Utah voters ready for Romney replacement,
poll shows
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/2/2021 10:22:04 AM
Utah Republicans are fed up with Sen. Mitt Romney, according to a survey released on Wednesday. A poll from OH Predictive Insights found 63% of registered Republican voters in the state would rather have someone else from the party representing them, compared to 35% who stand with Mr. Romney, the party’s 2012 presidential nominee.(Snip)So far, the approach isn’t paying off in his political backyard, where 58% of GOP voters said there is room for Mr. Trump in the party, compared to 42% who said the same about Mr. Romney. The mounting frustration with Mr. Romney was on clear display earlier this year after he was booed and heckled
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Sometimes you see something related to politics that is just so perfect it has to be shared. A USA Today fact-check that dropped yesterday is one of those things, and keep reading because it’ll become very obvious why in a moment.
Daniel Funke, who describes himself as “checking facts + covering misinfo” on Twitter decided to take on those who said that Joe Biden checked his watch during the dignified transfer of the 13 US servicemembers last week. That tragedy occurred at the hands of an ISIS suicide bomber after the Biden administration outsourced security to the Taliban.
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The usual GOP trick is to rig the primary with enough stalking horse contenders posing as Tea Party types, thus swamping any honest contenders, and then voters "hold their nose" in the general and we're stuck with the party's preferred crook.