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  • #46
    @RonFilipkowski
    US Senate candidate Eric Greitens says he is going “RINO hunting.” The 2022 Republican Party.

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    Another civilized election ad, this time from Senate candidate Eric Greitens. That's the former Governor of Missouri who was forced to resign in 2018 because of allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance improprieties.

    The bottom of the barrel is just a black hole.
    Last edited by statquo; 20 Jun 22,, 19:36.

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    • #47
      Originally posted by statquo View Post
      @RonFilipkowski
      US Senate candidate Eric Greitens says he is going “RINO hunting.” The 2022 Republican Party.

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      Another civilized election ad, this time from Senate candidate Eric Greitens. That's the former Governor of Missouri who was forced to resign in 2018 because of allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance improprieties.

      The bottom of the barrel is just a black hole.
      Now he's claiming it was "just a joke". Dunno about anyone else but I am getting REALLY fucking tired of these kinds of "jokes".

      Yep, that sure does look like a "joke". Very humorous. If you're a deranged lunatic.

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      “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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      • #48
        He is still a serving office in the USNR. He could be in trouble with the Navy over this. And if any of the others are serving in any official capacity and took part they too could face censure.

        Oh, and keep in mind, Greitens may have completed BUDS but he never served in a SEAL Team and his OCONUS time was spent as a reservist in a temporary status in non-SOF missions. So trying to come off as some kind of special operator is BS.
        “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
        Mark Twain

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        • #49
          Originally posted by albany rifles View Post
          he is still a serving office in the usnr. He could be in trouble with the navy over this. And if any of the others are serving in any official capacity and took part they too could face censure.

          Oh, and keep in mind, greitens may have completed buds but he never served in a seal team and his oconus time was spent as a reservist in a temporary status in non-sof missions. So trying to come off as some kind of special operator is bs.
          buds?
          If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Monash View Post

            buds?
            BUD/S Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training
            “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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            • #51
              Jonah Goldberg: The GOP may win in the midterms, but it can't hang on to power

              For congressional Republicans, the election can’t come soon enough. In the modern era, it’s hard to think of a time when the party out of power had more things going its way. Harry Enten, CNN’s political data analyst, recently noted that going by the generic ballot, things haven’t looked this good for Republicans to pick up House seats in the midterms since 1938. Since 1980, the party of the president in power has lost an average of 22 seats in the midterms. Republicans only need nine to win the majority.

              Of course, Republicans think this means they’re doing something right. But if recent history is any guide, you can be sure that once elected, Republicans will blow it.

              For decades now, our national politics have been caught in a bizarre pattern. The party in power governs as if it were about to lose power, so it shoots the moon on big ambitious, base-pleasing gambits that annoy the center and make its own electoral defeat all the more likely. The other party then wins and comes in believing it has a broad mandate for similarly sweeping changes from the other ideological direction. This, in turn, leads it to being thrown out of power. The cycle repeats itself in a pas de deux of self-fulfilling prophecy.

              One key to this dynamic is the delusion that the party-in-power’s unpopularity is synonymous with the opposing party’s popularity. But that’s an illusion, created in part by the two-party system. If you have a menu that only offers snails or tofu entrees, it doesn’t mean that diners love tofu every time they get tired of snails.

              There’s a reason more Americans identify as independents (42%) than as Republicans (28%) or Democrats (28%), and why 60% of voters now want a new major party to provide an alternative.

              Again, in a binary system, one side’s unpopularity creates a mirage of popularity for the other party when in reality voters are merely expressing a preference for the lesser of two evils. In 2020, a majority of Americans voted against Donald Trump, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they loved Joe Biden.

              The Democrats are unpopular right now for reasons that have little to do with GOP popularity. Inflation in general and high energy prices, in particular, are a toxic drag on whichever party is in power. The Democrats’ misreading of Biden’s “mandate” — swinging for a new New Deal, for instance — wasn’t some GOP masterstroke. It was an unforced error of their own making, perfectly consistent with this trend in American politics.

