Trump fraud claims open Republican rift in Texas and other red states | Reuters
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Via: flynavy1 • 3 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.
I, for one, would never even dream of assigning any responsibility whatsoever to any "moderate/independent".
Once again, the demise of the GOP predicted by someone who doesn't know any better.
... says most everyone that was absolutely confident in trumps's re-election ...
Well you know..... there was all of that well documented voter fraud going on..../s
Once again, definitive proof you simply do not read what I post and make shit up.
Why bother with commenting to me--I am clearly not needed for your fantasies!
oh, are you "most everyone" now? definitive proof I read are my responses. no need to manufacture what is in your abundance of commentary before me.
look! over there...⇒⇒...keep going... ... ... ... a little farther... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
If it wasn't meant for me, it was extremely stupid and unnecessary to address it to me.
I suggest you address such nonsense to those you intend it for--not me. (It might have some actual effect that way!)
Thanks!
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.
Family of Donald Trump - Wikipedia
In 1885, Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Palatinate (then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), to the United States at age 16. He anglicized his name to Frederick in 1892 when he became a U.S. citizen.
he was grandfathered in ...
Eat their own, works for me.
down ballot elections are looking up for democrats everywhere, bwah ha ha ha
Must be why the Democrats did so well on those House elections.