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Title: It’s on: White House social media director calls for primarying Freedom Caucus member Justin Amash
Source: HotAir
URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/ ... om-caucus-member-justin-amash/
Published: Apr 1, 2017
Author: Allahpundit
Post Date: 2017-04-01 15:02:14 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 4688
Comments: 33

Turns out when Trump tweeted early Thursday morning that we “must fight” the Freedom Caucus in 2018, that wasn’t just idle time-wasting while he was sitting on the can.

Interesting that Dan Scavino, Trump’s official social-media guy, would zero in on Amash for threats instead of, say, Mark Meadows or Rand Paul, both of whom were more prominent critics of the failed House health-care bill. Amash’s sin seems not to be that he helped take down TrumpCare but that he’s been lippy about it.
It didn't take long for the swamp to drain @realDonaldTrump. No shame, Mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to the D.C. Establishment. https://t.co/9bDo8yzH7I

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 30, 2017

Just saw Never Trump Freedom Caucus Troll @JustinAmash {MICHIGAN} comments re: @POTUS. Didn't vote for #AHCA b/c he puts politics before MI. pic.twitter.com/xQqv1FhFiq

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) March 31, 2017

Didn't vote for #Swampcare because it's just another version of #Obamacare—and just as dysfunctional (which is pretty hard to pull off). https://t.co/qSYB1AO6BP

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 31, 2017

.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability.#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 1, 2017

Amash was ready for that last tweet:
Trump admin & Establishment have merged into #Trumpstablishment. Same old agenda: Attack conservatives, libertarians & independent thinkers. https://t.co/ALcV59iHXx

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 1, 2017

Wouldn’t be the first term someone’s come at Amash in a primary. Business-class Republicans dislike him because of his libertarianism, which makes him a reliable “no” vote on federal spending. They recruited a primary challenger for him in 2014 with backing from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; that candidate, Brian Ellis, accused Amash at one point of being “Al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress” due to his civil libertarian stances. Amash won that race 57/43, then went on to win the general election that year by nearly 20 points. Last year he won by more than 20 and in so doing outperformed Trump, who won Amash’s district by just 10 points over Clinton. Ousting Amash, you see, won’t be easy. And given how ideological he is, it’s a cinch that not only won’t he bend under Scavino’s threats (see the last tweet above as Exhibit A), he’ll use the extra media attention he’ll get from it to amplify his criticism. If Trump goes all-in now to try to beat him in a primary and Amash wins anyway, it’ll be the Renee Ellmers humiliation all over again but times 100.

Relatedly, it was three weeks ago that the Examiner reported that Trump had warned House Republicans in a meeting that he’d back primary challenges to them if the health-care bill went belly up. The White House pushed back hard on that story at the time, insisting it never happened — which was smart spin given that the bill was still in play and a public rift between Trump and the Freedom Caucus would have only made it that much harder to find consensus. How does that Examiner story look now, though, three weeks later, with Trump vowing to “fight” the Freedom Caucus in 2018 and Scavino singling out individual members as targets? Amash isn’t even the only conservative to receive a communique from the White House that his seat is on the line. Mark Sanford claims Mick Mulvaney delivered a threat from Trump personally:
The South Carolina Republican told The Post and Courier that Trump chose to convey this message through an intermediary: White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney, a former member of the S.C. congressional delegation, co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus and a friend.

“‘The president asked me to look you square in the eyes and to say that he hoped that you voted ‘no’ on this bill so he could run (a primary challenger) against you in 2018,'” Sanford said Mulvaney told him.

He added that Mulvaney made it clear he did not want to deliver the message but did so at Trump’s insistence.

Sounds like the president’s planning to fight a two-front war against the left and right in 2018. Just what you’d expect a man with the massive political capital that comes with a 41 percent job approval rating to do.

