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mystery-ak:
Republicans backing Democrats over MAGA candidates
by Cami Mondeaux, Breaking News Reporter |
October 01, 2022 06:30 AM

Despite not appearing on the November ballot, former President Donald Trump has played a major role in the midterm elections by endorsing a slew of Republican candidates.

But a number of high-profile Republicans in battleground states have placed their support behind the Democratic candidates opposing some of those Trump-endorsed nominees. It’s not clear what effect, if any, the conflicting endorsements will have, but it does show how the Republican Party has fractured, to some extent, over whether to continue embracing the former president.

Here’s a list of Republicans who have backed Democrats over their party’s candidate:

Arizona

State Rep. Joel John (R) turned heads in Arizona after the Republican lawmaker endorsed Democratic candidate Adrian Fontes over Trump-backed state Rep. Mark Finchem (R) in the race for secretary of state.

“Our nation’s history is full of heroes who bravely stood up to do what was right even if it wasn’t popular in their respective camps,” John said in a statement. “We need more people like that today. I am proud to support Adrian Fontes and join noble Republicans and Independents who are willing to put country before party. … His opponent is someone who sought to get rid of voting by mail and has sought to overturn the 2020 election. Arizona deserves better.”

The race took on prominence in the state’s midterm elections after Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who currently holds the position and has staunchly defended the state’s administration of the 2020 election, announced she would not seek reelection and would run for Senate instead. The issue of election integrity has become central to the race, with Finchem backing Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud.

Arizona has become ground zero of Trump’s claims of voter fraud, with the state Senate spending months auditing the 2020 election in Maricopa County. Top county officials criticized the effort, stressing a report on the matter offered "no new evidence" that would alter the result of 2020's presidential election.

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The_Reader_David:
The problem with "MAGA candidates", some of whom are Trumpier than Trump himself, is not that the occasional Republican elected official will oppose them, but that centrist Republicans among the rank and file may split their ticket and vote against them, along with a lot of independents.  This was seen in the defeat of Kris Kobach in his bid for the Kansas governorship, which he lost handily to Democrat Laura Kelly, even as both houses of of the Kansas legislature remained firmly in GOP hands. 

MAGA branding is not a plus any more than Biden's lunatic attempt to tie the entire GOP to a made up "ultra-MAGA" agenda is.  We need candidates who will stand up for the founding principles of this country in an articulate and forceful way, who will imitate Trump's unwillingness to be cowed by the media and the Democrats' specious cries of "racism", but who are not part of any cult of personality, either as followers or cult-objects, and will not follow him (or the Democrats) in willful disregard for the Constitution nor in puerile Twitter exchanges to "own the libs".

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--- Quote from: The_Reader_David on October 01, 2022, 01:39:08 pm ---The problem with "MAGA candidates", some of whom are Trumpier than Trump himself, is not that the occasional Republican elected official will oppose them, but that centrist Republicans among the rank and file may split their ticket and vote against them, along with a lot of independents.  This was seen in the defeat of Kris Kobach in his bid for the Kansas governorship, which he lost handily to Democrat Laura Kelly, even as both houses of of the Kansas legislature remained firmly in GOP hands. 

MAGA branding is not a plus any more than Biden's lunatic attempt to tie the entire GOP to a made up "ultra-MAGA" agenda is.  We need candidates who will stand up for the founding principles of this country in an articulate and forceful way, who will imitate Trump's unwillingness to be cowed by the media and the Democrats' specious cries of "racism", but who are not part of any cult of personality, either as followers or cult-objects, and will not follow him (or the Democrats) in willful disregard for the Constitution nor in puerile Twitter exchanges to "own the libs".

--- End quote ---

We’re still talking here about politics, right?

Elections and candidates are nearly always about personality. Whether it was Reagan’s, Clinton’s or Obama’s (though in Obama’s case there was a unique blend of factors that included race). It’s a freakin’ beauty contest. Mind you I’m not commenting on what should be, just what be.

So, until republicans can find a perfect candidate possessing both style and substance (constitutionally speaking), the democrats (all style) have the advantage in the modern age of MTV and glitzy ideologies like socialism.

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