              As a result, Biden’s low approval ratings make it easy for Republicans to criticize and to run as symbols of discontent. This has given Republicans the misplaced confidence to indulge their worst base-pandering instincts on the assumption that their antics are why things look so good for them right now. They’re like Ferris Bueller running to the front of the parade, thinking everyone is turning out for them, not the parade. Of course, Bueller’s performance was harmless fun.

              Meanwhile, the Texas GOP just voted to declare the 2020 election “illegitimate,” to rebuke Sen. John Cornyn for negotiating a sensible and popular gun policy reform, and other political asininities. In the wake of two horrific mass shootings and amidst justifiably heightened fears of political violence, Eric Greitens, Republican Senate candidate in Missouri, released a video in which he carries a gun and literally advocates for “hunting” GOP moderates. And, of course, the GOP’s collective reaction to the Jan. 6 House committee doesn’t exactly suggest they’re listening to anyone outside their echo chamber.

              My favorite recent data point for the coming congressional clown show is an interview last week with Trump. Radio host Wayne Allyn Root suggested that Trump had endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy for House speaker if/when the Republicans take back the House. "No, I haven't," Trump replied. "No, I endorsed him in his race. But I haven't endorsed anybody for speaker." And then, at Root’s prompting, Trump left open the idea he should be speaker (the Constitution, some argue, allows a non-House member to hold the job).

              Ignoring the preposterous proposition that Trump is the master of parliamentary procedure America needs, the larger point is that for all the Democrats' well-deserved problems there’s no reason to believe that the country is poised for a new era of Republican control. That would require a GOP interested in governing for the long haul. And our parties don’t do that anymore.
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              “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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              • #52
                Trump White House bid threatens GOP midterm strategy

                Former President Trump’s plans to announce his 2024 presidential campaign as early as this summer, well before what he previously indicated, throws a wrench into Republicans’ strategy for winning back the Senate and House majorities in November.

                Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made clear they want the 2022 midterms to be a referendum on President Biden and his handling of inflation and the economy.

                But that strategy will run into trouble if Trump announces his plans to run for president again in 2022. An early Trump campaign kickoff would give plenty of opportunity for Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats to make November a referendum on Trump instead of Biden.

                Republican and Democratic strategists say Trump will also provide a shot of energy and motivation to a dispirited Democratic base that right now feels less enthusiastic than Republicans about voting in the midterms.

                “Midterm elections tend to be referenda on the governing party and given President Biden’s rock-bottom job approval rating, anything that detracts from a focus on the Biden administration and its many failures weakens the Republicans’ ability to take control of Congress,” said Whit Ayres, a leading Republican pollster.

                Biden’s job approval rating now stands at 38 percent, according to an average of recent polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com.

                Ayres says Republican voters are significantly more motivated than Democrats to vote given liberal disappointment over the Biden agenda.

                “No question about it. The administration has managed to increase Republican enthusiasm and depress Democratic enthusiasm by the way it has governed,” he said.

                Former Rep. Jim Walsh (R), who represented a swing district in upstate New York, said a Trump 2024 announcement could hurt Republican candidates in competitive races.

                “I think it causes problems for Republicans. If Trump were to announce this summer, I think it definitely causes problems for Republicans,” he said.

                Walsh said if Trump launches his campaign, “it’s not going to bring Republicans out this election but what it may do is motivate Democrats.”

                The nonpartisan Cook Political Report races four New York House races as toss-ups.

                Democrats acknowledge they face an enthusiasm gap but say that would likely change if Trump announces plans to run again for president. They say their voters are already more energized in the wake of the 6-3 Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case.

                Trump considered announcing his White House bid last year in the aftermath of the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan when Biden’s approval ratings began their downward spiral but was talked out of it by his advisers.

