NRCC Weekly Rundown: Democrats politicize their impeachment sham
Here’s this week’s edition of the NRCC Weekly
Rundown:
(National) NRCC Chairman
Tom Emmer blasted the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Friday in response to a Washington
Post report that the political group was meddling in the official
impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump. According to WaPo, Democrats have
ceased accusing President Trump of engaging in a quid-pro-quo and are now
accusing him of engaging in bribery “after the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee conducted focus groups in key House battlegrounds in recent
weeks, testing messages related to impeachment.” Emmer said: “It’s quite ironic
to see House Democrats so openly politicize the legislative branch of the
federal government in these sham impeachment proceedings with poll-tested
verbiage from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It is also
completely inappropriate. This is another nail in the coffin of a
socialist Democrat majority hellbent on throwing our country into a constitutional
crisis without fact or merit because they cannot accept the fact that President
Trump won the 2016 election. Make no mistake about it – Democrats will lose the
House next November over this unhealthy impeachment obsession.”
(National)
Somehow
the socialists running the House of Representatives have taken their insanity
to a whole new level with Ayanna Pressley’s latest policy proposal
entitled: “The People’s Justice Guarantee.” The plan
includes: Decriminalizing prostitution; making illegal immigration a
civil offense; ending the death penalty; effectively legalizing sanctuary
cities; capping sentences for ALL crimes including murder; abolishing private
prisons/jails/immigration detention centers and bail bondsmen; and limiting
firearm sales and production. The People’s Justice Guarantee sounds like a sure
way to get four more years of President Trump and a freshly minted Republican
House Majority in 2020.
(CA-10) California
socialist Josh Harder just introduced a bill that would ban
corporate PAC money. Seems pretty hypocritical considering Harder has
taken over $200,000 in laundered corporate PAC money. ABC 10 in
Sacramento even fact-checkedHarder and
found his claim that “he doesn’t take corporate PAC money” misleading. So, is Harder
going to return all that cash and promise not to take anymore? Probably not.
(CA-48)
Harley Rouda took time out of his Veterans Day to drive to a TV studio in
Irvine, CA to talk with CNN about why
he wants to remove President Trump from office. Rouda is so
obsessed with impeaching President Trump that he’s taking precious time
away from the few days he can see his family and constituents to drive to a TV
camera to spew about how much he hates the
President. Sad!
(FL-26,
FL-27) Just a quick reminder that Debbie
Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala are still full of it on Venezuela. Debbie
and Donna announced they joined the Venezuela Democracy
Caucus, a new bipartisan group in Congress. But just a few months ago, they
both voted with their party AGAINST a
bipartisan motion to condemn socialism as the cause of the crisis in Venezuela.
Nice!
(IA-03)
Cindy Axne celebrated Veterans Day this week by lying to Iowa veterans. Axne told a group of veterans at the American
Legion in Winterset that Congress would be voting on H.R. 3, a prescription
drug pricing bill, this week. This is, of course, a lie. Congress will be doing no
such thing, and instead will be focused completely on their clown show
of an impeachment inquiry.
(IL-14) According
to Fake Nurse Lauren
Underwood “real people in government” sexually prey
upon their young subordinate staffers. At least that’s what she told TIME
about her roommate, sexual predator and ex-Rep. Katie Hill, who resigned
in order to avoid a House Ethics investigation
into her inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates. PS:
We also noticed Underwood kept quiet on Hill’s misdeeds until
after she officially resigned from Congress. Was she worried about getting
called before the House Ethics Committee to answer questions about her
roommate’s predatory behavior? So much for “the highest standards of ethics and
decency”!
(MI-08)
Elissa Slotkin is peddling lies to
Michiganders, saying the Democrats’ sham impeachment investigation and
the USMCA, will both be wrapped up before
Christmas. But Speaker Pelosi already made clear the USMCA
will not be passed this year, and has refused to specify
a timeline for impeachment. But apparently details don’t matter to Slotkin,
who has already made up her mind on impeachment.
Shame on Elissa for lying to her constituents about what’s going on
in Washington. So much for her promise to “bring problem solving to Washington”!
(MN-02)
Angie Craig got blasted on MPR
for doing nothing in Congress to lower the cost of health care for Minnesotans.
Angie admitted health care is
no more affordable than before, and when the host pressed her on why, Angie
fired back: “I cannot wave a magic wand on this.” Maybe if Angie
wasn’t so obsessed with removing President Trump from office she could
actually get something done for her constituents!
(MN-07)
Cranky Collin Peterson is peddling fake news about the
USMCA, saying President Trump’s trade deal could be passed in the next two weeks. But, Speaker
Pelosi already made clear the deal
isn’t going anywhere this year. So…instead of demandingPelosi
bring the USMCA to the floor for a vote, Cranky Collin would rather lie
to Minnesota farmers. Sad!
