You Will Anyway: Rebranding the GOP to be the Trump Party

Monday, December 7, 2020

Rebranding the GOP to be the Trump Party

Trump likes to put his name on everything. Looks like he found something new to put it on.

Enough Republicans swallowed Trump’s bait to send him more than $170 million in the month after he led them to defeat.

That money went to an entity described on the Trump campaign website as the “Official Election Defense Fund.” But according to The Washington Post “there is no such account.”

As one former Biden aide told the New York Times, this is “plain and simple grift.”

In fact, 75 percent of the money goes to a new Trump political action committee brashly labeled “Save America.” The paper reports the money will pay for things like Trump’s future “staff and travel.” The remaining 25 percent goes to the Republican National Committee.

Meanwhile, the GOP in Georgia is struggling to stay alive as a party due to Trump’s attacks.

He recently demanded Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) should “call off [the] election,” and said Kemp allowed his “state to be scammed.” Trump also phoned Kemp, on the morning of the president's rally in the state, encouraging the governor to call a special session of the state legislature. Trump apparently hoped that GOP legislators would then appoint electors to the electoral college who would subvert the election result in Georgia.

Trump also told his followers that Georgia’s secretary of State, lifelong Republican Brad Raffensperger, is an “enemy of the people.”

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But because so many conservative voters are spellbound by Trump’s tricks, there is silence among top Republican elected officials, the very people who should be protecting the GOP brand.

It is amazing that Loeffler and Purdue remain silent in the face of killing blows to the party. The two Georgia senators have yet to clearly say that Trump lost a fair election, for fear of antagonizing him.

Their silence fits with the failure to speak out from other GOP senators.

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The GOP’s control of the Senate hinges on these subpar candidates hanging on, even while Trump blasts the legitimacy of the election process.

It’s a perfect, deadly storm — of Republicans’ own making.

Fox News analyst Juan Williams @ The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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