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GOP starts boosting Walker in runoff amid calls to keep Trump away from Georgia
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Posted on 11/11/2022 3:52:58 AM PST by FarCenter

The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee pledged Wednesday to raise whatever money he can and begin an advertising blitz this week for Herschel Walker’s runoff in Georgia against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

But there’s one aspect Sen. Rick Scott of Florida won’t weigh in on: whether former President Donald Trump should stay out of the Dec. 6 runoff.

GOP insiders faulted Trump, who has had a toxic relationship with popular Republican Gov. Brian Kemp even though he endorsed him the day before his re-election, for costing the party control of the Senate in two simultaneous runoffs last year, after Trump lost his re-election bid to President Joe Biden and then advanced false conspiracy theories about voting that led many Republican voters in Georgia to stay home.

Warnock won his race against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Sen. Jon Ossoff defeated GOP incumbent David Perdue, swinging control of the narrowly divided Senate to the Democrats.

Now — after both sides have spent more than $200 million in this year's Senate race — Warnock is in another runoff. And it once again could decide the balance of power in the Senate.

Republican leaders don’t want a repeat of the 2021 runoff, especially now that Trump has teased a "big announcement" Tuesday, when he is widely expected to officially declare another White House bid. But Scott is staying mum on the Trump question.

“That’ll be a decision between Herschel and Trump. I know that Trump wants to be helpful to make Herschel win. That’s an issue for the campaign. I don’t get to participate in those decisions,” said Scott, who is in charge of getting Republicans elected as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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To: numberonepal

Thanks for the ping.
You ask: “What the hell do you want?”

He wants candidate purity according to media standards of “purity”.


61 posted on 11/11/2022 5:44:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (We are a FREE people. Start acting like it. Live Free.)
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To: griswold3

The point is he won.


62 posted on 11/11/2022 5:45:09 AM PST by dforest
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To: AndyJackson

Witchmer spent 65 million to Dixon’s 6 million. That kind of funding doesn’t come from any one donor.

People around here expect Trump to do all the funding himself. I can guess the money those RATs have are from kickbacks from foreign aid and other rotten deeds the RATs do.

He did 52 fund raisers too. The candidates have some role in in how well they can do too. Well, maybe in the old days before ballot fraud.

That is one all this gnashing of teeth and blame cannot fix.


63 posted on 11/11/2022 5:54:08 AM PST by dforest
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’ve commented about conservative purity before. It’s a killer. The left is correct about “conservatives” being intolerant, but for the wrong reasons (kinda like climate change).


64 posted on 11/11/2022 5:58:16 AM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Fl Native .LOL .

Wake up.

Trumps nasty immature cheap shots at Desantis is an attempt to deflected
from his Disastrous midterms he made about his victim-hood.

He made those comments no one forced him.

And He kept all the Money he Raised .
He has a 100M not spent .
Spent how much ? He did not Fund OZ or the other PA Gop candidate .

He gave us Rhonda Romney And renominated this Loser !
She was outmaneuvered in 2020 and 2024 .
The Dems crushed her again in fundraising and strategy .
She needs to be fired !

Another Trump PICK .

65 posted on 11/11/2022 6:00:42 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

DeSantis is a national figure. It *might* even get the RINOs not to stab him in the back quite as much and would probably please some of the large donors.

For DeSantis he gets some influence within the administration and a clear path to the Republican nomination in 2028. Otherwise he might have to fight off Kari Lake and/or some other strong candidates and its no guarantee he would win.


66 posted on 11/11/2022 6:06:25 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: ncalburt; numberonepal; BlackFemaleArmyColonel

FLA native, huh?

We will blame you when Florida turns blue because DeSantis let the media swell his head...


67 posted on 11/11/2022 6:14:04 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (We are a FREE people. Start acting like it. Live Free.)
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To: NetAddicted
And Trump will make it all about him. If Walker could not ride Kemp's coattails in the general, no way he'll win in a runoff.
68 posted on 11/11/2022 6:14:37 AM PST by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: FarCenter

Trump is running for the 2024 presidential nomination. He has no interest in Walker’s election.


69 posted on 11/11/2022 6:16:16 AM PST by Lower Deck
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To: AndyJackson

Mitch ~ the sabotage b!tch


70 posted on 11/11/2022 6:19:38 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: bella1

There was a third candidate that is said to have received votes that would have been for Walker. That candidate will not be there in the run off.

So it boils down to turnout that includes those who voted for the third candidate.

The money raised and expended in the effort is beyond comprehension


71 posted on 11/11/2022 6:20:05 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Lower Deck

Trump is running for the 2024 presidential nomination. He has no interest in Walker’s election.


Absurdity, on FULL display.

Right….Trump wouldn’t want as many MAGA Pubbies Senators, as possible, as President.

Geez.


72 posted on 11/11/2022 6:21:39 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Wait til they see what the outgoing Congress does.


73 posted on 11/11/2022 6:51:01 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: teevolt
please don’t slam Kemp or Desantis

Strategic discretion is advised here, but Kemp is awfully tempting. The dumbest jerk in republican politics. Put an exploding cigar in his own mouth and lit it to take out Trump - taking out the senate majority as well. Dumb as dirt deepstate RINO. There is dumb and then there are the smartass idiots, the clever dumb who are so dumb that they outsmart themselves trying to show how smart they are by doing the stupidist stuff imaginable. That is Kemp.

