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GOP is 'paralyzed' out of fear of Trump's modern day 'lost cause movement': Republican strategist
January 25, 2021
On CNN Monday, former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter suggested Republicans are "paralyzed" by the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump — whatever their personal feelings.
"It's so interesting because you have the sense that if this was a secret vote, I mean, it's pretty clear how a lot of these Republican senators would vote," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "For so many of them, I mean, this is a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself, to distance itself, from the former president and try to kind of, you know, reinvent itself if it wants to. It seems like that would be a pretty strong motivation if in fact there were enough Republicans in the party who really did want to return to where the Republican Party once was."
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"Yeah, and I think what we have to acknowledge now is that the Republican Party doesn't want to move on from Trump," said Carpenter. "There has been this, you know, idea that I hoped would be true, that once Trump was proven to be a political loser, we could have that reset. But now, Republicans have lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, Donald Trump — they're not scared of the tweets. He's off Twitter. And yet, they're still clinging to him because what happened through that time is that the base became radicalized."</p><p>"They were all in on 'Stop the Steal' and the people that would turn out in the primary elections are waving the Trump flag, even in loss," said Carpenter. "A lost cause with their Confederate flags and American flags. And so, the Republican senators know that. They're immobile, they're paralyzed."</p><p>
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Fox host defends QAnon as network continues to support lying -- even after Capitol insurrection
January 25, 2021
The far-right conspiracy theory QAnon was defended on Fox News on Monday.
The QAnon cult argues, without evidence, that Democrats are part of a Satanic, pedophile cabal that runs the world. Multiple supporters of the conspiracy theory took part in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
<p>Fox News personality Tucker Carlson was not worried about dictatorship after Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, but was terrified that QAnon supporters are being held to account for spreading lies.</p><p>Carlson complained about the "mob of censors and hysterics and Jacobin destroyers all working on behalf of entrenched power to take total control of everything.</p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c8439631eac2f8a1581e9caff414713f" id="cc08a"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1353873669437665280"><div style="margin:1em 0">Tucker Carlson defends Qanon https://t.co/knIh32J39S</div> — Andrew Lawrence (@Andrew Lawrence)<a href="https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/statuses/1353873669437665280">1611623611.0</a></blockquote></div>
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Trump’s PAC has $70 million — and he’s focused on stopping Brian Kemp’s re-election: report
January 25, 2021
On Monday, The New York Times reported that one of the many ways former President Donald Trump plans to re-enter politics over the next two years is working to oust Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), a one-time ally who had a falling out.
"Advisers to the president say he has just over $70 million in his PAC, Save America, with few restrictions on what he can do with it," reported Maggie Haberman and Reid Epstein. "For now, most of his staff is on a government payroll afforded to former presidents for a period of time after they leave office."
<p>When he re-enters politics, however, said the report, one of his big targets will be Kemp.</p><p>"Mr. Trump's deepest hostility is reserved for Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, advisers said, and they expect he will expend the most energy trying to damage Mr. Kemp's re-election bid," said the report. "The governor's original sin was in choosing Kelly Loeffler over Mr. Trump's favored candidate, Doug Collins, to fill a vacant Senate seat in 2019, but it evolved into something more consuming as Mr. Trump repeated his debunked claims of widespread fraud in the state and held Mr. Kemp responsible for not doing enough to challenge the election results."</p><p>In fact, Trump has even called on Kemp to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-for-georgia-gov-brian-kemp-a-fellow-republican-to-resign/2020/12/30/bc297d28-4aab-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html" target="_blank">resign</a>.</p><p>So far, it is unclear whether Kemp will draw a pro-Trump challenger, including Collins himself, but the president's animosity and his <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2021/01/19/trump-approval-senate-impeachment-conviction-polling/" target="_blank">lingering support in the party</a> suggest it could happen.</p><p>Democrats are certain to target Georgia's gubernatorial election heavily in 2022, having only narrowly lost it in 2018 and having won the state's presidential election and flipped both of its Senate seats. Stacey Abrams, the former House Minority Leader who ran in 2018 and was instrumental in voter outreach in 2020, has been floated as a possible name, although she <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stacey-abrams-whether-she-run-083612035.html" target="_blank">has not made her plans clear yet</a>.</p>
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