{"id":1031997,"date":"2024-05-17T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1031997"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:03:28","slug":"vermont-gop-fawns-over-trumps-crony-while-voters-reject-maga-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vermont-gop-fawns-over-trumps-crony-while-voters-reject-maga-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont GOP Fawns Over Trump\u2019s Crony While Voters Reject MAGA Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ahead of Vermont\u2019s GOP rolling out the red carpet for Trump\u2019s anti-abortion minion, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement:  <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn their primary, Vermont voters decidedly rejected Donald Trump\u2019s extreme MAGA agenda when they voted for Nikki Haley by a four point margin. These voters know that Trump represents dangerous extremism, but the Vermont Republican Party is bringing Trump loyalist Doug Burgum to their convention as a keynote speaker anyway. Burgum, like Trump, supports draconian bans on abortion, has cast doubt<\/a> on the 2020 election, and called President Biden\u2019s administration a \u2018dictatorship<\/a>.\u2019 Vermont voters, like voters across the country, are sick of MAGA extremism being pushed down their throats. If Republican Party leaders haven\u2019t gotten a clue by now, they will in November.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vermonters soundly rejected Donald Trump in their primary, but the state GOP isn\u2019t listening. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven Days<\/a>: \u201cWith 92 percent of towns reporting, Haley led Trump by more than 4 percent.<\/strong> Trump had earned roughly 45 percent of votes. … Vermont was seen as particularly friendly to Haley, who has struggled to seriously challenge the former president in primaries across the country. She stumped here in recent days alongside anti-Trump Republican Gov. Phil Scott. At a rally on Sunday in South Burlington, Scott described Trump as divisive and Haley called him \u2018unhinged.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAMC<\/a>: \u201cOn Saturday, the Vermont Republican Party will hold its spring convention. Governor Scott will appear as a keynote speaker alongside North Dakota Governor and former presidential candidate Doug Burgum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEarlier this week, Vermont Democratic Party Executive Director Jim Dandeneau criticized Scott and said he is moving away from his moderate philosophy by deciding to appear beside Governor Burgum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018He is turning to his base in the Republican Party for support,\u2019 Dandeneau said. \u2018He is planning on speaking alongside retrograde abortion opponent and anti-trans bigot Doug Burgum at the state Republican convention on Saturday.<\/strong>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Burgum is an extreme anti-abortion MAGA Republican who doesn\u2019t speak for Vermonters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cNorth Dakota became the latest state on Monday to enact a near-total ban on abortion, just one month after the State Supreme Court temporarily blocked a similar ban from taking effect. Under the new law, an abortion in the case of rape or incest would be permissible only in the first six weeks of pregnancy, a time when most women have not yet realized they are pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of Vermont\u2019s GOP rolling out the red carpet for Trump\u2019s anti-abortion minion, DNC spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement:   \u201cIn their primary, Vermont voters decidedly rejected Donald Trump\u2019s extreme MAGA agenda when they voted for Nikki Haley by a four point margin. These voters know that Trump represents dangerous extremism, but the Vermont […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVermont GOP Fawns Over Trump\u2019s Crony While Voters Reject MAGA Extremism - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vermont-gop-fawns-over-trumps-crony-while-voters-reject-maga-extremism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T15:03:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T15:03:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vermont-gop-fawns-over-trumps-crony-while-voters-reject-maga-extremism\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vermont-gop-fawns-over-trumps-crony-while-voters-reject-maga-extremism\/\",\"name\":\"Vermont GOP Fawns Over Trump\u2019s Crony While Voters Reject MAGA Extremism - 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