Trump fraud claims open Republican rift in Texas and other red states | Reuters
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Via: flynavy1 • 4 years ago • 18 commentsBy: Brad Brooks, Gabriella Borter (U. S.)
Pat Cowan, a Republican official in west Texas, would rather blow up her party than see it controlled by "weak" Republicans who increasingly are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump since the U.S. Capitol riots he is accused of inciting.
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By Brad Brooks, Gabriella Borter
LEVELLAND, Texas (Reuters) - Pat Cowan, a Republican official in west Texas, would rather blow up her party than see it controlled by "weak" Republicans who increasingly are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump since the U.S. Capitol riots he is accused of inciting.
"You can't tell those Republicans from the Democrats!" she scoffed in an interview at her home in Levelland, Texas.
Like many others here in Hockley County, where Cowan is the party chairwoman, she believes Trump's baseless claims that he was robbed of a Nov. 3 election victory by voter fraud. She's incensed at the handful of Texas Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who certified Democrat Joe Biden's election win in the hours after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. She's even angrier at the 10 Republican House members from other states who voted to impeach Trump for allegedly inciting the insurrection.
"That has led a lot of us to think that we're just going to have to come up with a new party," she said, "and I think that Trump is going to lead it!"
Cowan's stark view of the party's future - echoed by many of the two dozen Texas voters and party officials interviewed by Reuters - underscores how Trump, after four years of …
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Pass the popcorn.....!
Think any of us moderates/independents have any responsibility to help thinking Republicans to recover what is left of their party? Kind of like the Lincoln Project is trying to do?
I was thinking the same thing. I really do hope the moderates split with the reactionary populists. I'm also hoping the same happens on the left. We'd get a much better representation in Congress that way. It won't happen (on either side), but a guy can hope.
Moderates want to follow the rule of law and the constitution above all else...... The far left and right, only as a means to their ends when expedient.
cool. they can call it nazi party 2.0 ...
I guess Trump would be able to lead a national party from a prison cell. Nothing in the constitution that says he can't.
He could become part of the Aryan Brotherhood.
When the family departed Germany they dropped the "H" from the last name, otherwise I'm sure they run from the same bloodlines as the Aryan Brotherhood.
he was grandfathered in ...
Eat their own, works for me.
down ballot elections are looking up for democrats everywhere, bwah ha ha ha