Is Mitch about to ditch Trump?

[yellowcanine]

Probably not but he is starting to hedge on attending the convention in Jacksonville.

Sorry can't link.

[paleotn]

1. Word is....

he's suggest to his caucus that certain members can distance themselves, i.e. every scoundrel for themselves.

[Chainfire]

2. Mitch will leave the USS Trump

with the rest of the rats, when the ship is down by the bow. He will then claim that he never really supported Mr. T.

[JDC]

21. W/o doubt

[malaise]

3. Covidention-20

the biglyest flop in history coming up!!

[BlueIdaho]

4. Fighting for the last seat on the life raft?

I hope that skirt doesn’t slow Mitch down...

[uponit7771]

5. No, distancing themselves from Trump right now would be the ultimate flip flop

[Mike 03]

6. Yesterday, Ann Coulter endorsed opponent Amy McGrath in his upcoming election.

And of course the Lincoln Project is determined to attempt his removal, no matter how difficult it may be.

He has every reason to sweat.

[Bayard]

17. Ann Coulter?

That's fairly shocking.

Received this from Amy McGrath a few days ago:

"I have some pretty incredible news to share.
This grassroots team raised over $17 million from April to June. And here’s something else incredible: No Senate campaign in history has ever raised as much in the April to June reporting period."

[backscatter712]

33. I saw that on Twitter.

When you've lost the Coultergeist...

[Stuart G]

7. As much as I hate Trump, I hate McConnell more. If both go down, I'll have quite a party..

[nmgaucho]

15. Exactly

Moscow Mitch is evil personified

[HotTeaBag]

8. I have a really hard time believing that Mitch will allow himself to go down with the ship.

He has the same reptilian self-preservation gene that Trump has but he's much, much smarter.

He has got to have a plan - he is the last person I would expect to give up power, especially for so futile a reason (i.e. supporting Trump).

[empedocles]

11. At some future point, mitch would be a flip candidate - imho

[HotTeaBag]

13. Perhaps, but I think he'll retire before he's beaten.

If he wins this time around he'll be nearing (or past, I'm not sure) his 80th birthday when the term ends and would probably prefer to exit the stage of his own volition rather than being ousted.

[SMC22307]

9. Ditch Trump for Pence/Haley?

Maybe he'll do what was done to Nixon and get Fat Nixon to resign. Pence on the ticket would thrill evangelicals (they'd vote in DROVES whereas Dirty Don is turning some of them off...) and Haley checks the "woman" and "POC" identity boxes that people seem to care so much about. Plus, she and Pence are relatively young (early 60s and late 40s) and they'd hammer Biden relentlessly on his age. That's a ticket that worries me. But Trump and his cheating and corruption worry me as well, so... no easy wins.

[mucifer]

12. I think it would split the party true deplorables won't leave trump and Lincoln Project repubs

won't support Pence or Haley because they support trump.

It would cause utter chaos.

Remember a huge chunk of republicans never deserted Nixon. It's a cult and they won't desert trump.

Moderates and independents aren't going to support pence.

Meanwhile dems are holding strong and not buying into republican propaganda.

[SMC22307]

23. Is the Lincoln Project going for Pence's jugular or just Trump's?

McConnell is shrewd and has survived "Washington" for decades -- I don't see him going down with the Trump ship. My gut is telling me something big is going to go down but I'm just not sure what.

[mucifer]

24. they claim anyone associated with trump needs to go down

[SMC22307]

28. And if those associated with Trump turn on him...

won't the Lincoln Project Republicans let up on their fellow Republicans?

[backscatter712]

34. They're wanting to burn down the entire GOP.

They're going after GOP senators now, including Mitch, and all the ones up for reelection.

[SMC22307]

37. That ad is brutal and I love it.

I'm just finding it hard to believe that Project Lincoln will be "happy" with a Democratic president and Democratic-controlled Senate. When do they go back to their true selves? The 2022 midterms?

[backscatter712]

38. Sounds about right.

Lesson learned: Democrats need their own Lincoln Project type groups.

[SMC22307]

39. Exactly! (n/t)

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Don't See Haley Doing It

She has other ambitions.
She does this, then loses, she wears the loser tag, and the momentum of the country goes counter to the blather she's been spewing.
She could make herself irrelevant.

[SMC22307]

25. What are her other ambitions? I don't keep up with her. (n/t)

[ProfessorGAC]

29. President in 2024?

More than likely, she'll run in the republic primary.

[SMC22307]

31. As VP she'd have one foot in the door.

I can't imagine her turning down the slot if offered.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. You're Presuming They Win

That's a pretty big leap.
The fallback ticket to a terribly unpopular and potentially disgraced president would win.
If, as is more likely with the cult of personality bubble burst, they get trounced, she was the second on a ticket that gets trounced.
Last point: assuming a Pence/Haley ticket would beat Biden seems poor form on DU.

[soothsayer]

10. No, he's all entangled with Russia

[fescuerescue]

14. Probably not.

No upside. Lots of downside.

[lark]

16. I read that so far 8 repug Senators have declined where usually all come.

I hope this is a shining, total embarrassment for drumpf and no one comes and that there are far more protestors (during the day) than there are drumpfhumpers.

[CentralMass]

19. He's a scumbag no matter what he does.

[customerserviceguy]

22. He's not ditching Trump

He's just trying to avoid getting C-19. He's evil, yes, but not always stupid.

[SMC22307]

27. Annthrax Coulter just endorsed McGrath, correct?

She's been influential with right-wingers for decades, why wouldn't they listen now (but for the cult-iest of the MAGAts). Mitch isn't going to go down with the Trump ship, nor is he going to let the Senate go down.

[customerserviceguy]

30. I hadn't heard that

Wow, it's true. She must be angling to get an even more reich-wing Senator from Kentucky six years from now.

Conservababes on Faux Snooze prefer legislators that they can manipulate over ones they can't, I guess.

[SMC22307]

36. There's always an agenda...

and I guess for rabidly anti-DACA Coulter it's "Mexicans." She urged Kentuckians to stay home rather than vote for McConnell.

“The lovely Amy McGrath is a Marine Corps veteran. The average donation to her campaign is $36,” Coulter wrote in a tweet referring to McConnell’s Democratic challenger. “Mitch McConnell is a broken-down old man owed by cheap labor lobbyists.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-ann-coulter-mitch-mcconnell-amy-mcgrath-20200711-hxv2goli3racnlncnb3j6q5fuu-story.html

[customerserviceguy]

43. Yes, I read that, too

when looking up her "support" for McGrath. I'm sure that the 'cheap labor' remark is a slam on McConnell's wife's family.

[SMC22307]

44. Oh, right... I forgot about Elaine Chao and her wealthy family.

Trump rails against "Chy-na" to get RWNJs whipped into a frenzy... does McConnell do the same? I'm guessing not. (Not enough hours in the day for me to keep up with Trump, McConnell, and trade policy with China...)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. Dream on

Of course if Trump is rejected and Moscow Mitch is reelected he'll act like he never knew him.

[backscatter712]

32. Mitch is struggling to keep his fellow Senate scumbags from jumping ship.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Not yet, but...

I understand he's waiting until Labor Day. If Trump doesn't get his shit together by then, McConnell is planning to desert him.

[struggle4progress]

41. It's an election year. He needs to create an impression of a sliver-of-daylight twixt him and Donnie

[mnmoderatedem]

42. the irony regarding this

is that we gave him the opportunity to remove trump and he held the Senate impeachment vote without calling a single witness, and rubber stamped the acquittal.

Watching Slimy Mitch desperately try to distance himself from trump would be delicious.