GOP crowded field panic

washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/gop-crowded-field-panic

Byron YorkOctober 11, 2023

GOP CROWDED FIELD PANIC. The Republicans who most want to defeat former President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination have long complained about the size of the GOP field. Dividing the opposition to Trump among so many candidates is a recipe for disaster, they say. And by "disaster," they mean allowing Trump to run away with the Republican nomination. So they want the Republican field to shrink, fast.

Events in the race have been enormously frustrating to this group. It is mid-October, and the only candidates who have dropped out are Xavier Suarez and Will Hurd, neither of whom ever even qualified for a debate. Everybody else is still in. They are, in order of support in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls:

Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. The bottom five are all under 5% support. Burgum and Hutchinson have less than 1% support.

Trump's lead in the RealClearPolitics national average, at the moment, is 44.9 percentage points. His support is significantly more than all his opponents combined. In Iowa, his lead in the RealClearPolitics average is 33.2 points. In New Hampshire, it is 30.8 points. And in South Carolina, it is 32.5 points.

Trump's advantage is shaping his strategy. Why should he take part in Republican debates if he is so far ahead?

Certainly skipping the first two hasn't hurt him. Why should he stand on the stage with all those candidates who are so far behind?

Right now, Trump is running what amounts to a quasi-incumbent reelection campaign. He doesn't have to engage his opponents, so he isn't. It seems unlikely his strategy will change unless he experiences an erosion in the polls.

Those Republicans who want a smaller field are becoming more and more nervous. Recently, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was Romney's 2012 running mate, convened a meeting of big donors at the swanky Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah. One big purpose of the gathering was to make a plea to Republicans to unite around a single candidate to challenge Trump.

But the problem was illustrated, not lessened, by the fact that four GOP candidates

— Haley, Pence, Christie, and Burgum — showed up to work the (very wealthy) room. If they're not willing to drop out, how does that get the anti-Trump faction any closer to a single challenger?

As the conference ended, the field remained unchanged.

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'' Another, almost amusing, indicator of GOP field panic is a new piece by the longtime conservative columnist George F. Will. Its headline in the Washington Post is: "Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley." A Scott withdrawal and endorsement of fellow South Carolinian Haley would be "statesmanlike," said Will, who then outlined its benefit: "By catalyzing a coalescence around Haley, Scott could transform the nation's political mood. As long as the Republican race pits Donald Trump against a cluster of lagging pursuers, the nominating electorate cannot ponder a binary choice. When, however, it is Trump against one experienced, polished, steely, and unintimidated adversary, voters can internalize this exhilarating reality: There is a choice suitable for a great nation." ''

That's a pretty common argument in anti-Trump GOP circles, so its expression by the anti-Trump Will is not really remarkable. What is remarkable is this note preceding the column in the Washington Post: "Disclosure: The columnist's wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, disagrees with this column."

So it's hard to agree on what should happen next, even within one household. Trump's critics are hoping the field will somehow magically reduce itself. That's not going to happen. A lot of campaigning will have to take place before the day of a single Trump Republican opponent arrives if it ever does.

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>>19722403

> Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, disagrees with this column."

>>73904

Follow the wives.

These people are stupid.

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Mari Maseng Will (born 15 March 1954)[citation needed] is a Republican adviser who has worked for President Ronald Reagan, Senator Robert Dole, and Governor Rick Perry. She was also an adviser to Scott Walker's presidential campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Maseng_Will

>>19722431

'' George Will's Wife Disagrees With His New Column For An Understandable Reason''

news.yahoo.com/george-wills-wife-disagrees-column-232117884.html

David Moye

Conservative columnist George Will just wrote a piece for The Washington Post urging Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to drop out of the presidential race. And the Post wants you to know that Will’s wife, Mari Will, disagrees with the premise ― although once you know the facts, you can’t really blame her.

Scott, one of many Republicans seeking the party’s presidential nomination, is currently favored by only 2.4% of GOP voters, according to RealClearPolitics.

In a column posted Tuesday, Will suggested that Scott could better serve the country if he dropped out of the presidential race and instead endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley:

This is the South Carolina senator’s choice: He can acknowledge that his energetic campaigning has failed to enkindle sufficient enthusiasm and depart as he campaigned, cheerfully.

Or he can try to become someone whom, to his credit, he has no aptitude for being — another peddler of synthetic anger, stoking today’s rage culture.

Will’s column isn’t especially remarkable on its own. But it’s topped with what Mediaite describes, correctly, as an “all-time disclosure note”:

Disclosure: The columnist’s wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen.Tim Scott (S.C.), disagrees with this column.

