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Donald Trump Is Going To Help Senator Warnock In GA Run Off. [1]

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Date: 2022-11-13

Donald Trump has decided to help Senator Warnock out in the GA run off. It’s not intentional, but Trump is doing two things to stomp all over Herschel Walker and Mitch McConnell. First up, Worm Tongue (Jason Miller) got bitched slapped by Trump after publicly “advising” Saruman wannabee Donald Trump that now is not a good time to announce he is running for president in 2024. Worm Tongue has now stated that Trump WILL make his announcement on Tuesday. What has also happened is that Trump is grifting his followers to send HIM money to WIN THE U.S. SENATE. Therefore like whale lice, Trump has attached himself to the Great GOP White Whale effort to steal a Senate seat from the Democrats.

I don’t think it gets much better than this.

From The Hill:

Former President Trump is putting to rest any suggestion that he may delay his launch of a 2024 White House bid, according to long-time adviser Jason Miller, despite Miller and other allies suggesting he push back the announcement until after the Georgia Senate runoff. “President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for president. And it’s going to be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement,” Miller told former Trump White House official Stephen Bannon on his radio show on Friday. Miller said he spoke with Trump on the phone earlier in the day, when Trump was on the golf course. Trump relayed to Miller that “there doesn’t need to be any question” about his intentions, the longtime adviser said. “Of course I’m running. I’m going to do this, and I want to make sure people know that I’m fired up and we’ve got to get the country back on track,” Trump said, according to Miller.

Weren’t all those talking heads saying that Trump was washed up and Republicans would ditch him now? Seems Trump remembers how quickly Congressional Republicans did a 180 on Jan 6th, and Trump figures if he hits them with this announcement McConnell and the rest will fall in line. And I bet he is right.

Despite the premature coronation of Ron DeSantis, I would like to remind the Media that Trump and DeSantis have not had to share a stage where Trump gets to pound away at DeSantis.

And what does this announcement do about poor old Herschel Walker? It gets to remind Georgians who cannot stand Trump that he is still an ongoing menace to democracy and their lives. A vote for Walker is a vote for Trump. Nothing like firing up Democrats to show up and vote again for Warnock.

But besides taking up all the Media oxygen with his big footing into the Georgia run off is the real damage that Trump will do to Republican financing of Walker’s campaign. Trump wants in to con gullible Republicans out of their dollars, and Business Insider has the story:

Donald Trump tells donors to help Republicans win the US Senate — by giving his own political committees money

It gets better:

As control of the US Senate remains undecided, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night blasted out a fundraising text message. "We need to WIN BACK our SENATE Majority!! We can still WIN in Nevada, Arizona & Georgia!" reads Trump's message, which encourages supporters to donate money to the "America Defense Fund." But Republican US Senate candidates such as Herschel Walker in Georgia, Adam Laxalt in Nevada, and Blake Masters in Arizona might never see a dime of it. Fine print in Trump's message indicates that contributions will actually go to the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which has no direct affiliation with any 2022 Republican candidate and instead benefits two political action committees Trump himself leads: the Make America Great Again PAC and Save America, according to FEC records.

Nothing like the old fine print trick!

Of the $124 million dollars both PAC’s raised, little to none of it went to Republican Congressional candidates.

Trump has spent much of his PAC's money for his own purposes — from travel costs, to mounting legal expenses, to staging his beloved rallies. The rest of it — nearly $70 million in Save America alone, per federal records — remains unspent.

He’s literally like some elephant leech. And yes, those nasty things do exist and attach themselves to pachyderms. I’ve just never seen one in human form before though.

And yes, Democrats already now control the U.S. Senate. But who is going to tell Republican voters that? McConnell? Trump? Fox News?

McConnell is all pistons firing to get Walker into the Senate. McConnell was stopped in this cycle, but he is hellbent on becoming Senate majority leader again. He will keep at it beause he knows of nothing else for his quest for power.

But if McConnell fails to get Walker across the finish line, he will know who to blame for it. AGAIN.

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