facing two candidates closely tied to Trump: Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward. In this year’s race to defend the seat she was appointed to, McSally this week fended off a primary challenge from Daniel McCarthy, who tried to build support from local pro-Trump groups.
“More [congressional] members are running scared in the primaries,” political scientist Sarah Treul told me. “Even if they’re actually not having quality challengers emerging, they’re afraid of it happening. And I think a lot of them are spending time trying to figure out how [they] can ward off one of those challengers from even coming to the table.”Can Republicans still jump ship?
Now that primary season is coming to an end, will Republicans start separating themselves from Trump? Some probably don’t need to do so to win reelection. Despite his national unpopularity, senators in more Trump-leaning states, such as Ernst in Iowa and Daines in Montana, may be able to survive with a standard partisan vote.
But McSally, Collins, Gardner in Colorado and Tillis in North Carolina likely need to earn a substantial number of votes from Biden supporters to survive. It’s just not clear whether they will break with Trump in public ways or whether late breaks would be enough to help them win.option to rally both the Republican faithful and a few swing voters. It turns out some voters fear giving unified government to the president’s party and desire some.
So terrible Trump polls could be turned into something useful by Republican senators. They might eventually need to argue that, if Trump is going to lose, voters should trust them to serve as a check on the Democratic agenda.She would go on to lose the general election to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, but McSally was appointed to Arizona’sMatt Grossmann is director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and professor of political science at Michigan State University.
FiveThirtyEight That’s good. Trump has made all of them look like little puppets. They should be very embarrassed by letting Trump destroy the Republican Party.
FiveThirtyEight Desperation but Mitch McConnell has reportedly given Donald Trump until labor day to turn his campaign around otherwise it is every rat for themselves
FiveThirtyEight They want the funding for their campaigns. It’s all duplicity. They know that if they denounce him, they’ll lose support from him politically and financially, and don’t want it publicly known that the RepublicanParty isn’t fully united behind DonaldTrump.
FiveThirtyEight Trump is a Winner!!! First timer politician and first time to run as president of the USA and he easily beat a long time corrupt democrat politician...
FiveThirtyEight DumpTrump2020
FiveThirtyEight I really want to know why but they sure need their head examined.
FiveThirtyEight WHY? IDIOTIC HERD MENTALITY... SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER IN ACTING LIKE A RESPONSIBLE IDIOT!!!
FiveThirtyEight KamalaHarris brings energy, charisma, tenacity, and appeal to JoeAndKamala2020. A tired, edgy Trump brings pandemic mixed messaging, disdain for public health, and festering insecurity around confident women... oh, and the utter pencil, Pence. These losers are so stale.
FiveThirtyEight It's not going to hurt them, fake news once again.
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FiveThirtyEight trump change the right to more moderate
FiveThirtyEight lol trump 2020.
FiveThirtyEight Hell, I don't need an ABC News article to tell me the answer. It's because they're all morons, and I encourage them to keep acting that way. It will certainly make it easier to oust them in November.
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FiveThirtyEight I think Biden’s pick just gave Trump the victory
FiveThirtyEight Sunk cost fallacy.
FiveThirtyEight They can’t get off the crazy train. Didn’t someone inform that the bridge is out?
FiveThirtyEight Donald is a great man for USA and the universe.
FiveThirtyEight Even if Trump loses he will still retain a stranglehold on the Party...we don't need a Senate who will still be taking it's orders from him.
FiveThirtyEight Uhhh, is the answer 'because they're stupid'?
FiveThirtyEight Delusional grandeur
FiveThirtyEight So be it.
FiveThirtyEight Many with regret that decision, I’m sure.
FiveThirtyEight Ok, then they can all go down with the ship. This isn’t a heroic political death but a coward’s stupidity.
FiveThirtyEight everybody who uses President Trump's name it sells whether is a book, t-shirt whatever, even though u guys always use his picture for rating. It means the GOP is much popular.
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FiveThirtyEight Their in to deep with Trump's corruption to get out now.
FiveThirtyEight FINALLY YEARS OF DARKNESS WITH TRUMP WILL COME TO NEGATIVE FRUITION - THE WINDS OF CHANGE HAS REVERSED THE SAILS OF FALSE NEWS AND DONALD WILL TASTE THE BOOMERANG!
FiveThirtyEight Cause they’re cowards for 1 cent Alex
FiveThirtyEight I’m pretty sure by not keeping the economy on life support they are tacitly pulling their support for the president who wants nothing more than to run for re-election on a positive economic message, no?
FiveThirtyEight Thou shalt not contradict the president.
FiveThirtyEight Because they don’t believe your bullshit polls and he will win in a landslide
FiveThirtyEight It’s called integrity look it up.
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FiveThirtyEight I am blue collar. Most of my acquaintances are blue collar. I've never done better than I have under Trump. Why is ABC trying to tell me what I know to be a lie? Why do they hate the working class?
FiveThirtyEight Because they like the racism?
FiveThirtyEight It’s called embracing conservatism
FiveThirtyEight Because they're willing to go down with the ship! August 11, 2020: The day DonnyCrook tRUMP realized that we will be a one term president!!!!!! It's all ovah!!!!! Tough luck A-Hole!!!!
FiveThirtyEight They are scared of childish retaliation from Impotus. Very plausible and unpleasantly childish retaliation. And name calling. The worst kind of name calling.
FiveThirtyEight Cuz they thing trumpism will stick around and a more competent fuher will come along
FiveThirtyEight BidenHarris2020 MadameVP TrumpIsFucked
FiveThirtyEight ABC has no more integrity than CNN. Don't kid yourself.
FiveThirtyEight Because a Biden Whitehorse really mean a Harris whitehouse.
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FiveThirtyEight Because the alternative is communism.
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