"We're up to almost 35%, 33% of the Jewish population voting Republican," cheers at annual @RJC confab as @normcoleman opens
"Retiring Nancy Pelosi is a gamechanger for America, @normcoleman says at @RJC assuaging grim feelings after less than steller GOP performance in midterms
Elliot Lauer, speaking without a mic (Shabbat) celebrates the House majority for GOP, describing 2 years of "sheer lunacy" "A previously unimaginable assault on our sovereignty, our way of life..This shabbat we begin the campaign to repair redeem and restore our exceptionalism
Lauer is Jonathan Pollard's lawyer. This is how he led into the Shabbat blessing. Then the crowd sings Shalom Aleichem and Eshet Hayil
I don't know who the woman who just came up to deliver the priestly blessing is, but I love this: Once you're empty nesters, spouses bless one another @RJC
"The true political home for the American Jewish community that cares about the US Israel relationship is right here in the Republican Party" @SenatorHagerty speaking to @RJC "the American Jewish community that cares about the US Israel relationship "= an intriguing demographic
Big cheers at @rjc at first @leezeldin mention. @BillHagertyTN describes legislation cowritten with Zeldin and @DavidKustoff to keep the Niden admin from "dividing" Jerusalem, and to keep US consulate for Palestinians from reopening
the US Israel alliance is being put under "massive stress" by Biden, @SenatorHagerty says at @RJC cites investigation into killing Shireen Abu Akleh a "stray bullet, a tragic accident" (doesn't name her)
"The Biden admin has failed to build on the Abraham Accords," @SenatorHagerty says at @RJC
.@SenatorHagerty "we've to stop the BDS movement in its tracks" segues into ESG investing which he calls a "hijacking of corporate America"
.@SenatorHagerty to @rjc "We must immediately stop our children from being brainwashed with antisemitism on college campuses" praises Trump admin exec order
.@GovLarryHogan speech launched with presidential candidacy type ad, underdog "beating even tougher odds" "one of only two in 236 years to have done it twice" ad says, (i guess two reelected GOP govs in Md.?) @RJC
"He's one of the most honorable men I've ever known and I want to thank Mike Pence for his incredible service to the nation" --@GovLarryHogan with the first very subtle dig at Trump at @RJC
"the votes did reward common sense conservatives who focused on the issues we cared about like crime the economy and inflation" but "swing cvoters took a look at less than stellar nominees" another dig by @GovLarryHogan at Trump at @RJC
.@GovLarryHogan notes that Md proihbited govt from entering into contracts unless the biz certifies it does not boycott Israel @RJC
I just realized I should be tagging these #RJCinVegas "In 2018 while Republicans were getting wiped out allk over the country in our deep blue state in a deep blue year I became only the second GOP gov to be reelected"
"We did just as well with Republicans and conservatives as Donald Trump did, but I ran 45 pointys ahead of him", @LarryHogan says, no longer subtle
"A party that klas lost the popular vote in 7 out of 8 elections and couldn't even beat Joe Biden is desperatately in need of a course correction" @GovLarryHogan says, some applause. biugger applause when he praises Trump on Israel.
"I'm sick and tired of our party losing." 3 elections lost. "I say three strikes and you're out" @GovLarryHogan tells @RJC . "I think it's time for the GOP to look forward and not to keep looking backward" applause #RJCinVegas
@GovLarryHogan @RJC "I don;t come from the performative arts form of politics...;amerioca needs more work horses and not show ponies," @GovLarryHogan says at #RJCinVegas
Presidential style video intro for @mikepompeo emphasizes his military service, at @rjc, "don;t ever lket them wear you down, wear them down" #RJCinVegas
finishes with appeal to join CAVPAC, his PAC I guess. And Born In the USA is the theme (40 years after Reagan, there are Republicans who still haven't seen the lyrics). #RJCinVegas
.@mikepompeo Sees Pence. "The next time together we might be on a stage, multiple podiums ... who knows what nicknames we might have?" laughter, applause at anticipating taking down Trump. @rjc #RJCinVegas
"Leaders who will fight for them, not for themselves or for their egos...leaders ... put aside self promotion" @mikepompeo sez at @RJC #RJCinVegas
"this loyalty this work we must do together is not to a person, this loyalty I executed for four years with VP Pence was to our nation" @mikepompeo says, putting him on a plane with the guy who risked his life to preserve democracy #RJCinVegas
"Personalities and celebrities are just not going to get it down... the american people are bnot looking backward they're looking forward" @mikepompeo says "we want [leaders] to do the right thing because theys erve their country not to make them happy" #RJCinVegas
.@mikepompeo joked that he was the warmup for Pence, and as the speech proceeds, you see why he is insecure: Pence has the history to have separated himself from Trump, but what did Pompeo do around jan 6?