74 posted on 11/11/2022 6:59:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: JonPreston

I’m so disgusted with ‘off the cuff’ talk that is dangerous. Please put all this in a proper zone so we can save this nation.

First let me explain Trump and what the left is doing...you are helping the enemy. They desperately need to separate Trump from his support. How easy will that be? It’s already started.

Donald J Trump. A man with a hi IQ. They think different. The gift that propels them is misunderstood by many. They think beyond.. they work ahead.. they have to remind themselves not everyone is there yet.

He is a business man and in past years he has built a fortune ..among NY elite, and some fought this brash young man. But he had the ability and used it to buy, sell and build an empire. He is used to being criticized for his abilities...he was on the move.

All the time he was advancing.. he helped anyone who needed it. He was a figure on his way.. it was natural to him to work hard and succeed.. there was no time to fail.. just pick up and keep on.

There were court battles.. he didn’t live worried or anxious.. he lived determined. He had the fighting him and it came in handy.

Trump had high expectations from men in the business world. He also had deep feelings of compassion for the people of less success. He ‘had much’ and gave much. His outgoing.. more than life..personality irritated some and enthused others.

His life was not about him.. it was about using the abundant abilities in his head for all the things it produced if ya just work hard..and long hours.

When in his 70s he left a comfy life.. it was to serve others. He had much, he loved this country and he was willing to serve. Always ahead of himself, the elite who thought they were the only ones allowed to be masters..did not like Trump’s fast moving know how and considered him brash. Yes, brash but comfortable with the people.. the secret to that is.. he cared.. he cares.

I stop here.. it’s lengthy.. but I will add.. wherever Trump goes.. leaders follow him.. they are drawn to this personality... they admire him.... Trump is not intimidated by anyone.. he is capable of dealing with the enemy and earn respect.

What you see and gripe about.. is what makes him our best asset in a world of power struggles all over. Trump knows.. he gets it.. and he is risking it all ...using his abilities to keep our Republic free and successful..
A Republic.. if you can keep it!


75 posted on 11/11/2022 7:09:07 AM PST by frnewsjunkie ( )
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To: frnewsjunkie

Thank you for a terrific post.


76 posted on 11/11/2022 7:12:04 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Jane Long

Trump played next to no part in the 2020 runoff. His interest is in himself, not Walker.


77 posted on 11/11/2022 7:26:22 AM PST by Lower Deck
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To: FarCenter

I live in GA. Trump is not the problem..Kemp is!!

Back when a senate seat was open.. the senate seat that belonged to Collins. Collins was a Trump supporter...a respected minister and patriot. In spite of calls and emails.. kemp gave that seat to an unknown. A woman whose husband worked for the Stock Market... Loeffler. One of Kemp’s daughters boyfriend worked for Loeffler. He was mysteriously killed in a car incident where his care literally exploded on the highway.
Loeffler was not the person to win that senate seat in 2020. She and Collins ran for the seat in the 2020 election and Collins pulled out early when he saw with 2 of them against 1 democrat... the democrat would win. She should have pulled out and let the who could have won it, do the work.

She lost to the dem. That night, Georgia was the last hope to win the Senate... they gave it to the dem party.

Since then, Kemp turned on Trump and refused to look into voter fraud. There has been people working on the fraud but Kemp is still in the Kemp still hates Trump.

Walker is, again, maybe the last hope for the senate... and Kemp is again trying to make it difficult by his hate for Trump. Voter fraud is still rampant and the media is lying when they say Trump failed.

I voted... and of the 4 pages on the ballot, there were only 2 places I could voice my choice. Between Kemp and Abrams... it was evil 1 and evil 2.. I have held my nose and voted before. I refuse to give Kemp a single nod from me.
Kemp turned on my President and refused to look into anything and says there was nothing.. he is wrong and anything the enemy says about our President Trump.. should be put on Kemp. He not only refused to do anything.. he badmouthed Trump and of course he does not want him here... and why or why is kemp still in that position!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is using his position with power to be the ugly he really is!!

The wave happened.. and the dems are using every trick and item they can... counting slow and dragging it out so they can say the things they are bragging about.
I am so furious with the government... I want Trump back and clean out the mess they have become.

You people out there... get a clue... they want sheep to rule and they want to be the kings they think they are.
If Trump is gone.. so are we!!!!


78 posted on 11/11/2022 8:10:28 AM PST by frnewsjunkie ( )
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To: AndyJackson

LOL, understand Kemp sucks, but politics, hold fire until mid Dec.


79 posted on 11/11/2022 9:32:46 AM PST by teevolt
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To: BuckeyeGOP

Absolute nonsense.

During the battle for the top spot, if it gets ugly, you’re going to have people
get offended, take their vote, and not cast it on Election Day.

Across the board, probably not, but one or two percent can make you or
break you. It also caries over into future elections.

Out of two good people, you wind up with one favored and one seen as a
villian.


80 posted on 11/11/2022 10:25:32 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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