Mark Walker for — WHAT ????
Seriously? This guy wants to run for the Senate? He got mentioned prominently in the federal charging documents (p.6) for Eric Lindberg, Robin Hayes, et al. Walker has the potential to become the NCGOP’s Cal Cunningham. (In other words, someone you will have to spend a lot of time and political capital explaining away. )
Walker was chairman of the Republican Study Committee — a more moderate rival within the House GOP caucus to Mark Meadows and The Freedom Caucus. A LOT of Republicans in Walker’s current district seem to remember Walker PROMISING in his first campaign to vote against John Boehner for House Speaker. Walker ended up voting FOR Boehner, and caught so much hell for it that he had to put pen to paper to explain himself.
The original article about this mentioned presidential daughter-in-law Lara Trump running for the same Senate seat (currently held by Richard Burr). I COULD be convinced to support that. Though, I believe she needs to take up residence within our great state for the next few years and get involved locally and statewide. I know she was born here and grew up here. But she needs to reestablish those roots if she is serious.
(We don’t need another Liddy Dole, for gosh sakes. Her residence was The Watergate Hotel in DC while I attended GW in the late 80s and early 90s. As I am sure it was in 2002. She parachuted in for the 2002 Senate race, but got her clock cleaned by the late Kay Hagan in 2008. )
I am not even sure what Lara Trump stands for. It is not safe to assume that family members share the same beliefs. I know plenty of couples where the husband is more conservative than the wife, and vice-versa. In other words, we need to know more on the ideological front.
I would much prefer Mark Meadows in that seat. At least he could undo some of the disrepute that Burr has brought on our state. Although I believe he is considering going for the Doofus’ seat, which again would finally bring some credibility back to that office.
Didn’t take Tillis long to get BACK IN THE BOAT….I swear, never fails. VOTE for these people and they get 5.5Y to destroy your values and principles….can I say, WHY did I vote. What diff does it make if Senate if Dem or GOP?
Amnesty Advocates Bill Event with Six Republicans as Effort to Explore ‘Immigration Reform’ in 2021
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/01/six-republicans-to-explore-immigration-reform-with-amnesty-advocates/
In all fairness, he did wait 30 days…..to screw us…
Tillis and Burr are the biggest losers to ever represent NC in the Senate. They are RINOs on steroids. And Burr has totally disappeared. Can’t believe he has the gall to even draw a paycheck.
I’m not sure who I’m going to vote for yet in the Republican Primary for U.S. Senate but I will tell you that Lara Trump is at the bottom of my list. Lara is thankfully not as bombastic or arrogant as the Donald but still when you look at the election results this should be a wakeup call for all republicans. The policies of Trump are FANTASTIC but the behavior and the rhetoric is NOT. (That’s why the GOP did well in the House races and not so much in the President’s race, it was not voter fraud) Georgia went blue in 2020 and NC I fear will be next in 2022 and 2024 if Lara and the Donald run in those years.
Know who I’m not voting & that will be Walker. NC can & must do better. Tillis & NC GOP shows us what their candidates do. Get elected & <30
days, destroy mid, working class jobs.
Mounting evidence says otherwise about election fraud. Isn’t it interesting that NC, alone from the remainder of the battleground states, doesn’t use the questionable technology that other state’s Boards of Elections use?
Having said that, I’ll agree with you for now on Lara Trump but for a different reason, the fact is, I don’t know anything about her personal views and values.
Are you sure about that? Much of NC uses the ES&S machines — and they use Dominion. Of all the supposedly “battleground” states, NC is the only one that had a Democrat Governor up for re-election. No, in my opinion, the Democrats sacrificed NC for President Trump in order to cheat Roy Cooper into re-election. Too many things about the NC results don’t make sense.
On Walker, I worked on his original campaign and he personally told me he did not support John Boehner as Speaker only for it to be his very first vote. I immediately penned a letter to the editor excoriating him for it.
He also was too chicken to defend his Congressional Seat and we lost it to a Democrat. Given that we did not lose a single Republican Incumbent, Walker choosing to not defend his seat may have contributed to use losing the House.
I won’t support him again for these two reasons.
Disagree with your assessment of Trump. Think 65% Dem Robeson County turned out for anyone but Trump? For Congress, Senate? Don’t think so. That county will also be the triumph for Newby barring SBOE, Cooper & Stein not cheating and stealing.
I VOTED to keep Dems, BLM, ANTIFA, Far-Left from control and against Biden, Harris, Schumer & Pelosi. I also voted b/c I think Trump’s policies are good for USA. USA, not Congress that pad their pockets, family pockets and friend’s pockets with donor $$$ and enrich only themselves. Actually, politicians have destroyed the nation and why Trump is/was popular among many. The Bushes, Clinton, Obama didn’t fight China, WHO, world trade and neither did any fight the press, media, FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA as Trump has had to do.
PS…yes, there were many, many times I wish Trump would have kept his mouth closed, but he didn’t and he won’t. It’s him, his persona and his personality. I didn’t vote personality.