Flake advises GOP candidates: 'Distance yourself from Trump'

[riversedge]

Source: The Hill




August 27, 2016, 10:47 am


Flake advises GOP candidates: 'Distance yourself from Trump'

By Jessie Hellmann



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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is telling fellow Republicans in the Western U.S. to distance themselves from Donald Trump if they want a future in politics.

Asked how fellow Republicans could win election to statewide office in the West, Flake on Friday told The New York Times: "Distance yourself from Donald Trump."

"That's difficult. But I think you've got to do it if we're concerned not just about this election but elections to come," he added.

Otherwise, Flake said, "this will last decades."


Flake, a frequent critic of the Republican presidential nominee, has refused to endorse Trump, saying he would hurt the party. ....................


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293544-gop-senator-advises-republican-candidates-distance

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The only effective way to distance themselves form Trump is to publicly and loudly condemn his bigotry!!

[63splitwindow]

1. "condemn his bigotry", Yes. Mentioning he's wholly inappropriate and unqualified is also no brainer!

[yeoman6987]

3. Flake is trying to save McCain. Don't let him fool you.

[msanthrope]

2. "Bears shit in places where foliage is heavy," was his other advice. nt

[RapSoDee]

4. Distance yourself from the whole Republican cabal

...and do something positive for America for a change.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Haha. He's a little too loony for ya, Jeff?

Gee, that's a shame.

[anamandujano]

7. and it's a little too late

[Liberalagogo]

6. Sorry Flake,

But the RUMP is and will always be YOUR albatross.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. This seems to be the Standard Message that all

of the Rethugs that belong to the same Church as Flake. Yet,they will only vote for people who have a R after their names.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Every GOP candidate should be paired with a picture of Trump in ads opposing them

[lastlib]

10. If you don't condemn it, you own it.

If you're going to play with tar, some of it is bound to stick.

[turbinetree]

11. For over forty years your party has had power in the U.S. Supreme Court

and this what we have had from your party Flake and it is nothing more than a scam a fraud a front group of hypocrisy

1) your party defunded / unfunded force protection for overseas embassies and consultants

2) your party has attacked the very essence of the Constitution, think Tom Cotton and Iran letter

3) your party has sided with the likes of Cliven Bundy---------------a dead beat and attacked the BLM/ Native lands

4) your party has denied people ( human beings) food assistance, unemployment benefits

5) your party has gutted voting rights

6) gutted funding for infrastructure like transportation, airport, attacked unions, wages, heath care, woman's right to choice

7) your party has attacked the EPA, look no further than Flint

8) you and your "fellow hypocrite McCain "gave sacred land" of the Navajo to a mining interest a foreign corporation in Arizona, because you believe in the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny, look no further than in Stand Rock today and what that republican state is wanting to do to the Lakota people

9) http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=n00009573&type=I---------------and just think the Club for Growth-have you heard of Robert Mercer he funds that front group called Breitbart

11) your party has a narcissistic racist bigot running for the head office and think that "conspiracy" is a policy issue

12) your party of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are going to lose a lot of seats, because the majority in your party Ryan, McConnell goes around saying that what herr drumpfster (trump) and what he has been saying is wrong but you will still vote for him--------------that is what is called double talk and hypocrisy-------------the majority of your party support a racist, and your party is not going to get away with it, and this November your party and many of your ilk are going to lose------------

13) how dose it feel to have "albatross " around your republican neck, for forty years your right wing court and judges has decimated the country on there right wing rulings

14) so let the door hit you in the proverbial a**** and Bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whine

[Farmgirl1961]

12. What ever became of the story about Trump and the child rape case?

What ever became of this story? Can we tweet it up the chain and give it some legs?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

[Farmgirl1961]

13. Limited anti-trump republican group to run ads

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/anti-trump-group-to-run-ads

[roamer65]

14. Just wait until after the first debate.

This is really good get good.

[Third Doctor]

15. Noooo. I want them to embrace Trump.

That way when the Trump nuclear bomb goes off a lot of them will be caught in it's wake.

[geek tragedy]

16. If the Republicans were smart they'd be grooming Flake

for either 2020 or 2024.

But, they are not smart. They are not strong.

[sellitman]

17. Flake helped build the brand

Enjoy the spoils asshat.

[czarjak]

18. You're...

Too late!