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Someone needs to invite Trump to the House floor to give a speech. Then he needs to bring it up at a few rallies. Then he needs to start calling out whomever hasn't gotten on board so primary threats can be made. Methinks that can get everyone in line pretty quickly.

This is laughably stupid. Purple district Republicans don't want a Trump endorsement, they actually lose voters with it.

And primarying them is even dumber as we saw during the 2022 elections.

Now if your goal is to give control to the dems, this is an effective pathway. MAGA voters have enough power to tip a lot of primaries and then lose the subsequent general.

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Posted by Tarps99

Lafourche Parish

Member since Apr 2017

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Posted on 10/19/23 at 9:31 am to cusoonkpd

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Leave the party. Register independent. Vote for the person most qualified. Do not ever send the RNC money. Believe and expect nothing. Otherwise, you will continue to be disappointed.

One issue with registering as an independent is that you may have no vote in the primary process to select a party candidate in most local and state elections. The party chooses the candidates through primary elections and even state party conventions. Some will allow independents to choose a side and vote in that party’s primary, but some are closed. As far as president, primaries are used like a quasi Electoral College system, but the party/delegates can vote for their choice for party nominee. Also, in addition to a weighted delegate count based on population, additional delegates are added for Party elected officials like governor.

But back to House and Senate seats, some states like Louisiana have jungle primaries where you can vote for anyone in the primary. That does come at the cost that the Primary day is the national Election Day and a run off is held in December for US House and Senate candidates who fail to get 50% +1 of the vote in the primary.

I can remember the 2010 election cycle, Louisiana had switched for a few cycles to go with a closed primary system, you had the potential of 4 elections. Party Primary, Party Run Off, General Election, and General Election run off. The last election was cancelled since every one won with 50% plus one in the primary.

Fun fact that election cycle had the rise of Governor Elect Jeff Landry who defeated former Speaker of the the House Hunt Downer in the Republican run off in the 3rd Congressional district that used to be a coastal district from the outskirts of Lafayette to suburban New Orleans.

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Posted by idlewatcher

Planet Arium

Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 10/19/23 at 9:32 am to David_DJS

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How do you distinguish the RINOs/establishment Republican politicians from the conservatives/good guys?

Have a look at the vote tally and that is a good starting point.

Not to mention they already stated it was b/c JJ wouldn't concede on Ukraine funding.

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Posted by Tmcgin

BATON ROUGE

Member since Jun 2010

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Posted on 10/19/23 at 9:35 am to idlewatcher

Has Trump picked the next person to commit career suicide?

I'm sure his rural following calling and pestering
Reps will do a lot of good

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Posted by David_DJS

Member since Aug 2005

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Posted on 10/19/23 at 12:25 pm to idlewatcher

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Have a look at the vote tally and that is a good starting point.

Not to mention they already stated it was b/c JJ wouldn't concede on Ukraine funding.

My question was more general in nature. It's instructive that there's so little consensus on even the terms "establishment" and "RINO" - which makes picking out the good guys from the bad guys not as easy as most think. Trump is one of the best example of the quandary.

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