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Vice President Mike Pences chief of staff railed against congressional leaders in closed-door remarks to wealthy donors and called for a purge if GOP lawmakers dont quickly rally behind President Donald Trumps agenda.
In remarks at a Republican National Committee event at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington on Tuesday morning, Nick Ayers also warned that Republicans are on track to get shellacked in next years midterm elections if GOP lawmakers dont pass Trumps legislative priorities.
But Ayers reserved his harshest criticism for congressional leaders and members who have not offered full-throated support for the president.Just imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him? If and this sounds crass we can purge the handful of people who continue to work to defeat him, Ayers said, according to an audio recording of the remarks obtained by POLITICO.
One attendee later asked how the donors could rally the congressional delegation that does support the president and vice president, and rally them and push them to change the current leadership in both the Senate and the House.
Im not speaking on behalf of the president or vice president when I say this, Ayers responded. But if I were you, I would not only stop donating, I would form a coalition of all the other major donors, and just say two things. Were definitely not giving to you, number one. And number two, if you dont have this done by Dec. 31, were going out, were recruiting opponents, were maxing out to their campaigns, and were funding super PACs to defeat all of you.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/purge-anti-trump-republicans-nick-ayers-243416
spanone
(135,861 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)The wealthy donors probably want Trump out of there because he's crazy and ineffective.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No surprise it's being used in what are supposed to be secret meetings of those people.
Well, extremists always turn on anyone who doesn't fall in strict line with them, and the Republican Party has been taken over by extremists.
If they adopt this strategy, the anti-Donalds will just have to cut loose from these donors and go schmooze new ones. Independence could be very good, which is probably the biggest reason it may not happen. Wealthy people who despise and probably fear Rump, Pence, and the Kochs are not exactly in short supply, just not organized like the Koch alliance.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Today they're undoubtedly the most powerful actors, by far, in a giant conspiracy by archconservatives to move this nation anti-democratically, dysfunctionally and immorally far right that has been going on since at least the 1970s.