try to take down Trump, but it's a folly of epic proportions. Thus it will fail. None of them will be Trump's running mate either.

Will you, Chip Roy, now cast your vote for Biden?

23 posted on 12/20/2023 10:11:58 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: janetjanet998

Thanks for posting that...I heard that he said something like that, but couldn’t find it...

chip roy looks like he’s a nevertrumper all along.

Let’s see how this would play out.....

“Oh dear!. desanctus supporters should be nice.
desanctimonious would need the Trump supporters, if somehow the rnc or somebody, kept Trump off the ballot.”


24 posted on 12/20/2023 10:12:47 AM PST by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Interviewed on CNN…enough said!


25 posted on 12/20/2023 10:13:17 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Going on CNN or MSNBC is a tell for sure.


26 posted on 12/20/2023 10:14:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: WASCWatch

Trump brought this direct attack from Chip Roy onto himself when he publicly asked for somebody ‘anybody!’ to primary Roy. Chip Roy is not someone you want as an enemy, if it can be helped. He is not easily intimidated or thrown off target.


27 posted on 12/20/2023 10:17:28 AM PST by lee martell
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To: backpacker_c

Chippy boy just committed political hair-kari, and he’s too stupid to know it.


28 posted on 12/20/2023 10:18:54 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: backpacker_c
Why won’t he debate Ron DeSantis or any of the other candidates? I think he should,” said Roy, a supporter of DeSantis...

First, what's Trump's to gain by a debate with Desantis? He already has a 30+ point lead over him. He's not hiding, he just see no reason to.

Second, if he did debate Desantis, he would likely tear him to shreds. But again, what's the significance to Trump of a 30+ point lead or a 50+ point lead?

29 posted on 12/20/2023 10:19:10 AM PST by econjack
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To: ConservativeMind
It becomes perfectly fair by Trump to say Chip Roy should be primaried.

Trump called for Chip Roy to be primaried after the filing deadline had passed. So it may be “perfectly fair” but it is also completely untenable.

30 posted on 12/20/2023 10:19:49 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: econjack

Trump is making his case in front of the people, not to the Corporate Media.


31 posted on 12/20/2023 10:20:15 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: backpacker_c

“hangs out in his basement”??

Then who is the Trump impersonater criss-crossing the country giving speeches?

Chip Roy is an idiot trying to get noticed.


32 posted on 12/20/2023 10:21:57 AM PST by odawg
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To: backpacker_c

Chip Roy hasn’t changed. Trump has. Trump is nastier, slower, older, and extremely jealous. Just yesterday Trump was blubbering on about Roy needing to be primaried, and you all clapped like seals.

Today you are all clutching your pearls when Roy gives it right back and points out that Trump is in his basement, citing bogus polls as his reason for being too chicken to debate, while also obsessively ranting about DeSantis every night online and spending millions on attack ads on him. Ya can’t have it both ways lol.

Trump has zero votes so far so he isn’t leading anything or anyone.


33 posted on 12/20/2023 10:24:04 AM PST by Garden Island
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To: backpacker_c

My favorite thing about this campaign is that no one talks about anyone but Trump, no matter which party has them enslaved.


34 posted on 12/20/2023 10:24:21 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: backpacker_c

Trump hatred causes people to regress backward toward Kindergarten. It’s a pernicious side-effect.


35 posted on 12/20/2023 10:24:27 AM PST by Migraine
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To: backpacker_c

Trump hangs out in his basement? WTH?

Joe does, we know he puts a “lid” on the day quite often.

But it feels like Trump is flying all over the country and constantly on the go. That statement is just stupid all the way around.

I wouldn’t mind seeing an open and honest debate, but no one knows how to do one anymore, especially on a national scale.


36 posted on 12/20/2023 10:26:04 AM PST by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: Garden Island

I’m thinking you should stay with The Biden.


37 posted on 12/20/2023 10:26:13 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Garden Island

“Roy gives it right back and points out that Trump is in his basement...”

Well, does that lying smear bother you that it shows Roy is a liar??


38 posted on 12/20/2023 10:26:36 AM PST by odawg
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To: AndyTheBear

The regular Government Establishment is a heartless beast with no compassion. Its primary purpose is to reap the financial and social benefits of political power. The wants and needs of citizens is only relevant to them in regard to how it affects their primary purpose.
Along comes a populist candidate that might get into high office, and it is no surprise that they will say the nastiest things about them, making stuff up as necessary.

Many of us are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the Establishment doing this. And its reached a breaking point with them doing it to Trump. Its not that people think Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread, its just that he is the latest populist candidate with the potential of gaining high office and making the actual citizens a priority again. And we are sick and tired of the Establishment treating such threats like dirt. They way they treat Trump is by extension the way they treat us.

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You just summed it all up perfectly!! Well said and you mailed it.


39 posted on 12/20/2023 10:27:24 AM PST by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: lee martell
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chip roy has been out on the campaign trail with desanctimonious, attacking Trump.

That's why chip roy is open for attacks, otherwise, why should Trump be going after chip roy?

40 posted on 12/20/2023 10:28:21 AM PST by backpacker_c
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