GOP base asks, 'What Russia scandal?'

[DonViejo]

Local Republican leaders say the only collusion going on is between Democrats and the media.

By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI and JAKE LAHUT 07/12/2017 07:20 PM EDT

Secret Russia meeting? So what. Collusion? Nah. Media outrage? Fake news.

Anyone who thinks the Republican base will abandon President Donald Trump over the latest Russia revelations is sorely mistaken.

According to a POLITICO survey of more than two dozen local Republican Party leaders in counties where 2018’s most competitive races are shaping up, the GOP grass roots aren’t fazed by news of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting last year with a Kremlin-linked lawyer or the daily drip of stories about Trump and Russia. They aren’t even paying close attention.

That’s a problem for Democrats, who will likely need to win over the support of some Trump-backing Republican voters in the battleground congressional districts where the House majority will be won or lost in 2018.

“It’s pretty much a non-issue. Most people that do reference it, reference it as a witch hunt. It’s a one-sided thing: ‘Trump, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.’ I hear more about that than any credible evidence against Trump, Trump Jr.,” said Carl Bunce, chairman of the Las Vegas-based GOP in Nevada's Clark County, where two tight House races are expected to be fought.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/trump-russia-scandal-240477

[geek tragedy]

1. We don't need to win GOP base over, just demoralize them so they stay home nt

[GusBob]

2. Keep whistling past the grave yard traitors

One year from now you will be singing a different tune.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Here in Clark County

we have one Newspaper and that is owned by Sheldon Adleson. All of the Trump stories are usually buried or so slanted,you would thing the Dems Hacked themselves.

[MrScorpio]

4. All they have to do is remember that Trump is a white man

That's all that matters to them.