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14 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Maybe McConnell is just hoping he can scare Trump away from coming after Thune.

Seems what we are actually watching is a battle between Thune and Graham for who becomes the next Leader.

Thune has McConnell.

Graham has Trump and Rick Scott?

Now I’m even more interested.
Thune is up for re-election in 2022.

He is the Republican Whip.

I assume McConnell has been grooming Thune as his successor.

Trump seems to have other plans.

thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Graham’s actions are a clear attempt to usurp the traditional line of succession.

He has now publicly rebuked McConnell on several occasions including this morning.

Thune on the other hand has consistently backed McConnell.
From this morning:

“I think Sen. McConnell’s speech, he got a load off his chest, obviously, but unfortunately he put a load on the back of Republicans,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That speech you will see in 2022 campaigns.”

theepochtimes.com/mcconnell-thre…
For McConnell, Noem accepting Trump’s invitation to primary Thune will be the canary in the coal mine.

I for one will be watching intently.

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1/ The reality is that when Boehner and McConnell joined the Democrats in 2010, to thwart the impact of the tea party, they broke trust with the base.
2/ Then in 2014, after the base rallied to two consecutive establishment Presidential candidates that threw the elections to Obama, we still turned out to hand Ryan the House and Mitch the Senate and they again betrayed us by immediately capitulating to DACA.
3/ In 2016 the base no longer viewed the Republican establishment as representing their interests. Every admonition to reject Trump was ignored because we no longer trusted our political leaders.
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In this article McCarthy does a great job of exposing the lack of evidence that Sicknick was murdered.

But in this last paragraph he exposes the general weakness of his attempt to blame the capitol breach on Trump. 1/

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Trump never encouraged anyone to act violently or to breach the capitol.

The January 6 rally was already scheduled before Trump ever mentioned it or planned to speak.

So you can’t blame the existence of the rally on Trump. 2/
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But which additional people came isn’t insignificant to McCarthy’s argument.

If you came to hear Trump speak, you were likely across the plaza when the capitol was breached. 3/
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6 Feb
1/ I’m going to describe two scenarios.

Not claiming either one actually happened.

At the end I will ask this question: Given the current election laws and the changes implemented in 2020, how could you differentiate the two after the fact?
2/ Scenario 1

A completely above board election conducted during a pandemic where everyone involved’s primary objective was to produce an accurate result.

In person voting was handled properly. Mail in voting was done 100% by the books.
3/ Miraculously voters took their responsibilities seriously and filled out the envelopes immaculately leading to a reduction in the rejection rate from 6% to .1%.

After stripping the ballot from the envelopes they were run through the machines and results were tabulated.
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1/ Democrats were allowed free reign to rally their base and the general public to the deranged idea that Trump was a pawn of Vladimir Putin and even when Mueller said there was no evidence of collusion they kept going with zero penalty.
2/ Just consider the analogous situation where we claimed there was fraud in Philadelphia and the system assigned a special counsel with an unlimited budget and unlimited investigative powers and after two years produced a report saying no evidence of fraud but we kept going.
3/ Let’s be clear, Trump never “proved” fraud. But Trump had no power to investigate. Giuliani never had subpoena power. He could never execute a warrant. Philadelphia was never asked by a court to produce evidence. So “proving” fraud was systemically impossible.
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This is only going to get worse for the establishment.

The “insurrection” farce will become more and more obvious to more and more people as time goes on.

The heavy handed way they are criminalizing protest when they justified it all summer will only further anger people. 1/5
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Their desire to correct for 2020 will continue to grow. 2/5
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Republicans in primaries throughout the country.

But for this to work the people need a pide piper. An organizer. A fund raiser.

And a well rested Trump will happily fill that role. 3/5
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Here’s my question @SenTomCotton, if the Congress’s role is simply to rubber stamp the state certified electoral college then why include in the Constitution a mechanism, specific to the election of a President, that includes the ability to object to state certified electors? 1/
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