                Trump advisers cautioned the former president at the time that he didn’t want to “own” the midterm results if Republicans fell short of winning back the Senate and House, according to a Washington Post report in October of 2021.

                The former president is now motivated to announce a bid as polls show he is losing popular support amid the damaging revelations from the House select Jan. 6 committee’s hearings. This has opened the door for potential rivals, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who led Trump 39 percent to 37 percent among likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, an early primary state, according to a recent University of New Hampshire poll.

                Republican leaders in Congress fear a new Trump bid would ensure the midterms will be a fight over Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 election. Leaders in Congress repeatedly advise Republican candidates to focus on Biden’s agenda and the economic problems facing the nation today instead of re-litigating the 2020 election.

                “Objectively speaking it would be best if this midterm were run as a referendum on Biden, his overall performance and inflation, the economy and quality of life. That’s an unassailable fact,” said Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist who has advised McConnell’s past campaigns.

                But Jennings said analysts can’t assume “Donald Trump cares about whether Republicans win the midterms or not.”

                “His tactical objectives here are different than the party’s and he’s never shown much of an interest in what’s best of the party in this regard,” he added.

                Many Senate Republicans blamed Trump for contributing to their loss of two Senate seats in last year’s election runoff in Georgia because he claimed fraud in the 2020 November election, depressing GOP turnout in the following January runoff.

                “Case in point the Georgia special we had in January of last year. Trump gave no thought whatsoever to what it meant to tell Republicans their vote no longer counted,” Jennings pointed out.

                McConnell on Tuesday hammered Biden’s successful push for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed in March of last year without a single Republican vote, which Republicans say fueled inflation.

                “On a party-line basis, not a single Republican in the House or Senate voting for it, they dumped almost two trillion [dollars] on the economy,” he said during remarks to the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce, echoing what has become his midterm election message.

                McConnell regularly deflects questions about Trump and his actions in the run-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when asked by reporters, usually replying that he’s paying more attention to the issues immediately before the Senate.

                Jennings predicted that McConnell and other Republicans will find a way to adapt if Trump launches his White House campaign early, even if it’s not an ideal scenario.

                He also said that Democrats were always planning on making Trump central to their midterm campaign message for the Senate and House, even though Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe’s effort to do just that in the Virginia 2021 gubernatorial race failed to earn him a victory.

                Ford O’Connell, a GOP strategist who was close to the Trump White House, acknowledged the GOP establishment doesn’t want Trump to jump into the presidential race early but argued Republican leaders in Washington don’t fully understand Trump’s effectiveness on the campaign trail.

                “If he’s driving the conversation, you could make an argument that he could help the Republicans even more because it’s not like the Democrats aren’t trying to focus on Trump anyway as part of their plan to scrape back some seats in the House or the Senate,” he said. “Democrats are underestimating the fact that Trump is a one-man political force of nature.”

                “Mitch McConnell’s a very establishment person and he’s going to go along with the conventional wisdom” that Republicans are better off in November with Trump on the sidelines, Ford said.

                “That’s what Mitch is probably thinking but I don’t if Mitch is right on that front,” he added. “It’s not like the Democrats aren’t trying to run on Trump already.”
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                “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by TopHatter View Post

                  “That’s what Mitch is probably thinking but I don’t if Mitch is right on that front,” he added. “It’s not like the Democrats aren’t trying to run on Trump already.”
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                  Apparently, if one defends the Constitution and tries to protect the integrity of a democratic vote, that's "running on [He Who Should Not Be Named]."
                  Trust me?
                  I'm an economist!

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by DOR View Post

                    Apparently, if one defends the Constitution and tries to protect the integrity of a democratic vote, that's "running on [He Who Should Not Be Named]."
                    Yeah same thing with criticizing him. You're a left/extreme left blah blah blah....
                    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by TopHatter View Post

                      Yeah same thing with criticizing him. You're a left/extreme left blah blah blah....
                      From my observations?