Here’s Amash on Thursday comparing Trump’s strongarm tactics to how fifth-graders try to persuade critics. An interesting catch by the Hill, meanwhile: Sean Hannity addressed Trump’s tweet about “fighting” the Freedom Caucus on his show on Thursday night and … seemed to side with the Caucus, claiming that Trump’s anger in scapegoating them for the bill’s failure was “misplaced.” Populist conservative media is going to be in a jam if the Trump/HFC feud escalates. Whom do they side with, the big-government populist president or the small-government conservative House faction? Does it depend on how many of Trump’s initiatives the Freedom Caucus ends up blocking?

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#1. To: Tooconservative, one term Trump (#0)

Hondo68  posted on  2017-04-01   16:04:08 ET  (3 images) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: hondo68 (#1)

Amash has a lot of the old RP supporters. Some of them prefer Amash to Rand, or they have at various points.

But Rand isn't up for re-election until 2022. Amash has to run in 2018. So the GOPe will go after Amash.

I'm not sure that will work out as they think.

Amash has already beat back a very determined effort to unseat him by a conventional Republican in 2014, with the full backing of the RNC and the Chamber of Commerce. It reminded me of several times when they tried to pull the same thing on Ron Paul.

Once a congresscritter withstands a major assault from within their own party establishment, they become essentially an independent politician, even if they never leave the party. Instead of making them more compliant with the party bosses, it actually grants them even more independence from party bosses and conventional political pressure.

Justin Amash is in a historically strong GOP district. I would expect he could get a lot of financial support from Dearborn and also from Peter Thiel as well as segments of the old Ron Paul political machine. And he would get help from Rand Paul and others in the Freedom Caucus. He would almost certainly get some financial help funneled to him by Dem tycoons, hoping to make his primary a battle so bitter that a Dem could take the winner of the GOP primary in the general election.

A high-profile fight with Trump and his minions could launch Amash into the Senate.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-01   16:35:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tooconservative, Koch Brothers cash boost (#2)

I would expect he could get a lot of financial support from Dearborn and also from Peter Thiel as well as segments of the old Ron Paul political machine.

Also the Koch Brothers have promised to shower the AHCA no voters with cash.

Have to wait and see if that happens.

Hondo68  posted on  2017-04-01   16:58:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: hondo68 (#3) (Edited)

Also the Koch Brothers have promised to shower the AHCA no voters with cash.

Hmmm...I just hadn't heard that. Their main PACs is Americans For Prosperity. And their mouthpiece is Cato Institute. They also have Freedom Partners and Citizens for a Sound Economy and KochPAC which are lesser known PACs. And a bunch of family foundations.

I'm not sure where Americans For Prosperity stands on the Freedom Caucus or on RynoCare. I know Heritage was very opposed to RynoCare and the Koch foundations are key donors to that, along with Federalist Society and a half-dozen other think tank operations.

Post a link if you have something on Koch involvement in this RynoCare dustup. I just haven't heard of them being active lately.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-01   17:16:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Tooconservative (#4)

Also the Koch Brothers have promised to shower the AHCA no voters with cash.

Hmmm...I just hadn't heard that.

Forget it, Kock brothers …

It Took An Independently Wealthy Billionaire To Prove Money Doesn’t Win Elections .
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Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-01   20:44:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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It Took An Independently Wealthy Billionaire To Prove Money Doesn’t Win Elections . ...

...if the national media is trying to defeat you by giving you $2 billion in free unpaid media.

Now, as prez, they are pretty much forced to cover him. I do think that all that free media will dry up if he runs in 2020. They won't throw gasoline on that fire again.

Trumpkins tend to believe that all politics is now changed for all time because of Trump. I don't see any reason to believe that is true. American politics tends to have a pretty familiar and steady form.

Admittedly, Trump did break a lot of records. First complete non-pol lacking military or cabinet-level or gubernatorial experience. First true populist since Andrew Jackson. Possibly the most hated president since Andrew Jackson.

Trump on his own terms is unique, maybe more so than 0bama was. But 0bama couldn't save seats for his own party and it wasn't for lack of trying.

Maybe Trump is like 0bama in that they are only good at keeping their own supporters loyal, not at electing or defeating anyone in their own party. Trump did run behind almost every Republican on the national ballots in their states.

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