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Trump Is Not the Reason
the GOP Sputtered in Ohio  
by Salena Zito
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Former scumbag/liar-nObama Supporter
Explains Why She Chose to #WalkAway
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ A former scumbag/liar-nObama supporter says she joined the “#WalkAway Campaign,”... a movement that highlights stories of why people walk away from leftist ideology, because she could no longer subscribe to what the dummycrats-Democrat Party aligned itself to. “I did vote for our current president and I will vote for him again in 2020, and just seeing how the left has become or is extremely dehumanizing. They are not into logic; it is all about your emotions, it is all about, ‘I feel like this, so therefore, it is fact,’” a YouTube user whose handle is Tumi Yukii said in a video posted July 10 to the video-based site. Yukii said she grew up in a left-leaning household, attended the first presidential inauguration of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, and was in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his second inauguration. She said her political convictions began changing when she saw the party’s inconsistencies. “I got off the dummycrats-Democrat plantation,” Yukii said. “And I noticed that there is a quote that says if you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results, that’s insanity, so voting for these dummycrats-Democrats over and over and over and over and then they’re doing nothing for inner cities, they’re doing nothing for black people.”...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/13/former-obama-supporter-explains-why-she-chose-to-walkaway/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RBek4yVTFaR00yTTJZdyIsInQiOiJ3cmhZeDBpWDJrRFY0Z0NLU3l4RzVLdGtmeVhvU3UyWTZHejBLZk9MdXVLZ2VEUmJmaStPN0RqSzhURVJqWENCUjBuMTJjOTJVOUttZjFzVFdxejJQTzlWTWMzMmpcLzNiZ2hYTVI1VW00TkVzcklTcGwrVmZUK1ZEd1A0aDc2SWkifQ%3D%3D.
Trump: 'Apprentice' producer called to
say there are no N-word tapes
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump said on Monday that the N-word is not ‘in my vocabulary,’... after Omarosa Manigault Newman, former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison and former contestant on “The Apprentice,” claimed she heard a tape where he used the term “multiple times.” Further making his case, the president said Mark Burnett, the former television producer of “The Apprentice," called to say that there was no documentation of Trump using the word, after Manigault Newman said that a production staff member for “The Apprentice” was seeking to use the tapes for “politically motivated things” before November. “.@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa,” Trump tweeted Monday. “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying........such wonderful and powerful things about me - a true Champion of Civil Rights - until she got fired.”...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-apprentice-producer-called-to-say-there-are-no-n-word-tapes?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/13/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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Erdogan's Warning to the US
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the autocratic Islamist president of Turkey, wrote an op-ed article published on Monday by the New York Times... entitled “Turkey’s View of the Crisis With the U.S.” He complained that the United States does not respect “Turkey’s sovereignty” and “Turkish democracy.” He warned that failure to reverse the “trend” of “unilateral actions against Turkey by the United States” will require Turkey “to start looking for new friends and allies.” The fact is, however, that under Erdogan’s leadership, Turkey had already embarked on its own trend away from being a reliable NATO member and friend of the United States well before its recent disputes with the Trump administration. Erdogan’s bill of particulars against U.S. policy set forth in his op-ed column included American support for Kurdish forces in Syria. Although the Syrian Kurds have been fighting effectively against ISIS, Erdogan treats them as terrorists more dangerous than ISIS because they are allied with the Kurds in Turkey seeking autonomy. Erdogan objected to what he considered the U.S.’s failure to adequately condemn the failed coup attempt against Erdogan’s government in 2016. He complained about the U.S.’s rejection of Turkey’s requests to turn over the presumed ring-leader of the coup attempt, Fethullah Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania. Finally, Erdogan expressed defiance over the recent sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in response to the Turkish government’s refusal to free Pastor Andrew Brunson, a U.S. citizen. Erdogan’s complaints are meritless and his warnings are hollow. He has become a tin pot dictator who turned Turkey away from its secular republic institutions towards becoming an Islamist state molded in his image of a revived neo-Ottoman empire...
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Trump campaign seeks 'millions'
against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s campaign organization Tuesday has filed for arbitration against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman... claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book and revealing private talks from the ultra-secret White House Situation Room. In New York, Trump campaign lawyers filed for arbitration to force the former star of “The Apprentice” to abide by the agreement they say she signed when joining the 2016 campaign. According to a sample of the agreement provided to Secrets, she was required to keep proprietary information about the president, his companies or his family confidential and to never “disparage” the Trump family “during the term of your service and at all times thereafter.” The official added, “President Trump is well known for giving people opportunities to advance in their careers and lives over the decades, but wrong is wrong, and a direct violation of an agreement must be addressed and the violator must be held accountable,” added the official...
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Defense rests in Paul Manafort case
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Defense lawyers for Paul Manafort rested in the federal case against the former Trump campaign chairman late Tuesday morning... Lawyer Kevin Downing said in federal court that the defense would not present a case nor call any witnesses in the defense of Manafort in what is the 11th day of Manafort’s trial for bank and tax fraud in Alexandria, Va. Before Manafort's lawyers announced they would rest their case, the federal courtroom was sealed off from the public for nearly two hours before reopening around 11:30 a.m, but the reason was not disclosed. Manafort appeared roughly 10 minutes later, looking solemn in an all-black suit. After Downing instructed the court that the defense had rested its case, Manafort appeared at the podium before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who reiterated to him that he had the right to remain silent...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/defense-rests-in-paul-manafort-case?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/14/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
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Trump Is Not the Reason
the GOP Sputtered in Ohio  
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by Salena Zito