                      That's because his supporters have, for the most part gravitated towards a very conservative, right wing world view. And once you've spiraled out to the towards the edges of the political spectrum (left or right)? Well people seem to start adopting an attitude that anyone who is not 'with' them is part of the problem whereas they (obviously) have the solution! And since so many right wing American's also identify with Trump and imagine he stands for the same things they do? That means anyone who attacks him is indirectly attacking them. And by default those people must be 'leftist' i.e. left of them.

                      The sad thing is of course is that in reality the only thing Trump stands for is Trump.
                      Last edited by Monash; 08 Jul 22,, 01:31.
                      If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Monash View Post

                        From my observations?

                        That's because his supporters have, for the most part gravitated towards a very conservative, right wing world view. And once you've spiraled out to the towards the edges of the political spectrum (left or right)? Well people seem to start adopting an attitude that anyone who is not 'with' them is part of the problem whereas they (obviously) have the solution! And since so many right wing American's also identify with Trump and imagine he stands for the same things they do? That means anyone who attacks him is indirectly attacking them. And by default those people must be 'leftist' i.e. left of them.

                        The sad thing is of course is that in reality the only thing Trump stands for is Trump.
                        Very much so, yes. Tribalism at its finest. That's exactly the shit that I've gotten from other people in my life and people on this board that I considered to be personal friends. My sin was bashing the leader of the conservative spectrum, regardless of how they themselves felt about him personally, and not bashing those on the left like I used to. Because they, still to this day, don't see Trump as anything different from other politicians. Just as they don't - can't - see January 6th as being anything but just something that happened, but not a big deal. To admit otherwise would be to repudiate their entire outlook on life. It's impossible.
                        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                        • #57
                          Three GOP Impeachers Face Their Primary Fates

                          “Reps. Peter Meijer, Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse have not grabbed the same type of headlines that other Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump in January 2021,” the Washington Post reports.

                          “The Republican trio have remained steadfast in support of their votes against Trump but have otherwise mostly kept their heads down and tried to work hard on issues they have long focused on.”

                          “On Tuesday, all three will learn their political fate with Republican voters back home, helping determine if there was ever a path to victory for a Republican who so directly rebuked Trump. And it will go a long way to determining whether there will be one, two or more pro-impeachment Republicans left when the new Congress is sworn in next January.”
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                          “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                          • #58
                            Jan. 6 witness Rusty Bowers has no regrets in GOP race loss
                            PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative Republican crossed former President Donald Trump and refused to back his unsupported claims that he lost in 2020 because of fraud.

                            Bowers was thoroughly trounced in Tuesday's GOP primary, losing to a former state senator by nearly 2 to 1 among voters in his district in the eastern Phoenix suburbs. He was trying to move to the Senate after term limits barred another state House run.

                            Bowers knew his seat was on the line and said he had no regrets for standing up to Trump.

                            “I would do it again in a heartbeat,” he said Wednesday. “I’d do it 50 times in a row."


                            Bowers, who holds impeccable conservative credentials save one, had rejected Trump's pleas to help him overturn the November 2020 election results that saw him lose in Arizona, the first time a Republican had lost the presidential race in the state since Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection victory.

                            And then he angered the former president and his backers in Bowers' district even more by testifying in June before a panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress about the president's actions.


                            Trump endorsed his opponent, David Farnsworth, and the state Republican Party censured him.

                            And then so did the voters.

                            Bowers said the former president has soiled the party.

                            “President Trump is a dividing force that has thrashed our party," he told The Associated Press. "And it’s not enough to disagree. You have to disagree and then stomp on people and ruin their reputations and chase them down and thrash them and you just keep beating them up. That’s the Trump model.”

                            He said the state Republican Party, which broke tradition by strongly supporting Trump's candidates and denigrating those like Bowers who failed to fall in line, is in lock-step and has a “bully mentality.”

