Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out (Politico)

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Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out

By David Siders and James Arkin  1 hr ago

The Trump era did more damage to the Republican Party in Arizona than almost anywhere else. Over the past two years, Republicans lost both Senate seats. In November, the state flipped Democratic in a presidential race for the first time since 1996. The GOP state party chair is currently at war with the governor.


Kelli Ward holding a sign: The hard-right pull of the Arizona GOP was evident long before the rise of Kelli Ward, the state party’s current chairwoman and fierce Trump ally.© Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo

The hard-right pull of the Arizona GOP was evident long before the rise of Kelli Ward, the state party’s current chairwoman and fierce Trump ally.

President Donald Trump’s fingerprints are on all of it, yet the state party will likely pass a resolution next week to officially “support & thank” the president. It’ll also vote on measures to censor three prominent Republicans who were deemed insufficiently beholden to Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late senator.

The adulation is an expression of GOP grassroots loyalty to Trump, but it’s also a portrait of a party that’s run aground in service to him. His defeat has triggered attempts to adopt an even harder pro-Trump line, raising questions about the party’s ability to compete in an increasingly diverse state that’s edging leftward.

“The craziness from the state Republican Party … it’s pretty embarrassing,” said Kirk Adams, a former Republican state House speaker and former chief of staff to Ducey. “We have been fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and stolen election rhetoric and, really, QAnon theories from the state Republican Party since before the election, but certainly after.”

He said, “What’s … consequential is the effect the state Republican Party is having on the Republican brand in the state of Arizona.”

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   Yall must be over the Target @Cyber Liberty 

[catfish1957]

https://www.msn.com

1st clue and a dead giveaway without reading that it is a left wing hit piece.

[Cyber Liberty]

   Yall must be over the Target @Cyber Liberty

I expect more flak is to come.

[HikerGuy83]

It would seem that the GOP has blown itself up in many respects. 

Those establishment types who don't like this are those who expect to profit from power and don't like someone competing for it.

If nothing else, Trump has stripped away the curtain and we see more than ever the brazen abuse of power by those in leadership.

[HikerGuy83]

It's hard to understand what people are thinking these days. 

I still don't know (or care) what QANON is.

What I do know is that those (who call themselves anti-Trump are bent on demanding renouncement on the part of those who supported him. 

Something I have no intention of doing. 

At the same time, it seems like the hard-liner Trump supporters are starting to rattle their sabres.

[HikerGuy83]

Do you think Liz Cheney survives in 2022 ?

[HikerGuy83]

One thing is for sure.

If the GOP in Arizona and other states does not focus on leading, the democrats will continue to grow in power. 

What plans does the AZ GOP have to better the situation in AZ ?

[roamer_1]

It would seem that the GOP has blown itself up in many respects. 

Literally hoisted on their own petard - For those that don't know, a 'petard' is a squib-like explosive device, for blowing gates and such, some times contained by a bag used to contain the explosive force as a jack to upset stone walls... 'Petard' itself has an etymological reference somewhere to flatulence, so a flatulent bag of gas causing injury to the bomb-maker that was meant for another.

I crack myself up sometimes.

[dfwgator]

It would seem that the GOP has blown itself up in many respects. 

Those establishment types who don't like this are those who expect to profit from power and don't like someone competing for it.

If nothing else, Trump has stripped away the curtain and we see more than ever the brazen abuse of power by those in leadership.

Sometimes you just have to blow up the team.

[LegalAmerican]

https://www.msn.com

1st clue and a dead giveaway without reading that it is a left wing hit piece.

Yes, and it is not,  POTUS TRUMP.....that is the problem. ALL RINOS AND DEMON-RATS UNDERMINING AMERICA.

[LegalAmerican]

It would seem that the GOP has blown itself up in many respects. 

Those establishment types who don't like this are those who expect to profit from power and don't like someone competing for it.

If nothing else, Trump has stripped away the curtain and we see more than ever the brazen abuse of power by those in leadership.

Excellent post and true.   

[sneakypete]

Yet people are STILL trying to claim he never did anything positive!