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1 week, 3 days ago

"MAGA is the Republican Party": Romney admits to Tapper that he's a dinosaur

Salon

While Democratic Party strategists seem stuck in a loop of chasing down the last remaining Never Trump Republicans, some of the GOP's biggest names are willing to admit that the old conservatism is a thing of the past. Sen. Mitt Romney, a choice straight out of central casting for the sort of blue-blood establishment Republican that once defined the party, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Granderson: Top Republicans know better than to back Trump

LA Times

When it comes to disaster movies, my biggest pet peeve is the sex scene. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said on Saturday about Kemp, who has a 63% approval rating in his state — and whom Trump endorsed for governor in 2018. And yet the governor responded to that latest barrage with a social media post supporting Trump’s …

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10 months, 1 week ago

The world takes Trump’s Nato comments literally, while Maga takes them seriously

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “And I think that people need to realize that like, you should take everything …

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1 year ago

Critical Senate Republicans to House GOPers pushing impeachment: 'do something meaningful'

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — Critical Senate Republicans said Wednesday they didn't see the value in chasing an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden that lacks evidence, is unlikely to be voted through, and serves as a distraction from pursuing policy. Sen. Lisa Murkowski finds some revelations about Hunter Biden, who serves no public office, "worrisome," but she doesn't approve of the "normalization …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Why Mitt Romney Wrote Down As Much As He Did

Slate

The fact that Sen. Mitt Romney, instead of publishing his own memoir next month, worked with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins on a biography—Romney: A Reckoning—tells us two things. We found out last week, when Coppins published an excerpt of the biography on the Atlantic’s website, that in 2021 Romney and Coppins began meeting in Romney’s Senate offices or in his …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘He’s an idiot,’ Mitt Romney reveals Mitch McConnell’s private criticism of Donald Trump in new biography

Hindustan Times

A new biography, ‘Romney: A Reckoning,’ reveals that Sen. Mitt Romney recalls then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling President Donald Trump an “idiot” who “doesn’t think when he says things.” U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz The biography, …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Republican senators show no movement on gun control laws after Uvalde massacre

Raw Story

Eight Republican U.S. senators interviewed by Raw Story today provided no indication that they would support changes to federal gun laws in the wake of the murder of 19 children and an adult in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. Here’s a synopsis of the senators’ responses: Romney: The Utah senator, who has received more than $13 million in contributions from …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Trump had dinner with Mitt Romney to "torture the guy": book

Salon

The latest tell-all book about President Donald Trump's administration revealed that the infamous 2016 dinner with the new president-elect and Mitt Romney was a ploy to "torture him." According to the new book from Stephanie Grisham, I'll Take Your Questions Now, recalled a moment when campaign staffer Jason Miller told her about the dinner and that she needed to be …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Trump Supporters Heckle Mitt Romney on Flight to D.C. for Electoral College Certification