@RonColeman, primarily the issue I have with Pence is that after December 14 vote of the electoral college, Pence got on stage multiple times and elevated expectations specifically for what could happen on 1/6. Up to the Monday before in GA.
Then after a report saying Pence told Trump he couldn’t do anything at lunch on 1/5, Trump released a statement contradicting the report and again raising expectations and stating he and Pence were on the same page.
If that was incorrect and 1/6 was just a rubber and people gathering in DC was so obviously dangerous then why did Pence wait until Trump was already on stage at the rally to finally clarify his true position?
Moreover the time of Pence’s statement was somewhat condescending and implied that his inability to do anything other than rubber stamp was definitive and obvious.

Again if that was his view why did he wait until Trump was on stage to let the world know that?
At a minimum he didn’t serve his President well. At worst he participated in an establishment set up designed to end Trump politically.

Since Pence hasn’t had the courage to explain himself, I am left to speculate about his motivations.

My opinion is very unfavorable.

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24 Feb
Well I have big news.

The Levy family is moving to Tennessee!

If you follow me then you know I’m a lifelong Floridian. I will always be proud of my Florida roots.

But our family loves the lifestyle available in eastern Tennessee.
We love the seasons, walking trails and going to the Smokey Mountains.

I’m blessed that I can sit anywhere and run my business so lowering my cost of living while increasing my quality of life was a no brainer.
But if I was going to move it had to be to a reliably red state that didn’t lock people down.

Tennessee checked all the boxes.

So we are on our way to Knoxville.
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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.
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14 Feb
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/

nationalreview.com/2021/02/what-h…
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/
At best you can say more people came because of Trump.

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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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.
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