(NJ-07) In a recent interview about
Democrats’ baseless impeachment quest, Tom Malinowski asserted that the
Democrats’ “job is to shape public opinion, not just follow public
opinion.” But the opposite is happening. The Washington Post revealed
that Democrats have ceased accusing President Trump of engaging in a
quid-pro-quo and are now accusing him of engaging in bribery. Malinowski and
the delusional Democrats are now openly admitting that their attempts to throw
the country into a constitutional crisis are all about politics. Sad!
(NY-18) It didn’t take
long for Sean Patrick Maloney to adopt the DCCC’s poll-tested argument that President
Trump committed “bribery,” instead of “quid pro quo.” This is just further proof that their
impeachment quest isn’t based on facts but rather poll-tested focus groups in a
desperate attempt to remove President Trump from office.
(VA-02)
Elaine Luria went full “Leeroy Jenkins” on impeachment this week, going
up on air with a new ad boasting about her leadership on the socialist
Democrats’ sham to remove President Trump from office. In the ad she (once again) declares the
president has committed impeachable offenses—even before the public hearing
has started. What was that about *not*coming to “Washington to impeach the President?”
News & Notes
Peter King, Veteran New York Republican in House, Announces He Will Retire
WASHINGTON — Representative Peter T. King, the longest-serving Republican in
New York’s congressional delegation, said on Monday that he would retire,
joining a growing exodus of Republicans from Congress ahead of the 2020
elections.
Mr. King, who is currently serving his 14th term in the House, said in a
statement that his decision was primarily motivated by the desire to end the
weekly commute to Washington after nearly three decades and have “more
flexibility” to spend time with his children and grandchildren.
…
Chris Pack, a spokesman for the Republican counterpart, countered in a
statement thanking Mr. King for his service, saying that the district “will
remain a Republican seat, thanks in no small part to the insane socialist
agenda of Democrats in both Washington and Albany.” READ.
GOP seeks to dethrone Collin Peterson, one of the Hill’s few rural Democrats
Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson has a long track record over his 28-year tenure
in Congress of defending rural interests. Yet he’s one of the most endangered
Democrats in the House because of the Trump effect.
The two-time House Agriculture chairman has built a reputation as a brash
straight-shooter who frequently bucks the Democratic Party. Peterson was just
one of two Democrats who voted against moving ahead with impeachment
proceedings for President Donald Trump last week. He voted against the
Affordable Care Act, disagrees with abortion rights legislation, and has an
“A” rating from the National Rifle Association.
But those credentials may not be enough to get voters in Peterson’s solidly
Republican district to continue backing him in 2020. His margins have shrunk
every election since 2014, and the National Republican Congressional Committee
is planning to throw its weight behind a leading challenger. The Cook Political
Report labels the race in Minnesota’s 7th District a tossup.
…
Handpicked by NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer, a Republican representative from
Minnesota, Fischbach is vying for a congressional seat as the GOP steps up
recruiting more women to its ranks. A handful of other Republicans have
declared, such as Dave Hughes, the third-time challenger who came within four
points of beating Peterson in the 2018 midterms. Republicans have spread the
idea that Peterson is ready to hang his hat for several elections. (The NRCC
has nicknamed him “Cranky Collin.”) This year, Peterson sold his D.C.
condo for $460,000, which the NRCC said is a sign he will retire at the end of
his current term. READ.
Campaigns look to capitalize on first impeachment hearings
Loath to waste a national spotlight, campaigns on Wednesday sought to take
advantage of the first public impeachment hearing in two decades, though groups
pushing Republicans seemed more willing to urge angry voters to contribute as
the hearing unfolded while Democrats were more low-key.
War rooms for the Democratic and Republican national committees each issued
dueling fact checks as the House Intelligence panel began public hearings into
whether President Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense by withholding
military aid while pressing Ukraine to investigate a chief political opponent.
But the similarities between the parties’ approaches stopped there.
…
The National Republican Congressional Committee also sent a fundraising email
with this message: “If you want to support President Trump, do not wait. NOW is
the time to act.”
The NRCC, which is working to retake the House, is running ads on Facebook
targeting a handful of vulnerable Democrats and encouraging those who see the
ad to sign a petition to stop impeachment, according to the platform’s ad
library. Petitions like that are used to build lists of supporters, which can
then be used to send out future appeals. READ.
NRCC Depicts Schiff As A Clown Amid First Public Impeachment Hearing
The National Republican Congressional Committee was quick to react to the first
public impeachment hearings in a Wednesday morning tweet.
Less than an hour after the public testimonies of acting Ukraine ambassador
Bill Taylor and top State Department official George Kent began, the NRCC
tweeted a doctored photo of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) as a
clown.
The Wednesday morning tweet criticized the hearings for being “another one of
@RepAdamSchiff’s clown shows.” READ.