Virginia GOP Settles On Drive-In Convention After Trumpian Wing Sows Months Of Chaos | Talking Points Memo

The Virginia GOP has finally, after months of infighting and refusal to cooperate from its Trumpian wing, settled on how it will nominate its candidates for statewide races: a drive-up “convention.” 


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Please remember that Republicans mocked Biden and Harris for having rallies exactly this same way.

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The way the GQP is going, I could see this turning into a drive-by convention

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The question is will Republicans fall in line behind whomever is the nominee which is the normal GOP way or have they become more like the Democrats and want to fall in love. Or to put another way, can the 1% establishment Republicans take back control of the Party from the base?

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Gee, it seems that Republicans may just be in disarray! How can this be?!!?!1

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The Virginia GOP has finally, after months of infighting and refusal to cooperate from its Trumpian wing, settled on how it will nominate its candidates for statewide races: a drive-up “convention.”

At Liberty University.

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/your-local-election-hq/virginia-gop-will-hold-drive-in-convention-at-liberty-university-to-nominate-statewide-candidates/

The above article is 7 hours old, but ?

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They could pick each other off without ever leaving their cars. The GQP is in a civil war and it looks like it will get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better. Loving it.

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Why not a drive thru? Have a menu board, place your order by rank voting, and pick up your ballot at the window to double check that they got your order right. Hell get a Chick-fil-A manger to run the process.
(this is not an endorsement for Chick-fil-A, I’ve never eaten there)

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I don’t mind piling on Chase, a woman who was at the Capitol on 01/06, but honey if you can’t get along with members of your own political party, if you refuse to follow basic rules then how in the hell can you be a governor?

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The Trumpian wing of the party is like a dog with diarrhea.

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I seem to have gotten stuck in the Stupid future. Does anybody know how to get back to the regular timeline?

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Or a dry-gulch convention.

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“I would like the VA GOP State Central Committee to answer a question,” she tweeted Tuesday night after doing a hit on Newsmax. “1,962,430 voters voted for President Trump in Virginia. How are you going to accommodate these people who will want to cast a vote for our statewide candidates?”

Arkham-Asylum
:question:

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And Virginia end up with drive-in government? How quaint.

They drank the Trump Kool-Aid. Pretty rank stuff.

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BRIAN: Brothers! Brothers! We should be struggling together!
FRANCIS: We are! Ohh.
BRIAN: We mustn’t fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!
EVERYONE: The Establishment Republicans?!
BRIAN: No, no! The Democrats!

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. . . and worms.

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In related news, the GQP has completely collapsed in Virginia. They haven’t won any statewide office since 2009, and it appears they are doubling down on why they are losers.

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The delegates will stay in their cars, possibly listening to speeches over their car radios,

Along with the organizers of this convention, I believe 9 months later their will be a Republican baby boom.

So the QAP will nominate Gun Moll Chase…

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