NEWS: Top advisers to DeSantis and Haley today made dueling presentations to top anti-Trump donors why they should be the candidate to go up against Trump one-on-one
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DeSantis' team argued to donor that Haley would lose to Trump one-on-one, and that she would be defeated by Trump 70-30 at best
Politico obtained a tax doc divulging names of 71 donors who anonymously gave to Haley's dark-money nonprofit after she left the Trump admin
Clearest picture yet of how a potential '24 contender is gearing up
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Haley team moved to stop pub of this story, with attorney @olmikester writing in a cease and desist that Politico “was not authorized to receive the confidential tax return information, nor is Politico entitled to print, publish, or even retain it.”
Cheney at the Reagan Library: "we are confronting a domestic threat we have never faced before– a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our Constitutional Republic...."
"...And he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.”
Jan 27, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Peter Thiel hosted a fundraiser tonight at his Florida home for Harriet Hageman, who's primarying Liz Cheney. According to audio of the event, Thiel in his intro called Cheney the "ringleader" of the '"Treasonous Ten,'" referring to the 10 House Rs who backed Trump's impeachment
Thiel: "The way we’re going to defeat the left, the way we’re going to roll them back, it’s going to start in the Republican Party, that’s where we have some problems, we’ve got to clean house there first.”
Thiel is also backing a primary opponent to Jaime Herrera Beutler
Mar 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW - Trump’s secret sit-down with Ohio candidates turns into ‘Hunger Games’
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Few scenes have better illustrated the current dynamic in GOP primaries that Trump's Apprentice-style sit-down with the 4 Ohio Senate candidates
All anyone is focused on is getting Trump's endorsement - and they're tripping over each other to get it
NEW: Republicans concede they're getting killed in the dark-money game - and now are trying to create their answer
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Meadows-backed CPI is hosting a April retreat at Mar-a-Lago, attended by Trump and major donors, geared toward reckoning with the liberal $ onslaught
“Investors and organizers must come together and talk about how and what happened," per agenda
News - Trump makes official his plans to target Murkowski in '22
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Trump statement: “I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be..."
Jan 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: The GOP-big business split intensifies, as corporate titans pull back after Capitol riot
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In an illustration of the GOP alarm, MCCARTHY and his team have mobilized over the past 24-hours, calling a vast number of PACs to take their temperature
McConnell held a conference call with Senate Republicans this morning in which he pressed Hawley multiple times to explain his plans to object to the Electoral College. McConnell was met with silence, per multiple people familiar with the call. Turns out Hawley wasn’t present
McConnell has expressed concern that GOP senators up for re-election in ‘22 will be forced to take a vote on a seemingly pointless endeavor that will imperil them either in a general or primary election
Nov 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
News - Top aides to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC focused on turning out Trump voters in the GA runoffs
It comes amid mounting GOP concerns that Trump supporters will boycott the runoffs because they've become convinced of fraud