{ townhall.com } ~ Last week, Republican Troy Balderson struggled to beat dummycrats-Democrat Danny O'Connor in a House special election in suburban Columbus -- an Ohio district the GOP has held for decades and President Trump won by 11 percentage points two years ago. The race -- still too close to call with a margin of 1,564 votes -- won't be declared until Aug. 24, when all the absentee ballots have been counted.

In March, Republican Rick Saccone lost a special election to dummycrats-Democrat Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, another district that voted solidly for Trump.

Both Ohio and Pennsylvania represent the new coalition of Trump voters: Rust Belt states that were expected to swing blue in 2016 but in fact went for the unorthodox billionaire who promised to "Make America Great Again."

So why, two years later, is the GOP having so much trouble connecting with these people? Is it Trump? The party establishment?

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Balderson's weak showing was a referendum on the president. "Voters here sent a message to the Republicans to knock it off," Kasich told CBS News last week. "Stop the chaos, the division, no more of this family separation that we see at the border or taking people's health care away. I think that have -- basically have had enough and they're sending a message to the Republicans, including the Republican in the White House. ... This district is so Republican, there should never even have been an election here. And it was so close and -- in one of the counties that's so solidly Republican -- where a Republican would normally win by 70 percent, it broke basically 50-50."

But Kasich, who hasn't yet ruled out a run for president in 2020, has got the wrong end of the stick. The GOP's problem isn't its president. The problem is its message.

Trump is the sun around which the solar system of American politics operates. You can't outshine him.

And his base is solid. An August survey of validated Trump voters conducted by the Pew American Trends Panel showed that a vast majority of those who supported him in 2016 still hold fond feelings for him and his presidency.

The survey said that 82 percent of those who voted for Trump said they still felt "warmly" toward him as of March, with 62 percent saying they had "very warm" feelings toward him.

dummycrats-Democratic candidates arguably have an easier sell in that they can freely oppose Trump to rally their base.

Republicans, meanwhile, can't just be pro-Trump. They need to thread the needle, reach out to people from educated and upscale suburbs who are possibly put off by the president's rhetoric while continuing to embrace his new populist coalition of blue-collar and non-regular GOP voters. But Dave Myhal, an Ohio-based Republican strategist who lives in Columbus, says bringing together regular Republicans and the irregular populist voter shouldn't be that complicated.

The key isn't national issues. It's local ones.

Infrastructure projects, like bridges and roads and sewer systems, are important to everyone. Addressing how to keep young people in the area appeals to both suburban and rural parents. So does the issue of creating jobs or expanding broadband for rural kids who want to work in farming or manufacturing or small businesses.

"That my party didn't learn how to reach their voters from the Conor Lamb defeat and continued the same practices kind of proves they still don't get it," said Myhal. He says both Saccone and Balderson should have stolen "a page out of Danny O'Connor and Conor Lamb's playbook and run on local issues -- both men did a really good job of doing that."

John Lapp, a Washington-based dummycrats-Democratic strategist, agrees. "For Republicans to have to spend over $4 million to hold a ruby-red House district certainly is a harbinger for their challenge to appeal to voters this fall," he said.

House special elections don't usually predict a party's fate in the midterms. The dummycrats-Democrats lost all their special elections leading up to the 2006 midterms only to flip the House by 30 seats; four years later, the Republicans lost all their special elections going into the 2010 midterms and went on to trounce the dummycrats-Democrats by winning back 63 seats.

"People make way too much out of special elections. It's kind of like preseason football -- it's a good way to work out the kinks of an organization -- but has nothing to do with the regular season," said Lapp. But it's a crucial time to start learning some very important lessons before the 2018 midterms.

Keeping it local is the way you bring the regular Republican suburban voter and the new Trump voter together. It keeps the electorate on the same page and the candidates' message laser-focused, said Myhal.

"It is their common denominator," he said.

To identify with your voters is to be present with your voters. Every Republican House candidate running should be on the ground in their district, discussing local issues and refusing national cookie-cutter ads made by people who have never set foot on their Main Street.

Whether it's the suburban mom or the blue-collar worker, voters will be willing to listen and connect with a candidate who makes them feel part of their community -- and part of something bigger than themselves.

That's why Trump won in 2016 and forged his coalition in the first place.
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