Gaetz Threatens Kemp With Primary, Should He Defy Trump’s Wishes

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal acolytes, threatened Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) with a primary challenger in 2022 should he not select Trump’s preferred candidate for a soon-to-be-open Senate seat.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1265661
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Matt is doing his best to challenge for the Louie Gohmert award, as the dumbest member of Congress. Indeed, he’s so dumb he doesn’t know that Louie retired it years ago.

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It’s a rather tight three-way race between him, nunes and gym.

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previously

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Gaetz is a pitiful joke of a human being, but Kemp is a coward like all republicans and will nominate whomever he’s told to.

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What’s he going to do? Move his continual spring break frat party over the state border.

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Brian Kemp’s thinking: “Oh please oh please oh please”.

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Cant blame Gaetz, you just cant piss off “The Chosen One”:

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Note to the non-MAGA gop trying to ride this trump train until he is out of office:. The call is coming from inside the house.

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Betcha she wouldn’t.

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You are ignoring his request because you THINK you know better than @POTUS

Knowing better than Trump is such an incredibly low bar, and yet the GOP has a full roster of qualified challengers.

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Please proceed, Congressman. I think a good bruising GOP primary fight in a state that’s getting bluer by the minute is just the ticket.

I mean, as a matter of bare-knuckle politics, sure, why not. But if you’re a Trumper and you can’t be satisfied with Brian Kemp of all people, for pure unalloyed Trump-style shittiness, then your standards are far too high.

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Correction: A congress is a flock of crows; a flock of buzzards are a committee.

BTW Determining the stupidest member of the GOP is truly an impossible, and thankless, task.

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I’ve no idea if she’d or wouldn’t, what I do know is that besides being dues paying members of ‘the Icarus Society’, Trumpers (excluding Trump) have elephantine memories.

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Hold my beer…

KevinMcCarthy

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Keep on alienating those suburban voters, you political geniuses. We all know hardly any Americans live in the suburbs. And keep on with that chicken, too. I’m sorry for the chicken but we all have to make sacrifices.

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Until Gaetz said otherwise, that was the reported plan about the Alabama Senate seat.

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Bring it on you cheap, loud mouth, entitled thug!

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Corrected correction: a group of crows is called a murder, which I think is quite appropriate for the GOP.

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Are there Vegas odds on the likelihood Trump is still around and capable of influencing an election 2 1/2 years from now?

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