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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:09 PM Oct 2016

Overlooked: Highest-ranking Rs in swing states are running from Trump. CO, NH, NV, WI... (OH's alre

Voting has already started. Trump will not step aside nor quit IMHO


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Except Iowa, where top leaders have all condemned comments but not backed off support. @TerryBranstad explicitly said his endorsement stands

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Overlooked: Highest-ranking Rs in swing states are running from Trump. CO, NH, NV, WI... (OH's already had.) https://twitter.com/CoryGardner/status/784831764413968384
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Overlooked: Highest-ranking Rs in swing states are running from Trump. CO, NH, NV, WI... (OH's already had.)


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If Donald Trump wishes to defeat Hillary Clinton, he should do the only thing that will allow us to do so - step aside. My full statement:

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Overlooked: Highest-ranking Rs in swing states are running from Trump. CO, NH, NV, WI... (OH's alre (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
That except Iowa part is choking me. Why do Iowans swallow this shit? IADEMO2004 Oct 2016 #1
We should encourage disaffected Trump voters to write in Pence. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #2
Iowa Republicans are something. zonkers Oct 2016 #3
Not Rubio in Florida HockeyMom Oct 2016 #4

IADEMO2004

(5,555 posts)
1. That except Iowa part is choking me. Why do Iowans swallow this shit?
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:40 PM
Oct 2016
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/politics/election/republican-presidential/iowa-gop-senator-urges-republican-leaders-to-withdraw-support-of-trump-20161008

“When you look at the whole picture, I think what he said was absolutely wrong and reprehensible, yet this has happened in 2005 and we need to look to the future, and we need to look at what kind of a leader we’re going to have for this country,” said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, whose son Eric is the Trump campaign’s Iowa director. “I think that the vision Trump and (running mate Mike) Pence have is much better for the future of America than what Hillary Clinton offers.”

During their remarks at the fundraiser, Iowa’s U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst both made the case for voting for Trump without using his name.

Ernst dedicated most of her remarks to criticizing Clinton, and Grassley said Republicans must vote for a candidate they want making appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“This is not an election about who’s going to be president just for the next four years. This is an election about the direction of the Supreme Court for the next 40 years,” Grassley said.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
2. We should encourage disaffected Trump voters to write in Pence.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:43 PM
Oct 2016

Or anyone else they might want to write in. Unless millions upon millions write in Pence, those votes won't count any more than any third party vote really counts. And it's one less Trump vote out there.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
4. Not Rubio in Florida
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 02:01 PM
Oct 2016

Dem Senatorial Candidate Pat Murphy is calling him out on this. One would think that a Republican running for Congress would try to get as far away from Trump as possible, especially in a Swing State.

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