Tens of thousands of Republicans are fleeing from GOP in nationwide exodus after deadly Capitol riots | The Independent
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At least 30,000 Republicans across the country drop their affiliation with the GOP in wake of violent attacks
Chris RiottaNew York @chrisriottaThursday 28 January 2021 20:16 commentsLeer en Espanol
A nationwide exodus has reportedly begun to take shape within the Republican Party following the deadly pro-Trump attacks on the US Capitol, with tens of thousands of GOP members officially switching parties after the riots.
The Arizona Republican Party has lost more than 9,000 members in the wake of the violence, CNN reported, as it continued to face a backlash for promoting rightwing conspiracies and igniting public feuds with Governor Doug Ducey, former Senator Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain.
Republicans in Arizona have also lost both Senate seats to Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly, while a majority of voters in the state cast ballots for the Democratic ticket in the 2020 presidential elections - the first time since 1996.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, the office for the Secretary of State reported nearly 10,000 Republican voters had changed their party affiliation in January, with nearly one-third of those voters switching to the Democratic Party.
In total, estimates from states reporting recent changes in voter registration indicated at least 30,000 Republicans have left the party since former President Donald Trump urged his supporters to march to the US Capitol on 6 January as Congress certified his electoral defeat.
His extremist supporters then attacked police officers and breached security measures while storming the building, spurring his second impeachment for fomenting a deadly insurrection.
For many, it seemed the violence at the Capitol was the final straw, with nearly 6,000 Republicans switching parties in North Carolina in the aftermath of the attacks. Another 4,500 Republicans left the party in Colorado, The Hill reported, also noting another 2,300 former-GOP members dropped their affiliations with the party in Maryland.
There did not appear to be similar signs of an exodus within the Democratic Party in states seeing a high turnover of former Republicans: for example, in Pennsylvania, just over 3,000 Democrats have changed their party affiliation in the new year.
Where the national Republican party goes next remains unclear, as reports indicate House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was scheduled to meet with former President Donald Trump in Florida on Thursday after losing control of the Senate to the Democrats.
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Is it any wonder that the once Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is now known merely as the gop?
1. After being a life long Republican, I'm changing my voting status to Independent.
2. I did vote for JFK, but will never, ever vote for another Democrat
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Why?
Then you aren't an Independent.
So... You won't get to vote in primaries. Good move Greg.
30,000 people nationwide is almost a drop in a bucket. I also was a lifelong Republican until about 10 years ago when I changed my affiliation to registered Independent. I could still never see myself as a Democrat though, but to each their own.
Every year we see stories of people who have left their political party of choice and yet the two parties are still here. This reads like just another journalist attempting to make a story bigger when it reality this sort of thing happens all the time. The Independent numbers have been increasing for years now. It will be a story when one of the two parties decides to close their doors, until then it's just a story to charge up the perceived base of the author.
Bunch of rats leaving a sinking ship! The gop is DEAD!
You consistently state you don't read articles but I do wish you would. Here are two articles by outside groups who explain what is going on based on their studies. AllSides rates Pew Research as center so I would take that as not very biased. I was unable to find anything to identify the bias of voterstudygroup but it is from / part of Democracy Fund which seems to be identified as left of center bias.
As I said, every year there are stories of people leaving their political party yet the two parties are still very much here.
Who does the second paragraph cite?
What second paragraph? I replied to a post from Tessylo and it is only one paragraph.
As far as "citing" something, the entire paragraph is my opinion....and it is usually correct.
But the conservative right will always be there...
There are two paragraphs. Both are formatted as citations.
If you are referring to 1.2.2, I did not post that, but if you are referring to that post, there is a link to something called voter study group for the second paragraph.
YOUR 1.2.3
OK I can't believe I have to explain this, [Deleted] so here goes....
The first "paragraph" is a post by Tessylo, specifically 1.2.1. This is the post I was responding to.
The second "paragraph"is my OPINION, like I TOLD you in 1.2.5
If you don't like that explanation, [Deleted it's not my problem.]
What people are trying to tell you, is that after quoting anyone
You need to hit the
to realign your comments, to avoid the appearance of quoting unintended speech.
This
Thank you
OK it seemed that my reply got mixed in with the reply to Tessylo. It's happened before and I never figured it was such a big deal.
I appreciate you explaining it.....
Trump got seventy million votes.
The departure of thirty thousand is peanuts.
Correction: 75,000,000 million
Are you disagreeing with my point, Greg?
Wait... 75 million million?
That 9,000 registered Republicans in Arizona have gotten galled enough to go to the trouble of officially renouncing their former affiliation with the damn gop is indicative and also a damn good start for a purple state!
Yay Arizona!!
Living in Arizona I think you need at least another presidential election before you can truly call this a purple state. From what I know, a lot more people voted against Trump here than voted for Biden. And as far as the Senate seat up for election, there really wasn't much of a choice. I'm not a fan of Mark Kelly but he was head and shoulders above McSally. I was surprised that vote ended up as close as it did.
But before declaring Arizona purple, lets wait for another presidential election.
I agree completely.
There's also a ''aging'' topic. A very large portion of the Trumpist contingent is elderly. Older than me, even!!
Mortality works for the Dems.
That's true except traditionally I believe that as people age they tend to become more conservative in their approach. I've seen studies that cite where people age they tend to move to the Republican side. Not all of course, but progressivism is more a young persons calling. But what all that really means is that neither party is in danger of being eliminated. Given the nature of humanity, one party will be in ascension until it's not and then the other party will be in ascension until it's not.
About 4 or 5 years too late if you ask me, but at least some people are waking up and disassociating themselves from the inevitable violence of extreme and bitter partisanship.
I don't think anyone can really speculate about this yet. What will tell the tale will be the mid-term elections. Until then, the spineless Republican lawmakers are still...
If the Trump trial can be held after he is a private citizen, as is happening now, I think it is a mistake to try him now. The trial should be cancelled since the Republican Senators have already indicated they will not convict. If the trial is held now then because of the double jeopardy rule it cannot be held again, and if it is NOT held now, but is held after the possibility of enough Republican lawmakers being booted at the next midterm elections, the trial could THEN be held with a super majority voting to convict, followed by a simple majority to prevent Trump from holding public office again.