Senior GOP Pol Says Trump's Attack On Dingell May Cost Him Michigan

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https://www.nationalmemo.com/senior-gop-pol-says-trumps-attack-on-dingell-may-cost-him-michigan/


Senior GOP Pol Says Trump’s Attack On Dingell May Cost Him Michigan
Alex Henderson December 20, 2019
Reprinted with permission from Alternet


While President Donald Trump was being impeached in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, he was firing up his base with a MAGA rally in Battle Creek, Michigan — where the president, not surprisingly, angrily railed against Democrats. One of his targets was the late Democrat John Dingell, who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1955-2015. Trump suggested that Dingell was in hell, and Fox News’ Chad Pergram is warning that doing so could hurt the president politically in 2020.

On Thursday morning, Pergram (who covers Congress for Fox News) went to Twitter and reported, “Multiple sources tell Fox Trump is playing w/fire by taking on the Dingells in the swing state of Michigan.” A source described by Pergram as a “senior GOP congressman” told Fox News that Trump “could lose Michigan alone on this one.”

Dingell, as Pergram notes, was the longest-serving congressman in U.S. history. The late Democrat, who was 92 when he died on February 7, 2019, entered the U.S. House of Representatives when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president and stayed for half a century.

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Michigan is among the Rust Belt states that is considered vitally important to Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Although Michigan had been considered a blue state, Trump sent shock waves through the nation when, in 2016, he became the first Republican to win Michigan in a presidential race since the late George H.W. Bush in 1988. But it was a close race: Trump defeated 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by only about 10,704 votes in Michigan.

For decades, John Dingell was a fixture in Michigan politics; he was reelected time and time again. And the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee — whether it turns out to be former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren or someone else — could easily use Trump’s anti-Dingell comment to tar and feather him in Michigan, which has 16 electoral votes.

[Me.]

1. JUst Put Rep Deb Dingell On Stage With Our Nominee

[Wellstone ruled]

2. He lost Michigan the second he uttered those words.

[duforsure]

3. When his numbers start tanking he'll then do what he always does, tries to bribe them with our money

Tell them lies and instilling fear and hate, then threaten them, and hold funds from their state.

[llmart]

4. He didn't legitimately win our state in 2016 either.

I will never believe there wasn't some (probably a lot) criminality in the vote process.

[groundloop]

12. And THAT is why we need to GetOutTheVote like never before

We absolutely need to win by such an overwhelming margin to overcome any hanky panky with the vote count.

[Pepsidog]

5. Let's hope.

[packman]

6. Bah, humbug- False News, fake news Trump never said that

He'll say John was looking up from his grave approving of Trump's work---- And I wouldn't put it past him to say that.

[treestar]

7. He didn't say it, but if he did say it, so what, he was only joking

his usual schtick.

[irisblue]

8. 🤞🤞🤞🤞

But having lived in West Michigan for 18 years, it is pretty conservative.

[Gothmog]

9. trump is still defending this asshole remark

Link to tweet

[0rganism]

10. i hope that's not the only reason

i'd be fine with Trump losing Michagan being an "overdetermined" outcome

[catbyte]

11. I've been hearing a lot of anecdotal stories that it disgusted a lot of republicans here in

Michigan. That thing's support is tenuous at best and this will not help him. It's a long way to November but I think this will stick in a lot of people's memories, especially women. We've noticed that this thing seems particularly prone to going out of his way to attack women. And Debbie Dingell's gracious, heartbroken, and quiet, measured response has only magnified his cruelty. Whoever is the eventual nominee should produce a video of that moment and air it a lot here. Keep reminding people what a sleazy scumbag he is.

[Hulk]

13. His cult doesn't respond to his vulgar mouth..

If anything, they admire his spewing of insults and hatred. It's who THEY are!

If he loses Michigan, trust me, it won't be because of this despicable act. They all hate Dingel as well, since he was a Democrat. These people are just as vile and low life as their leader.

[D23MIURG23]

14. I kind of doubt that...

Dingell was from Ann Arbor, and Trump lost that and will lose that in 2020. Foregone conclusion. I'm not sure I see a bunch of Trump voters being angry that he said something gross about the former representative of the bluest district in the state. In order to win Michigan, we need our nominee to do better in Detroit than Clinton did in 2016. She won Detroit, of course, but the turn out was not that high, and IIRC it was surprisingly close.

I think we will win Michigan, though, because Trump won it narrowly last time, and I think it was a fluke. Michigan dems will be way more motivated this time around than they were last time.