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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on September 26, 2017, 10:26:03 PM
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With 92 percent of the precincts reporting, Moore led Strange by 55 percent to 45 percent, (http://a margin of more than 41,000 votes). State officials estimated a low turnout of between 12 and 15 percent of eligible voters.
The crowd at Moore's election party broke into loud applause as media outlets called the race. Bannon took the stage to introduce Moore as supporters waving flags cheered Tuesday night.
"We have to return the knowledge of God and the Constitution of the United States to the United States Congress," Moore told the crowd. He also said he supports the president and his agenda.
Bannon declared Moore's win a victory for Trump, despite the president's support for Strange. Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Alabama to make the case for the incumbent in the final week of the race.
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Congratulations to Roy Moore on his Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race. Roy, WIN in Dec!
9:17 PM - Sep 26, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/26/roy-moore-defeats-trump-backed-luther-strange-in-alabama-senate-runoff.html
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After Alabama, GOP anti-establishment wing declares all-out war in 2018
The stunning defeat of President Trump’s chosen Senate candidate in Alabama on Tuesday amounted to a political lightning strike — setting the stage for a worsening Republican civil war that could have profound effects on next year’s midterm elections and undermine Trump’s clout with his core voters.
The GOP primary victory by conservative firebrand Roy Moore over Sen. Luther Strange could also produce a stampede of Republican retirements in the coming months and an energized swarm of challengers.
It marked yet another humiliation for the Washington-based Republican establishment, particularly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose allies pumped millions of dollars into the race to prop up Strange and reassure his colleagues that they could survive the Trump era.
Moore’s win, however, also demonstrates the real political limitations of Trump, who endorsed “Big Luther” at McConnell’s urging and staged a rally for Strange in Huntsville, Ala., just days before the primary. The outcome is likely to further fray Trump’s ties to Republicans in Congress, many of whom now fear that even his endorsement cannot protect them from voter fury.
The tremors began before the polls closed in Alabama. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced on Tuesday afternoon that he would not seek reelection in 2018, dogged by complaints from conservatives in his state over his criticism of Trump. A number of Corker’s potential primary rivals had already begun talks with wealthy donors.
Hard-line challengers to Senate Republicans seized on the fall of Strange, who had been boosted by Trump and millions in outside Republican spending, as a sign of how the clamor of anti-establishment forces like Breitbart News — chaired by former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon — could empower them, regardless of whether Trump rallies behind sitting senators.
“People everywhere are outraged with the swamp, but there has been hesitation in some states among people who are thinking about it. They wondered whether these senators can be beat. This changes all of that,” said Danny Tarkanian, a GOP businessman running against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.).
With Corker retiring, seven Senate Republicans are expected to run for reelection next year: Wicker, Heller, Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Deb Fischer (Neb.), Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) and John Barrasso (Wyo.).
For months, only three of them — Flake, Heller and Wicker — were widely seen as vulnerable to primary upsets. But in the wake of Alabama, GOP operatives are no longer ruling out an expanded map of targets for Bannon and his associates, such as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who stormed behind Moore’s candidacy to reassert her influence within the party.
“For Mitch McConnell and Ward Baker and Karl Rove and Steven Law, all the instruments that tried to destroy Judge Moore and his family, your day of reckoning is coming,” Bannon said Monday night at Moore’s election eve rally, listing the names of Republican operatives who are allied with McConnell and spent more than $10 million to boost Strange’s candidacy.
“They think you’re a pack of morons, they think you’re nothing but rubes, they have no interest at all in what you have to say, in what you have to think or what you want to do,” Bannon told the crowd.
Retirements among House Republicans could rise as well.
“More and more Republicans may say I don’t want the hassle from the activists on the left and the Trump Republicans on the right,” said GOP consultant and Trump critic Rick Wilson. “There’ll be more who say, ‘I’ll hang up my spurs.’ ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-alabama-anti-establishment-wing-declares-all-out-war-in-2018/2017/09/26/96d1f54a-a2d0-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html
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by David M. Drucker | Sep 26, 2017
Roy Moore defeats Luther Strange in Alabama in huge blow to Republicans in Washington
Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, removed twice for ignoring federal court orders, won despite President Trump's endorsement of Strange. Angry Republicans in this low-turnout election sided with the candidate they perceived as the political outsider, versus the appointed incumbent who was defined by Washington and the support he received from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Moore led 56 percent to 44 percent with 74 percent of precincts reporting when the GOP runoff was called, winning all but a few counties in what amounted to an electoral wipeout. Strange, in a gracious concession speech, took full responsibility.
"We're dealing with a political environment that I've never had any experience with," Strange told supporters gathered in a hotel near his home in suburban Birmingham, perhaps speaking for his shell-shocked Republican colleagues, who are wondering if the same is in store for them. "The political winds in this country, right now, are very hard to understand."
The votes were tallied just as McConnell pulled the plug, yet again, on Senate legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, because it lacked Republican support. Voters here, not to mention GOP insiders involved in the race, said Strange suffered for it — even though he was aligned with Trump and for the package, while Moore pledged to oppose it.
"I am sick — up to here — with these do-nothing Republicans," said Moore supporter Johnny Creel, 56, who lives and runs a small insurance agency in upscale, suburban Birmingham, the heart of Strange's electoral base and just down the road from where he resides. "I love the judge because he doesn't back down. Luther has jumped in bed with Mitch McConnell."
Republican operatives closely involved in this race and privy to internal data said those issues might have played a supporting role, but that disgust with Washington dominated. They warned that more upheaval in primaries was on tap if Republicans in Congress don't start getting big things done. That prospect appeared to chase Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., into retirement. The pragmatic conservative called it quits Tuesday, announcing he would not seek a third term.
"Roy Moore is more in alignment with what voters are looking for right now," a Republican strategist said, on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly.
"Voters are really, really pissed off and they want somebody to do something about it. Luther Strange was aligned with the guy that couldn't get Obamacare repealed."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moore-defeats-luther-strange-in-alabama-in-huge-blow-to-republicans-in-washington/article/2635743
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What the Roy Moore victory means
For one thing, it sends a message to the GOP establishment from fed-up Republicans across the country: "We've had it with your compromising and your political games – and we've had it with career politicians in general."
https://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/michael-brown/2017/09/27/what-the-roy-moore-victory-means
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What the Roy Moore victory means
For one thing, it sends a message to the GOP establishment from fed-up Republicans across the country: "We've had it with your compromising and your political games – and we've had it with career politicians in general."
And that's exactly the message they (establishment Republicans) need to hear.
I hope they're not deaf.
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And that's exactly the message they (establishment Republicans) need to hear.
I hope they're not deaf.
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Roy Moore’s Victory Part of ‘Populist Nationalist Conservative Revolt’ Against Globalist Elites Who Treat Working Class as a ‘Commodity’
“It was basically grassroots muscle versus corporate cash, and it was a blowout. It was a blowout from the very beginning, Raheem,” he told co-host Raheem Kassam.
A caller described the defeat of Moore’s opponent Luther Strange as “a tremendous loss for Mitch McConnell,” since “he spent $30 million on smear campaigns to a measly $2 million and got trounced, destroyed.”
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/09/27/steve-bannon-roy-moores-victory-part-populist-nationalist-conservative-revolt-globalist-elites-treat-working-class-commodity/
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I hope they get the message, and if not that they get walking papers next election.