                            “And I think you’re going to find out as all these people leave this party, that someday there’s going to be a hard reckoning,” Bowers said. “And I have a feeling it can be later this year.”

                            Farnsworth automatically wins the Senate seat, since the heavily Republican district in the eastern Phoenix suburbs of Mesa drew no Democrats in the primary.

                            Arizona Trump backers did very well up and down the ballot on Tuesday, with his chosen candidate for governor in the lead and candidates he endorsed for U.S. Senate, attorney general and secretary of state all winning their elections.

                            Trump candidates succeeded in several other GOP legislative races as well.

                            In another eastern suburban district, GOP Sen. Tyler Pace lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger. Robert Scantlebury's campaign website said Pace “is a RINO like Jeff “Flakey” Flake (if that’s even possible!), who never had a clue.”

                            Flake, who declined to seek reelection to his U.S. Senate seat in 2018 after admitting his refusal to back Trump made it impossible for him to win a Republican primary, now serves as President Joe Biden's ambassador to Turkey. Opponents call him a “Republican in Name Only," or "RINO.”

                            Redistricting put two Trump-supporting state senators, Kelly Townsend and Wendy Rogers, into the same district. Rogers ended up easily beating Townsend.

                            Rogers has faced repeated ethics charges for her inflammatory rhetoric, support for white supremacists and conspiracy-theory laden tweets.

                            Townsend said she felt compelled to run against Rogers when she refused to denounce white nationalism after speaking at a conference in Florida in February.


                            “If I don’t run against her and make that statement, win, lose or draw, then her actions become our own,” Townsend said Monday. “It sort of spoils the whole (Republican) party.”

                            Rogers has earned a national following, raising a whopping $3 million from donors across the country since taking office in early 2021. Townsend had raised about $15,000, much more typical for a state legislative race.

                            Republican Rep. Joel John, who had secured the House majority by beating a Democrat in 2020 but angered some party members by opposing key school choice and social issue legislation, lost his bid for another term representing a sprawling district west of Phoenix.

                            In the west Phoenix suburbs, former Rep. Anthony Kern, who attended Trump’s Jan. 6 rally before the attack on Congress and unsuccessfully sued Democrats who asked the Department of Justice to investigate him, won his Senate primary. He was defeated in his 2020 House primary and is now aiming for a Senate seat. No Democrat is running, so Kern will automatically win the seat in November.

                            Also making a successful political comeback was former Rep. Steve Montenegro, whose 2018 run for Congress was upended by a sexting scandal. He was the top vote-getter among four Republicans running in a west Phoenix House district for two open House seats. One Democrat ran in that district.

                            Democratic Reps. Diego Espinoza and Richard Andrade were battling for a Senate seat after being drawn into the same district in the western Phoenix suburbs, with Espinoza holding a slight lead in a race too close to call.

                            And Sen. Lela Alston, considered the most experienced lawmaker in the Legislature, easily beat two Democratic challengers in her central Phoenix district. One of them, political unknown Al Jones, sought attention by buying billboards across the city.
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                            My hat's off to you Mr. Speaker, for your courage, for your integrity and for your devotion to the rule of law.

                            A man with impeccable conservative credentials, all it took was standing up to Trump and Trump's election lies and he was instantly cast as a "RINO".
                            “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                            • #59
                              I've mention here before I follow Jack McCain on Twitter and he follows me back. He is apolitical as possible but there are still trolls who take a run at him because of his dad. Also his mom, who spoke out against Trump in 2020 and has been a life long conservative Republican regularly get dragged through the mud & the AZ GOP threw her out of the party.

                              Don't disagree with Der Fuehrer is the 1st rule.
                              “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
                              Mark Twain

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                              • #60
                                UW Survey Finds Hageman leading Cheney in Wyoming GOP Primary

                                August 11, 2022 – Wyoming Republican primary candidate Harriet Hageman is leading incumbent Liz Cheney by nearly 30 points in the primary race for Wyoming’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a new survey by the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center (WYSAC).

