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Post by oldarmybear on Feb 4, 2020 20:40:21 GMT -5
Impeachment drives 1,000 GOP candidates to run for House
Pennsylvanian James Bognet had been around local and presidential politics for a long time before landing a dream job as a senior vice president at the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
“I was really honored to get a chance to work in the Trump administration,” said Bognet, 44, a veteran of several campaigns, including those for former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
“It’s really cool for a small-town kid from Hazleton, Pennsylvania,” added Bognet, who worked with the White House on President Trump’s manufacturing agenda.
But like many Republicans inside and out of the administration, the Democratic drive to impeach Trump angered him, and he started watching his hometown Democratic congressman, Matt Cartwright, to see if he would vote against Trump.
“There’s no way Matt Cartwright is going to vote for impeachment. That is suicidal. He represents a Trump plus-10 district, he can’t do that,” reasoned Bognet, quietly “boiling mad” but prevented from publicly venting because of Hatch Act rules governing government employee speech.
But Cartwright did vote to impeach, prompting political predictor Charlie Cook to move his seat, Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, into the “toss-up” category.
Twenty-one days later, Bognet resigned from his job and made plans to run in the GOP House primary in April to unseat Cartwright, citing impeachment as his motivation.
“I can now lend my voice, my passion, and my efforts to defending our President from a never-ending witch hunt, and return to my hometown of Hazleton, in the 8th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, to take direct personal action fighting to make sure that the House of Representatives will not continue to wage political war on President Trump during his second term in office,” he said in his resignation letter shown below.
He’s not the only one.
According to Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, impeachment has helped to push about 1,000 Republicans to file to run for House seats this year.
“I think that they are one in the same,” he said of his success in building an army of candidates and the influence of impeachment on their decisions.
In an interview, he said that impeachment “intensity” has raised the overall political intensity to an Election Day level, and Republicans are responding, giving him an incumbent or challenger candidate in 384 of 435 House districts, nearly 40 above expectations at this stage of the year.
“I believe it is the intensity that is causing people to stand up and say, ‘It’s time to serve.’”
And that intensity is very diverse, beating his goals of turning the GOP House caucus into one that looks like the party’s base that includes women, veterans, and minorities.
The NRCC’s candidate recruitment numbers show it:
Total women filed — 190. Total veterans filed — 196. Total minorities filed — 155. “The majority is well within reach,” said Emmer.
As he’s started to campaign in Pennsylvania’s 8th District, which includes Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Bognet senses more support for Trump and the GOP.
In a stop at Hazleton’s Swing Club, the local Italian club, some high school friends gave him and the president a sign of support. “I had a number of guys come up and say, ‘I know that you’ve always been a Republican, and we’ve argued because I’m a Democrat, but I can’t stand it anymore. I’m a Trump supporter. I’m voting for Trump this time. I didn’t vote for him last time.'”
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/impeachment-drives-1-000-gop-candidates-to-run-for-house
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Post by george on Feb 5, 2020 8:22:11 GMT -5
If this nation is to survive something big has to happen. The Democrats are supporting Lenin Stalin policies that killed over 50 million people and made slaves out of the rest. I am not sure the voters are voting for Trump as much as they are just voting against the democrats.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 8:22:38 GMT -5
The house DUMBOCRATS continue to reveal they are insulated from the average American AND that they really don't care about the average American.
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Post by katie5445 on Feb 8, 2020 21:22:39 GMT -5
Really? The House not so long ago won 41 seats, the most in history since post Nixon/Watergate. Prepare yourself!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 9:21:21 GMT -5
Really? The House not so long ago won 41 seats, the most in history since post Nixon/Watergate. Prepare yourself! Sometimes FLUKES occur. The voters will correct that in November and THIS is one image that will help:
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Post by katie5445 on Feb 10, 2020 23:01:32 GMT -5
Yep sometimes flukes do occur and we will get rid of the worst fluke in history, everyone has a one off...........
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 5:31:19 GMT -5
Yep sometimes flukes do occur and we will get rid of the worst fluke in history, everyone has a one off........... So you agree that voting dumbocrats into the house in 2018 WAS a fluke, GOOD FOR YOU!
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Post by oldarmybear on Feb 11, 2020 8:53:15 GMT -5
Mid term elections as a general rule usually have the opposition gaining seats in the house. It is history. Look it up.
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Feb 11, 2020 13:40:37 GMT -5
Yep sometimes flukes do occur and we will get rid of the worst fluke in history, everyone has a one off........... Yes, the 2016 election of Trump will go down as one of the worst, if not THE worst fluke in American history.
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Post by oldarmybear on Feb 11, 2020 16:30:44 GMT -5
Yep sometimes flukes do occur and we will get rid of the worst fluke in history, everyone has a one off........... Yes, the 2016 election of Trump will go down as one of the worst, if not THE worst fluke in American history.
Only by the socialists, bogus. They just hate that Trump owns them every time they go against him. Trump will be the last man standing in their gang war against him.
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Post by skrumpie on Feb 11, 2020 16:54:38 GMT -5
Trump reminds me of the movie guy who gets attacked by six guys and walks away straightening his tie while the attackers nurse broken noses.
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Post by katie5445 on Feb 13, 2020 0:52:20 GMT -5
Yep sometimes flukes do occur and we will get rid of the worst fluke in history, everyone has a one off........... So you agree that voting dumbocrats into the house in 2018 WAS a fluke, GOOD FOR YOU! You want to call the 2nd most seats gained in the House in history since post Watergate, good luck with that.
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Post by skrumpie on Feb 13, 2020 9:03:09 GMT -5
You do realize that California flipped every single house race won by a conservative to a socialist by 'finding' ballots in car trunks, utility rooms, desk drawers and the like, right, Katie?
They tried that in Florida, too, but were less competent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 9:29:50 GMT -5
So you agree that voting dumbocrats into the house in 2018 WAS a fluke, GOOD FOR YOU! You want to call the 2nd most seats gained in the House in history since post Watergate, good luck with that. Reality is reality. The SENATE remained in republican hands, whereas in OTHER elections, when the HOUSE swept in , the Senate also changed hands as well.
".. the Republican Party (GOP) success in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections, resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate. The day after the election, conservative Democrat Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican; on March 3, 1995, Colorado senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell switched to the Republican side as well, increasing the GOP senate majority..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution
"..The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans picked up seven Senate seats (including a special election held in January 2010) but failed to gain a majority in the chamber. In the House of Representatives, Republicans won a net gain of 63 seats, the largest shift in seats since the 1948 elections. In state elections, Republicans won a net gain of six gubernatorial seats and flipped control of twenty state legislative chambers, giving them a substantial advantage in the redistricting that occurred following the 2010 United States Census... " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections
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Post by Bogus0Pomp on Feb 13, 2020 14:56:02 GMT -5
"...California flipped every single house race won by a conservative to a socialist by 'finding' ballots in car trunks, utility rooms, desk drawers and the like..."
You wouldn't happen to have, and be able to share, irrefutable evidence for that claim, would you, Skrumpie?
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