Scott reacted to the column by telling CNN’s Eva McKend, “I guess this just proves there are mixed marriages.” He added that he has no plans to drop out of the race.

I asked Scott about this George Will column calling on him to drop out. Will's wife Mari Will is advising Scott's campaign, disagrees w/ her husband.

“I guess this just proves there are mixed marriages," he told me, said “of course" he will stay in racehttps://t.co/U81OGRJj2I

— Eva McKend (@evamckend) October 10, 2023

>>19722431

'' George Will's Wife Disagrees With His New Column For An Understandable Reason''

news.yahoo.com/george-wills-wife-disagrees-column-232117884.html

David Moye

Conservative columnist George Will just wrote a piece for The Washington Post urging Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to drop out of the presidential race. And the Post wants you to know that Will’s wife, Mari Will, disagrees with the premise ― although once you know the facts, you can’t really blame her.

Scott, one of many Republicans seeking the party’s presidential nomination, is currently favored by only 2.4% of GOP voters, according to RealClearPolitics.

In a column posted Tuesday, Will suggested that Scott could better serve the country if he dropped out of the presidential race and instead endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley:

This is the South Carolina senator’s choice: He can acknowledge that his energetic campaigning has failed to enkindle sufficient enthusiasm and depart as he campaigned, cheerfully.

Or he can try to become someone whom, to his credit, he has no aptitude for being — another peddler of synthetic anger, stoking today’s rage culture.

Will’s column isn’t especially remarkable on its own. But it’s topped with what Mediaite describes, correctly, as an “all-time disclosure note”:

Disclosure: The columnist’s wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen.Tim Scott (S.C.), disagrees with this column.

Scott reacted to the column by telling CNN’s Eva McKend, “I guess this just proves there are mixed marriages.” He added that he has no plans to drop out of the race.

I asked Scott about this George Will column calling on him to drop out. Will's wife Mari Will is advising Scott's campaign, disagrees w/ her husband.

“I guess this just proves there are mixed marriages," he told me, said “of course" he will stay in racehttps://t.co/U81OGRJj2I

— Eva McKend (@evamckend) October 10, 2023

>>19722321

Gym Jordan is owned by the FBl

>>19722477

>Gym Jordan is owned by the FBl

Beware the “Anger Manager” – Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan Says He Would Accept House Speaker Role

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/04/beware-the-anger-manager-judiciary-chairman-jim-jordan-says-he-would-accept-house-speaker-role

October 4, 2023

My dearest friends, as much as I do not want to accept certain things, this one is critical to accept. Jim Jordan has shown over time that he is simply a purposefully placed “anger manager” on behalf of the Professionally Republican wing of the administrative state.

Perhaps we lost him before the 2020 election, when the “six ways to Sunday” group fired a shot across his bow with the issues about “widespread sexual abuse in OSU’s wrestling program.” The timing seems to fit with the overall dynamic and how the intelligence apparatus operates. Regardless of whether that was the inflection point, the extreme visibility & promotion of the claims, in combination with the sudden disappearance of them, was the impetus –or if it was something similarly timed– something consequential changed in the political orbit of Jim Jordan.

For the past several years, as more intensity has swirled around us, Representative Jim Jordan has appeared as more of a useful “anger manager,” better positioned to satiate the masses than actually deliver any accountability results. The media appearances seemed to align with that intent, and then a very big datapoint surfaced that few -other than myself- seemed to be concerned about.

When the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government was formed, it was constructed in the lane of the House Judiciary Committee. Meaning, the House Judiciary Committee would be the presumptive authority committee under which the select subcommittee would form. For most casual observers, this seemed to be just a parliamentary decision; however, for me it also held concern.

Those concerns were then realized when it was announced that Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan would also sit as the Chairman of the Select Subcommittee. If you are cynical and/or knowledgeable as to how the Deep State operates, this approach positioned Jordan as a backstop against the issuance of subpoenas that would be against the interests of the Professionally Republican leadership. Trying to protect the flickering flame of hope, I held my powder and watched.

What followed was the worst-case scenario that I previously outlined {Go Deep}. It is no longer a question of whether the Select Subcommittee was constructed in an effort to dissuade, dilute, and deflect the outrage of the American people who were witnessing the weaponization of government. That’s exactly what the subcommittee result was as a result of Jim Jordan’s leadership.