"We don't simply go on Fox News or make tweets ... we do the hard work"@mikepompeo. "It is simplky not enough to own the libes, it is simply not enough to complain." #RJCinVegas
Pompeo mixes subtle digs at Trump ("it is not enough to tweet") with explicit praise (moving embassy to Jerusalem, Abraham Accords) #RJCinVegas
segue into attendance down at churches and synagogues "it will take true serious leadership, not tweets, to fix what ails these institutions." @mikepompeo in an odd turn at #RJCinVegas (what can government do to spur shul attendance?)
@mikepompeo Now @mikepompeo is sounding a little cranky. If young people "will spend more time reading the bible than the 1619 project, then good things will happen for the United States of America." How many young people are deep into the 1619 Project? #RJCinVegas
"We need not be angry, we need not be mean," @mikepompeo says. Slightly unfocused speaks, repeated words at times to recenter himself? #RJCinVegas
.@Mike_Pence video is focused on Israel, which has for decades been a real focus for him...it's not pandering. The whole thing is Israel.
gonna say it here and now (and hey Twitter is disappearing, so who will hold me to this prediction?) I don't think Pompeo lasts as a presidential candidate if he even enters. Doesn't seem into it.
"Thank you for electing a new republican majority in the US House of Representatives and ending the speakership of Nancy Pelosi .. how long have we been waiting to hear that. The RJC has led millions of Jewish Americans to the Republican Party," @Mike_Pence @RJC #RJCinVegas
.@Mike_Pence reviews Trump admin accomplishments, rebuild military, energy policy, secured border, confirmed 300 judges, thanks @tedcruz for Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett ... but does not name Trump @rjc #RJCinVegas
@Mike_Pence @tedcruz @RJC "Lemme say what aprivilege it was to be VP in the most pro-Israel admin in US history." @Mike_Pence STILL not naming Trump. @RJC #RJCinVegas
cute story by @Mike_Pence on Jewish Democratic congressmembers asking him, when he started in Congress, why he was so pro-Israel (and thanking him) and saying "what was your mother's maiden name?" @RJC #RJCinVegas
@Mike_Pence @RJC "I coyuldn;t be more proud of the Trump-Pence administration," @Mike_Pence says, launching inbto pto-Israel record, and his first time he mentions Trump. @rjc #RJCinVegas
"It was the Trump-Pence administration that kept our word to the American people and our most cherished ally...all the credit goes to the man who made the decision...and kept his word." now @Mike_Pence gets into crediting Trump,repeats story about accelerating building of embassy
(This is a fun story, but a distortion; the smaller interim embassy was always gonna open fast ; the longterm embassy, costing billions, is another matter; not sure if it's still in the offing.)
"I saw that between the name of President Donald Trump and Ambassador David Friedman was my own" @Mike_Pence says that inscription on the embassy cornerstone "is one of the greatest honors of my life." #RJCinVegas
@Mike_Pence "It is incomprehensible that Pres Biden reentered negotiations for a new and even worse nuclear deal with Iran," @Mike_Pence says, says next GOP president will tear it up. Iran deal right now is all but dead, Pence is the first to emphasize Biden efforts to reenter. #RJCinVegas
"We as Republicans and our elected leaders must do more than criticize and complain," @Mike_Pence says. #RJCinVegas
"Our party may be the last line of defense for the Constitution of the United States." @Mike_Pence ":The American people must know that our party keeps our oath to the Constitution even when political expediency may suggest that we do otherwise." #RJCinVegas
"We must as Proverbs says, we must be the leaders who keep our oath even when it hurts" @Mike_Pence says to silence at @rjc #RJCinVegas. In alternative universe, this might be a big applause line.
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