{"id":135518,"date":"2017-12-04T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135518"},"modified":"2017-12-04T23:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:48:59","slug":"republicans-go-roy-moore-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/republicans-go-roy-moore-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"The Republicans go all-in with Roy Moore (and Donald Trump)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican National Committee will transfer funds to the Alabama Republican Party following President Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in that state’s special election next week, according to a senior RNC official. The official added, “The RNC is the political arm of the president<\/b> and we support the President.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just so everyone catches that part (beyond the “The RNC supports accused teen child lecher Roy Moore”): The RNC is the political arm of the president.<\/i><\/p>\n

The headline isn’t that the Republicans have gone all-in with Roy Moore. It’s that the Republican Party has gone all-in with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Remember that during upcoming special elections. Particularly remember that in 2018. A vote for a Republican candidate for the House or Senate is a vote for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n


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\nRNC is getting back into Roy Moore’s Alabama Senate race – CNNPolitics<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Republican National Committee will transfer funds to the Alabama Republican Party following President Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in that state’s special election next week, according to a senior RNC official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Republican National Committee will transfer funds to the Alabama Republican Party following President Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in that state’s special election next week, according to a senior RNC official. The official added, “The RNC is the political arm of the president and we support the President.” Just … Continue reading “The Republicans go all-in with Roy Moore (and Donald Trump)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,1071],"tags":[125,1320,1077],"class_list":["post-135518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-gop","tag-roymoore","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trump-moore.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/senator-cory-gardner-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":135518,"position":0},"title":"Senator Cory Gardner has … chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the election of Doug Moore (BWAH-HA-HA-HA!), my GOP Senator, Cory Gardner, had this to say: \u201cTonight\u2019s results are clear \u2013 the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. 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