NEW!Donald J. Trump continues his crusade to make America a one party state by nuking Mitch McConnell and every other Republican who doesn't subscribe to his bat-shit-crazy theories on election fraud.
President Donald J. Trump:
“Mitch McConnell just folded on the Debt Ceiling, a total victory for the Democrats—didn’t use it to kill the $5 Trillion Dollar (real number!) Build Back Worse Bill that will essentially change the fabric of our Country forever. The Old Crow’s two-month extension, and the break up of the Bill into two parts, gave the Democrats everything they needed. The Dems would have folded completely if Mitch properly played his hand, and if not, the Debt Ceiling scenario would be far less destructive than the Bill that will get passed. He has all the cards to win, but not the “guts” to play them. Instead, he gives our Country away, just like he did with the two Senate seats in Georgia, and the Presidency itself. The Old Crow is a disaster!”
@LizHarrington76 Originally Posted by bambino
What a hypocrite. He keeps trying to pass the blame for losing the Senate to other people, like Mitch McConnell and Brian Kemp, when he's the loser who's responsible:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-...mp-11638835818
Trump’s Georgia Vendetta
He stokes a GOP primary fight that may elect Stacey Abrams.
For a glimpse of the long shadow Donald Trump may cast over the 2022 midterm elections, see former Sen. David Perdue’s Monday announcement that he’ll challenge Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in a Republican primary. This is a good way to turn a major state over to the progressive left.
Mr. Trump has prodded Mr. Perdue to jump into the race for months, as part of the former President’s vendetta against Mr. Kemp. He claims the Governor didn’t fight hard enough to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss of the state in 2020.
Mr. Perdue’s video announcement swims in that muddy water, going so far as to blame Mr. Kemp for the Senator’s own loss in a runoff on Jan. 5. He claims Georgia Republicans were “divided” because Mr. Kemp “caved” and “cost us two Senate seats, the Senate majority, and gave Joe Biden free rein.”
Mr. Perdue is free to compete, but not to rewrite history. Mr. Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 presidential race, as audits and recounts have underscored. Yet rather than cast the state’s two Senate runoff elections weeks later as a means of checking an incoming Democratic President, Mr. Trump made the Senate races a referendum on his claims of election fraud, which discouraged GOP turnout. Mr. Perdue also ran a lackluster campaign against Jon Ossoff, a weak candidate who lost a swing-district House race in the Atlanta suburbs in 2017.
A Kemp-Perdue primary will help nobody more than Stacey Abrams, the progressive who said last week that she’ll run again for Governor after she lost to Mr. Kemp in 2018. Mr. Kemp has been hurt by the Trump barrage but in recent months had shown progress reuniting his party. He signed a Georgia voting reform that shored up ballot integrity and made it easier to vote. He’s capably led the Peach State during Covid, keeping the economy relatively open. The state jobless rate is an historic low of 3.1%.
Mr. Perdue won his first race, but his re-election campaign was dogged by investigations into his stock trading while in office. The former businessman was investigated by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission with no charges to show for it, but the media and Democrats will hammer the story to portray him as a rich guy who gamed the system. Mr. Perdue’s ties to Mr. Trump cost him support in the Atlanta suburbs, where GOP candidates need to do well to win in swing states like Georgia.
The Republican Governors Association may feel compelled to defend Mr. Kemp as the incumbent. But those dollars would be better spent making more races competitive in states where suburban and independent voters will be looking to put a check on Democratic excess. Whoever wins the primary will be handicapped against Ms. Abrams, who will have a united party.
Republicans are poised for major gains in 2022 as voters recoil against the Democratic Party’s hard left turn. But the GOP’s biggest obstacle will be party divisions, stoked by Mr. Trump, and candidates he supports not because they’re better but because they hedge or obfuscate on whether he lost the election.
