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Home Front: Politix
Trump takes primary victory lap, dismisses South Carolina loser as 'long shot' candidate
2022-06-16
[NYPOST] Former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
 crowed on social media Wednesday about the success of candidates he endorsed in Tuesday’s primary elections — particularly reveling in the defeat of a Republican incumbent in South Carolina who voted to impeach him after last year’s Capitol riot."Every single endorsed by Trump candidate won last night, by big margins, with the exception of one very long shot who did FAR better than anticipated against an incumbent," Trump said on Truth Social.

"The ’Impeacher’ was ousted without even a runoff. A GREAT night!," added the former president, referring to Rep. Tom Rice’s defeat in the Palmetto State’s 7th District by state Rep. Russell Fry.

Rice was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump on a single count of incitement of insurrection following the riot that disrupted congressional certification of Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
’s 2020 election victory. Trump was ultimately acquitted by the Senate.
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Posted by:Fred

#3  The thing about the media is it's got a pre-configured template on political stories that takes everything bad about perceived enemies while keeping only the good things that come to mind about friends. Unfortunately for the GOP, the media sees Republicans as the enemy. Which is why just about every negative story about a Republican is an overall lie, even when every detail is true - they just leave out the exculpatory bits.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-06-16 15:33  

#2  Nancy Mace criticized Trump without impeaching him, and only for a period of a week or so. That's a bright red line that Tom Rice crossed. Mace did not do a mea culpa, but she did everything short of that - the way she talks about Trump these days, you'd think she was Trump's biggest fan in the country. That's why Murkowski, Sasse (in 2026) and Cheney are likely doomed. Unlike Mace, not only did they not back off, they put the pedal to the metal on the Trump hatred.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-06-16 15:21  

#1  One of the blogs I read reminded me that the South Carolina primary is "open" meaning voters can cross party lines. It was offered as an explanation behind the failure of defeating Mace, as there was strong cross party support for her as an anti-Trump vote. Anybody got a good insight into the veracity of this?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-06-16 12:47  

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