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As President Donald Trump's policies and rhetoric have put him increasingly at odds with the national Republican party, a leading progressive organization is kicking off a new grassroots campaign to link vulnerable GOP House members to Trump's troubled brand. Organizing for Action, the group spawned by former President Barack Obama's national campaigns, is beginning the program by focusing on 34 seats in GOP-held congressional districts around the country where Trump received less than 50% of the vote last November.
Sen. Jeff Flake has been all over the airwaves this month promoting his new book , Conscience of a Conservative , in which he laments that "Never has a party so quickly or easily abandoned its core principles as my party did in the course of the 2016 campaign." In the process Flake has predictably drawn heavy fire from Trumpworld , and perhaps less intuitively from certain quarters on the left.
Speculation is growing that President Trump will buck his own party and back primary challengers to two incumbent GOP senators seeking reelection in 2018, an exceedingly rare event that would deepen divisions within a party that is already struggling to govern despite controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress.
It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a "culture of vicious dehumanization," not to mention its sins of incoherence, rejection of empirical fact and plain hypocrisy.
Republicans face a problem as they try to defend a slim majority in the Senate and win races elsewhere: Insurgent primary candidates are trying to lay claim to President Donald Trump's mantle, and knock out the establishment's choices. The latest case is in Nevada, where endangered GOP incumbent Sen. Dean Heller drew a challenge Tuesday from businessman and repeat failed candidate Danny Tarkanian, who announced his bid in an early morning Fox News Channel appearance seemingly aimed at an audience of one: the president himself.
The voters who carried Donald Trump to victory in Arizona increasingly see the President as just another politician -- and one who is running out of time to deliver on his campaign promises. Republicans in focus groups held here last week by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA largely said they are giving Trump between six months and a year before they run out of patience.
The Trump cult has decided that Fox News doesn't provide the extreme level of Hitleresque propaganda that they crave, so what did they do? Launch their own "Real News" Trump weekly online news channel. The first episode was launched by Trump daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
During an interview on NBC's Meet the Press , Flake said one of his regrets over the past few years is that the GOP didn't do enough to stem the tide of birtherism. Regarding the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Flake told host Chuck Todd that this was an example of Republicans placing party over country.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., thinks more members of the Republican Party should have stood up to President Trump years ago, beginning with his support for the birther movement as not appropriate for conservatives to embrace. "I wish we as a party had stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going on," Flake said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tells Chuck Todd that he'll vote, "with the president when I believe he's right, and vote against him when I think he's wrong."
U.S. Senator Dean Heller introduces the Emergency Fuel Reduction Act, S.1752 along with the support of Senators Jeff Flake , Orrin Hatch , and James Risch . The Emergency Fuel Reduction Act hopes to help prevent wildfires by speeding up the review process for fire prevention projects on public lands.
McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer. McCain aims to revive immigration reform when he returns to Congress McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer.
Joy Reid, MSNBC's hostess with the mostest on all things race-baiting - who, for example, recently expressed reserved and "delicate" hope for Rep. Steve Scalise's gun wound recovery because of his record "on race" - blamed voter racism and anger, fueled by talk show powerhouse Rush Limbaugh, for the rise of President Donald Trump. Reid, in the context of discussing Sen. Jeff Flake's RINOey new book, "Conscience of a Conservative," which basically takes pot shots at Trump, told her TV host Chuck Todd that "right-wing talk radio over the last 20 something years" has spawned the anger that's spawned the "vulgarity" that's spawned, ultimately, the Trump White House.
To understand why the Arizona Republican is risking his political career this week to publish a book lambasting the president requires familiarity with a pivotal but largely forgotten episode in the early history of the modern conservative movement. It was 1962 - the same year Flake was born.
In this May 5, 2017, file photo, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel addresses Hispanic business owners and community members at the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce in Lansing, Mich. Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate.
Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Tuesday unloaded on Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, mocking him in a Twitter post as an "imposter" posing as a conservative. "Jeff Flake is not a conservative, nor does he have a conscience," Bozell said, slamming Flake by using the title of his new book "Conscience of a Conservative" - a nod to Barry Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive.
Colorado Republican Rep. Mike Coffman speaks to reporters before holding a constituent town hall in Brighton, Colo., on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Coffman called for a bipartisan effort on health care after the GOP-led Congress failed to produce a new health care law.
This afternoon, Flake popped up on CNN's The Lead to discuss his criticism of the president and his belief the Washington needs to begin rejecting destructive politics, stating that Congress works best when there is bipartisanship. At one point in his conversation with anchor Jake Tapper , the Republican lawmaker was asked if he was worried that his harsh words towards Trump could hurt his reelection chances, as it is being reported that the White House is looking at backing primary challengers against him next year.
Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.