{"id":46387,"date":"2023-07-01T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46387"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T18:19:25","slug":"presidential-battle-royale-first-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/presidential-battle-royale-first-in-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Battle Royale: First in a Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Many of us wish there wasn\u2019t a bitter, divisive GOP primary for president facing us. But it is what it is. So it\u2019ll be up to each of\u00a0US<\/u>\u00a0at the grassroots level to try to keep things civil and relevant.
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To that end, I\u2019ll be regularly sharing some of the good, the bad and ugly related to this race over the next several months without endorsing any one candidate over another.\u00a0
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Still too much time \u2013 and too much that can happen \u2013 to make a definitive decision at this point.\u00a0 Heck, trans-Republican Liz Cheney might still get in the race to provide a little comic relief!
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If you see something that should be brought to my attention, please send it my way.\u00a0 And with that\u2026
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Donald Trump<\/strong>
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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued some landmark decisions over the past year that conservatives roundly applaud \u2013 such as returning abortion decisions to the states, striking down affirmative action, protecting folks from being forced to provide certain services (such as baking a cake) to the LGBTQ$ community, and striking down Biden\u2019s student debt executive order.
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While Trump regularly takes more credit than due \u2013 which is his wont \u2013 it is inescapable that one of his greatest accomplishments as president was nominating solid conservatives to fill vacancies on the judicial bench.
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And credit must also be given to his political nemesis in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, for shepherding through those nominations and getting them confirmed.\u00a0
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After the SCOTUS decision killing Biden\u2019s exec order cancelling student debt, Trump declared\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201c[It] would have been very unfair to the millions and millions of people who paid their debt through hard work and diligence. Very unfair. \u2026 We have a corrupt president. Very corrupt.\u00a0 This was a way of trying to buy votes.”<\/em>
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Hard to argue with that.
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Ron DeSantis<\/strong>
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One of the arguments in favor of DeSantis over Trump is that the press is far more interested in destroying Trump than DeSantis.\u00a0
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And while there\u2019s certainly some truth to that, don\u2019t think for a minute the national media won\u2019t turn on DeSantis with every bit the ferocity it\u2019s leveled at Trump.\u00a0 It\u2019s what they do.
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For example, the Washington Post recently published a hit piece attempting to rip DeSantis a new one.\u00a0 It included the following\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cListen to him talk onstage: The pandemic was a \u2018Faucian dystopia.\u2019\u00a0 Woke ideology is a \u2018mind virus.\u2019\u00a0 Parents are seeing gender issues \u2018shoved down their throats.\u2019 The governor\u2019s office would \u2018wield 100 percent of executive power.\u2019\u00a0 It would \u2018spit nails\u2019 for its mission. \u2026 Other Republicans, they were like \u2018potted plants,\u2019 DeSantis says. They didn\u2019t DO anything.\u201d<\/em>
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I know WaPo was trying to kneecap DeSantis, but all of that is music to conservative ears.\u00a0 If that\u2019s their idea for hurting DeSantis, DeSantis should want more of it!
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By the way, DeSantis also announced this week that, if elected, he\u2019d work to abolish the IRS, as well as the departments of Education, Energy and Commerce. WaPo must have missed that.
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I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Like it. Love it.\u00a0 Gimme more of it.
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Chris Christie<\/strong>
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After Trump posted a photo of Christie sleeping on a plane \u2013 with the sarcastic tagline, “Resting after a good 25 minutes of work!” \u2013 the former New Jersey governor and GOP presidential candidate responded with, “Living rent free in Donald\u2019s head\u201d and used it for a fundraising pitch on Twitter.
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In an interview with Politico this week, Christie referred to Trump as “the cheapest S.O.B. I\u2019ve ever met in my life” and said what the former president “is good at is spending other people\u2019s money.”\u00a0 He also criticized Trump for using campaign donations to pay his legal bills.
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In addition, he told FOX News in a separate interview that Trump \u201clost in \u201818 in the House, lost in \u201920 in the Senate, lost the White House in \u201820, lost two more governorships in \u201922 and a Senate seat in \u201822, and a real thin margin in the House.”
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And on CNN, he threw more gas on the fire\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI will do what I need to do to be up on that stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser Donald Trump. Loser in 2018 by losing the House, loser in 2020 by losing the White House and the United States Senate, and the worst midterm performance we have seen in a long, long time, led by Donald Trump-selected candidates with Donald Trump as the main issue in many of those races. Loser, loser, loser.\u201d<\/em>
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These two don\u2019t like each other.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 Christie\u2019s the longest of longshots, but that won\u2019t stop him from trying to get his pound of flesh out of Trump. This is personal, not business.\u00a0 And it\u2019s only going to get uglier.
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From the Mailbag<\/strong>
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The following comments were sent to me from Muth\u2019s Truths readers in response to my stated position that I\u2019m not picking a GOP presidential candidate – yet (long way to go before first primary\/caucus) – but will support whoever the nominee is next year.
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They represent a range of opinions in the Ron v. Don GOP presidential race.<\/p>\n