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Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow
New York disinformation Times ^ | 8-5-2017 | JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS

Posted on 08/05/2017 3:33:26 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

...." Mike Pence’s schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.

President Trump’s first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren’t involved.

The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party’s most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles. Mr. Trump has given no indication that he will decline to seek a second term.

But the sheer disarray surrounding this presidency— the intensifying investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the plain uncertainty about what Mr. Trump will do in the next week, let alone in the next election—have prompted Republican officeholders to take political steps that are unheard-of so soon into a new administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disinformation; gopprimary; msm; nonsense; propangada; third100days; trump2020; yeahright
Anybody else catch the 'spin' coming out of the global establishment propaganda organ? Trump is already history and his political allies already are moving on.... The Trump Express has run off the rails......We Trump supporters should just move on....blah, blah, blah
1 posted on 08/05/2017 3:33:26 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

What bugs me is Drudge’s promotion of this nonsense. He highlights these articles constantly.


2 posted on 08/05/2017 3:35:31 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch


3 posted on 08/05/2017 3:35:58 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

They should throw John McCain in the primaries, watch him lose, and then problem solved.


4 posted on 08/05/2017 3:39:30 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch; Admin Moderator

Do you EVER do a search beforehand? Do you even know what I’m talking about?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574784/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3574804/posts


5 posted on 08/05/2017 3:40:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Good point. Has he posted anything about Awan and Debbie blabbermouth Schultz?


6 posted on 08/05/2017 3:55:34 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: Fungi

You know, I don’t think he has even bothered to post anything about Schultz!


7 posted on 08/05/2017 3:57:03 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

The GOP wants to get back to business as usual, importing cheap labor and selling out America.


8 posted on 08/05/2017 3:58:57 PM 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: Lurkinanloomin

They know they need to bury trump in controversy or destroy him outright.


9 posted on 08/05/2017 4:06:44 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Hambone 1934

If these morons are concocting this idiocy for 2020 then it means they know damn well that Trump ain’t going anywhere before then no matter what happens with Mueller’s investigation.


10 posted on 08/05/2017 4:36:04 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Pence was in Nashville. I would not give him the time of day.


11 posted on 08/05/2017 4:41:55 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Lumper20

Pence isn’t promoting himself; this is garbage reporting intended to stir up division in the Trump camp. Don’t believe a word of these tramps and thieves.


12 posted on 08/05/2017 5:04:32 PM PDT by laconic (thes)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

13 posted on 08/05/2017 5:33:55 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: laconic

I agree, but; Pence was here in front of a crowd according to local news.


14 posted on 08/05/2017 6:19:15 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Fiddlstix
1kdqey
15 posted on 08/05/2017 6:27:12 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

2018 may be the last year for the GOP if it continues to be the traitorous RINOcrat Party.


16 posted on 08/05/2017 7:23:10 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

More extremely fake news from The Slimes.


17 posted on 08/05/2017 7:32:16 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

And I’ve yet to see any mention of the DWS scandal on his page. So many of the headlines are stupid, mindless garbage. Sure not the cutting edge news sleuth from the past.


18 posted on 08/05/2017 11:00:29 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian
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To: Fiddlstix

That would be in the trash can .


19 posted on 08/06/2017 6:43:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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