{"id":82256,"date":"2022-05-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82256"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:32:39","slug":"the-battle-s-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82256","title":{"rendered":"The Battle\/s For The GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every election, and GOP primary, is a “referendum on Donald Trump”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just ask the Democrats and media (ptr), who want and need every election to be a referendum on Orange Literal Hitler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, as a conservative who wants to see DeSantis mop the floor with whomever the order of succession puts up against him – Harris? Pelosi? Buttigieg? Beto O’Rourke? – in 2024, I’d very much like the whole “referendum on Trump” thing to shut up and go away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Youngkin victory in Virginia last fall should <\/em>have put that to bed – he was elected while the Democrats tried to make the vote about Trump, and still try to retroactively apply him to the race – but then, our media being dishonest about this sort of thing is hardly Man Bites Dog, now, is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past week has given both sides evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary in Pennsylvania earlier this week had Dr. Mehment “Doctor Oz” Oz winning the Senate primary – but by a narrow enough margin that Trump reportedly may start swearing off endorsing people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, in Georgia, Trump’s bete noir<\/em> Governor Kemp cruised to a comically easy victory<\/a> over Trump-endorsed Perdue in the race against Stacey Abrams, the unelected real president of the US and EU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, a week that saw Madison Cawthorne exit his race, saw Marjorie Taylor Greene winning her contest handily<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My two cents: The battle will center on the GOP fight against the depredations of Obama’s third term, versus the Democrats trying to stretch Donald Trump’s relevance two years beyond his exit from office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the CD1 primary ended in a recount-worthy race between Brad Finstad and Jeremy Munson…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…and a blowout of Jim Hagedorn’s widow and, uh, controversial former MNGOP chair Jennifer Carnahan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who may still seek a recount, for all we know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every election, and GOP primary, is a “referendum on Donald Trump”. Just ask the Democrats and media (ptr), who want and need every election to be a referendum on Orange Literal Hitler. Of course, as a conservative who wants to see DeSantis mop the floor with whomever the order of succession puts up against him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155,72,13],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-82256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","category-mngop","category-republicans","tag-mn-cd1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82258,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82256\/revisions\/82258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}