Anti-Trump Republicans to back vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in 2022 congressional races

Anti-Trump Republicans to back vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in 2022 congressional races

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of anti-Trump Republicans on Thursday will endorse a slate of Democratic lawmakers facing tough races in next year's midterm elections, in a bid to stop the Republican Party from retaking control of Congress.

The officials, dismayed that most elected Republicans now embrace former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, told Reuters they are also backing vulnerable Republicans, including Representative Liz Cheney, who have rejected Trump's voter fraud allegations.

The Renew America Movement (RAM), formed by centrist Republicans after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress on Jan. 6 to try to stop lawmakers from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory, concedes that Trump and his conspiracy theories now have an iron grip on the party.

... Anti-Trump Republicans to back vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in 2022 congressional races (yahoo.com)​

Real Republicans are getting geared up to fight Trumpism. It's not just the Lincoln Project and the Republican Accountability Project (formerly Republican Voters Against Trump) anymore.

Will they make a difference? Can America be saved from its homegrown dictator, his unscrupulous Congressional enablers and wealthy allies, and his large, violent cult?

 

Yep! Trump Derangement Syndrome is a long mental illness. These mushy eggheads think, Marxism, Socialism, Communism, high taxations for the middle class, unrealized capital gains taxation on homes and all investments, high inflation, high interest rates, high gas and heating oil costs, empty store shelves and bread lines, racial division with CRT, tyranny with lockdowns and mandates, illegal immigration, children programmed to hate their country, parents and other children are all good things. So, they attack the very same people who are against all of the above. Hypocrites!

 

They better be watching what is going on in Virginia and New Jersey.

 

Let’s hope the lefty’s are more worried and focused on Trump Trump Trump.
So we can have a Yuge R sweep..
Watch that orange man libs. Watch him really close. Orangeman bad.

 

Don't let the door his your ass on the way out.

 

Phil Murphy prevails in close race in New Jersey, CNN projects

(CNN)New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has become the first Democratic governor in more than four decades to win reelection in the Garden State, CNN projects Wednesday, narrowly surviving a closer-than-expected race that dragged well past Election Day.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/politics/new-jersey-governor-race-results/index.html

 

BARELY...........I repeat the Dems had better take notice but then I hope they don't and just continue down the path they have chosen.

 

They do need to do less inflighting and more problem-solving.

 

They need to stop exacerbating the problems with their policies.

 

Republicans are doing that. In spades.

 

Nope it's the Dems policies that are holding back the economy and keeping people out of the workforce and they are trying to make it even worse but just got a rebuke by the electorate.

 

Anti-Trump Republicans to back vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in 2022 congressional races

So they are anti congressman as well? Such a happy life.

 

With the state of the Democratic party right now, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, as long as it's not Trump or his army of feckless clones.

 

I really hope Trump stays in the background fund raising and Rallies .

 

Biden won NJ by almost 20 points. this doesn't concern you that this was within both the margin or error, and 1%? LOL

 

I'll be voting in the GOP primaries, as per usual. If the party remains the anti-democratic party of Trump, I'll be backing dems for the election itself.

 

It won't happen. Even if it did, for a candidate to get his backing, they have to support the Big Lie and Trump's attempt to overturn the election. Policy is no longer a concern, only Trump's ego.

 

Since there's no such thing as a legit political thread in Current Events, I'll post a couple of pieces of interesting news here...

1. Pat Leahy retiring from Vermont Senate seat. Obviously, that will be filled blue again when then time comes. Too bad the other dinosaurs in the Senate don't take the hint

2. Beto O'Rourke is running for Gov from the Texiban.... Wish him great luck in that extreme uphill battle against the religious zealots. I suspect if EVERY registered Texan at the time of the election voted, he'd win pretty easily, but that just doesn't happen, does it? And after McConaughey screwed himself with his vaccine comments, Beto is probably the only game in town...

 

Point 2 raises a concern I have about potential swing states. I feel that people often stay home because they feel discouraged by their state "always" voting one way or the other, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kind of like how the two-party system itself survives, since there again, with everyone deeming third parties and independents non-viable in most instances, they personally don't vote third-party or independent either, even if a third party or independent is more desirable to them. I figure this keeps a lot of voters home in Texas.

I hope Democrats will hammer the results in Georgia in particular in future election cycles, because they show that the Democrats can pull off some nice surprise victories in certain contests if people are motivated and able to turn out in sufficient numbers. Democrats need a good combination of solid policy wins and ideas as well as this sort of optimism for what can be achieved.

I also wonder how motivating it might be if the party would be more progressive. Would it bring voters out in greater numbers for or against them? The right is already generally fired up and has a long history of turning out in good proportion. Could a less centrist, more progressive Democratic party achieve the same? Or would it be folly to appeal to progressives, who tend to be younger, because they are less likely to follow through and cast a vote?

 

"Solid policy wins and ideas" used to be what swayed people, but I'm just not sure it does anymore.. If you go the other way, and point to Abbott's solid policy losses and poor ideas (SB8, Voting restrictions, Mask Mandates), that should be enough IMHO... except the people who need to get that message simply don't (or can't)

As far as your voter turnout points, all valid... but a lot of the time, if you aren't personally impacted by the terrible government that was voted in to run your state, you won't have the impetus to get out to vote and replace it.

What pisses me off is that people don't show up to vote for Governor in the numbers they do for POTUS, when governor is just as important to your day-to-day life. In Virginia, McAuliffe got over 800K fewer votes than Biden did, just 1 year ago.... I hope those people are happy with that result, because I'm not..

Progressive is such a loaded word, because there's a huge scale of progressive possibilities... But I would think more progressive would be better than less, to counter the fascism from the other side....

 

True. The Democratic tent needs to include more conservatives, I suppose, as the Republicans relinquish their responsibility to be that moderating, conservative voice in politics and appeal instead to right-wing radicals of all sorts. The ideal situation I see politically is progressive change with conservative moderation to make sure it works for as many people as possible and as well as possible. Since the Republican party has given up on playing a part in it, it's kind of up to the Democratic party to do it all, just as we have been seeing lately with the progressives versus the moderates within the party. The trick is how to get more moderates into that tent while also giving the progressives a voice and power and not driving the moderates and conservatives away in the process.

 

Biden wasn't running, and a distasteful Trump wasn't on the ballot.

You noticed that down ballot GOP candidates won in 2020, didn't you?

 

They'd be smart to just stay out of it. Arlen Specter learned that the hard way.

 

So Democrats pretending to be Republicans are now going to back Democrats?? How unsurprising... They've been exposed for the fakes that they are. Good riddance.

 

So, you want nothing to do with moderates who actually built the GOP?