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Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« on: July 05, 2025, 08:30:21 am »
 Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
by Caroline Vakil - 07/05/25 6:00 AM ET

Elon Musk is threatening to primary Republicans who voted for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” posing a challenge for the president and his allies as they look to defy midterm headwinds.

Musk vowed earlier this week that Republicans who supported Trump’s megabill “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth” as the Tesla CEO has reignited his feud with Trump in recent days.

Republicans see the comments as unhelpful, with some saying if the threats come to fruition, it could risk diverting resources away in an election environment that historically hasn’t been kind to the president’s party in power. 

“One of the most destructive behaviors that we’ve had in cycles where we’ve been unsuccessful in Senate races … are those in which we have expended massive resources in intraparty warfare,” said one Republican consultant who’s worked on Senate races.

Ever since Musk ended his stint at the White House, the billionaire has been a vocal critic of Trump’s major policy bill, taking particular issue with the projected trillions of dollars multiple analyses say will add to the deficit.

The House narrowly passed the final version of the bill on Thursday, and Trump signed it Friday evening at a White House Fourth of July event.

But Musk’s frustrations reached a new point on Monday when he said he would back challengers to Republicans who supported Trump’s agenda-setting legislation, while saying he would also look to protect Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a prominent opponent of the bill who has drawn Trump’s ire.

The Tesla CEO also suggested it was time for a new political party.

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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2025, 05:46:59 pm »
GOOD!
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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2025, 05:50:37 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on July 05, 2025, 08:30:21 am
Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans

No, it is the Republicans' insistence to lie to their voters by backing Democrat spending and funneling money right back to the Democrat Party that poses a danger to Republicans.

If Republicans balanced the budget, there would no longer be a Democrat Party.
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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2025, 06:03:01 pm »
Hoodat prognosticates:
"If Republicans balanced the budget, there would no longer be a Democrat Party."

Mr. Trump will not balance the budget. But we knew that.
NO Republican will balance the budget. But we know that, too.

You will not live to see a balanced budget.
If you have children, they will not live to see a balanced budget
If you have grandchildren, they will not live to see a balanced budget.

Nothing against your opinion.
But the reality of the current situation points towards a different future.

Perhaps there will someday occur a calamity ... one so great that when (years later) the dust clears away, there MIGHT BE a "balanced" budget.

But the intervening events to reach that point are not any you or I, nor any other member of this forum would care to live through.

Hmmm... re the actual topic of the thread...
Although Mr. Musk is the wealthiest of all men, I really don't think his attempt at creating a "new" party will produce results any more lasting than, say, H. Ross Perot was able to obtain some years' back.

Now... If Mr. Trump proclaimed the creation of a new party... that could possibly get somewhere.
He is, after all, the first "independent" to be elected president.

Oh, no, you'll reply, he's "a Republican".
Well, not really.
Mr. Trump ... three times (not one, not two, but THREE)... stole the Republican Party's horse, jumped aboard, and rode to victories. He was cheated out of one of them. But the other two count...
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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2025, 06:05:47 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on July 05, 2025, 06:03:01 pm
You will not live to see a balanced budget.
If you have children, they will not live to see a balanced budget
If you have grandchildren, they will not live to see a balanced budget.

You're right.  As long as Republicans are in charge.
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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2025, 06:12:27 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on July 05, 2025, 06:03:01 pm

Mr. Trump will not balance the budget. But we knew that.
NO Republican will balance the budget. But we know that, too.

You will not live to see a balanced budget.
If you have children, they will not live to see a balanced budget
If you have grandchildren, they will not live to see a balanced budget.
A self-fulfilling prophecy, Fishrrman, since if we do not balance the budget, there will not be a United States for our children to inherit.
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Re: Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
« Reply #6 on: Today at 02:03:29 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 05, 2025, 05:50:37 pm
No, it is the Republicans' insistence to lie to their voters by backing Democrat spending and funneling money right back to the Democrat Party that poses a danger to Republicans.

If Republicans balanced the budget, there would no longer be a Democrat Party.
I'd wager there would be some Republicans feeling the hit, too. The dirt isn't confined to  one side of the aisle.
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