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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHE MEMO: Trump's basecheers attacks on McConnell
Trump has assailed McConnell repeatedly this week for the failure to pass legislation that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
Republican senators have rushed to McConnells defense much as they did when one of their former colleagues, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, found himself in Trumps sights late last month.
Even some Washington voices that are normally supportive of the president, such as former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), have suggested Trump is going too far.
But it is a very different story among conservatives whose frustration with the ways of Washington propelled Trumps rise.
The overarching theme from coast to coast was that people wanted to take a wrecking ball to Washington and they were hopeful that Donald Trump would be elected and would be that wrecking ball, said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346242-the-memo-trumps-base-cheers-attacks-on-mcconnell
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Newt GingrichNewt GingrichNewt GingrichNewt Gingrich
He's brain dead. Why does his body keep moving?
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)disable it for many years, or end it.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Here's what she said about Trump during the primary:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/03/04/tea-partyer-jenny-beth-martin-takes-on-donald-trump-at-cpac/
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Reportedly de base is now seeing Fox News as right wing "establishment" (very slow learners). So what will the Koch alliance use to get these people back to gulp the Kool-Aid?
Inquiring Metaphor wants to know.