MI GOP Rep Departs Party Due To Trump’s ‘Unacceptable’ Efforts To Overturn Results

Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) on Monday issued a pointed rebuke of President Trump as he announced his departure from the Republican Party, citing the sitting president’s vehement refusal to halt his legal efforts challenging election results even as the Electoral College is set to cement President-elect Joe Biden’s win.


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Now that the GOP has started its death spiral, the media should start asking these folks what they should call their new party. We need something concrete to draw others away, to minimize all the crazies that will remain.

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The GOP in general far outperformed Trump in this election… They gained (I think) 13 House seats, will likely retain control of the Senate; did very well in State elections. Terrifies me to write this, but the GOP is going strong. Fills me with dread, honestly.

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Well the current folk who are calling themselves Republicans should really be moved over to the column under the header Trump Nationalist Party, TNP for short.
But then what to call the new party since Trump has dragged “Republican” through the shitter. They can’t call themselves conservatives since they blew up the deficit, they allowed Trump pilfer funds from the DoD to pay for his border wall which he has only completed less than 400 miles or so, they could rally around Mitch and call themselves the Do Nothing Party.

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Too little, too late. He just wanted to “appear” to have a spine.

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Will Witmer replace him? Does it have to be a Republican? Will Michigan have to have a special election to replace him?

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I think all US House seats are filled by special election, not appointment.

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Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) on Monday issued a pointed rebuke of President Trump as he announced his departure from the Republican Party

That’s easy for him to say.

  1. He’s got his shampoo business to fall back on; and

  2. He’s dead.

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Yes.

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Nuts’R’Us

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He’s done at the end of this Congress; didn’t go for reelection.

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this the Jim Jeffords Option: “The party I have been a member of all my life has left me behind as it rushes down the sewer. I must regretfully leave it and declare myself an Independent.”
Collins, Murkowski, Kinzinger, Romney (??) up next?
Maine, blue and turning rapidly browner, with two Indy senators – imagine. Nothing to lose for Collins, anyway…

Except that it wasn’t really the GOP, it was the GOP plus the nuts on the right who worship Trump. If you remove the nuts, they don’t do nearly as well, as we saw in 2018. And, the Democratic messaging didn’t respond to “defund the police”, they just ignored it (thinking that any response might upset black voters they dearly needed). Democrats need to avoid that mistake in 2022 and focus like they did in 2018 on key policies that matter to people…most people will get behind “reform the police” if they understand what it means.

The GOP is about to fall into open civil war between the crazy right wingers and the never Trumpers, there’s just no way they avoid that. It may not happen until 2024, but it’s coming…and, if Trump’ s illegal activity comes out before 2022 then the Republican support of that hurts them. Plus, we really don’t know how people are going to respond to the current anti-democratic activity of the GOP, especially if they make a huge scene of it in Congress.

Democrats will not have an easy time of it in the next few years, especially if they can’t take the Senate or lose the House, but the Democrats have the far better plan and platform for the future. It is going to require fighting through the noise of the Republicans, which actually becomes easier as they become more and more unhinged…without Trump leading them most people will see through the nonsense, that’s how it’s been going. We can’t fret over the future, but we have to work for it.

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Still no connection being made for voting for an incompetent crook and the things he stands for on levels of dishonesty, selfishness and violence, and the subsequent dishonesty, selfishness and violence of your constituency.

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Yup, he still voted for Trump.

Mitchell, who voted for Trump twice and has been a strong supporter of the President policy-wise as well

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It’s nice that he’s doing it, but why do these people wait until they are about to retire to suddenly acknowledge the Republican party is batshit insane?

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The Freedumb Party

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Another GOPer who is shocked — shocked! — that the rabid, face-biting monkey that he helped train to bite faces is now biting his face. Why, who could have ever foreseen this?

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Collins won comfortably as a Republican. I doubt she’s going anywhere.

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Well, way to go, dude, but really, it took you this long to figure out that Trump was doing “long-term harm to our democracy”?

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