Posted on 08/15/2018 9:14:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tim Pawlenty -- who briefly ran for president in 2012 and had derided President Trump as "unhinged" -- was denied in his effort to stage a political comeback and become Minnesota’s governor again in the race to replace Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
County Commissioner Jeff Johnson won in Tuesday's Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary despite Pawlenty's enormous fundraising and name recognition advantages. He also won despite his own history as the party's losing candidate for governor four years ago.
Pawlenty joins several other prominent Republicans -- including Reps. Martha Roby and Mark Sanford, as well as Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker -- who have recently suffered major political consequences, at least in part, for opposing Trump.
Johnson had positioned himself as a more conservative candidate than Pawlenty. He branded the former two-term governor as part of the "status quo" and bashed him for calling Trump "unhinged and unfit for the presidency" in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election -- rhetoric that Pawlenty softened during the campaign.
Pawlenty was hoping to resurrect his political career after flaming out as a presidential candidate in 2011. He spent the intervening years as a Washington lobbyist.
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Natch.
Sounds good to me
i’m so sad...................
Cross Trump, Trump Republicans, and the US, you lose. Bye.
That’s a shame. /s
Trump Curse......................bags another one...........
Jeff Johnson received the NRA endorsement, also.
Must be humiliating for Pawlenty to lose to a county commissioner. LOL.
Pawlenty was always a Bush League Republican.
He was a wuss. Now that he was running again he was suddenly a Trump clone. He is a typical lifelong politician who swings with the wind. Good to see him go.
... is now unemployed.
Almost everyone that has verbally come out against Trump has either been in sex trafficking or pedophilia.
Should be expect to add his name to one of the lists?
Smug RINO gone!
Then he can go back to Trent Lott’s DC lobbying firm.
The Trump Effect is real.
In FL, DeSantis is way ahead of nevertrumper Adam Pudnam (my spell check worked there).
Pudnam is now pretending to be on Trump’s side. Sorry Pudnam, we know you too well. Buhbye.
IF EVERY FREEPER VOTES, AND GETS *ONE* MORE PERSON TO VOTE GOP, TRUMP WINS IN A LANDSLIDE AND SWEEPS BOTH HOUSES
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