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Never Trump Republicans quietly preparing to back Biden
Washington Examiner ^ | | September 19, 2019 12:00 AM | David M. Drucker

Posted on 09/18/2019 10:14:55 PM PDT by conservative98

Republicans opposed to President Trump are quietly preparing to support Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, backing that could materialize in the primary as he attempts to fend off a surging Elizabeth Warren.

Some Republican operatives active in Never Trump circles are discussing what form support for Biden might take and the timing. Groups such as Stand Up Republic, co-founded by prominent Never Trump Republicans Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn, could target disaffected GOP voters in key micro-battlegrounds with finely tailored advertising in a bid to boost Biden in the Democratic primary.

Biden, 76, is the most likely Democrat to receive measurable support from the Never Trump crowd, most of whom quickly concluded that the president does not face a realistic threat from the three Republicans challenging him in the GOP primary in 2020.

“Biden is probably the only plausible candidate the Never Trumpers could support,” said Jim Dornan, a Republican operative in Washington who maintains relationships with anti-Trump Republicans.

How a Warren nomination might impact the Never Trump movement, and its participation in the 2020 campaign, is unclear.

Some Republicans in this community, who believe Warren’s policies are a different sort of extreme than Trump but equally dangerous to the country, might channel their opposition into helping one of the president’s long shot primary challengers or get behind an independent candidacy, should one develop. Other Never Trump Republicans insist that the label means exactly that.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: JohnBrowdie

I remember “Egg McMuffin.”
He was going to be Bill Kristol’s great white hope to keep Trump out of the White House. This was right after Bill’s first potential savior & Blogger David French decided not to jump into the fray.


21 posted on 09/18/2019 10:41:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: conservative98

Can these guys be anything other than wrong? Bite me isn’t gonna be the nominee.


22 posted on 09/18/2019 10:52:06 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: conservative98; lee martell
"...prominent Never Trump Republicans Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn..."

Whenever Bill Kristol is involved, Vincent Price's laughter is an appropriate response.

McMullin and Finn were Bill Kristol's candidates to challenge Trump, after Trump won the nomination. Its a bit of a stretch to call them prominent when their prominence was showing how irrelevant Bill Kristol had become. Finn was so important voters found out she was McMullin's running mate until after the election.

Looks like Kristol wants to get invited back to all the parties he's missed, and pretending he's important again.

23 posted on 09/18/2019 10:58:32 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: conservative98

It’s just a typo, then said “never Trumpers” but they meant to write “never conservatives.”

I can’t believe anyone of any political pursuasion could watch Biden pawing little girls and still vote for that creepy creature.


24 posted on 09/18/2019 11:02:44 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: conservative98

what complete sickos!


25 posted on 09/18/2019 11:15:07 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Widget Jr

Today is the first time I’ve ever heard of Mindy Finn.
At first I thought someone was talking about a
“Micky Finn”, aka the old phrase ‘Slipping somebody a Micky” or (Date Rape drug).


26 posted on 09/18/2019 11:17:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: jospehm20


“Being Never Trump doesn’t mean abandoning conservative sensibilities,” Yes it does

“Being Never Trump doesn’t mean abandoning conservative sensibilities,”     It means you never had conservative sensibilities.


27 posted on 09/18/2019 11:19:38 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: conservative98; All

Yawn...

Never Trumpers backing Gropin Joe is a good thing. Their actions prove they’re as dumb as he is.


28 posted on 09/18/2019 11:21:47 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: lee martell

Mindy Finn ran as Egg McMuffin’s VP in the 2016 Presidential election.

They actually received 21% of the vote in Utah, which ought to serve as a warning about the Utah GOP voter. It’s identity politics when a McMuffin-Finn magic underwear ticket garners that number of votes.


29 posted on 09/18/2019 11:25:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: conservative98

“Never Trump means what it says: Never Trump. Under no circumstances can you embrace that man coming back to the White House,” countered Jerry Taylor, who runs the Niskanen Center, a centrist Washington think tank that has become a gathering spot for anti-Trump Republicans. “Most Never Trump Republicans that I traffic with are of the mind that any electoral outcome that doesn’t return Donald Trump to the White House is a good outcome, save for the wild card of Bernie Sanders.”

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That these people find Warren or Beto or Kamala acceptable tells you how mentally ill they are. They’d accept gun grabbers or candidates talking about outright confiscation of wealth says these people are willing to destroy their own lives because they hate Trump. And they claim to be conservatives. Sure.


30 posted on 09/18/2019 11:31:44 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: conservative98

Jerry Taylor and the what’s it’s nuts of Never Trump are lunatics that’d see the nation go to it’s death under the communist Biden?

Good, more losers to scream at the sky come 2025!


31 posted on 09/18/2019 11:46:14 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: conservative98

Jerry Taylor and the what’s it’s nuts of Never Trump are lunatics that’d see the nation go to it’s death under the communist Biden?

Good, more losers to scream at the sky come 2025!


32 posted on 09/18/2019 11:46:14 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: conservative98
"Never Trump Republicans quietly preparing to back Biden"
33 posted on 09/18/2019 11:53:07 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Sorry, if you support any of these socialist Dems, you’re neither Republican nor conservative.

You're a reprobate given over to evil.

34 posted on 09/19/2019 12:15:54 AM PDT by Maudeen (The surest fact in all the world is not death but the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.)
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To: conservative98

The Never Trump wing of the democrat party

Way to go Mittens and McMuffin


35 posted on 09/19/2019 12:25:32 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

#NeverTRUMP is DEAD, It is probably just 5% of Republicans now

That is why I am so confident TRUMP will win reelection

WOKE #NeverTRUMPers will deliver States MI, WI & PA pretty easily to TRUMP

36 posted on 09/19/2019 12:39:13 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: All

Nobody gives a damn about these slimy crapweasels. Just another excuse to write about betrayers and scoundrels who work for deep state interests. Tomorrow we get another article on something Jennifer Rubin says.


37 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:41 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: conservative98

Supporting Biden is like betting on an old nag one race away from the glue factory. And Hollywood doesn’t get to write the script.


38 posted on 09/19/2019 12:58:04 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: House Atreides

I thought it was a snapshot from Reservoir Dogs.


39 posted on 09/19/2019 1:04:28 AM PDT by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: conservative98
We should be so lucky. Biden will beat himself.
40 posted on 09/19/2019 1:16:36 AM PDT by McGruff
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