{"id":1030106,"date":"2024-03-14T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030106"},"modified":"2024-05-10T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:54:13","slug":"maga-in-the-states-chaos-infighting-and-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-chaos-infighting-and-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA in the States: Chaos, Infighting, and Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are so many MAGA Republicans across the country stumbling over their own extremism, disorganization, and internal chaos under Donald Trump\u2019s thumb that it might be hard to keep track. So we\u2019ll do it for you. We want to make sure you\u2019re up to date so we\u2019re launching this new series for updates spotlighting the latest GOP disarray from coast to coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moment Trump took over the RNC, they killed their shallow attempt to reach communities of color in key battleground states. Still bleeding financially, the RNC has finally come to terms with the fact that no amount of \u201ccommunity centers\u201d will make up for how disrespectful and disastrous Trump is for Black and Brown Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cIn January, The Messenger reported that the RNC had already shuttered most of the nearly two dozen Hispanic Community Centers that served as the base for the program, leaving just five open.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut two people with knowledge of the plans told The Daily Beast that the RNC has decided to scrap that effort. Instead, the people said, the community center program now appears to be another casualty of the RNC\u2019s recent restructuring\u2014a bloodbath that has already claimed several dozen jobs, including senior leadership posts, along with the apparent decimation of field operations and other strategic realignments that could come at the cost of Republican candidates across the country not fortunate enough to be named Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of going after minority voters, the RNC apparently plans to remake itself even more in Trump\u2019s image.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Infighting has gotten so bad in Arizona that Republicans are actually fighting. A \u201ckey Trump ally\u201d and former chair of the Arizona Republican Party who tried to help the failed former president undermine the will of the people by attempting to overturn the election has been accused of physically assaulting a fellow Republican during their own party meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arizona Mirror<\/a>: \u201cA fellow Republican accused former Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward of assault during the state party\u2019s January meeting at a Phoenix church. \u2026 Ward is also facing possible prosecution for her role as a fake elector in the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cArizona\u2019s criminal probe into the 2020 fake electors plot is heating up and investigators are now asking plenty of questions about a key Donald Trump ally involved in it: former state GOP chair Kelli Ward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sources add that Ward \u2014 once one of the state\u2019s most prominent Republicans \u2014 and her potential contacts and private activities following Election Day 2020 have been of particular interest to investigators as of late. One of these sources describes Arizona investigators as \u2018moving aggressively\u2019 on this stage of the inquiry into the state\u2019s pro-Trump fake electors, which included Ward, a Trump hardliner and then-chair of the Arizona Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Like President Biden emphasized during his State of the Union address: Political violence has no place in America. But Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, including members of the Kansas GOP this week, continue to actively encourage physical assault instead of discourse. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kansas City Star<\/a>: \u201cWhen the fundraiser took place Friday night, the headline turned out to be a mannequin of President Joe Biden that attendees could punch, kick and otherwise beat up on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the Biden effigy \u2013 and the event itself \u2013 underscores how the Johnson County Republican Party has been reshaped over the past eight years under former President Donald Trump and his brand of insult politicking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe behavior on display at the Johnson County Republican Party fundraiser has its roots in Trump, Kessinger argued, saying the former president has made \u2018that sort of behavior acceptable and desired.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Nevada, Trump has continued to embrace people who supported overturning the 2020 election and advocated for political violence. This week, he endorsed a fake elector who has been indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump, as well as an RNC candidate who called for the current attorney general\u2019s \u201changing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raw Story<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump endorsed an explosive figure in Nevada politics for re-appointment to her position representing the state GOP in the Republican National Committee on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHer [2022 state attorney general] campaign was derailed by scandal after leaked messages of her appearing to endorse the hanging of [incumbent Attorney General Aaron] Ford, who is Black. \u2018This guy should be hanging from a [expletive] crane,\u2019 she wrote to a friend, who later leaked the message to sabotage her campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon Ralston, Nevada Independent<\/a>: \u201cAlternate hed: Indicted guy endorses indicted guy (DeGraffenreid was a fake elector) and unhinged conspiracy theorist endorses unhinged conspiracy theorist (Chattah puts out crazy stuff here and once said a Black AG should be \u2018hanging from a f’ing crane.\u2019)
Not sending their best.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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