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>>19722508

I told several people at the time, after watching about 5 months of the subcommittee work, “It’s over.” Meaning there never was a genuine, actionable effort on behalf of the new Republican majority to confront the weaponization of government. It was all another farce – another railcar in a “long train of Republican abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object,” gaslighting and kicking the proverbial can.

As much as I did not want to accept it, we were once again victims.

Kevin McCarthy’s Lucy has unlimited footballs.

Jim Jordan is the carefully positioned guardian of Kevin McCarthy. Jordan was the general selected to hang out with the troops and play the role of steering leader; one foot in the trenches and the other foot in the mahogany meeting room. If he did his job well, he would control the glances by the regulars toward the indulgences of leadership.

Jim Jordan did his job very well.

Jordan is corrupt; perhaps that’s too strong a word; perhaps compromised is a better way to put it. Not corrupt/compromised in a way of directly lying, cheating or stealing, but rather corrupt in the same familiar manner that generates all of the frustration we feel. Corrupt in the sense of satiating the masses while being disingenuous in the extreme of creating ZERO accountability.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy used Jim Jordan for exactly this institutional preservation purpose, and Jordan knows it…. and willingly goes along with it…. and willingly plays the role of “anger manager” on behalf of his leadership. That’s the part that has become more obvious and needs to be accepted.

Once you understand this, the next part makes total sense.

WASHINGTON — Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Wednesday became the first lawmaker to announce a bid for speaker of the House, one day after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the top job in a historic vote.

Asked by reporters in the Capitol if he was running, Jordan replied unequivocally: “Yes.”

“We need to unite the conference,” said Jordan, who had just met with Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., a likely rival for speaker, to inform him of his decision.

Later Wednesday, Jordan sent a letter to colleagues touting his work on immigration and oversight issues on the Judiciary panel and asking for their support.

“Now is the time for our Republican conference to come together to keep our promises to Americans. The problems we face are challenging, but they are not insurmountable. We can focus on the changes that improve the country and unite us in offering real solutions,” Jordan wrote. “But no matter what we do, we must do it together as a conference. I respectfully ask for your support for Speaker of the House of Representatives.”

Jordan said he made his decision after many of his GOP colleagues reached out, urging him to run. A source familiar with Jordan’s thinking said the congressman has repeatedly said that choosing the next speaker “will be a decision for the conference” and now the conference is asking. (read more)

Every element of the professional Republican apparatus in DC, positions their interests for the long game.

When a person grabs the flag at the front of the parade, watch who they hand it to… Often, there’s an intent.

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>>19722508

>What followed was the worst-case scenario that I previously outlined {Go Deep}.

Rep. Jim Jordan accused of participating in OSU sexual abuse cover-up by ex-wrestler

sports.yahoo.com/rep-jim-jordan-accused-of-participating-in-osu-sexual-abuse-coverup-by-exwrestler-165329175.html

Liz Roscher

Ohio congressman Jim Jordan has been accused of covering up sexual abuse in Ohio State's athletics department. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Ohio congressman and former Ohio State assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan has been accused of participating in the cover-up of widespread sexual abuse in OSU’s wrestling program.

Jordan was accused by Adam DiSabato, who was the team captain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. DiSabato was appearing in front of a hearing in the Ohio legislature as a witness for House Bill 249, which would waive the statute of limitations and allow the OSU athletes who had been abused to sue the university.

DiSabato told the House Civil Justice Committee that several team officials, including Jordan, were aware that the team’s open shower facilities put them at risk of being abused and harassed by a team doctor, but did nothing about it. Then DiSabato detailed a phone conversation between him and Jordan, in which Jordan asks DiSabato to help him cover up wrongdoing.

Via Cleveland.com:

[DiSabato] also said Jordan called him repeatedly in July 2018, after media outlets quoted his brother, Michael DiSabato, saying Strauss’ abuse was common knowledge to those surrounding the wrestling program, including Jordan.

“Jim Jordan called me crying, groveling… begging me to go against my brother…That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on there,” he said.

“Are you guys going to do what you’re voted to do?” he told lawmakers later. “That’s the only reason I’m here.”

Jordan’s name has already come up in this scandal numerous times. When the news broke in April 2018 that Dr. Richard Strauss had been accused of sexually abusing over 150 OSU wrestlers between 1978 and 1998, Jordan denied knowing anything about it, despite being an assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.

Jordan continued to deny having any knowledge of student sexual abuse even after independent investigators released a report in May 2019 that concluded that Strauss, who had been employed by OSU’s athletics department and student health center until he was suspended in 1996, abused at least 177 male student athletes and patients. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.

A spokesman for Jordan called DiSabato’s accusations “a total lie.”

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