GOP Senate Hopefuls In Ohio Scramble To Out-Trump Each Other

So far, the GOP race to replace Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) has been molded by one central theme: fealty to former President Donald Trump.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1366025

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“Conservatives Sentient beings everywhere should be frightened by the ongoing GOP ideology that leads to censorship by Twitter, Facebook, Google and the liberal media.”

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“Conservatives everywhere should be frightened by the ongoing censorship by Twitter, Facebook, Google and the liberal media.”

I’m so old, I can remember when the GOP defended free enterprise and unregulated business.

Those were the days…

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The GOP hatred is awesome. Not.

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How can you be dumber than Trump and still breath?

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Through your mouth?

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I think we should just spend all of our time poking these guys, forcing them to embrace more absurd positions with each passing day.

“Sir, do you think LabraDoodles are a perversion of God’s design?”

“What is your opinion of black people in the royal family?”

“For the record, are you for, or are you against, people south of the Canadian border voting in American elections?”

“What is your opinion of Americans of color giving each other terrorist-fist-jabs in bowling alleys?”

“Is eating a Korean Taco good for America?”

Just keep throwing weird-ass shit out there and see what we can get them on-record saying.

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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May all these GOP reactionaries choke on their own bile, and never bother us again.

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They are doing this work by refusing to protect themselves and their friends against COVID.

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Until one or both of them says they are literally willing to die for Trump, I’m not impressed.

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Also called the “Who Can Be The Biggest Asshole” contest!

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Trump boosted Republican vote totals in Ohio by about a half million over the previous high for a Republican presidential candidate in 2020. So it’s definitely not a crazy electoral strategy to be clanging the bell on the Trump Train. But it remains to be seen whether those previous non-voters are going to show up in a non-presidential election when the Carnival-Barker-in-Chief is not on the ballot. The 2018 GOP nominee for Senate ran about 1.2 million votes behind Trump 2020.

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Trump is going the revenge/fealty tour and then won’t run in 2024. He’s all yours GOPs.

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Let’s hope enough Ohioans are fed up with these antics that they register their disapproval by voting for the Democratic candidate. After all, Republicans simply cannot govern. In fact, I don’t think they know how to anymore as they haven’t used those muscles in decades.

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We got this.

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I say go for it. Fat Donnie’s zenith was on 1/20/2017. Since then he has cost the republicans the House, the Senate and the Executive.

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Yes, those were the days, but T rumpp’s Apprentice seems to still be alive and well.

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Or not voting.

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