                                The survey was conducted July 25-Aug. 6, yielding 562 responses from Wyoming residents identified as likely voters in the Aug. 16 Republican Party primary. The margin of error for the primary survey is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

                                Just over one-quarter, 28 percent, of GOP primary voters support incumbent candidate Cheney, while 57 percent support Hageman. Candidate Anthony Bouchard polled at 2 percent, while candidates Denton Knapp and Robyn Belinskey both polled below 1 percent. Ten percent of likely GOP voters say they are still undecided.

                                “The race for the Republican nomination appears to be a referendum on Cheney, as it usually is when an incumbent seeks re-election,” says Jim King, professor of political science at UW.

                                Among survey respondents expecting to vote for Cheney, 66 percent indicated their vote was an expression of support for the incumbent congresswoman. In contrast, 29 percent of respondents expecting to cast ballots for another candidate said they were supporting that candidate, while 41 percent said their vote was in opposition to Cheney.

                                Traditionally, surveys polling primary elections might utilize lists of registered voters in that party. While that approach may be more cost effective, there are potential shortcomings that needed to be considered in a primary such as this.

                                “Given the unique attention this race is receiving, and the accompanying increases in voter registration and potential party switching, we decided to field this survey to a random sample of all Wyoming residents on cell phones and landlines and work to identify likely voters in the GOP primary,” says Brian Harnisch, director of WYSAC. “When looking only at residents who say they are Republican and likely voters in the primary, we actually see Hageman leading by roughly 50 points.”

                                Among Wyoming residents who identify as Democrats and likely voters in this primary season, roughly half say they will vote in the Republican primary. Among this group, Cheney received 98 percent support. Among Republican likely voters in the GOP primary, Cheney is polling at roughly 15 percent. Among likely voters in the primary who identify as independent, support is split, with 41 percent supporting Hageman and 43 percent supporting Cheney.

                                “There has been much talk in the media about Democrats crossing over and voting in the Republican primary; this group is not especially large,” King says.

                                Of likely voters in the primary, only 8 percent identify as Democrats, and 21 percent identify as independents. According to King, independents regularly play an important role Republican primaries and thus are key to Cheney’s chances. Her lack of support among Republican identifiers and inability to dominate among independents has placed Cheney well behind Hageman.

                                In the 2020 primary election, Wyoming saw a roughly 61 percent turnout of registered voters. In the 2020 general election, roughly 100 percent of registered voters turned out to vote. As previously mentioned, roughly half of self-identified Democrats who will vote in a primary indicate they will register for or have registered for the Republican Party and vote in that primary.

                                “Back-of-the-napkin math says that number could represent as many as 20,000 votes in the GOP primary from currently registered Democrats, compared to as many as 200,000-plus votes from registered Republicans,” Harnisch says. “It does not appear at the time of this survey the numbers are there for party switching to have a significant effect on the outcome of this race.”

                                Of those likely voters who support Hageman in this primary, only 16 percent believe that Joe Biden’s election as president was legitimate, compared to 94 percent of Cheney supporters. Some 72 percent of Hageman supporters in the GOP primary say there is solid evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, while 3 percent of Cheney supporters say the same.

                                When considering how closely likely primary voters have been watching the January 6 House Select Committee hearings, 83 percent of Cheney supporters say they have been following very closely or somewhat closely. Alternatively, 57 percent of Hageman supporters say they have been following not too closely or not closely at all.

                                Both landline and cellular telephone numbers were randomly generated for the study, resulting in 70 percent of completed surveys on cell phones. The survey was funded by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center, UW’s School of Politics, Public Affairs and International Studies, and Wyoming Public Media.

                                View the complete topline survey results here: https://wysac.uwyo.edu/wysac/reports/View/7723

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                                Liz Cheney about to be taken out to the pasture....

                                Basically a referendum on whether the election was legitimate.. and the last bolded is really depressing.

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