{"id":1035942,"date":"2024-06-13T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1035942"},"modified":"2024-06-14T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:09:40","slug":"maga-in-the-states-trumps-maga-republicans-humiliate-themselves-to-fall-in-line-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-trumps-maga-republicans-humiliate-themselves-to-fall-in-line-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA in the States: Trump\u2019s MAGA Republicans Humiliate Themselves to Fall in Line with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MAGA Republicans\u2019 chaos was on full display across the country this past week as they defended Trump\u2019s offensive comments and bent their party rules to remain in lockstep with their extreme leader. All the while, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans across the country continue to push their extreme anti-reproductive freedom agenda forward \u2013 regardless of the consequences for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

MAGA Republicans stumbled into another self-inflicted wound of embarrassment as news broke that multiple GOP state party bylaws prohibit support for political candidates with felony convictions. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevada Independent<\/a>: \u201cNevada GOP\u2019s bylaws bar support for convicted felons. It made an exception for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Nevada Republican Party\u2019s bylaws explicitly prevent it from supporting convicted felons, but the party made a special exception for former President Donald Trump, who was convicted last week of 34 felony charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe party is actively promoting a Trump campaign rally scheduled in Las Vegas this weekend and even went so far as to issue a statement defending Trump after the conviction was announced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Examiner<\/a>: \u201cWhy Nevada Republicans had to carve out an exception to rules to support Trump\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNevada\u2019s Republican Party is waiving its bylaws so party faithful can support former President Donald Trump, now a convicted felon, in his reelection bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArticle 16 of the Nevada GOP\u2019s bylaws states that it \u2018shall neither recognize nor support any candidate for public office who has been convicted of a felony or, while serving in a public office, was impeached and convicted or removed from office for any reason.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMichael McDonald, the chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, confirmed the announcement. In a text message, McDonald wrote that Nevada\u2019s GOP would rally behind Trump as Republicans\u2019 presumptive nominee, saying the GOP board had met to make the exception to its bylaws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cVermont GOP rules bar it from promoting any candidate who is a \u2018convicted felon\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Vermont Republican Party is prohibited from backing a candidate with a felony conviction, according to the party\u2019s publicly posted rules. That is now a bit of a problem, since the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was recently convicted on 34 felony counts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WPTZ<\/a>: \u201cVermont GOP faces questions on whether they can publicly support Donald Trump\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Republicans scrambled to clean up Trump\u2019s mess after Trump sparked outrage by calling Milwaukee, Wisconsin \u2013 where the RNC will hold its 2024 convention this summer \u2013 a \u201chorrible city.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raw Story<\/a>: \u201cWisconsin Republicans scramble to clean up after Trump trashes Milwaukee\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRepublican lawmakers scrambled to clean up the mess after Donald Trump trashed Milwaukee as a \u2018horrible city.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe presumptive GOP nominee slandered the host city for this summer’s Republican National Convention during a meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill with the party’s House delegation, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that lawmakers appeared to be caught off guard by the bombshell that Punchbowl News dropped into the news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGOP members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation offered varying reactions to Trump’s remark, which came five days before he is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in nearby Racine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Examiner<\/a>: \u201cTrump tells House Republicans Milwaukee is a \u2018horrible city\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn response to the comment, Democrats said if Trump doesn\u2019t like Milwaukee, he doesn\u2019t need to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018If Donald Trump hates Milwaukee so much, we have one message for him: don\u2019t come, we won\u2019t miss you \u2014 your campaign is barely here in the first place,\u2019 Democratic National Committee spokesperson Addy Toevs said in a statement. \u2018In November, Wisconsinites will show Trump how the dislike is mutual and will reject him again once and for all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA Republicans continue to crusade against women\u2019s reproductive rights, trying to take away even more of their freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump tells a group that calls for banning all abortions to stand up for \u2018innocent life\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump on Monday urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for \u2018innocent life,\u2019 ambiguously revisiting an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year\u2019s presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump has repeatedly taken credit for the overturning of a federally guaranteed right to abortion \u2014 having nominated three of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Four more years of Donald Trump means empowering organizations like The Danbury Institute who want to ban abortion nationally and punish women who have abortions,\u2019 said Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for Biden\u2019s campaign. \u2018Trump brags that he is responsible for overturning Roe, he thinks the extreme state bans happening now because of him are \u2018working very brilliantly,\u2019 and if he\u2019s given the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban. These are the stakes this November.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP<\/a>: \u201cTexas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018About a dozen other jurisdictions in Texas have passed so-called abortion travel bans — the work of \u2018religious extremists,\u2019 says Harper Metcalf, of the Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proposal in Amarillo would allow private citizens to sue anyone transporting a pregnant woman seeking an abortion, rather than having local authorities enforce the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018They are meant to sow confusion and to create fear and uncertainty, and keep people from talking to their neighbors and their friends when they need help,\u2019 Metcalf told AFP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News & Observer<\/a>: \u201cAd quotes Robinson on abortion: women should \u2018keep your skirt down.\u2019 What else he said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. It\u2019s about killing the child because you weren\u2019t responsible enough to keep your skirt down,\u2019 a video clip of Robinson on Facebook Live shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018It\u2019s about killing the child because you weren\u2019t responsible enough to keep your skirt down or your pants up \u2014 and not get pregnant by your own choice, because you felt like getting your groove thing on. And now instead of taking care of that child, you want to kill that child so your life can go on, being on easy street and you can keep running to the club every Friday night.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Signal Media<\/a>: \u201cThreats To IVF In Texas\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOutside of the North Texas embryo case, the threats to IVF are also emanating from the anti-abortion wing of the Republican Party. A shocking video from earlier this year showed several Republican elected officials from Hood County, including a county GOP chair and a constable, attending a meeting from Abolish Abortion Texas, a radical anti-abortion group whose director said IVF should be considered \u2018murder.\u2019 At the same meeting, he also said that emergency contraception is an abortion (it is not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCruz has voted twice against the Access to Family Building Act in the Senate, a more comprehensive IVF protection bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAGA Republicans\u2019 chaos was on full display across the country this past week as they defended Trump\u2019s offensive comments and bent their party rules to remain in lockstep with their extreme leader. 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