Republicans move to nix primaries in show of support for Trump

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Republicans move to nix primaries in show of support for Trump

By Rebecca Buck, CNN

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/republican-primaries-donald-trump/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

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(CNN) — Republican officials in multiple states are on the verge of canceling their 2020 presidential primary elections in a show of support for President Donald Trump, even as some GOP candidates plan to challenge him.

Party leaders in South Carolina, Nevada and Arizona have all expressed support for nixing their presidential primaries, and are expected to make it official over the coming weeks. Leaders of the South Carolina and Nevada Republican parties will each meet Saturday to reach a decision, while the Arizona GOP Executive Committee will discuss its decision at a Sept. 14 meeting. Kansas Republicans are also considering nixing their primary, according Politico, which was the first to report on the moves by state Republican parties to cancel their primaries.

"This is nothing new, despite the media's inauthentic attempt to portray it as such," Arizona GOP Chairman Kelli Ward said. "Arizona Republicans are fired up to re-elect President Trump to a second term and will continue to work together to keep America -- and Arizona -- great."

The move to forgo presidential primaries reflects Trump's steel grip on the GOP establishment and the party's voters as he heads into his reelection campaign.


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[Arazi]

1. They'll regret this when/if #Traitor's mental decline becomes impossible to hide any longer

And he's forced out

[FiveGoodMen]

4. But they'll love it if he becomes dictator for life

Then, it REALLY won't be worth it to oppose him!

[DBoon]

2. "This is nothing new"

Yes, despotic autocracies throughout history have cancelled elections

The Arizona GOP is among these

[NewJeffCT]

12. Yes, it's been done in the past in the GOP with incumbents

but, Reagan didn't have any challengers in 1984 that I remember, and neither did Bush in 2004.

And, I know that in 1991, Bush was thought of as unbeatable because of the first Iraq War, so no Republicans challenged him and most thought Democrats had no general election shot, either.

Trump has at least two legitimate challengers in Joe Walsh and William Weld.

[DBoon]

13. Did anyone challenge Stalin's re-election in the Soviet Union?

That's the model the modern Republican Party is following - not Reagan or Bush I

[TheBlackAdder]

3. The Mad Prince is already installed. No need for primaries.

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Soon, they'll find a way to try and postpone the General Election.

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[struggle4progress]

5. "Make Aristocrats Grin Again!"

[spanone]

6. so the gop is ready to destroy our democratic process to placate the shitstain in the WH?

This is what it's come to

[lpbk2713]

7. It's laughable that anyone would want to support Trump.

So let them seal their own doom. That's fine with me.

[Freethinker65]

8. So will Republicans in those states be urged to meddle in the Democratic Primaries in those states?

Republicans crossing over to vote in the Democratic Primary because of Rauner is how we in Illinois ended up with Lipinski as the nominee again.

[gratuitous]

10. That hadn't occurred to me

I wonder how many of those states have open primaries?

I think the more likely reason Republicans may not want to hold a primary is that a vote will show how soft Trump's support is in their own party. Hard to make a candidate look invincible if he squeaks out only a plurality in the party primary.

[RKP5637]

9. The republican species will eventually become extinct by their own doing. n/t

[Rstrstx]

11. How would that work? So the Repubs can force a candidate off the primary ballot?

I don't know how their rules work, as in what someone has to do to qualify to be on the ballot for a primary. Can people write in candidates? Surely they wouldn't cancel the entire primary, there are down ticket positions that have to be decided.

In a way this might help us, I've seen in some polls where 10% or so of Republicans don't want Trump and that might piss enough of them off to stay at home in the general or vote third party or even a moderate Dem like Biden. Whatever the case if it means one less vote for Trump I'll take it.