Mitch is gonna end up begging Garland to put Trump away, if NY and Georgia don't do it first! He wants his corporate cash back and voting rights along with HR1 are gonna pass, even if they have to bust the filibuster to do it. Manchin better rake in as much dark money as he can, cause soon he will have to show and tell on this and voting rights too. I figure Joe is talking to him and cutting deals for infrastructure goodies with him for a package deal. The republicans are being flexible enough so as not to appear intransient, but that's just a tactical move on Mitch's part with no real meaning behind it.
I think the republicans actions at the state level to suppress the vote and other crazy shit are gonna hurt them in 2022, particularly if voting rights and HR1 pass. If the democrats keep the house and gain a few seats in the senate it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Until then much can be done with the power in hand to investigate and prosecute the guilty, 2021 will be a year of reckoning for many, including Trump.
Mitch just needs to make sure he's locked up by primary season, but really the party has already been destroyed and is circling the drain, it just takes awhile before ya hear the gurgling sounds. They can't change, the base is getting crazier, their only hope would be open primaries in all 50 states.
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A Trump-McConnell power struggle creates landmines in GOP quest to retake Congress
It’s forcing congressional leadership to tread lightly and avoid setting off an explosion that does real damage to the party.
WASHINGTON — The Republican primaries for the 2022 midterms are fast becoming a battlefield for control of the party.
Most presidents — particularly a defeated one-termer — slip quietly away and allow the highest-ranking elected officials in the party to take the reins. Not Donald Trump.
After laying low in the months after he left office in January, Trump has in recent weeks increased his public presence. He has trashed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a "son of a bitch," endorsed primary challengers against sitting Republican members of Congress he deems disloyal and attempted to divert GOP fundraising away from the party and into his own political organizations.
For congressional Republican leaders responsible for winning back the House and the Senate, the post-Trump landscape is becoming a treacherous minefield with no historical playbook to help them navigate it. The growing power struggle could have repercussions in the 2022 elections, when the party hopes to seize control of Democrats’ narrow majorities in the House and the Senate.
Party officials recognize that Trump retains loyalty among the Republican base and that his endorsements carry weight. They fear he could anoint loyal but unelectable candidates in primaries, who then squander winnable seats. They also worry he may sabotage nominees he dislikes by withholding his endorsement, or by demotivating party voters with groundless claims about election fraud, like in the Georgia runoffs that gave Democrats Senate control.
Trump’s antics are a distraction, senior members of the party say, and dilutes their message in a way that helps Democrats.
“Everyday we re-litigate 2020, Joe Biden wins because we’re not talking about his record and the bad policies he’s trying to implement,” Matt Gorman, former communications director for the NRCC, the House GOP campaign arm, told NBC News.
McConnell has tried to keep his party focused on criticizing Biden’s agenda, including opposing the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill and Democrats’ proposal to raise taxes to pay for a far-reaching infrastructure bill.
“A midterm election is always run on basically just an opposition to the sitting president. That is what the Dems did successfully in 2018, they just said, ‘We hate Trump, vote for us,’” a longtime Republican strategist who requested anonymity to speak frankly about strategy, said. Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House and handed Nancy Pelosi the speaker’s gavel once again.
Instead, this cycle, Trump is focused on repeating false claims about the 2020 election. Speaking to a room full of Republican donors recently, Trump attacked McConnell for not objecting to the Electoral College count on Jan. 6. The Senate leader also gave a fiery speech suggesting the former president could be criminally charged.
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