Senate Republicans are coming to grips with another Donald Trump nomination

Now that Donald Trump has won the first two 2024 Republican primaries showing he has the overwhelming support from everyday Republican party members and the polls showing the same will be true for the rest of the primary season the Republican establishment is starting to panic.

While the writing has been on the wall for months that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination, the Republican establishment was hoping polls were in error and that the party base would turn back towards them for salvation. Now they can no longer deny that they have lost a lot of their power to Donald Trump. The establishment is clearly lossing their party.

Senate Republicans are coming to grips with another Donald Trump nomination

WASHINGTON — Republican voters are on track to nominate Donald Trump for president for a third successive election cycle, leaving his GOP skeptics in the Senate at various points in the five stages of grief as he marches to the nomination.

WASHINGTON — Republican voters are on track to nominate Donald Trump for president for a third successive election cycle, leaving his GOP skeptics in the Senate at various points in the five stages of grief as he marches to the nomination.

Sen. Todd Young, of Indiana, said he's been clear about Trump: "I have no intention of supporting him." He quipped that his remarks would hardly be "breaking news, once again."

Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, the only Republican to vote to convict Trump in both of his impeachments, said he'll never endorse him.

“I was one of those that voted that he should have been convicted in the impeachment trial. One of the implications of that was that he wouldn’t be able to run again,” Romney said. “How can I possibly endorse someone who I voted had violated a crime and misdemeanor under the constitutional standard?”

Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, the most conservative Democrat in the chamber, was aghast to see the Republican colleagues he is friendly with rallying around Trump once again.

“I couldn’t believe it. I can’t believe it,” said Manchin, who is not running for re-election this year. “These are people I know, people I respect, I consider friends — to basically sell your soul.”
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It's not shocking that the Republican establishment would loose to a man like Donald Trump. They have done nothing for the country for the last three decades; happy to maintain the dysfunctional status quo on all issues important to their base so that they may enrich themselves with back room deals, insider trading and engaging in foreign bribery schemes.

Donald Trump, who may be more bluster than productive, was able to tap into this anger the establishment has created and use it against them. Now the Establishment has to come to grips with the fact that while their decades of neglect may have enriched themselves in the short term now it threatens to topple them.

But the establishment won't give up with out a fight; And lossing the 2024 election in the hopes of wounding Donald Trump may be worth it to them.

For example; Here we have the Republican establishment trying to scuttle their chances to win the 2024 presidential election by attempting to tie the long standing dysfunction on immigration, that they have done nothing about for decades, to Donald Trump. An issue that is a clear vulnerability to their top political rival in the 2024 presidential election squander in the hopes of holding on to power over their failing political party.

In the below article GOP Sen. Todd Young of Indiana makes clear that the Republican Senators have not yet produced a work product on imagination and boarder security that conservatives like himself can review and negotiate over. But that hasn't stop the establishment from pinning their failures to Donald Trump.

GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise

“I would encourage (chief Senate GOP negotiator) James Lankford and other conservatives to produce a work product with which they will shortly allow conservatives like myself to review it and take heart that there are a number of us who won’t be looking to third parties and assessing the propriety of passing this bipartisan proposal,” Young said.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged in a private meeting on Wednesday that Trump’s animosity toward the yet-to-be-released border deal puts Republicans in a serious bind as they try to move forward on the already complex issue. For weeks, Republicans have been warning that Trump’s opposition could blow up the bipartisan proposal, but the admission from McConnell was particularly striking, given he has been a chief advocate for a border-Ukraine package.

“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is … really appalling,” said GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump.

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The Republican establishment has yet to produce a work product that the rank and file can review. They are failing to convince their members to back their yet-to-be-released border deal, and they have no issue blaming their failures on Donald Trump.

It's interesting to watch the Republican party imploding; I wonder who will be the ultimate victory in their internal power struggle.

In 2023, the House GOP TOOK ACTION and formulated a border package that would secure the borders, but Chuck Schumer shot it down the moment it arrived in the Senate. There was No money for housing, education, medical needs, of migrants...NO KICKBACKS to Politicians.

From May 2023...

The bill would restart construction of a border wall, increase funding for border agents and upgraded border technology, reinstate the “remain in Mexico” policy, place new restrictions on asylum seekers, and enhance requirements for E-verify, a database employers use to verify immigration status.

Republican leaders worked for months to negotiate the border and immigration package, a key piece of legislation for the GOP majority focused on an issue Republican lawmakers ran on in the midterms. But crafting immigration policy has proven complicated for House Republicans, exposing divisions within the GOP conference.

Source: www.cnn.com...

The current border bill that Schumer/McConnell and old-guard Republicans in the Senate are for, send billions of dollars to cities/states like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. That's why our Chicago mayor went to D.C. earlier this week angry....and came back happy. He'll be mad again soon! LOL.

This just goes to show how out of touch the elected leaders are with those that elected them. It seems most if not all in both parties need to be changed out for regular people rather than the elite ruling class that they have become.

originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
This just goes to show how out of touch the elected leaders are with those that elected them. It seems most if not all in both parties need to be changed out for regular people rather than the elite ruling class that they have become.

“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain

Shut it all down, I say that as a federal employee with a new mortgage.

Shut it down till they put up a real deal.

that clown show has spent 6 trillion dollars in the last year plus or minus a bit, they had the money and spent it on vanity projects..

its time for the freedom caucus to risk it for the biscuit, as long as they get on air and lay out what they have done and why they should be secure to keep pushing for what the american people want and Mitch can go pound sand.

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
This just goes to show how out of touch the elected leaders are with those that elected them. It seems most if not all in both parties need to be changed out for regular people rather than the elite ruling class that they have become.

“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain

People need to see facts about their politicians, so they can know who to vote for. The free market will keep the right politicians in office if voters are given complete information.

Maybe President Trump will set up a board that issues report cards and performance reviews on each elected person in the house and the Senate.

a reply to: WeMustCare

and then the MSM will show the results to everyone so the entire US can be informed. Closely followed by world peace and unlimited wealth for all.