Posted on 11/10/2022 1:56:51 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) said on Thursday that she would not support former President Trump running again for the White House if he declares his candidacy, as he is expected to do next week.
Sears told Fox’s Neil Cavuto that Trump had numerous accomplishments with the economy and with public safety, but she said voters said in the midterm elections that they want the Republican Party to have a different leader.
“I could not support him. I just couldn’t,” she said.
Republicans were hoping for a red wave to lead the party to significant gains in the House and Senate in the midterms, but Democrats outperformed polls in many races.
The GOP appears likely to win control of the House, but the margin will be much narrower than expected. Which party will control the Senate is uncertain.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
What I find most disturbing of all is that we are now seeing a concerted effort among political forces and in the media to whitewash history and pretend it never happened.
How ungrateful can you get.
MAGA.
No, 80 million American voters voted for him in the 2020 election over Joe Biden. That is very different from saying there are 80 million American voters who still want him to be the nominee for the Republican Party in 2024.
There are plenty of Freepers here who voted for Trump in 2020 but want someone else now. In fact, Sears herself is a very good example of that given that she actively supported him in 2020, but just said in this very article that she wants someone else now.
Trump, as President of the entire country and as Fauci’s boss, never once spoke out against the lockdowns or against Fauci. At least DeSantis was one of the very first Republicans to break from the Trump Administration’s guidance, reopen his state, and openly criticized Fauci. Trump never did.
Yeah, easy peasy when you lack integrity, respect, morals etc
You go, girl, see how far you get on those 30 pieces of silver!
To think I bought her song and dance when she was running, and won.
What a Turncoat!
And 80 million Americans voted for him in 2016 that’s 160 million unique votes for Donald J Trump. And Winsome Sears is in good Republican company given about 3 Senators probably voted for him. He has the support of the American people who needs the hollow words of political hacks.
That has to be one of the most retarded things I've ever seen on FR.
Go back and read through the news threads on any news website from mid-March of 2020 through the entire summer. As a business owner, I spent a lot of time right here on this website discussing it at length with other Freepers. Trump and the officials within his own leadership ranks were adamant about NOT calling for a national lockdown -- despite intense political pressure to do so.
I do not think that word means what you think it means
Funny how the establishment is coalescing around DeSantis. They aren't exactly fans but they so despise and loathe Trump and every cell in his body that right now they will support ANY candidate who they think can get rid of him. Be prepared for DeSantis to be forced on us like establishment candidates of the past. Curiously I never hear DeSantis saying anything anti establishment.
Politicians are gonna do politician stuff. They need a boogeyman and they’ve all found one.
Of course they’ll never put the blame where it belongs. Pres Trump didn’t go into every voting booth, in every poll location, in every state and cast votes. The people did. This is the same guy that was flying around on his own dime, holding rallies attended by thousands to help. None of that matters.
I guess showing up to a gun range, in casual business attire with some heels on, holding an AR15 was enough to boost her Republican creds.
But....
Interesting that so many seem to have forgotten that DeSantis barely won Florida 4 years ago and it would appear that a certain individual helped out when it mattered. But who cares about that?
Interesting that Sears, et al seem to forget or ignore that DeSantis is just one cog in the wheel. Yes, he is the figurehead and the one at the podium. But, DeSantis isn’t the Lt Gov, AG, SOS, State House leader, State Senate Leader, State Chief Justice, #1 guy in the State Police or FLED, the county Sheriff and Police Chief, or sit on every County Commission and city council, or HOA. He has an enormous support system, rightfully so and it was earned.
Sears, et al seem to forget/ignore that he has a VERY supportive legislature that writes and passes bills that we wish would be more common in Republican states. A supportive legislature that doesn’t stab him in the back for waking up in the morning. The most important on being: eliminating mail in voting, drop boxes, ballot harvesting. And not allowing the feds any oversight on a state matter. And would you look at the results. Results that were tabulated that night, like a normal 1st world country should be able to do. The Florida legislature has written and passed bills that she and Youngkin could NEVER get through the Virginia legislature or court system.
Sears, et al seem to forget/ignore that DeSantis has an AG that is on the same sheet of music that he and the legislature are on and the AG hasn’t tried to obstruct, impeach or imprison him for the last 4 years.
Sears, et al seem to forget/ignore that Florida has seen massive migration with Republican’s outnumbering Democrats...to the tune of a 60-40 split... Toss in the Cuban’s in Miami finally seeing the light and it was a perfect storm. When I saw an election map of Florida, I think I saw RED in all but 3 or 4 counties. And then you look at states where the migration has been the opposite: Nevada, Georgia & Arizona, and races that are too close to call with all sorts of vote counting hijinks going on, the same as 2020.
