{"id":46751,"date":"2023-09-26T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46751"},"modified":"2023-09-27T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:54:24","slug":"what-you-can-do-to-stop-the-looming-gop-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/what-you-can-do-to-stop-the-looming-gop-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Do to Stop the Looming GOP Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 A few thoughts before I head for the airport and back to the barn\u2026
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Yes, Donald Trump has a very strong following among Republicans.\u00a0 Yes, he\u2019s the front-runner.\u00a0 Yes, if the election were held today, he\u2019d likely be the nominee.
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But no, the primary isn\u2019t over.\u00a0
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Still four months to go before voting even begins.\u00a0 And anyone who says they *know* what\u2019s going to happen over the next four months doesn\u2019t know politics.
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Biden is hurting badly among Democrats.\u00a0
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What if Sen. Diane Feinstein steps down?\u00a0
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And what if California Gov. Gavin Newsom appoints Vice President Kamala Harris to take her seat and then gets tapped to replace The Cackler as vice president?
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And what if Biden suddenly changes his mind and doesn\u2019t run for re-election for \u201chealth\u201d or \u201cfamily” reasons\u00a0and Newsom becomes the Democrat nominee?
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Longshot? Sure. Out of the question? Absolutely not.\u00a0
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Remember, Democrats are nothing if not obsessively focused on winning at any and all costs.
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If Trump is the nominee, he\u2019s gonna need the DeSantis, Haley, Pence, et. al., Republican voters that his camp has been slicing and dicing as \u201cRINOs\u201d and worse.
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If Trump is not the nominee, then whoever is the nominee will need Trump\u2019s loyalists no matter who the Dems put up, including Biden.
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There are conservatives in Trump\u2019s camp.
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There are conservatives in DeSantis\u2019 camp.\u00a0
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There are conservatives in the camps of the other GOP candidates.\u00a0
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Conservatives need to agree to disagree without going \u201cscorched earth\u201d on each other.
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We all have far more in common with each other than we do with the Democrats \u2013 and we\u2019ve certainly seen first-hand what they\u2019ll do if they get another four years in the White House.\u00a0
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It\u2019s not hyperbolic to suggest the republic might not survive.\u00a0 We\u2019re hanging by a thread as it is right now.
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Indeed, the 2024 election isn\u2019t just about who sits in the Oval Office.\u00a0 It\u2019s who the president appoints to all the various positions of power in the national government.
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Like Attorney General Merrick Garland and his weaponized Department of Justice.
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Like Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas and his open borders.
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Like Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his appeasement policies.
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And if a political civil war erupts among Republicans over the presidential nominee \u2013 like what happened in \u201864 when Goldwater won the GOP nomination \u2013 there\u2019s a good chance Republicans will fail to take back the Senate and lose the House.
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And if butt-hurt Republicans in Nevada stay home – like some 175,000+ did last year – odds are Nevada Democrats will attain a super-majority in both the State Senate and State Assembly.
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And Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo will essentially be a lame duck for the 2025 session of the Nevada Legislature.
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Do any of you supporting different GOP presidential candidates right now want that?!!
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Trump supporters aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0 DeSantis supporters aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0 Haley supporters aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0 Pence supporters aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0 Vivek supporters aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0 Ditto supporters of the other GOP candidates.
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What\u2019s evil is what the Biden administration \u2013 from top to bottom \u2013 is doing to our country.\u00a0 Stopping that cold in its tracks MUST be the ultimate objective.\u00a0 Anything else is political suicide.
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So before you send that hateful email or post that personally insulting tweet calling a fellow conservative a dirty, rotten scoundrel simply because they\u2019re not currently supporting the same GOP candidate that you are\u2026STOP.
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Advocate for your candidate \u2013 strongly and passionately – without engaging in Hatfield & McCoy hatred.
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Keep your eyes on the prize.
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Just win, baby.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cThere are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” –\u00a0James Madison (1788)<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 A few thoughts before I head for the airport and back to the barn\u2026\u00a0Yes, Donald Trump has a very strong following among Republicans.\u00a0 Yes, he\u2019s the front-runner.\u00a0 Yes, if the election were held today, he\u2019d likely be the nominee.\u00a0But no, the primary isn\u2019t over.\u00a0\u00a0Still four months to go before voting even begins.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46753,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions\/46753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}