GOPe abandons the BIG LIE, confesses they are REALLY all-in for Whatley

We caught onto the Republican establishment’s game early-on.  Our 2026 Senate race – at least on the GOP side — will be one big game of Pretend.   Pretend there is no primary. Back the empty-suit spiritual little brother of Trump enemy Thom Tillis over an actual MAGA candidate.  

Initially, establishment sources at the RNC, NRSC and NCGOP tried to play off their actions as merely something that they’d do for anyone running for US Senate from North Carolina as a Republican.  Of course,  not many folks bought that.

So, the establishment has finally decided to tell the truth about what they’re really up to:

The Republican National Committee has green-lit early party aid for Michael Whatley as he campaigns for an open, battleground Senate seat in North Carolina — giving the former national party chair access to help that’s rarely granted to nonincumbents who have yet to win their primaries. […] 

Wait.  We’ve been told what a fundraising whiz Mike Whatley is.  Why is DC feeling the need to perpetrate this unusual, unprecedented action NOW?

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[…] National party rules require the RNC to stay neutral in any primary, unless the filing deadline for the office has passed and the candidate is unopposed. But the rules do contain an exception: The RNC can “contribute money or in-kind aid to any candidate” with the blessing of all three of a state’s RNC members

North Carolina GOP chair Jason Simmons confirmed to NBC News Thursday that he and the party’s state committeeman and committeewoman had agreed to approve the move, known as Rule 11 of the RNC bylaws.

“The RNC has reached out and inquired about Rule 11, and it has been engaged,” Simmons said. […]

Okay, folks.  It appears North Carolina Republicans have been sold out by, primarily, three people: (1) Jason Simmons – a carpetbagger brute-forced into the party chairman role by DC,  (2) Ke$ha Brassington, and (3) Ed Broyhill.  These people – in agreeing to this atrocity — have communicated that North Carolina Republican voters are not smart enough to make decisions for themselves.  The corrupt, rotten underbelly of DC and Raleigh MUST do it FOR THEM.

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[…Simmons]noted that while the rule allows for the RNC to now engage in the race, the state-level Republican Party will continue to focus on the general election, as opposed to focusing on primary politics. But Simmons said the importance of the race — it’s one of Senate Republicans’ most vulnerable seats in the 2026 midterm elections — necessitated the move to engage the national party early.[…]

It’s vulnerable because you people have spent two election cycles shoving Thom Tillis down our throats.  You’ve run off a lot of base voters and disgusted many of those who still hang around.  The polls showed Tillis to be a politically-dead-man-walking, so you replace him with his mentee, protégé and unaccomplished, mentally-challenged little brother Michael Whatley.  Voters smelled that rat from a mile away, so you need DC’s help to cram HIM down our throats in 2026. (*Good luck.*)

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[..] “Because Michael Whatley is the Trumpendorsed candidate, we wanted to go ahead and do this,” he said.

The move adds more weight to the already hefty influence the national Republican Party has in individual elections around the country. Trump’s valued endorsement, of course, is the single biggest factor.[…]

Trump – inexplicably – is taking political advice on North Carolina from Mitt Romney fans Chris LaCivita and Jonathan Felts.  Many of you may remember that Romney was neither a fan of Trump nor MAGA during his time in the US Senate.  WHY, then, take advice from disciples of a guy who has hated your guts and sought to foil every Trump / MAGA initiative coming down the pipeline?

LaCivita and Felts have history in NC politics.  Felts was Ted Budd‘s campaign press secretary and transition director.  LaCivita ran Pat McCrory‘s awesome 2016 campaign against Roy Cooper.  (LaCivita has been dispatched by Trump to try and save RINO senators John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham from the unwashed MAGA hordes.)

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[…] The RNC has also made similar moves in two other states to benefit a pair of incumbent senators appointed to their seats earlier this year: Ashley Moody of Florida, and Jon Husted of Ohio.

Husted spokesman Tyson Shepard confirmed Thursday that “Rule 11 is in place” for Husted after Ohio’s three RNC members signed letters approving early investment in his race, and one of the RNC’s 168 members told NBC News that Florida’s RNC delegation did the same for Moody.

The move is more common for incumbents. Neither Moody nor Husted face significant primary challenges.

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Mike Whatley is SIX – count ’em, SIX – more years of Thom Tillis.  Whatley, during his time in the public eye, has shown nothing but contempt for conservatives and the MAGA cause.  He’s been a good boy for his DC handlers in reading the scripts they’ve handed him.  But he’s been a real good soldier for big brother Thom Tillis‘s never-ending campaign to monetize public service and foil the MAGA agenda at every turn.

The primaries have always been a chance for us to make our voices heard.  Now, our alleged leaders are trying to take that away from us.

Don Brown has been a soldier for the MAGA cause.  It would seem to me that a vote for Brown would be a vote for giving Donald Trump one more soldier in the fight to fix this country.