Sears. et al seem to discount that Fetterman had that race won with all the early voting/mail in ballots tabulated before his debate. As though his debate performance would have mattered. And an acting SOS that said she was going to ignore the state Supreme Court decision on mail in ballots. Of course none of that matters. Orange Man Bad.
Sears, et al seem to forget/ignore that DeSantis has a state Surgeon General(or whatever his title is) that has a brain and common sense. And knows, full well, that the country was hoodwinked over COVID and that these disgusting surgeries and puberty blockers should be banned at every turn. DeSantis doesn’t have a collective of folks from the CDC lying to him at every turn and making sh*t up, as Birx admitted to doing a few months ago. DeSantis got a real doctor that is making real decisions. The media isn’t beating that guy up like he’s some sort of witch doctor like they did when Pres Trump had those front line doctors show up at the White House.
Does Sears, et al remember when Pres Trump told Governors that he would give them all the help they needed but would leave implementation up to them as they were the Chief Executives of their states and should know what to do. And how many weren’t happy with that as they knew it would expose their incompetence when things went wrong and they would have no one to blame.
At the end of the day, does DeSantis deserve a ton of credit for all the great things happening down there in Florida? ABSOLUTELY. But he isn’t doing anything alone. He has a great deal of help. He did a great job with the hurricane and letting the professionals do their jobs.
All of that being said, being a supporter of Pres Trump, that I think he has to tone it down a lot when it comes to DeSantis and that EVERYTHING should be focused on Biden and the Democrats. EVERYTHING.
It doesn’t bother me. She obviously wasn’t on his dance card to begin with. I was. I’m gonna dance with who brung me. Imagine if we had had Mitt again….or Jeb, for God’s sake. This anti-Trump movement was organized and financed long before inauguration. In December before inauguration, the floodgates opened and immigrants flooded the border thanks to Obama’s “no papers needed” policy. He and Holder had planned it all along. Veronica Escobar (re-elected) aided and abetted. Greyhound Bus and Catholic Charities made multi millions. All to make a new POTUS look bad. Trump didn’t flinch. He built walls. He built tents. He used Obama’s very own cages. But the media played on and Trump didn’t break a sweat. So they stepped up the BLM riots. The Antifa assaults. The burning of businesses. The impeachments….two of them. Hollywood beat him up. He just showed them his jaw. He knew things.
Sure he can be crude. I was born in NYC. I know crude. You should meet some of my uncles.
Trump held us together and exposed those ripping our flesh apart. They were people we knew. Many we trusted.
If he asks me to dance, I will. If he chooses just to guide us away from danger, I’ll heed. He’s earned me.
He's an Ivy League lawyer who has never worked outside government in his adult life. Comparatively speaking, he's flat broke and will play Step-N-Fetchit for the party's major corporate donors 24-7-365.
This is EXACTLY the kind of political figure the GOP establishment loves.
It’s can he win the general election.
Florida showed the country how it’s done.......Ban Mail In Voting, Drop Boxes and Ballot Harvesting.
I read an article earlier that Republican’s have complete control of 23 states. Mail In Voting, Drop Boxes and Ballot Harvesting should be banned in 23 states.
Along with restrictions on abortion and banning these surgeries they’re pushing on minors and puberty blockers.
At the end of the day, life should become miserable for the Left in 23 states. So much so that they start migrating back to where they came from or, if they’re homegrown, move someplace more in line with their ideologies.
I read the other day that Wisconsin could see itself with a Republican majority, veto-proof legislature. Wisconsin. Did you ever think that Republican majority and Wisconsin would ever be in the same sentence.
Sadly they didn’t win the veto proof majority. https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-republicans-fail-achieve-veto-proof-majority Republicans have the state Senate but not the House. Even so, Evers and the Dem’s are up against the wall on anything if Republican’s choose so.
Choosing good subordinates and building positive relationships with other powerful politicians is a critical element in political leadership. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to get much done.
And if Ryan, the Lincoln Project, Shapiro, Goldberg, Benson, Erickson are on board with DeSantis, that says a lot.
He’ll get my vote if he’s the last man standing, but I’m a solid NO in the primary.
Choosing good subordinates and building positive relationships with other powerful politicians is a critical element in political leadership. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to get much done.
Yeah, he should have told her that before she got elected.
“I jes couldn’t Winsome” LOL
shoo #NeverTrump
Primary her.
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