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All would be fun but I think Beto doesn't REALLY make sense. Can't beat the most hated senator but is going to beat everyone?
Think the acid test will be who does well in the Mid-West primaries given how important they were to Trump winning in 2016.
By people outside of Texas and more likely by liberal Texans though and well liberals in general.
Clearly conservative Texans like Cruz (even if he is a wimp and a lick arse...).
Although some of the votes even if they don't like him no doubt were clearly to make sure a evil democrat didn't win.
We are also compensating Chinese companies for the effect of the tariffs!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...4764da-d3ce-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html
A Chinese-owned pork producer is eligible for federal payments under President Trump’s $12 billion farm bailout, a program that was established to help U.S. farmers hurt by Trump’s trade war with China. Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based pork producer acquired in 2013 by a Chinese conglomerate now named WH Group, can apply for federal money under the bailout program created this summer, said Agriculture Department spokesman Carl E. Purvis.
George W. Bush: “I just don’t like the guy.”
Bob Dole: “I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him.”
John Boehner: “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
Lindsey Graham: “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”
Peter King: “I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I’ll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.”
Donald Trump: “He’s a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.”
Marco Rubio: “Ted has had a tough week because what’s happening now is people are learning more about him
Carly Fiorina (aka, Cruz’s hypothetical running mate, as of this week): “Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. … He says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he’s going to do as he pleases.”
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer: “Everybody who knows him in the Senate hates him. And I think hate is not an exaggeration.”
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter: “Cruz is a sleazy, Rovian liar.”
Former Republican staffer John Feehery: “Cruz is an army of one, alienating anybody who is in his path. He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party.”
Princeton classmate Mikaela Beardsley: “There are not that many people in my life who I can think of who I didn’t actually have extensive interactions with who bring up such bad feelings.”
Another Princeton dormmate: “He was just sort of an odious figure lurking around.”
Princeton roommate Craig Mazin: “Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being. I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality. If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one percent less
, “One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz.
Al Franken: "I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate him."
“No borders! No walls! No USA at all!”
Perhaps if Tucker would stop trying to stoke a race war he wouldn't piss people off so much.
Tucker is vile but I don’t agree with using those sort of intimidation tactics.
Wow
I missed this yesterday, but the Democrats now have 27 of the 51 AG's with several pick ups yesterday.
Republicans spent big in these races.
Is this something that will gather noise for a while and then go away or is there precedent for legal proceedings that might have repercussions for Kemp? It just all seems so blatant, anything I read on it.
I’m assuming that one or all of the ACLU, NAACP and Abrams herself will bring legal proceedings under the Voting Rights Act. Don’t know what sort of chance they will have - the appeals that I’ve seen succeed lately are more like this one in Texas over ID law
https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/texas-voter-id-law/index.html
Although Kemp does have one of those that I think is still awaiting a ruling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...53000-minority-voters/?utm_term=.a0e6dceb3846
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